Main description: Den Menschen als natürliches Kulturwesen zu verstehen ist eine klassische Option des philosophischen Denkens. Sie läuft leicht Gefahr, zum Reduktionismus zu werden. Ihre epistemische Grenze und ihr praktisches Interesse muss darum auch heute noch sorgfältig ref…
The Critical Turn undertakes a refutation of contemporary philosophical skepticism, focusing on the theories of Richard Rorty, Lyotard, Foucault, Kuhn, and Feyerabend, among others. The author shows how dogmatism and skepticism were together rendered obsolete in the eighteenth c…
"The Free Development of Each" collects twelve essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share th…
'The Free Development of Each' collects 12 essays on the history of German philosophy by Allen W. Wood, one of the leading scholars in the field. They explore moral philosophy, politics, society, and history in the works of Kant, Herder, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx, and share the ba…
"In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this gene…
