Breakdown in Communication

by Robert Denoon Cumming

Book Overview

Philosophers are committed to objective understanding, but the
history of philosophy demonstrates how frequently one philosopher
misunderstands another. The most notorious such breakdown in
communication in twentieth-century philosophy was between Husserl and
Heidegger. In the third volume of his history of the phenomenological
movement, Robert Denoon Cumming argues that their differences involve
differences in method; whereas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226123707
• ISBN13: 9780226123707
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 9.2"