About this title: This book introduces the issues of epistemology in their historical complexity by examining Francis Bacon's catalogue of the false sources of epistemic authority, the four idols. Successive chapters relate knowledge to language (idols of the market), speculation (idols of the theatre), perception (idols of the tribe) and social formations (idols of the cave). Placed back in its historical context epistemology is seen to be not a tradition which philosophy might leave behind, but an important part of the arena in which questions of cultural authority are worked out. Ancient Greek discussions ...
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