Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
The Ambivalences of Rationality
- Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations
Engelsk Hardback
The Ambivalences of Rationality
- Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations
Engelsk Hardback

489 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage

Om denne bog
Is rationality a well-defined human universal such that ideas and behaviour can everywhere be judged by a single set of criteria? Or are the rational and the irrational simply cultural constructs? This study provides an alternative to both options. The universalist thesis underestimates the variety found in sound human reasonings exemplified across time and space and often displays a marked Eurocentric bias. The extreme relativist faces the danger of concluding that we are all locked into mutually unintelligible universes. These problems are worse when certain concepts, often inherited from ancient Greek thought, especially binaries such as nature and culture, or the literal and the metaphorical, are not examined critically. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy to cognitive science, this book explores what both ancient societies (Greece and China especially) and modern ones (as revealed by ethnography) can teach us concerning the heterogeneity of what can be called rational.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
132
ISBN-13:
9781108420044
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1108420044
Udg. Dato:
21 dec 2017
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
21 dec 2017
Forfatter(e):
Ofte købt sammen
Minder om
Kategori sammenhænge