Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling

by Quentin Smith

Book Overview

In a critical dialogue with the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel to contemporary schools of thought, the author convincingly argues that traditional rationalist metaphysics has failed to accomplish its goal of demonstrating the existence of a divine cause and moral purpose of the world. To replace the defective rationalist metaphysics, the author builds a new metaphysics on the idea that moods and affects make manifest the world's felt meanings;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557535981
• ISBN13: 9781557535986
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"