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The split in today's world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them already capable of entirely destroying the other. However, understanding of the split often is limited to this political conception, to the illusion that danger may...
-The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett
THE ILLUSION OF TECHNIQUE by William Barrett;
Philosophy, William Barrett once confessed, is "a very dubious profession" in America. But in his new book, The Illusion of Technique, Barrett vigorously rehabilitates the profession. For better or worse, he writes, philosophers have made the modern world: "If there had not been those early Greek thinkers who created philosophy...
These are familiar indictments, but Barrett enlists them in a new cause. In Irrational Man, his classic treatise on existentialism, the author warned that man's sheer cleverness could provoke his ruin. In The Illusion of Technique, Barrett argues that even if we survive, the familiar world may well...