{"product_id":"manifesto-of-a-passionate-moderate-susan-haack-9780226311371","title":"Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays","description":"Forthright and wryly humorous, philosopher Susan Haack deploys her penetrating analytic skills on some of the most highly charged cultural and social debates of recent years. Relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action, pragmatisms old and new, science, literature, the future of the academy and of philosophy itself--all come under her keen scrutiny in \u003ci\u003eManifesto of a Passionate Moderate\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The virtue of Haack's book, and I mean \u003ci\u003evirtue\u003c\/i\u003e in the ethical sense, is that it embodies the attitude that it exalts. . . Haack's voice is urbane, sensible, passionate--the voice of philosophy that matters. How good to hear it again.\"--Jonathan Rauch, \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tough mind, confident of its power, making an art of logic . . . a cool mastery.\"--Paul R. Gross, \u003ci\u003eWilson Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Few people are better able to defend the notion of truth, and in strong, clear prose, than Susan Haack . . . a philosopher of great distinction.\"--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If you relish acute observation and straight talk, this is a book to read.\"--\u003ci\u003eKey Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e (Phi Beta Kappa) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Everywhere in this book there is the refreshing breeze of common sense, patiently but inexorably blowing.\"--Roger Kimball, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A refreshing alternative to the extremism that characterizes so much rhetoric today.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Haack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226311376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226311371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.98w x 0.62d","brand":"Susan Haack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056653857023,"sku":"9780226311371","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfcd10e1-615d-4a01-ac1a-52ff902b3d1c.jpg?v=1685042521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/manifesto-of-a-passionate-moderate-susan-haack-9780226311371","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}