Knowledge and Civilization

Knowledge and Civilization

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780813341347
  • DDC分類 121

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Offers a new, original way of framing questions about knowledge. Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philosophy of technology and civilization. Rejecting theories that confine knowledge to language or discourse, Allen situates knowledge in the greater field of artifacts, technical performance, and human evolution. His wide ranging considerations draw on ideas from evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, and the history of cities, art, and technology.

Contents

Foreword by Richard Rorty Introduction Part One: Knowledge Chapter 1: What Was Epistemology? Chapter 2: The Art of Knowledge; Part Two: Some Philosophers Chapter 3: Dionysian Epistemology: Nietzsche's Idea of Knowledge Chapter 4: Stuck in the Order of Discourse: Foucault's Idea of Knowledge Chapter 5: Turning Back the Linguistic Turn: Rorty's Idea of Knowledge; Part Three: Civilization Chapter 6: Evolving Knowledge Chapter 7: Civilizing Knowledge Chapter 8: The Ultimate Context; Acknowledgements.