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Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By Simon Critchley

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2001
ISBN
9780192853592, 0192853597
LCC
B791 .C74 2001
Open Library ID
OL23242439M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2246572 bytes)
Series
Very Short Introductions
Pages
126\126
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

This is a wonderfully accesible (clear, small, well written) and much needed book for everyone interested in penetrating modern philosophical disputes. Really illuminating, admirably balanced. If that is not enough, it also delivers, at least in my opinion and between lines, a dissection of what is at the root of modern disputes between science and alternatives ways of knowledge, and even between political ideologies (left-right, extremists, etc). A book in the crossroads between analytic and continental philosophy only comparable to Richard Rorty's writings (e.g., Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity)

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