Who needs a world view?
"Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt, and the accommodation of unresolved complexity"--
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- Full title :Who needs a world view? / Raymond Geuss.
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"Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt, and the accommodation of unresolved complexity"--
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 187 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674247222, 0674247221
- DOI:10.4159/9780674247222
- oclc:on1149468135
- LC Classification:BD348
- Dewey Decimal:140
Table of Contents
Who needs a world view? -- Games and proverbs -- Enlightenment, genealogy, and the historicality of concepts -- Life is a game -- The metaphysical need and the utopian impulse -- Creed, confession, manifesto -- Ivan is unwell -- Metaphysics without roots -- Context.
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