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This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and proto-rational, and the understanding (Kant’s Verstand) makes these syntheses conceptually and thus self-consciously explicit. Abele concludes with a transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its deflationary view of ontological categories—such as the unified and reasoning subject—has done to political thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a return to normativity and a recognition of reason, objectivity, and the universality of principles.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783030795566
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-030-79556-6
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.08.2021
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 573 g
- Seiten: 339
- Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 24 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt