Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory

by Martin Jay

Book Overview

Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term "reason" over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason.

After surveying Western ideas of reason from the ancient Greeks through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029930650X
• ISBN13: 9780299306502
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"