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The Necessity of Errors

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Format Paperback / softback
ISBN-10 1844677397
ISBN-13 9781844677399
Publisher Verso Books
Imprint Verso Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 24th, 2011
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 492 grams
Dimensions 23.30 x 15.70 x 2.30 cms
KSh 3,700.00
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Groundbreaking exploration of the process of error and how we learn from it, in philosophy and history of science, from Plato to Adorno.
Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to be eradicated. Drawing on the fragmented corpus of writing on error, from Locke to Luxemburg, Adorno to Vaneigem, and covering five key areas from philosophy to political praxis, this wide-ranging account explores how we learn from error, under what conditions, and with what means. Errors, Roberts finds, are productive, but not in any uniform sense or under all circumstances—a theory of errors needs a dialectics of error.

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