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The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity

By Stanley Rosen

Book information

Publisher
St. Augustine’s Press
Year
1989
ISBN
1587310244, 9781587310249
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
52 MB (54049035 bytes)
Pages
251\251
Time added
2017-08-06 14:48:25

Description

In this insightful and controversial book, the eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen takes a new look at the famous 'quarrel' that the moderns have with the ancients, analyzing and comparing ancient philosophers and modern Continental and analytical thinkers from Plato, Descartes, and Kant to Fichte, Nietzsche, and Rorty. He urges that we do not dismiss the classical heritage but appropriate it, for this appropriation is an indispensable step in the process of legitimizing our historical experience.Stanley Rosen is Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy and University Professor at Boston University. His previous books include "The Elusiveness of the Ordinary "and "Hermeneutics as Politics, "both published by Yale University Press.

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