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Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism.Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,truth and self;this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism.This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists.Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of how rational debate survives despite the Enlightenment's failings. Reason,Truth and Self covers many of the key questions of our age: * How rational is science? * Can we really know the truth about ourselves and the world? * What is the nature of the mind? * Can we know the difference between right and wrong? Reason,Truth and Self is ideal for introductory courses in philosophy and the social sciences.
In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling
reading of Wittgenstein's account of meaning and intentionality,
based upon a unifying theme in the early and later philosophies.
Rejecting readings which see a complete break between the
Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus, as well as views of
Wittgenstein's mature work which either lament or champion his
anti-philosophical 'quietism', Luntley argues that Wittgenstein's
abiding concern was to show that the conditions for the possibility
of intentionality consist not in a body of theoretical knowledge,
but in perceptual knowledge, in our active capacity to 'see things
aright'.
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