Being played : Gadamer and philosophy's hidden dynamic / Jeremy Sampson, University of Chichester, UK.
"Are we being played? Is our understanding of the traditionally fixed and static concepts of philosophy based on an oversimplification? This book explores some of the theories of the self since Descartes, together with the rationalism and the empiricism that sustain these ideas, and draws some...
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| Language: | English |
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Wilmington, Delaware :
Vernon Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Vernon series in philosophy.
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| Summary: | "Are we being played? Is our understanding of the traditionally fixed and static concepts of philosophy based on an oversimplification? This book explores some of the theories of the self since Descartes, together with the rationalism and the empiricism that sustain these ideas, and draws some startling conclusions using Gadamer's philosophical study of play as its starting point. Gadamer's ludic theory, Sampson argues, reveals a dynamic of play that exists at the deepest level of philosophy. It is this dynamic that could provide a solution in relation to the Gadamer/Habermas hermeneutics debate and the Gadamer/Derrida relativism debate, together with a theory of totality."-- |
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| Item Description: | Foreword written by Karl Simms. |
| Physical Description: | xxviii, 241 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 162273629X 9781622736294 |