The Fullness of Knowing

Post-modern thinkers have demonstrated the fragmentation of the Enlightenment understanding of the self, society, and nature; for many, however, the post-modern alternatives -- the pursuit of individual self-definition, utter scepticism regarding the relation between language and reality, or the embrace of ideological power -- are unconvincing. In this book, by placing the most promising post-modern insights in dialogue with eighteenth-century critics of the Enlightenment, Daniel Ritchie argues that we can begin to overcome post-Enlightenment fragmentation without abandoning either coherence (as many post-moderns have done) or the valid insights of modern and post-modern thought (as many traditionalists have done).