The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project (Avebury Series in Philosophy)

This text aims to develop a postmodernist critique of philosophy - although not the postmodernism of literary philosophers such as derrida. This postmodernism is one of ecological limitationism coupled with a practical commonsense "realism". The authors affirm the reality of the life-world and the primacy of practice against materialist, physicist and reductionists. They attempt to show that orthodox anglo-american analytic philosophy is not merely incapable of completing its own quest to supply a regionally justified system of reality, but, more importantly, it fails as well to meet the challenges of the age.