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A History of Western Philosophy: The Twentieth Century to Quine and Derrida, Volume V

By W.T. Jones , Robert J. Fogelin

Book information

Publisher
Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Year
1996
ISBN
0155003798, 9780155003798
LCC
B72 .J652 1997
Open Library ID
OL1020350M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31747034 bytes)
Edition
3rd ed
Pages
301\301
Topic
History
Library
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Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Studying the philosophy of the twentieth century is a matter of being surrounded by trees to such an extent that it is difficult to make out the shape of the woods as a whole. Nevertheless, despite all the diversity of movements and schools into which they are divided, we can still make out that philosophy in our times has a land of unity. In the first place, since philosophy never develops in a vacuum but is part of the ongoing culture, all the various schools of twentieth-century philosophy have, as it were, a twentieth-century look. This distinctive look results from the fact that all twentieth-century philosophers, however much they differ philosophically, are resonating with and responding to the deep concerns of the society of which they are a part—its ambivalence toward science, its preoccupation with language, its worry over consciousness, and its loss of confidence...

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