Negative Certainties

by Jean-Luc Marion

Book Overview

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty.

In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple--but profoundly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226505618
• ISBN13: 9780226505619
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"