@article{1439089,
      recid = {1439089},
      author = {Abele, Robert,},
      title = {The self-conscious, thinking subject : a Kantian  contribution to reestablishing reason in a post-truth age  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book argues that the primary function of human  thinking in language is to make judgments, which are  logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele  points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that  cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of  language content or social conditions alone. Judgments  rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this  requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental  dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in  that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of  representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual  syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and  proto-rational, and the understanding (Kants Verstand)  makes these syntheses conceptually and thus  self-consciously explicit. Abele concludes with a  transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its  deflationary view of ontological categoriessuch as the  unified and reasoning subjecthas done to political  thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a  return to normativity and a recognition of reason,  objectivity, and the universality of principles. Robert  Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College,  USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT  Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and  Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and  contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439089},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79557-3},
}