{"product_id":"negative-certainties-religion-and-postmodernism-series-9780226505619","title":"Negative Certainties Religion and Postmodernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks toward our finitude and the limits of our reason. He asks an astonishingly simple-but profoundly provocative-question in order to open up an entirely new way of thinking about knowledge: Isn't our uncertainty, our finitude and rational limitations, one of the few things we can be certain about?  Marion shows how the assumption of knowledge as positive demands a reductive epistemology that disregards immeasurable or disorderly phenomena. He shows that we have experiences every day that have no identifiable causes or predictable reasons, and that these constitute a very real knowledge-a knowledge of the limits of what can be known. Establishing this negative certainty, Marion applies it to four aporias, or issues of certain uncertainty: the definition of man; the nature of God; the unconditionality of the gift; and the unpredictability of events.   Translated for the first time into English, Negative Certainties is an invigorating work of epistemological inquiry that will take a central place in Marion's oeuvre.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400042717527,"sku":"9780226505619","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226505619.jpg?v=1730469535","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/negative-certainties-religion-and-postmodernism-series-9780226505619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}