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Paul Tyson

De-Fragmenting Modernity

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We live in a strangely fragmented lifeworld. On the one hand, abstract constructions of our own imagination--such as money, mere facts, and mathematical models--are treated by us as important objective facts. On the other hand, our understanding of the concrete realities of meaning and value in which our daily lives are actually embedded--love, significance, purpose, wonder--are treated as arbitrary and optional subjective beliefs. This is because, to us, only quantitative and instrumentally useful things are considered to be accessible to the domain of knowledge. Our lifeworld is designed to dis-integrate knowledge from belief, facts from me… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5326-1464-4
  • EAN: 9781532614644
  • Produktnummer: 23534929
  • Verlag: Cascade Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 126 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 195 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 195

Über den Autor


Paul Tyson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. He works in the sociology, history, and philosophy of knowledge, and in science and religion.

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