The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Events

by Vincent Descombes

How should philosophy deal with world events? Vincent Descombes examines the ways in which major modern philosophers have developed the barometers that they use to tell us about modern reason and the spirit of the times. He examines the so-called "return to Kant" characteristic of projects like Foucault's "ontology of the present," Habermas's critical theory of history, and Heidegger's "epochal" understanding of metaphysics. These projects fail, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079906
• ISBN13: 9780195079906
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"