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Metaphysical Imagination and Other Essays on Philosophy and Modern European Mind (Hardcover)
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Metaphysical Imagination and Other Essays on Philosophy and Modern European Mind (Hardcover)
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Michael Moran is fascinated by the thinkers he discusses. But
unlike most of them, he has no illusion that philosophy can do the
work of science and be even a minor source of factual knowledge.
Moreover, being highly speculative, it is unlikely that most
philosophy will reveal more to us about the `nature of reality'
than, say, imaginative literature. Among other things, the author
considers both where the usefulness, and indeed the dangers, of
philosophy may lie and how, as an academic subject, it might be
practised. `I have written this volume not primarily for fellow
academics but for anyone who is really interested in modern
philosophy and who would like to know what another thoughtful
reader has made of it. In other words, I still cling to the hope
that there must somewhere exist an intelligent readership outside
the routines of academia itself, consisting of individuals who are
deeply concerned with ideas, are already reasonably informed, but
feel the need for more stimulus. This book is primarily meant for
them.' (Introduction, p. 9) Sir Isaiah Berlin, commenting on the
author's article on Coleridge: `It seems to me to be one of the
most perceptive pieces on Coleridge that I have ever read in
English.'
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