{"product_id":"rationalist-empiricism-nathan-brown-9780823290017","title":"Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant's transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and experience. \u003ci\u003eRationalist Empiricism\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the capacity of reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating their discrepant powers, Brown argues, is what enables speculation to move forward in concert with critique. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSweeping across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, as well as political theory, science, and art, Brown engages with such major thinkers as Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Bachelard, Althusser, Badiou, and Meillassoux. He also shows how the concepts he develops illuminate recent projects in the science of measurement and experimental digital photography. With conceptual originality and argumentative precision, \u003ci\u003eRationalist Empiricism\u003c\/i\u003e reconfigures the history and the future of philosophy, politics, and aesthetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathan Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823290018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823290017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Nathan Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987478413567,"sku":"9780823290017","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed8360b7-0144-42c0-a682-4b866c36db00.jpg?v=1683289222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rationalist-empiricism-nathan-brown-9780823290017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}