The Self-Conscious, Thinking Subject: A Kantian Contribution to Reestablishing Reason in a Post-Truth Age

by Robert Abele

Book Overview

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030795594
• ISBN13: 9783030795597
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"