Background Practices : Essays on the Understanding of Being - Hubert L. Dreyfus

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Background Practices

Essays on the Understanding of Being

By: Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall (Editor)

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Hardcover | 22 June 2017

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256 Pages

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This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition. One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical canon of philosophy comes from his recognition that great philosophers help us to understand the "background practices" of a culture - the practices that shape and embody our most basic understanding of ourselves and the things and situations we encounter in our world. Background practices are all too often overlooked completely, or else their importance is misunderstood. Each chapter in this volume shows in one way or another how a broad range of philosophical topics can only be properly understood when we recognize how they are grounded in the background practices that shape our lives and give
meaning to our activities, our tasks, our normative commitments, our aims and our goals.

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This book provides, for those unfamiliar with Dreyfus' thought, a useful introduction to his core views regarding the role and nature of background practices, and at the same time offers a handy collection of some of his more important essays for those who are already familiar with his work. It is highly recommended. * Mark Okrent, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

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