Intending the World

Intending the World
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Publisher : Academic Monographs
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780522855326
ISBN-13 : 0522855326
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Book Synopsis Intending the World by : Ralph Pettman

Download or read book Intending the World written by Ralph Pettman and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we look at the world is informed mainly by our assumptions and the ways in which we rationalise them. Seldom do we rely-or allow ourselves to rely-on 'gut thinking' or intuition. Intending the World shows how rationalism, which is our primary approach in thinking about world affairs, is in crisis. By studying the world rationalistically, we objectify it and we look at it as detached from ourselves. But in doing so, we cease to see that we are using a perspective that limits as well as enlightens. In a disciplinary first, Ralph Pettman provides an account of twenty-first century international relations in terms of phenomenology-one of the main philosophical attempts to compensate for these limits. He explores how this re-embedded use of reason can successfully describe and explain world affairs in ways unused by rationalists. Intending the World follows the lead of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl. It looks at the world not only in terms of things-in-themselves, but also in terms of why it is we keep willing the world the way we do.


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