Negative Certainties by Jean-Luc Marion, Stephen E. Lewis - 9780226829487

The University of Chicago Press

Negative CertaintiesAuthor(s): Jean-Luc Marion, Stephen E. Lewis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226829487, 978-0226829487\nSynopsis\nNow in paperback, Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreaking philosophy of human uncertainty.\n\n In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simplebut profoundly provocativequestion in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isnt our uncertainty, our finitude, and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about?\n\n Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorde.