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9780415310369

Philosophy After Postmodernism: Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415310369

  • ISBN10:

    0415310369

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-07-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book formulates a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features. Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization, understood as a process of cumulative advance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: postmodernity, perspectivalism and supermodernism
1(4)
PART I Civilization, postmodernity and philosophy 5(42)
1 The intrinsic value and scope of civilization
7(23)
2 From civilization to postmodernity: a context for refoundational philosophy
30(17)
PART II Questions of knowledge 47(76)
3 Refoundational knowledge: Cassirer's epistemology
49(17)
4 Imagination and objective knowledge
66(12)
5 The cohesion of the self: moment, image and narrative
78(23)
6 The limits of objective knowledge: what mind-independent reality must be
101(22)
PART III Questions of ethics 123(24)
7 Narrative and self-consciousness: a basis for virtue ethics
125(10)
8 Attacks upon civilization: some ethical and metaphysical issues
135(12)
PART IV Critique 147(60)
9 Against epistemological nihilism: contra Derrida, contra Welsch
149(13)
10 From rock music to deep signification: Lacan with Zizek
162(11)
11 Sociological imperialism and the field of cultural production: a critique of Bourdieu
173(12)
12 Knowledge and the attack upon higher education
185(22)
PART V Conclusion 207(10)
Conclusion: conditions of critical autonomy
209(8)
Appendix: McDowell and the problem of mind-independent reality 217(5)
Notes 222(9)
Index 231

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