Description:
First published in 1989, Overcoming Foundations offers a challenge to both postmodernism and traditional doctrines of knowledge and value by undertaking a systematic philosophy without foundations.
Review Quotes:
"This is a fine collection of essays that presents an original and important point of view. There are few philosophers today who get inside the logic of Hegel's philosophy as well as Winfield and who are able to relate Hegel's arguments to both analytic and Continental philosophy... he... develops Hegelian arguments of his own and engages in active philosophical debate with an impressively wide range of other philosophical positions in order to prove the importance of Hegel's point of view... Winfield shows that Hegel's philosophy is very much alive today and can offer telling criticisms of analytic philosophy, pragmatism and hermeneutics, as well as liberal and Marxist political theory. Anyone interested in the problems of holism, relativism, and anti-foundationalism in contemporary philosophy will find these essays extremely valuable and challenging."
- Stephen Houlgate, De Paul University