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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Uber Krieg Und Frieden. Die Friedensschriften Des
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Hofenberg Die Krankheit zum Tode: Eine christlich-psychologische Entwicklung zur Erbauung und Erweckung
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Hofenberg Die Rolle der Gewalt in der Geschichte
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Hofenberg Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie
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V&R Unipress Hamanns Briefwechsel: ACTA Des Zehnten
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V&R Unipress Verwandlungen: Dichter ALS Leser Kants
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Brill Mentis Wilfrid Sellars: Der Empirismus Und Die
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Brill Mentis Grundkurs Philosophie Des Geistes / Grundkurs
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Vero Verlag Also sprach Zarathustra: Aus dem Nachlaß 1882/85
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Prodinnova Commentaire aux fragments de Jules Lagneau
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Brill Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de
Book SynopsisThis book contains 15 essays by philosophers, theologians and historians from the Netherlands, France, Italy, England and the United States on Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), the French Protestant who found refuge in Rotterdam just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). From the early 1680s onward, Bayle published a series of seminal works, culminating in his Dictionaire historique et critique (1697), that is generally regarded to have served as the "arsenal" of the Enlightenment. Over the last few decades, Bayle has been rediscovered as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment, but experts have found it extremely difficult to come to any agreement concerning his ultimate position, most notably concerning the relationship between faith and philosophy. In this volume both Bayle's philosophy and his theological views are assessed as well as his impact on the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributors include: Hubert Bost, Hans Bots, Wiep van Bunge, Justin Champion, Jonathan Israel, Eric Jorink, Lenie van Lieshout, Antony McKenna, Gianni Paganini, Marie-Hélène Quéval, Todd Ryan, Adam Sutcliffe, Rob van der Schoor, Theo Verbeek, and Jan de Vet.Trade Review"The book gives readers a scrupulously reliable and often insightful introduction to Bayle’s life and thought." J.B. Shank, H-France Review, vol. 11 (2011) 194, pp. 1-14.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. La vie culturelle à Rotterdam du temps de Bayle, Lenie van Lieshout 2. Dutch Cartesians in Bayle’s Dictionary, Theo Verbeek 3. Bayle and Occasionalism: The Argument from Continuous Creation, Todd Ryan 4. Comets in Context. Some Thoughts on Bayle’s Pensées diverses, Eric Jorink 5. Pierre Bayle et les catholiques, Hans Bots 6. Pierre Bayle, un “protestant compliqué”, Hubert Bost 7. Bayle et les théologies philosophiques de son temps, Gianni Paganini 8. Bayle and Judaism, Adam Sutcliffe 9. Bayle’s Double Image during the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel 10. L’édition allemande du Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1741-1744) par Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie-Hélène Quéval 11. Bayle in the English Enlightenment, Justin Champion 12. The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic, Wiep van Bunge 13. Bayle in Two Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth Century: His Presence in L’année littéraire and Journal encyclopédique, Jan de Vet 14. Pierre Bayle and Some of the Figures in His Dictionnaire as seen by De Gids and a Number of Nineteenth-Century Dutch Freethinker and Freemason Periodicals, Rob van der Schoor 15. Pierre Bayle in the Twentieth Century, Antony McKenna Index
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Brill Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on
Book SynopsisSpanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), José de Acosta (1540–1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke (1632–1704), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Robert Persons (1546-1610), Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), and, later, William Robertson (1721–1793), Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). An influence that was sometimes hidden and always controversial. This work highlights the importance of this influence regarding thought on politics, law and natural rights. A constitutionalist understanding of political power, the recognition and promotion of innate rights and the necessary subjection of rulers to the law, all form part of the important legacy of these scholastic doctors for European intellectual heritage. Contributors to this volume: Rafael Alé Ruiz, Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz, Francisco Castilla Urbano, José Luis Cendejas Bueno, Alfonso Díaz Vera, Francisco Javier Gómez Díez, Cecilia Font de Villanueva, León M. Gómez Rivas, Fermín del Pino Díaz, Leopoldo J. Prieto López, Daniel Schwartz, Lorena Velasco Guerrero, and María Idoya Zorroza Huarte.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction: Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons in Politics, Law, and Rights Leopoldo José Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno 1 Francisco Suárez and the Whig Political Tradition: The Case of Algernon Sidney Leopoldo José Prieto López 2 Subjective Rights, Political Community, and Property in Francisco Suárez’s and John Locke’s Theories of the State of Nature José Luis Cendejas Bueno 3 Traces of the Jesuit José de Acosta in the Scottish Enlightenment Thinker William Robertson Fermín del Pino-Díaz 4 Natural History: From José de Acosta’s Model to Francis Bacon’s Proposals Francisco Castilla Urbano 5 Understanding Thomas De Quincey’s Kantian Defense of Casuistry Daniel Schwartz 6 Francisco Suárez and John Locke: Notes on the Diffusion of Suarezian Thought in Seventeenth-Century England Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz 7 Tyranny and the Usurpation of Spiritual Power: Pedro de Ribadeneyra, Francisco Suárez, and Robert Persons Francisco Javier Gómez Díez 8 Francisco Suárez and the “Distributist Movement”: From Jesuit Political Philosophy to Post-Scholastic Economics Alfonso Díaz Vera 9 Ethics, Money, and Finance in the Late Scholastics: Francisco Suárez on Taxation León M. Gómez Rivas 10 The Binding Nature of Civil Norms on Foreigners in the Treatise De legibus ac Deo legislatore by Francisco Suárez Lorena Velasco Guerrero 11 Monetary Alterations in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Castile and England: Juan de Mariana and John Locke Cecilia Font de Villanueva 12 On John Locke, Francisco Suárez, and a Revision of Property in the Enterprise Model Rafael Alé-Ruiz and Mª. Idoya Zorroza Conclusion Leopoldo José Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bueno Bibliography Index
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Springer Approaches to Legal Rationality
Book SynopsisLegal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare occasion to meet. The present book contains contributions, both historical and thematic, from leading researchers in several of the most important approaches to legal rationality. One of the main issues is the relation between logic and law: the way logic is actually used in law, but also the way logic can make law explicit. An outstanding group of philosophers, logicians and jurists try to meet this issue. The book is more than a collection of papers. However different their respective conceptual tools may be, the authors share a common conception: legal argumentation is a specific argumentation context.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Abstracts.- Part I The Specificity of Legal Reasoning.- Part II Legal Reasoning and Public Reason.- Part III Logic and Law.- Part IV New Formal Approaches to Legal Reasoning .- Part V Logic in the Law.
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Culturea Bhakti Yoga
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The University of Chicago Press Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
Book SynopsisA collection of the essays of Norberto Bobbio on Hobbes's thought and his place in the theory of modern politics. Tracing Hobbes's work through De Cive and Leviathan, Bobbio identifies the philosopher's relation to the tradition of natural law.
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The University of Chicago Press After the Beautiful
Book SynopsisIn his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility - the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. This title offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel's position.Trade Review"There is a fair amount of philosophical literature about whether Hegel could accommodate modern, post-1840s art within his philosophy, but that field usually divides into the 'Yes, he can,' and 'No, he cannot' camps. Both camps generally argue on the basis of canonical Hegelian texts, differing only on the implications they draw from those texts. In After the Beautiful, however, the historical Hegel himself is drawn into criticism under Robert B. Pippin's contemporary interpretation-called to alter his original account in certain key areas if he is to stay true to his original program. This is a very ambitious way of doing philosophy, and Pippin pulls it off very well." -Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University"
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The University of Chicago Press Deweys New Logic A Reply to Russell
Book SynopsisThis text analyzes the debate between John Dewey and Bertrand Russell that followed the 1938 publication of Dewey's "Logic: The Theory in Inquiry". It argues that Russell failed to understand Dewey's logic as Dewey intended and that this logic is relevant to recent developments in philosophy.
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The University of Chicago Press Meaning and Necessity A Study in Semantics and
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The University of Chicago Press Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome The
Book SynopsisIn these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another.
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The University of Chicago Press JeanJacques The Early Life and Work of
Book SynopsisThe first volume of three in this biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this volume deals with Rousseau's early life and work from 1712 to 1754.
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsches Journey to Sorrento
Book SynopsisWhen for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky, Nietzsche wrote, it was like a shiver, as though pitying myself for starting my life by being old, and the tears came to me and the feeling of having been saved at the very last second. Few would guess it from the author of such cheery works as The Birth of Tragedy, but as Paolo D'Iorio vividly recounts in this book, Nietzsche was enraptured by the warmth and sun of southern Europe. It was in Sorrento that Nietzsche finally matured as a thinker. Nietzsche first voyaged to the south in the autumn of 1876, upon the invitation of his friend, Malwida von Meysenbug. The trip was an immediate success, reviving Nietzsche's joyful and trusting sociability and fertilizing his creative spirit. Walking up and down the winding pathways of Sorrento and drawing on Nietzsche's personal notebooks, D'Iorio tells the compelling story of Nietzsche's metamorphosis beneath the Italian skies. It was here, D'Iorio shows, that Nietzsche broke intellectually with Wagner, where he decided to leave his post at Bâle, and where he drafted his first work of aphorisms, Human, All Too Human, which ushered in his mature era. A sun-soaked account of a philosopher with a notoriously overcast disposition, this book is a surprising travelogue through southern Italy and the history of philosophy alike.
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The University of Chicago Press The First Moderns
Book SynopsisThis history of modernism is filled with portraits of genius and intellectual breakthroughs that evoke the "fin-de-siecle" atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St Louis and St Petersburg. This book offers readers a look at the unfolding of an age.
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The University of Chicago Press A Short Commentary on Kants Critique of Pure
Book SynopsisThis study is an introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as well as an analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with the philosopher's text, the commentary systematically examines the Critique chapter by chapter.Table of ContentsI: Introductory II: The Transcendental Aesthetic III: The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories IV: The Individual Categories and Their Proofs V: Kant's Attitude to Material Idealism. The Thing-in-Itself VI: The Paralogisms and the Antinomies VII: Theology and the Ideas of Reason Index Index of Comments on Particular Passages
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University of Chicago Press Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism
Book SynopsisStanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and others. In this first book-length study of Cavell's writings, Michael Fischer examines Cavell's relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley Fish. Throughout his study, Fischer focuses on skepticism, a central concern of Cavell's multifaceted work. Cavell, following J. L. Austin and Wittgenstein, does not refute the radical epistemological questioning of Descartes, Hume, and others, but rather characterizes skepticism as a significant human possibility or temptation. As presented by Fischer, Cavell's accounts of both external-world and other-minds skepticism share significant affinities with deconstruction, a connection overlooked by contemporary literary theorists. Fischer follows Cavell's lead in examining how different genres address the problems raised by skepticism and goes on to show how Cavell draws on American and Englishromanticism in fashioning a response to it. He concludes by analyzing Cavell's remarks about current critical theory, focusing on Cavell's uneasiness with some of the conclusions reached by its practitioners. Fischer shows that Cavell's insights, grounded in powerful analyses of Descartes, Hume, and Wittgenstein, permit a fresh view of Derrida, Miller, de Man, and Fish. The result is not only a revealing characterization of deconstruction but a much-needed and insightful introduction to Cavell's rich but difficult oeuvre.
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The University of Chicago Press Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism
Book SynopsisStanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and others. In this first book-length study of Cavell's writings, Michael Fischer examines Cavell's relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley Fish. Throughout his study, Fischer focuses on skepticism, a central concern of Cavell's multifaceted work. Cavell, following J. L. Austin and Wittgenstein, does not refute the radical epistemological questioning of Descartes, Hume, and others, but rather characterizes skepticism as a significant human possibility or temptation. As presented by Fischer, Cavell's accounts of both external-world and other-minds skept
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The University of Chicago Press Sartre Foucault and Historical Reason Volume Two
Book SynopsisSartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. In Volume One of this authoritative two-volume study, Thomas R. Flynn conducted a pivotal and comprehensive reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory. This long-awaited second volume offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the Foucauldian counterpoint. A history, theorized Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comprehensive charting of structural transformations and displacements over time. Contrary to other Foucault scholars, Flynn proposes an axial rather than a developmental reading of Foucault's work. This allows aspects of Foucault's famous triad of knowledge, power, and the subject to emerge in each of his major works. Flynn maps existentialist categories across
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The University of Chicago Press Threads of Life Autobiography the Will
Book SynopsisThis work offers an account of how changing theological, philosophical and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped to shape various understandings of the will.
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The University of Chicago Press Descartes Metaphysical Physics Science and Its
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The University of Chicago Press Nihilism Before Nietzsche Phoenix Poets Paperback
Book SynopsisIn this work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject.
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsches New Seas
Book SynopsisNietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplinesphilosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicologyand from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributorsKarsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselvestake a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.
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The University of Chicago Press Hearing Things Voice and Method in the Writing of
Book SynopsisQuestioning the role of the human voice within the field of philosophy this text examines philosopher Stanley Cavell's viewpoint, the relation between his pervasive authorial voice and his equally powerful, though less discernible, impulse to produce a set of usable philosophical methods.
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The University of Chicago Press Three Discourses A Critical Modern Edition of
Book SynopsisThe volume begins with the recent history of the discourses, first published as part of the anonymous 17th-century work, Horae Subsecivae. The editors present the complete texts of the discourse with full annotations and modernized spellings.
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The University of Chicago Press German Idealism as Constructivism
Book SynopsisGerman Idealism as Constructivism is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmoreit is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of constructivism that still plagues our grasp of the history of German idealism and the whole epistemological project today. Rockmore argues that German idealismwhich includes iconic thinkers such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegelcan best be understood as a constructivist project, one that asserts that we cannot know the mind-independent world as it is but only our own mental construction of it. Since ancient Greece philosophers have tried to know the world in itself, an effort that Kant believed had failed. His alternative strategywhich came to be known as the Copernican revolutionwas that the world as we experience and know it depends on the mind. Rockmore shows that this project was central to Kant's critical philosophy and the later German idealists who would follow him. He traces the different ways philosophers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel formulated their own versions of constructivism. Offering a sweeping but deeply attuned analysis of a crucial part of the legacy of German idealism, Rockmore reinvigorates this school of philosophy and opens up promising new avenues for its study.
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The University of Chicago Press Sentimental Savants
Book SynopsisThough the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in observing, translating, calculating, and illustrating.Sentimental Savants is the first book to explore the place of the family among the savants of the French Enlightenment, a group that openly embraced their families and domestic lives, even going so far as to test out their ideas from education to inoculation on their own children. Meghan K. Roberts delves into the lives and work of such major figures as Denis Diderot, emilie Du Ch telet, the Marquis de Condorcet, Antoine Lavoisier, and Jer me Lalande to paint a striking portrait of how sentiment and reason interacted in the eighteenth century to produce not only new kinds of knowledge, but new kinds of families as well.
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The University of Chicago Press The Powers of Pure Reason Kant and the Idea of
Book SynopsisThe Critique of Pure Reason Kant's First Critique is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise, Kant's oeuvre as a whole has been compartmentalized, the three Critiques held in rigid isolation from one another. Working against the standard reading of Kant that such compartmentalization has produced, The Powers of Pure Reason explores forgotten parts of the First Critique in order to find an exciting, new, and ultimately central set of concerns by which to read all of Kant's works. Ferrarin blows the dust off of two egregiously overlooked sections of the First Critique the Transcendental Dialectic and the Doctrine of Method. There he discovers what he argues is the Critique's greatest achievement: a conception of the unity of reason and an exploration of the powers it has to reach beyond itself and legislate over the world. With this in mi
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The University of Chicago Press Philosophical Correspondence 17591799 Midway
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The University of Chicago Press The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal John
Book SynopsisIn this work Victor Kestenbaum questions the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. He demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works are in fact shaped by the tension between the natural and the transcendent.
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The University of Chicago Press Apropos of Something
Book SynopsisA history of the idea of relevance since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought. Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin's sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevanceas the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued,or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how do we decide what is most valuable right now? Relevance, Tamarkin shows, was an Anglo-American concept, derived from a word meaning to raise or to lift up again, and also to give relief. It engaged major intellectual figures, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and pragmatists and philosophersWilliam James, Alain Locke, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whiteheadas well as a range of critics, phenomenologists, linguists, and sociologists. Relevance is a struggle for recognition, especially in the worlds of literature, art, and criticism. Poems and paintings inTrade Review“Apropos of Something is a phenomenal achievement—lucid, urgent, and rampantly intelligent. Tamarkin’s readings of art and literature emerge, like a leaping trout in a Winslow Homer painting, from the ground of careful philosophical explication to capture that feeling of surprise when we truly pay attention to something. Tamarkin does not simply analyze; she teaches us how to see. As a contribution to intellectual history, philosophy, aesthetic criticism, and theories of reading, this book possesses an Emersonian power to realize one of our great abstractions.” * Gavin Jones, author of 'Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity' *“Elisa Tamarkin shows what we do when we think the world, or the world thinks us—when an object separates from the slurry of general impressions and becomes important, singular, and relevant: standing out like Poe’s raven amid forgettable furnishings. A marvelous study of patterns of thought in American culture.” * Alexander Nemerov, author of "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" *“Apropos of Something summons the work of mostly major American thinkers from the nineteenth century, bringing them into dialogue with contemporary psychology, philosophy, and aesthetics. It thus tells a story of how something that was overlooked on the grounds of its insignificance comes to occupy the center of attention. But that story, told by Tamarkin with impressive erudition, does more than simply make us see the American intellectual tradition in a new light, as preoccupied with questions of the minor, disregarded and insignificant, rather than the exceptional, central, and powerful. In reconstructing how attention can come to refocus on what has escaped it, her argument also becomes a remarkable theory of aesthetic perception in its own right. Its major and far-reaching proposition is that, in its very nature, aesthetic perception is profoundly ethical; for it is nothing other than a practice of saving and elevating what is weak, fragile, and frail.” * Branka Arsic, author of 'Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau' *"A beautifully written account of the development of the concept of 'relevance' in nineteenth-century Anglo American thought and art. . . . Tamarkin has all sorts of insightful things to say about attention and 'attentional communities.'" -- Ben Lerner * The Paris Review *"This is a learned and deeply researched book that establishes continuities across an extraordinary variety of materials through careful acts of interpretation, and yet it is also an exploratory essay that does not disguise the role of fortuitousness in assembling its archive... This book is as much a writer’s achievement as a scholar’s, and it builds a mind-expanding argument for why this should be so." * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Figures 1. Introduction: Accidentals 2. On the Threshold: Clue, Hint, Poem 3. The Relevance of the Interesting 4. Attention and Selection in a Phenomenal World 5. Salience, or Finding the Point 6. Communication, Translation, and Spirit 7. Relevance Is God 8. Resurrection and Reconstruction 9. The History of Fallacies / The Sophistry of Criticism 10. News and Orientation Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Apropos of Something
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Apropos of Something is a phenomenal achievement—lucid, urgent, and rampantly intelligent. Tamarkin’s readings of art and literature emerge, like a leaping trout in a Winslow Homer painting, from the ground of careful philosophical explication to capture that feeling of surprise when we truly pay attention to something. Tamarkin does not simply analyze; she teaches us how to see. As a contribution to intellectual history, philosophy, aesthetic criticism, and theories of reading, this book possesses an Emersonian power to realize one of our great abstractions.” * Gavin Jones, author of 'Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity' *“Elisa Tamarkin shows what we do when we think the world, or the world thinks us—when an object separates from the slurry of general impressions and becomes important, singular, and relevant: standing out like Poe’s raven amid forgettable furnishings. A marvelous study of patterns of thought in American culture.” * Alexander Nemerov, author of "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" *“Apropos of Something summons the work of mostly major American thinkers from the nineteenth century, bringing them into dialogue with contemporary psychology, philosophy, and aesthetics. It thus tells a story of how something that was overlooked on the grounds of its insignificance comes to occupy the center of attention. But that story, told by Tamarkin with impressive erudition, does more than simply make us see the American intellectual tradition in a new light, as preoccupied with questions of the minor, disregarded and insignificant, rather than the exceptional, central, and powerful. In reconstructing how attention can come to refocus on what has escaped it, her argument also becomes a remarkable theory of aesthetic perception in its own right. Its major and far-reaching proposition is that, in its very nature, aesthetic perception is profoundly ethical; for it is nothing other than a practice of saving and elevating what is weak, fragile, and frail.” * Branka Arsic, author of 'Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau' *"A beautifully written account of the development of the concept of 'relevance' in nineteenth-century Anglo American thought and art. . . . Tamarkin has all sorts of insightful things to say about attention and 'attentional communities.'" -- Ben Lerner * The Paris Review *"This is a learned and deeply researched book that establishes continuities across an extraordinary variety of materials through careful acts of interpretation, and yet it is also an exploratory essay that does not disguise the role of fortuitousness in assembling its archive... This book is as much a writer’s achievement as a scholar’s, and it builds a mind-expanding argument for why this should be so." * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsList of Figures 1. Introduction: Accidentals 2. On the Threshold: Clue, Hint, Poem 3. The Relevance of the Interesting 4. Attention and Selection in a Phenomenal World 5. Salience, or Finding the Point 6. Communication, Translation, and Spirit 7. Relevance Is God 8. Resurrection and Reconstruction 9. The History of Fallacies / The Sophistry of Criticism 10. News and Orientation Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed in Translation
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The University of Chicago Press The Young Descartes Nobility Rumor and War
Book SynopsisA biography of the early years of Descartes, which reveal a very active man in Europe’s complicated political and social scene—a courtier, teacher, thinker, and possibly even a spy.Trade Review"Anyone who starts reading will quickly be drawn into the life of a young and intriguing French noble who only gradually found his way to becoming the Descartes later generations know, love, or sometimes hate. This is a fascinating study of the personal, social, and political complications of living in early seventeenth-century Europe, just as the modern nation-state was starting to form."--Dennis L. Sepper, University of Dallas "Cook does a very fine job of weaving Descartes into the complex world of seventeenth-century Europe: its politics and especially its military campaigns. He's written a book that--provocatively and compellingly--seats intellectual history in the real world and helps make Descartes into a real human being."--Russell Shorto, author of Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason "The Young Descartes is an engaging and intriguing work. Harold Cook follows Rene Descartes through the political minefields of the French court, riven by the rivalry between Marie de Medici and her son, Louis XIII, and his eminence grise, the formidable Cardinal Richelieu, and over the dangerous intellectual terrain of the seventeenth century, into a world that is rich while also complex, contested, and often veiled by caution or secrecy. This book makes central the fact that Descartes, frequently relegated to the status of arm-chair philosopher, actually traveled widely, indeed, almost incessantly for crucial periods of his life, and asks important questions about where he traveled and to what ends."--Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University
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The University of Chicago Press Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium Humes
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, which seeks to revise understanding of Hume's thought by investigating the distinction he made between true and false philosophy. The text traces this distinction through all Hume's writings, set against the cultural ethos of his time.
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The University of Chicago Press German Idealism and the Jew
Book SynopsisUncovering the deep roots of anti-semitism in the German philosophical tradition, this work offers an analytical account of the connection between the two.
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The University of Chicago Press On Descartes Metaphysical Prism The Constitution
Book SynopsisDoes Descartes belong to metaphysics? What does metaphysics mean? The questions form the point of departure for this study of Cartesian thought. Analyses of the notion of ego and his idea of God show that if he represents the fullest example of metaphysics, he nonetheless transgresses its limits.
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