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Negative Certainties (Hardcover)
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Negative Certainties (Hardcover)
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In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion
challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have
developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and
positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward
our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly
simple-but profoundly provocative-question in order to open up an
entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn't our
uncertainty, our finitude and rational limitations, one of the few
things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of
knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that
disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we
have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or
predictable reasons, and that these constitute a very real
knowledge-a knowledge of the limits of what can be known.
Establishing this "negative certainty," Marion applies it to four
aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man;
the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the
unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into
English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of
epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion's
oeuvre.
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