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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The central element in the analytic conversation has been the Enlightenment Project: the appeal to an autonomous human reason, freed of any higher authority and channeling itself through science as its privileged tool. This centrality is demonstrated by systematically examining its presence and development in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, language, psychology, social science, ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. This journey highlights the internal logical disintegration of that project. Post-modern relativism is its natural offspring and not a viable alternative.
The Enlightenment Project's conception of physical science is defective; this defective conception of physical science renders the analytic conception of social science, philosophical psychology, and epistemology defective; and that defective conception of the human condition leads to defective conceptions of both moral and political philosophy, specifically the idea of social engineering or social technology.
Throughout the book, an alternative conception of philosophy is presented as a way out of the abyss of analysis, an alternative that reconnects philosophy with the mainstream of Western civilization and initiates the process of providing a coherent cultural narrative.
This book will be of particular interest to any sophisticated reader concerned about the lack of a coherent cultural narrative.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Enlightenment Project in the Analytic Conversation
Authors: Nicholas Capaldi
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3300-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5014-9Published: 31 March 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5019-9Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3300-7Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 534
Topics: Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy