Publisher:
State University of New York Press, Albany
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
"How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is...
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"How is understanding to be understood? Are there limits to understanding? What of importance, if anything, could lie beyond understanding? And do we need to understand knowledge before we can know about understanding? Richard Mason's argument is that a critical theory of understanding, modeled on past theories of knowledge, cannot be workable." "Mason's treatment of these problems offers a dialogue with a number of contemporary philosophical schools and with philosophy's past. His discussions include the thought of Hume, Henry James, Heidegger, Frege, Charles Taylor, Michael Oakeshott, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, James Joyce, and the Guyaki Indians. This book contributes to the work of many of these traditions as well as to the nature of understanding in areas as diverse as physics, music, and linguistics." --Book Jacket.
