Reason in the Age of Science

by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Book Overview

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262570610
• ISBN13: 9780262570619
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent

If you're not well-prepared to read Gadamer, you'll have to skip around and take little gems on faith. If you're well-prepared, however, you can argue with him, humanize with him, nod with him. A great little book, one that reads well with the third part of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.

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put down your grisham and clancy and pick this bad boy up! just a great read. kept me up all night.