Publication

2002-08-01 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001008406
  • LibraryThing938118
  • Goodreads679077

Classifications

  • LCCB945.R526 R67 2002

Description

"The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary - how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • The Elusiveness of the Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility of PhilosophyHardcoverYale University Press2002-08-01

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