Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory)

by Nathan Brown

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Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant’s transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and experience. Rationalist Empiricism shows that the capacity of reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating their discrepant powers, Brown argues,...

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  • ISBN10 082329000X
  • ISBN13 9780823290000
  • Publish Date 5 January 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Fordham University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English