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PHILOSOPHY HISTORY SOPHISTRY
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| By: |
Dennis A. Rohatyn |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£28.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9042001755 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789042001756 |
| Publisher: |
BRILL |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1997 |
| Series: |
Value Inquiry Book 43 |
| Pages: |
231 |
| Description: |
This book is a critique of chapters in the history of Western thought as well as of post-modernist thinking about historical understanding. It exposes the sophistic games played in theory and interpretation. |
| Synopsis: |
Post-modernism believes in nothing, not even unbelief. Hence it is a genial version of nihilism, and the flip side of despair. Like skepticism (from which it descends), it is healthy insofar as it rejects all dogmas; but unhealthy insofar as it substitutes its own, while eating its own essence. This book diagnoses this disease, and offers irony as its cure. What failure of nerve did to Hellenism, strength of character must do for the decline of the best. Humor, laughter, and detachment are the gifts of historical art, and of Socratic science. As we take refuge in the myth of truth, we must realize that there is no truth in myth, and no comfort in illusion, except the lie of immortality. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Editions Rodopi B.V. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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