The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project

by Gary Sauer-Thompson and Joseph Wayne Smith

Book Overview

Published in 1997. This book develops a postmodernist critique of philosophy - although not the postmodernism of literary philosophers such as Derrida. This postmodernism is one of ecological limitationism coupled with a practical common sense 'realism'. The authors affirm the reality of life-world and the primacy of practice against materialists, physicalists and reductionists. They attempt to show that orthodox Anglo-American analytic philosophy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138367036
• ISBN13: 9781138367036
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.