How we look at the world is informed mainly by our assumptions and the ways in which we rationalise them. Seldom do we rely or allow ourselves to rely on 'gut thinking' or intuition.
Intending the World shows how rationalism, which is our primary approach in thinking about world affairs, is in crisis. By studying the world rationalistically, we objectify it and we look at it as detached from ourselves. But in doing so, we cease to see that we are using a perspective that limits as well as enlightens.
In a disciplinary first, Ralph Pettman provides an account of twenty-first...