{"product_id":"negative-certainties-jean-luc-marion-9780226505619","title":"Negative Certainties","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNegative Certainties\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple--but profoundly provocative--question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn't our uncertainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons and that these constitute a very real knowledge--a knowledge of the limits of what can be known. Establishing this \"negative certainty,\" Marion applies it to four \u003ci\u003eaporias\u003c\/i\u003e, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into English, \u003ci\u003eNegative Certainties \u003c\/i\u003eis an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion's oeuvre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-Luc Marion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226505618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226505619\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 09\/11\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.26w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016","brand":"Jean-Luc Marion","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46825734570239,"sku":"9780226505619","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10f8417e-c184-42f9-9ac3-a4265d5c0b8b.jpg?v=1746073473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/negative-certainties-jean-luc-marion-9780226505619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}