The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies
Book Details
Author(s)David Stove
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN0631177094
ISBN-139780631177098
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Sales Rank1,746,659
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This is a book of philosophy, written by a philosopher and intended for anyone who knows enough philosophy to have been seriously injured, antagonised, mystified or intoxicated by it. Stove is passionately polemical, a philosophical counterpart to Tom Wolfe. Setting out to deflate a few philosophical reputations, he lambastes both the dead (Plato, Hegel, Kant, Foucault) and the living (Popper, Nozick, Feyerabend, Goodman). Yet he says things that need to be said, and that others often lack the courage to say.






