1993, ISBN: 0300056753

[EAN: 9780300056754], [SC: 5.0], [PU: Yale University Press], New Haven :Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Dustjacketver. 490 pp. - This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a ne… More...

[EAN: 9780300056754], [SC: 5.0], [PU: Yale University Press], New Haven :Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Dustjacketver. 490 pp. - This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine philosophers set out to determine the direction of culture through their ideas and that they conceal the radical nature of their thought by their esoteric style. From this Nietzschean perspective, Francis Bacon and René Descartes can be considered the founders of modernity. Lampert argues that Bacon's positive claims for science aimed to destroy the dominance of Christianity. Descartes continued Bacon's radical program while providing it with the mathematical physics required for its success. Far from being solely an epistemological and metaphysical thinker, says Lampert, Descartes was a master writer whose comic ridicule helped bring down the Church to which he paid lip service. Both Bacon and Descartes used the Platonic art of dissimulation to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity. Once we recognize Bacon and Descartes as legislators of modern times in a specifically Nietzschean sense, we can also see Nietzsche in a new way―as the first thinker to have understood modern times and transcended it in a postmodern worldview. According to Lampert, Nietzsche provides a new foundation for culture, a joyous science that reveals the grandeur and purposeless play of the cosmic whole and yet avoids enervating despair or destructive, dogmatic belief. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780300056754. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, *2006-101 Philosophy, Books<

1993, ISBN: 0300056753

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[EAN: 9780300056754], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Yale U.P., New Haven, CT], BDB 4/8 AZ, FRANCIS BACON, FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, RENE DESCARTES, PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHERS, SCIENCE, CIVILIZATION, UNIVERSITY PRESS, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Philosophy|General, Philosophy|History & Surveys|General, Philosophy|History & Surveys|Modern, Jacket, (full book description) Yale U.P., New Haven, CT, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine/Fine-, Hard Cover, DJ with Mylar. Size=6.5"x9.5", 475pgs(Index). 1/4" DJ tear top front edge, o.w. clean, tight, bright. NO ink names, bookplates, foxing etc. Book like new. ISBN 0300056753 Price Reflects 20% off! SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE!<

ISBN: 0300056753

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played … More...

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view. biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,history and surveys,modern,philosophy,politics and social sciences Philosophy, Yale University Press<

ISBN: 9780300056754

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played … More...

This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view; that they used the Platonic art of dissimulative writing as the means to achieve their ends by making their revolutionary aims appear compatible with Christianity; and that Nietzsche understood both their ends and their means and set out to ground an antimodern world view. Media > Book, [PU: Yale University Press]<