Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity
Markus Gabriel
Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity
Markus Gabriel
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Omschrijving
Philosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as ignorance, falsity, and delusion, are persistently overlooked. Markus Gabriel argues that being wrong is part and parcel of subjectivity itself, adding a novel perspective on epistemic failures to the work of New Realism.
A significant, ambitious book about the timely matter of ignorance, error, and how they shape subjectivity. It illuminates how ‘being wrong’ is part and parcel of being.
It is hard to imagine a philosopher more alert to all aspects of contemporary intellectual life than Markus Gabriel. It is also hard to imagine one more tenacious in defending his views. In this book, he offers a brilliant theory of error and confusion, aspects of human cognition no less important than knowledge. Like all of Gabriel’s books, it brings the reader face-to-face with the state of the art.
Again displaying his gift for finding something new in timeworn philosophical areas, here Markus Gabriel focuses on what it is to be wrong. But the book covers much more, tackling in original ways the nature of consciousness and reality, subjectivity and objectivity, and their various possible relationships. Erudite, well-argued, deep, and yet still highly readable, this book is sure to become a classic.
Markus Gabriel holds the Chair in Epistemology and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and directs the International Center for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. His books, which include Why the World Does Not Exist, Fields of Sense, and I Am Not a Brain, have been translated into more than fifteen languages.
A significant, ambitious book about the timely matter of ignorance, error, and how they shape subjectivity. It illuminates how ‘being wrong’ is part and parcel of being.
It is hard to imagine a philosopher more alert to all aspects of contemporary intellectual life than Markus Gabriel. It is also hard to imagine one more tenacious in defending his views. In this book, he offers a brilliant theory of error and confusion, aspects of human cognition no less important than knowledge. Like all of Gabriel’s books, it brings the reader face-to-face with the state of the art.
Again displaying his gift for finding something new in timeworn philosophical areas, here Markus Gabriel focuses on what it is to be wrong. But the book covers much more, tackling in original ways the nature of consciousness and reality, subjectivity and objectivity, and their various possible relationships. Erudite, well-argued, deep, and yet still highly readable, this book is sure to become a classic.
Markus Gabriel holds the Chair in Epistemology and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and directs the International Center for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. His books, which include Why the World Does Not Exist, Fields of Sense, and I Am Not a Brain, have been translated into more than fifteen languages.