书目名称 | Enemies of Hope | 副标题 | A Critique of Contem | 编辑 | Raymond Tallis | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Over the last few years, Raymond Tallis has published widely acclaimed critiques of influential trends in contemporary thought: for example, Not Saussure - described as ‘one of the most brilliant and effective of all rebuttals of post-Saussurean theory‘ - In Defence of Realism and The Explicit Animal, which demonstrated the baselessness of contemporary accounts of consciousness.Enemies of Hope takes the story further, identifying the themes common to anti-humanist twentieth-century thought and challenging the cult of pessimism that pervades our age. Tallis teases out the many strands of the comfortable, self-congratulatory cynicism of modernist and postmodernist cultural critics, exposing their self-contradictions and their wilful blindness to the distinctive mystery of human nature. The ‘pathologisers of culture‘ and ‘the marginalisers of consciousness‘ are shown to be the enemies of hope - the hope of progress based upon the rational, conscious endeavours of humankind.Perceptive, passionate and often controversial, Raymond Tallis‘s latest debunking of Kulturkritik explores a host of ethical and philosophical issues central to contemporary thought, raising questions we cannot affo | 出版日期 | Book 1997 | 关键词 | cognitive psychology; consciousness; enlightenment; Marx; philosophy; Plato; psychology | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-61608-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-312-22417-2 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-349-61608-4 | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997 |
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