Author

Publication

1999 - Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

72,500 words, Guess

Page Count

290 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1185058
  • Goodreads679068

Classifications

  • DDC191
  • LCCB945.R526 M48 1999

Description

In this collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topics - from eros, poetry, and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen's essays share two unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines. Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.

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Other Editions

  • Metaphysics in ordinary languageYale University Press1999-01-01

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