UID:
almafu_9959765788902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (588 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781003120841
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1003120849
Serie:
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Inhalt:
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates, he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book, which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy, the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences.
Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein, and philosophical anthropology.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Lost in the Ancient City: Pluralist Naturalism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences -- Chapter 2: The Grammar of Confict -- Chapter 3: Skepticism and the Human Condition -- Appendix: Wittgenstein's Paganism -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367638238
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ISBN 0367638231
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ISBN 9780367637156
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ISBN 0367637154
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Philosophie
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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