Interpretation radical but not unruly : the new puzzle of the arts and history

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Interpretation radical but not unruly : the new puzzle of the arts and history

Joseph Margolis

University of California Press, c1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-306) and index

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Description

With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of history and the interpretation of cultural phenomena--offering the first sustained analysis of the logic, methodology, and metaphysics of interpretation committed to a thoroughgoing relativism and the historicized structure of cultural phenomena. Versed in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, Margolis draws on the best views of Western philosophy to investigate a topic regularly ignored in that tradition. The result is the surprising synthesis of two historically antipathetic approaches to philosophy.

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  • NCID
    BA25574626
  • ISBN
    • 0520087690
  • LCCN
    94015598
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berkeley
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 312 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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