Routledge studies in twentieth century philosophy ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-230) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: postmodernity, perspectivalism and supermodernism; Civilization, postmodernity and philosophy; The intrinsic value and scope of civilization; From civilization to postmodernity: a context for refoundational philosophy; Questions of knowledge; Refoundational knowledge: Cassirer's epistemology; Imagination and objective knowledge; The cohesion of the self: moment, image and narrative; The limits of objective knowledge: what mind-independent reality must be; Questions of ethics.
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Formulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.