Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to be eradicated. Drawing on the fragmented corpus of writing on error, from Locke to Luxemburg, Adorno to Vaneigem, and covering five key areas from philosophy to political praxis, this wide-ranging account explores how we learn from error, under what conditions, and with what means. Errors, Roberts finds, are productive, but not in any uniform sense or under all circumstances-a theory of errors needs a dialectics of error.
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Groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno.
A groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno
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ISBN
9781844677399
Publisert
2011-10-24
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Vendor
Verso Books
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507 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256
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