The Elusiveness of the Ordinary
Subtitle: Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300091977
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy (Specific Aspects); Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; General; Ordinary-language philosophy
Description: "The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures.

Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary - how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact."--BOOK JACKET.