Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes clear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings and justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted. In this ...
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Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes clear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings and justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted. In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines the principal positions of modern philosophy - Kantianism, Marxism, positivism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the philosophy of science, linguistic philosophy and phenomenology - to lay bare the structure of the processes of enquiry that determine the meaning and the validity of all our statements which claim objectivity. This edition contains a postscript written by Habermas for the second German edition of Knowledge and Human Interests.
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Poor. Poor dust jacket, with scuffs, tears, marks, scratches, fading and discolouration. Bumps, wear, marks to hard board. Some light storage marks to text blocks. Text and pages excellent but there is occassional pencil highlighting at some margins. Text in English, German. viii, 356 p. 22 cm. Translation of Erkenntnis und Interesse. Includes bibliographical references.
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Good in Very Good+ jacket. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, 356pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards, spine foot sunned, binding tight, first seven pages of text have red ink underlining, otherwise clean. DJ has toning to spine, gentle rubbing.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 1st Amerian edition; dj w/rubbing, ltie chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; brown c w/cream boards; , 356 clean, unmarked pages/Appendix, Notes and Index; . A tightly reasoned critique of positivism--the belief that "science and only science is knowledge"--in defense of philosophical reflection.
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Book. Octavo, viii, 356 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine green with beige lettering. Moderate wear exteriorly with sunned spine, minor chips to the spine edges, faint age toning to rear edges and light wear to the edges. Stamped "T51" front flap. Boards have extremely light wear exteriorly. Text block has mild age toning to the edges. First thus edition. 1373651. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 9780807015407. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 356 pages; 1971 Beacon Press HC/DJ 1st American edition. Soundly bound in original purple paper title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $7.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Several lines in the introduction and 2 or 3 pages in the text observed with a cursory margin bracket. Jacket sunned with color shift at spine and slightly so top edge of the cover panel. Solid, generally clean and in roginal dust jacket. VG-/VG-