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Through a Glass Darkly - Bernard Lonergan & Richard Rorty on Knowing Without a God's-Eye View (Paperback)
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Through a Glass Darkly - Bernard Lonergan & Richard Rorty on Knowing Without a God's-Eye View (Paperback)
Series: Marquette Studies in Philosophy, 45
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The modern hope of attaining purely rational and objective
knowledge has faltered, to the joy of some and worry of others.
Philosophy's attempt to see reality with a god's-eye view is
increasingly viewed as unlikely or undesirable, but what fills the
vacuum now that the modern project is in jeopardy? Through a Glass
Darkly examines the thought of Richard Rorty and Bernard Lonergan
on the posibility of knowledge without a god's-eye view. Rorty, one
of the most influential contemporary thinkers, exposes the utter
contingency of all philosophical solutions and intuitions. Without
the pretensions of objective knowledge, Rorty hopes for a liberal
order rooted in hope and solidarity rather than fruitless longings
for truth. Constantly asking us to pay attention to what we
actually do when we attempt to know, Lonergan discovers in the
fragility of consciousness a modest but invariant foundation for
human knowledge. Unlike naive forms of realism, Lonergan's answer
to Rorty's skepticism reveals Rorty's incomplete escape from
Cartesian Anxiety. Lonergan's turn to the subject more radically
breaks the lure of certainty and reveals Lonergan, not Rorty, as
the integral postmodern thinker.
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