Education, Nihilism, and Survival

by Ernest Krausz

Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true. Modern people tend to regard themselves as mechanisms, without any subjective aspects to their nature. In this insightful and passionately concerned book, British educationist and man of letters David Holbrook retorts persuasively that this reductive view of human nature is profoundly false...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138522708
• ISBN13: 9781138522701
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"