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Emerson's Pragmatic Vision
The Dance of the Eye
Häftad, 1993
691 kr
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The long ignored philosophical content of Emerson's writings has recently emerged as a central topic in Emerson studies. In Emerson's Pragmatic Vision, David Jacobson enters the discussion, placing Emerson in a line of philosophers from Kant and Hegel to Heidegger and Derrida, and adding to our …
Authority of Experience
Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment
Inbunden, 1996
1139 kr
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Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century …
What's Hecuba to Him?
Fictional Events and Actual Emotions
Häftad, 1997
691 kr
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Fiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events that we know are not real.The very nature of our emotional engagement with fiction, says E. M. Dadlez, attests to the possibility of its moral …
Turning Toward Philosophy
Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues
Av Jill Gordon
Inbunden, 1999
861 kr
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Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life.The picture of philosophical activity emerging from …
Turning Toward Philosophy
Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues
Av Jill Gordon
Häftad, 1999
467 kr
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Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, Jill Gordon shows how the literary techniques Plato used function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life.The picture of philosophical activity emerging from …
Philosophy and the Passions
Toward a History of Human Nature
Av Michel Meyer
Häftad, 2000
552 kr
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The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.Michel Meyer provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does …
Truth and Consequences
Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics
Häftad, 2001
582 kr
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Contemporary literary theory takes truth and meaning to be dependent on shared conventions in a community of discourse and views authors’ intentions as irrelevant to interpretation. This view, argues Reed Way Dasenbrock, owes much to Anglo-American analytic philosophy as developed in the 1950s and …
Literary Theory After Davidson
Häftad, 1993
465 kr
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Donald Davidson is probably the most eminent living analytic philosopher, and his writings in philosophy of language and philosophy of action have shaped much of the recent work in both these fields. However, despite the obvious shared concerns of literary theory and these aspects of philosophy, up …
Aesthetic Reason
Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos
Av Alan Singer
Häftad, 2003
549 kr
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In recent years the category of the aesthetic has been judged inadequate to the tasks of literary criticism. It has been attacked for promoting class-based ideologies of distinction, for cultivating political apathy, and for indulging irrational sensuous decadence. Aesthetic Reason reexamines the …
Imitation and Society
The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant
Av Tom Huhn
Inbunden, 2004
1018 kr
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This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was …
Intentions
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Häftad, 1998
691 kr
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The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It …
Freud and the Passions
Av John O’Neill
Häftad, 1996
450 kr
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John O'Neill explores the human passions as both the object of psychoanalysis and the creative principle of Freud's own discovery and practice of psychoanalysis. Love, hate, anger, jealousy, envy, knowledge, and ignorance: the passions dominate infancy, adolescence, and adulthood, marking them with …
Shelley and the Chaos of History
A New Politics of Poetry
Av Hugh Roberts
Häftad, 1997
817 kr
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What is the role of poetry in bringing about change? This book explores that question in the writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley, examining his fascination with the role of contingency in physical and historical processes. In considering the long-standing debate over Shelley's philosophical stance, …
Transformations in Personhood and Culture after Theory
The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics
Av Christie McDonald, Gary Wihl
Häftad, 1994
543 kr
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The essays in this collection focus on the essentially moral desire within humanistic inquiry to seek a point of contact between personal experience and intellectual reflection. The book is concerned with the development of a plural vocabulary of transformation that stems from the language of …
William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation
Av David Haney
Häftad, 1993
691 kr
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Recent critics view Wordsworth's incarnational rhetoric as the expression of an unfulfilled desire for representational adequacy. David Haney, however, argues that Wordsworth's interpretation of the Christian concept of incarnation engages historical contingency and mortality by emphasizing the …
Nietzsche's Noontide Friend
The Self as Metaphoric Double
Häftad, 1997
601 kr
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Ever since Heidegger lectured on Nietzsche, philosophers have stressed the active side of the Übermensch, the self who aggressively consumes and exploits value. Sheridan Hough, however, argues that there is a distinctly receptive and passive side to the Nietzschean self, and thus a pervasive …
Living Poetically
Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics
Av Sylvia Walsh
Häftad, 1994
549 kr
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Living Poetically is the first book to focus primarily on Kierkegaard's existential aesthetics as opposed to traditional aesthetic features of his writings such as the use of pseudonyms, literary techniques and figures, and literary criticism. Living Poetically traces the development of the concept …
Authority of Experience
Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment
Häftad, 1996
691 kr
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Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century …
Challenge of Coleridge
Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy
Av David Haney
Häftad, 2001
467 kr
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Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s sense) with philosophical thinkers today who share his interest in the relationship of interpretation to …
Imitation and Society
The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant
Av Tom Huhn
Häftad, 2004
463 kr
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This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was …
Rhetoric, Language, and Reason
Av Michel Meyer
Häftad, 1994
473 kr
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Contemporary or postmodern thought is based on the lack of foundation. The impossibility of having a principle for philosophy has become a position of principle. As a result, rhetoric has taken over. Content has given way to the priority of form. Michel Meyer's book aims at showing that philosophy …
Ecstatic Quotidian
Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature
Av Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Häftad, 2010
467 kr
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Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that …
Rhapsody of Philosophy
Dialogues with Plato in Contemporary Thought
Inbunden, 2009
883 kr
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This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato’s dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to …
Rhapsody of Philosophy
Dialogues with Plato in Contemporary Thought
Häftad, 2013
670 kr
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This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato’s dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to …
Image of the Soul in Speech
Plato and the Problem of Socrates
Inbunden, 2010
904 kr
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In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato’s distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and ethical inquiry. In particular, McNeill demonstrates how Socrates’s confrontation with profound …
Image of the Soul in Speech
Plato and the Problem of Socrates
Häftad, 2014
582 kr
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In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato’s distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and ethical inquiry. In particular, McNeill demonstrates how Socrates’s confrontation with profound …
Self-Deceiving Muse
Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art
Av Alan Singer
Häftad, 2013
601 kr
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Current philosophical discussions of self-deception remain steeped in disagreement and controversy. In The Self-Deceiving Muse, Alan Singer proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of self-deception. Singer asserts that self-deception, far from being irrational, is critical to …
Becoming Human
Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
Av Chad Wellmon
Häftad, 2014
670 kr
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Immanuel Kant wrote that his infamously academic, arid philosophy posed three questions: What can I know? What can I do? What can I be permitted to hope for? He then added a fourth that he claimed would subsume them all: What is the human? This last question, he suggested, could be answered by a …
Narrative Shape of Truth
Veridiction in Modern European Literature
Av Ilya Kliger
Häftad, 2016
582 kr
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Its champions—and its detractors—have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth counters this widely accepted view. It argues instead that the novel has found new, historically specific configurations of truth and narrative. The …
Smile of Tragedy
Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue
Inbunden, 2012
836 kr
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In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the Socratic era but also for his overall critique of Western culture. Through an …
