Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought

by Luke O'Sullivan

In ancient and modern Western thought, the problem of the nature of categories has been inseparable from arguments about the nature of selfhood; about how knowledge is organised; about how power should be distributed; and about how history should be understood. For Plato, Forms belonging to a timeless order of being played the role of categories or fundamental concepts; for Aristotle categories were immanent in things; for Kant they were a priori...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399524151
• ISBN13: 9781399524155
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"