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Negative Certainties
Jean-Luc Marion
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Description for Negative Certainties
Hardcover. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 540.
In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple-but profoundly provocative-question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn't our uncertainty, our finitude and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. ... Read more
In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple-but profoundly provocative-question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn't our uncertainty, our finitude and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Religion and Postmodernism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226505619
SKU
V9780226505619
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About Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion, member of the Academie francaise, is emeritus professor of philosophy at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies, professor of the philosophy of religions and theology, and professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He also ... Read more
Reviews for Negative Certainties
Marion is one of today's most important philosophers. . . . If certain knowledge is impossible, must we condemn ourselves to hazardous understandings and skepticism? For Marion, there is a third way, through negative certainty.
Lib ration, on the French edition Crowned by the Acad mie Fran aise . . . the philosopher in a bow tie, Jean-Luc ... Read more
Lib ration, on the French edition Crowned by the Acad mie Fran aise . . . the philosopher in a bow tie, Jean-Luc ... Read more