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100			_aMarion, Jean-Luc
245			_aNegative certainties
260			_bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2015 _aChicago :
300			_aviii, 278 p. ; _c24 cm
365			_b45.00 _cUSD _d77.00
490			_aReligion and postmodernism
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
520			_aIn 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 simple but profoundly provocative question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn't our uncertainty, our finitude and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about? Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons, and that these constitute a very real knowledge �a knowledge of the limits of what can be known. Establishing this negative certainty, Marion applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events. Translated for the first time into English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion's oeuvre.
650			_aCertainty
650			_aPhenomenology
650			_aNegative theology
650			_aKnowledge, Theory of
650			_aNegativity Philosophy
650			_aPhilosophy, French
710			_aLewis, Stephen E. tr.
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