Bebek, Borna.

The Third City. Philiosophy at War with Positivism.

London, Boston, Melbourne, Henley, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. 24cm x 16cm. XII, 307 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Former library copy of the US Army Library at Pirmasens. Very good condition with usual library signs (stamps, signs).

Includes for Example: Aspect and concept: Dialectic/ Errors of Positivism/ Critique of concepts/ A new materialism/ Plato’s Parmenides/ The law of the heart/ The ideal world/ Division of labour/ the vision of the third city/ the fall/ curing the city/ the city as a temple/ reconciliation/ the barefoot philosopher/ immortality/ sentiment/ bibliography/ since the Renaissance, Western philosophy has been ruined by two-dimensional thinking: its exponents have invented ‘practical’ utopias according to their own tastes/ wiser thinkers have always known that perfection is to be found within the third city itself/ Plato’s dialogues, designed to trigger this perception in readers/ argument that if we are to penetrate the real nature of the communities in which we live, we must follow the dialectical method of doing philosophy, in opposition to the sophists and positivists of all ages/ philosopher should grasp ‘aspects’ of the world, without reducing these to the level of mutually exclusive ‘concepts’/ vital to the health of society, modern philosophy has largely failed to perform it/ to revive the spirit of true philosophy, it may be necessary to look beyond the academic confines of the subject etc.

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710090420
• Inventory Number: 40250AB

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