Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucault’s courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new gener…
Arthur Collins's succinct, revisionist exposition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason brings a new clarity to this notoriously difficult text. Until recently most readers, ascribing broadly Cartesian assumptions to Kant, have concluded that the Critique advances an idealist philosophy, because Kant calls it "transcendental idealism" and because the work abounds in apparent confirmations of that i…
"Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his clarity in English. There is no better place for an intelligent reader to find out, with a minimum of technical language, what was really happening d…
"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."
Buku Sosio-epistemologi ingin menegaskan sebuah cabang filsafat pengetahuan yang diidealkannya sebagai jalan teoretis yang berbasis pada sebuah rasio sosial untuk membedah misteri pengetahuan, keilmuan, dan kepentingan manusia dan masyarakat dalam sebuah pertautan dialektis. Inti buku ini dapat dibaca dalam empat skema pemikiran dasar. Pertama, mengenai ruang penjelajahan pengetahuan yang begit…