03327nam 22007094a 450 991082084300332120200520144314.01-134-38860-81-134-38861-60-415-75410-00-203-41638-41-280-02299-X10.4324/9780203416389 (CKB)1000000000252579(EBL)180946(OCoLC)475889398(SSID)ssj0000305925(PQKBManifestationID)11240309(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305925(PQKBWorkID)10297332(PQKB)10273523(MiAaPQ)EBC180946(Au-PeEL)EBL180946(CaPaEBR)ebr10096953(CaONFJC)MIL2299(OCoLC)53179589(EXLCZ)99100000000025257920021227d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhilosophy after postmodernism civilized values and the scope of knowledge /Paul CrowtherLondon ;New York Routledge20031 online resource (246 p.)Routledge studies in twentieth century philosophy ;16Description based upon print version of record.0-203-35047-2 0-415-31036-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-235) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: postmodernity, perspectivalism and supermodernism; Civilization, postmodernity and philosophy; The intrinsic value and scope of civilization; From civilization to postmodernity: a context for refoundational philosophy; Questions of knowledge; Refoundational knowledge: Cassirer's epistemology; Imagination and objective knowledge; The cohesion of the self: moment, image and narrative; The limits of objective knowledge: what mind-independent reality must be; Questions of ethicsNarrative and self-consciousness: a basis for virtue ethicsAttacks upon civilization: some ethical and metaphysical issues; Critique; Against epistemological nihilism: contra Derrida, contra Welsch; From rock music to deep signification: Lacan with iek; Sociological imperialism and the field of cultural production: a critique of Bourdieu; Knowledge and the attack upon higher education; Conclusion; Conclusion: conditions of critical autonomy; Appendix: McDowell and the problem of mind-independent reality; Notes; IndexFormulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.Routledge studies in twentieth century philosophy ;16.PostmodernismCivilizationPhilosophyKnowledge, Theory ofValuesPostmodernism.CivilizationPhilosophy.Knowledge, Theory of.Values.190/.9/051Crowther Paul170369MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820843003321Philosophy after postmodernism4022164UNINA