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Background Practices - Essays on the Understanding of Being (Hardcover)
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Background Practices - Essays on the Understanding of Being (Hardcover)
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This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering
work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the
philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the
thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of
his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition.
One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical
canon of philosophy comes from his recognition that great
philosophers help us to understand the "background practices" of a
culture - the practices that shape and embody our most basic
understanding of ourselves and the things and situations we
encounter in our world. Background practices are all too often
overlooked completely, or else their importance is misunderstood.
Each chapter in this volume shows in one way or another how a broad
range of philosophical topics can only be properly understood when
we recognize how they are grounded in the background practices that
shape our lives and give meaning to our activities, our tasks, our
normative commitments, our aims and our goals.
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