Farewell to Matters of Principle: Philosophical Studies

ISBN-13: 9780195051148 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 160 str.

Odo Marquard; Robert M. Wallace; James I. Porter

Opis

This book is the latest addition to the Odeon series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics.
An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen, the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics.

Recenzje

'contains, amongst other highly perceptive papers, the key essay 'Indicted and unburdened man in eighteenth-century philosophy' (38-63), alone worth whole volumes of exegesis. Here in translation it deserves to reach the widest audience.' Modern Language Studies, Volume 52 (1990) 1991