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"Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility,...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt, and the accommodation of unresolved complexity"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674245938 0674245938 |
| Index Number: | BD348 |
| CLC: | B821.2 |
| Call Number: | B821.2/G395 |
| Contents: | Who needs a world view? -- Games and proverbs -- Enlightenment, genealogy, and the historicality of concepts -- Life is a game -- The metaphysical need and the utopian impulse -- Creed, confession, manifesto -- Ivan is unwell -- Metaphysics without roots -- Context. |