Title: Who needs a world view? /
Authors: Geuss, Raymond,
Year: 2020
Subjects: Perspective (Philosophy); Belief and doubt; Belief and doubt; Perspective (Philosophy); Systemdenken; Weltanschauung; Metaphysik
Abstract: "Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt, and the accommodation of unresolved complexity"--
Contents: Who needs a world view? -- Games and proverbs -- Enlightenment, genealogy, and the historicality of concepts -- Life is a game -- The metaphysical need and the utopian impulse -- Creed, confession, manifesto -- Ivan is unwell -- Metaphysics without roots -- Context.