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| | Amazon.ca: Knowledge and Civilization: Books: Barry Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Thus, Allen is processing an actual philosophy, which does not focus on the presence of a form that makes a thing knowable, but on the forms integral involvement in the history-making of human civilization. |
 | | Although Allen is not convinced that language is the ultimate context for understanding knowledge, he is certain that we enjoy no direct, intuitive, spontaneous, unmediated cognitive contact with anything. |
 | | Allen concludes the book drawing considerations from evolutionary biology, anthropology, archeology, history of cities, art and technology, in order to show that life in cities-therefore civilization-is a choice we acted on for the past 5,000 years, and which recalls that every city has an architectural actuality or urban net that continues to determine our future. |
| www.amazon.ca /Knowledge-Civilization-Barry-Allen/dp/0813341353 (844 words) |
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