THE FIRST CAUSE

Modern philosophy is broken-and this book shows exactly where the fracture began. For decades, the battle over the a priori has split the field in two. Casullo mapped the fallout. But no one has explained why the divide exists-until now. With the force of a philosophical thriller, this book exposes the hidden rupture at the heart of early modern thought: the moment intelligibility was severed from experience. From that break came everything-Hume's skepticism, Kant's limitations on knowledge...