Certainty as a Social Metaphor: The Social and Historical Production of Certainty in China and the West

by Min Lin

This volume combines philosophy, the social theory of knowledge, and historical analysis to present a comprehensive study of the idea of certainty as defined in the Western and Chinese intellectual traditions. Philosophical ideas such as certainty are the products of deeply layered socio-historical constructions. The author shows how the highly abstract idea of certainty in philosophical discourse is connected to the concrete social process from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313314179
• ISBN13: 9780313314179
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"