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Author Marcos, Alfredo

Title Postmodern Aristotle / by Alfredo Marcos ; foreword by Geoffrey Lloyd
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 154 pages)
Contents Biology -- Phronesis -- Practical truth -- Science in act -- Metaphor -- Similarity -- Mimesis and Poiesis
Summary The modern world was in part born as a reaction against Aristotelianism. However, the image of Aristotle to which modern philosophers reacted was partial, to say the least. Paradoxical though it may seem, today, more than twenty-three centuries on, we may now be in the most advantageous position for understanding the Stagirite's philosophy and applying it to contemporary problems. The present book contributes to the forming of an idea of Post-modern reason inspired by a constellation of Aris ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130) and index
Notes English
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Subject Aristotle -- Influence
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Subject Postmodernism.
Philosophy.
History of Western philosophy.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Postmodernism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1443845639
9781443845632