Negative Certainties by Jean–luc Marion (Paperback Book)

The University of Chicago Press

Now in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty.\nIn Negative Certainties, 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\u2014but profoundly provocative\u2014question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn\u2019t our uncertainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have\n\nNegative Certainties\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: the price adverti;