Continental Anti-Realism: A Critique

Author:   Richard Sebold
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   03 November 2014
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Continental Anti-Realism: A Critique


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Author:   Richard Sebold
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
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ISBN:  

9781783481798


ISBN 10:   178348179
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   03 November 2014
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / 1. Are Continental Philosophers Anti-Realists? / 2. Metaphysical Realism and its Discontents / 3. Kant's Ambiguous Realism / 4. Hegel and Idealism Made Absolute / 5. Nietzsche's Realism in Perspective / 6. On the Varieties and Vagaries of Husserl's Transcendental Idealism / 7. The Confusions of Continental Anti-Realism and Shifting the Debate / Bibliography / index

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Sebold puts a strong case for philosophical realism via some acute and highly critical though not ungenerous readings of the anti-realist (mainly 'continental') opposition. While focusing on Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Husserl his account is also shrewdly angled toward a swathe of present-day thinkers and movements. His basic line of argument - that anti-realists are often (thankfully) to be found making covert realist commitments - is well taken and merits close attention from those of that persuasion. Sebold's book should indeed, as he hopes, help to move things along and reframe the very terms of current debate on this topic. -- Chirstopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University, Wales Sebold's book perceptively explores the fertile ambiguity of some famous continental philosophers on the question of realism. Controversial but compelling, it is a must read, especially in concert with emerging trends in speculative realism. -- Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Melbourne


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Richard Sebold has a PhD in Philosophy from La Trobe University, Australia.

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