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Four Ages of Understanding : The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century /
The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization."
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: the boundary of time
- 1. Society and civilization: the prelude to philosophy
- 2. Philosophy as physics
- 3. The Golden Age: philosophy expands its horizon
- 4. The final Greek centuries and the overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity
- 5. The geography of the Latin age
- 6. The so-called Dark Ages
- 7. Cresting a wave: the second stage
- 8. The fate of sign in the later Latin age
- 9. Three outcomes, two Ddstinies
- 10. The road not taken
- 11. Beyond the Latin umwelt: science comes of age
- 12. The founding fathers: Rene Descartes and John Locke
- 13. Synthesis and successors: the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- 14. Locke again: the scheme of human knowledge
- 15. Charles Sanders Peirce and the recovery of Signum
- 16. Semiology: modernity's attempt to treat the sign
- 17. At the turn of the twenty-first century
- 18. Beyond realism and idealism: resume and envoi.