Real Knowing

by Linda Martín Alcoff

Book Overview

"Real" knowing always involves a political dimension, Linda Mart?n Alcoff suggests. But this does not mean we need to give up realism or the possibility of truth. Recent work in continental philosophy insists on the influence that power and desire exert on knowing, whereas contemporary analytic philosophy largely ignores these political concerns in its accounts of justification and truth. Alcoff engages these traditionally conflicting approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080143047X
• ISBN13: 9780801430473
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher