Description: KOLAKOWSKI, Leszek. Husserl and the Search for Certitude. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. First edition. Very Good +, in publisher’s orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine, and printed wrappers. Light scuffing and sunning to extremities, spine shows some bumping. Original wrappers unclipped and housed under mylar protective jacket covering. Kolakowski’s ‘Husserl and the Search for Certitude’ consists of his three Cassirer Lectures, delivered at Yale in 1974. In broad, general terms, he places Husserl in the tradition of philosophers, from Descartes to the Logical positivists, who were engaged in the attempt to discover some knowledge which was certain and indubitable. His final view is that such a quest must fail. But he also argues that unless it is undertaken, the tension and disharmonies which exist between the claims of the skeptics and relativists on the one hand, and those who believe in the possibility of absolute certainty on the other, must come to an end. From the library of Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (1969). Designed by Sally Sullivan. 85pp. A neat piece. Shipped USPS Media Mail.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New Haven and London
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Philosophy
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1975
Language: English
Illustrator: Sally Sullivan
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Leszek Kolakowski
Region: North America
Topic: Essays & Speeches
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Character Family: Cassirer Lectures
