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SEEING DOUBLE - RAYMOND GEUSS KARTONIERT (TB)

The world is never going to make complete sense to us  yet we find that conclusion almost
impossible to accept. Can we live  and feel at home  in a world composed at best of
incompatible fragments of meaning?This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays
by Raymond Geuss. Drawing on a characteristically wide range of insights from moral and
political philosophy  history  and aesthetics  he addresses topics such as knowledge (of self 
the world  and others)  language  the visual and the auditory  authority  hope  and the success
and failure of life projects. He argues that  to get by in our bewildering world  we must
embrace the virtue of 'double vision': that is  immersing ourselves in and learning the ways of
the culture surrounding us  even as we feel alienated from it. Together the essays explore some
of the consequences of abandoning the idea of a unitary view of the world  while at the same
time trying to avoid quietism. Seeing Double is a compelling collection of work by one of the
world's most versatile and creative philosophers.

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