Farewell to Matters of Principle Philosophical Studies
, by Marquard, Odo; Wallace, Robert M.; Bernstein, Susan; Porter, James I.; Harari, Josue; Descombes, VincentNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780195051148 | 0195051149
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/28/1989
This book is the latest addition to the Odéon series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics. An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen , the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics.