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  • As part of the Schillerian era of sentimentality, modern philosophy mourns the absence of a pre-subjective, pre-reflexive anchoring of reason.

    Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009

  • That is, in his view, reason is inevitably driven towards the idea of an infinite, pre-reflexive, and pre-subjective ground or first principle, an unconditioned, which it itself can never grasp; what it can grasp, though, are the manifestations of such a ground in the world to which it has access through experience and science.

    Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009

  • In doing so, Heidegger remains faithful to the phenomenological demand that we return the problems to their original, pre-reflexive soil, and this means to the level that remains buried beneath our metaphysical representations and scientific constructions.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • In doing so, Heidegger remains faithful to the phenomenological demand that we return the problems to their original, pre-reflexive soil, and this means to the level that remains buried beneath our metaphysical representations and scientific constructions.

    Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

  • Bourdieu's sociology in general can be characterized as an investigation of the pre-reflexive conditions that generate certain beliefs and practices that are generated in capitalist systems.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Bourdieu's sociology in general can be characterized as an investigation of the pre-reflexive conditions that generate certain beliefs and practices that are generated in capitalist systems.

    Habitus Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • 'Their discourses generally', writes Lahsen, 'reveal a pre-reflexive modernist ethos characterized by strong trust in science and technology as providers of solutions to problems ... an understanding of science and progress that prevailed during the first half of the twentieth century'.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • 'Their discourses generally', writes Lahsen, 'reveal a pre-reflexive modernist ethos characterized by strong trust in science and technology as providers of solutions to problems ... an understanding of science and progress that prevailed during the first half of the twentieth century'.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Clive Hamil 2010

  • 'Their discourses generally', writes Lahsen, 'reveal a pre-reflexive modernist ethos characterized by strong trust in science and technology as providers of solutions to problems ... an understanding of science and progress that prevailed during the first half of the twentieth century'.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Clive Hamil 2010

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