Farewell to Matters of Principle: Philosophical Studies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195051148)

This book is the latest addition to the Od駮n series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics.
An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen, the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics.

Author: Odo Marquard, Robert M. Wallace, Susan Bernstein
ISBN-10: 0195051149
ISBN-13: 9780195051148
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/28/1989
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.78w x 0.66d