Reason in the Age of Science

by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Book Overview

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that seem to escape scientific resolution and call for, in Gadamer's view, philosophical reflection of a hermeneutic sort. In effect, Gadamer argues for the continued practical relevance of Socratic-Platonic modes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262570610
• ISBN13: 9780262570619
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent

If you're not well-prepared to read Gadamer, you'll have to skip around and take little gems on faith. If you're well-prepared, however, you can argue with him, humanize with him, nod with him. A great little book, one that reads well with the third part of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception.

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