The Course of Recognition

Author: Paul Ricoeur
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0674025644
Category: Medical

The Course of Recognition (Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series)

Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. Download The Course of Recognition medical books for free.
This work, by one of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished voices, pursues recognition through its various philosophical guises and meanings--and, through the "course of recognition," seeks to develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual recognition. Originally delivered as lectures at the Institute for the Human Sciences at Vienna, the essays collected here consider recognition in three of its forms. The first chapter, focusing on knowledge of objects, points to the role of recognition in modern epistemology; the second, concerned with what Get The Course of Recognition our bestseller medical books.

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This work, by one of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished voices, pursues recognition through its various philosophical guises and meanings--and, through the "course of recognition," seeks to develop nothing less than a proper hermeneutics of mutual recognition The first chapter, focusing on knowledge of objects, points to the role of recognition in modern epistemology; the second, concerned with what

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