The Measure of Things
Subtitle: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: December 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780199235988
Subjects: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Religious; Philosophy / Religious; Philosophy
First sentence: There is an ancient tension, still with us, over the relationship between human beings and a world which, to borrow from Kant, they can 'discursively' encounter-a world, that is, which they can bring under concepts, articulate, and describe.