{"product_id":"seeing-double-paperback-softback-9781509560882","title":"Seeing Double (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509560882","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSeeing Double\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRaymond Geuss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509560882, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.295 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a wonderful collection of essays covering a broad range of important topics. The title \u003ci\u003eSeeing Double\u003c\/i\u003e refers to a recurring theme in the book: the need for multiple perspectives. The essays all display Geuss’s hallmark combination of originality, boldness, insight, clarity of argument, erudition, and stylistic elegance. It would be hard to praise this collection too strongly.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael N. Forster, Bonn University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Geuss invites his readers to converse with an eccentric tradition of European thinkers who refused to indulge the belief in a single standpoint from which the world must make sense. His collection is an invitation to us to wean ourselves from optimism and to cultivate recognition of the plurality and conflict of our embodied, social, and world-dependent existence as a first step toward a liveable future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Harloe, School of Advanced Study, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book has all the things that make Geuss's writing so splendid: the vast learning, the interest in widely different areas of culture, the dry wit. Many philosophers would be proud to have written even one of these essays. A whole collection of them is a very nice thing to have.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"If reflecting on (social criticism) with the historical sweep and acuity of Geuss's scholarship does not currently qualify as exemplary philosophy, then it should. The profession needs exactly the sort of discussion to which this terrific book contributes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Seeing Double\u003c\/i\u003e is, like all of Raymond Geuss’s books, a liberating break from an information landscape where insights usually come packaged in banal, easily digestible and infantilizing language.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNy Tid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing Double\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling collection of work by one of the world’s most versatile and creative philosophers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Montaigne and the Essay\u003cbr\u003e2 Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity\u003cbr\u003e3 Nietzsche’s Philosophical Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e4 Autopsy and Polyphony\u003cbr\u003e5 Speaking Well, Speaking Correctly\u003cbr\u003e6 Succeed, Fail, Fail Better\u003cbr\u003e7 Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52460640108824,"sku":"9781509560882","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509560882.jpg?v=1785456531","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/seeing-double-paperback-softback-9781509560882","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}