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Bezig met laden... A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind (2003)door Roy Sorensen
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. As you would expect, this book is difficult reading, especially if you really try to comprehend each side of every paradox. It is also difficult to follow thousands of years of history as the concept of paradox evolved. However, Sorensen makes the adventure more interesting and enjoyable by sprinkling in historical anecdotes such as the suspicions that Kant was suffering from a prefrontal lobe tumor because his Critique of Pure Reason was incomprehensible to some. Sorenson’s writing is clear and expressive. One passage I found humorously ironic was, “Severely retarded sufferers of “chatterbox syndrome” have normal, even overdeveloped, linguistic faculties that enable them to pass as hypersophisticated conversationalists. They use big words.” geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Of course, the result is that in writing a "history of the paradox" directed at general readers, Roy Sorensen has ended up simply putting a slightly new spin on the traditional Anaximander-to-Wittgenstein narrative of western philosophy. It's different enough in its approach that you won't be bored if you've already worked your way through one or two similar histories (I read Anthony Kenny's book a few years ago), but it doesn't cover very much really unfamiliar ground. Sorensen is quite brisk and lively, covering the ground in under 400 pages, and he sticks to the point without going off into the usual digressions into the private lives of the philosophers. (We do get the G H Hardy taxi anecdote, but there seems to be a strict rule that that has to be included in all popular philosophy and pure-maths texts...) ( )