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Book SynopsisThis exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.Table of Contents9789004515611 Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800 1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France  Sean Quinlan 2 Maine de Biran and Neurology  Larry McGrath 3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart  Marco Piazza 4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?  Warren Schmaus 5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology  Marc Maesschalck 6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran  Rolf Kühn 7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran  Alessandra Aloisi Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945) 8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy  Denise Vincenti 9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again  Benjamin Jacques Bâcle 10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism  Pietro Terzi 11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran  Michael A. Conway 12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran  Anne Devarieux 13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)  Marco Piazza 14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self  Manfred Milz 15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō  Mika Imono Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010) 16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran  Eftichis Epirovolakis 17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”  Scott Davidson 18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field  Alessandra Aloisi 19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran  Björn Thorsteinsson 20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry  Anne Devarieux 21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project  Luis Umbelino Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA classicist, philosopher, and poet, Poul Martin Møller was an important figure in the Danish Golden Age. The traumatic event of the death of his wife led him to think more profoundly about the question of the immortality of the soul. In 1837 he published his most important philosophical treatise, “Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality,” presented here in English for the first time. It was read and commented upon by the leading figures of the Golden Age, such as Søren Kierkegaard. It proved to be the last important work that Møller wrote before his death in March of 1838 at the age of 43.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first comprehensive history of Fichte’s reception in America, highlighting the existence of a long and strong tradition of Fichtean studies throughout the continent and demonstrating the centrality of Fichtean ideas in contemporary discussions of issues such as feminism, social criticism, and decolonial thought. Read and reinterpreted in the highly diverse circumstances across the American continent, Fichte’s ideas are presented in a radically new light, uncovering the Fichtean spirit of self-activity and autonomous thought in an American context.Table of ContentsForeword Notes on Contributors PART 1: Fichte and the Current Debates in the Americas 1 The Reception, Development, and Application of J. G. Fichte’s Account of Gender, Marriage, and Family in the Americas  Yolanda Estes 2 Et in America ego. Fichte’s Liberal and Egalitarian Critique of Colonization, Servitude, and Slavery  Günter Zöller 3 Triple Fichtean Revolution: Notes to a Freer Latin-American Thinkingbr/>  Thiago S. Santoro 4 Modernity and Its Peripheries: Originary Existence and Decolonization of Thought in Light of Fichte’s Late Work  Manuel Tangorra 5 Intersubjectivity, Common Consciousness, and the Death of the Milkman  Francisco Augusto de Moraes Prata Gaspar PART 2: Fichte’s Spirit at the Foundation of the American Independent Nations 6 Echoes and Reverberations: Fichte’s Voice in the Independence of South American Countries  Virginia López-Domínguez 7 Fichte, Progress, and the Rise of Positivism in Latin America  Elizabeth Millán Brusslan 8 Philosophy and Emancipation: Fichte’s Spirit in Alberdi’s Letter  María Jimena Solé 9 Fichte and the Democratic Self According to Walt Whitman  Federico Vicum 10 An Accomplice Reading of Fichte from the Other Side. Towards a Real Independence of Latin America  Marco Rampazzo Bazzan 11 “Still Fichte”: Individual, State, and Democracy in J.D. Perón’s Organized Community  Santiago Nápoli PART 3: Fichte’s Reception, Influence and Appropriation by American Thinkers 12 Raimundo de Farias Brito, Kritiker des Positivismus zwischen Fichte und Jacobi  Christian Klotz 13 Fichte’s Metaphysics in Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol. Continuities around Pilgrim Subjectivity  Lucas Damián Scarfia 14 Fichte and Rojas  Alberto Sandoval 15 Fichte and Korn: Some Messages for Free Spirits  María Paz Lamas 16 Fichte by Taborda: Idealism and Critique of Modernity  Mariano Gaudio 17 The Spirit between Two Continents. Fichte in Turin, in São Paulo  Giorgia Cecchinato Appendix: Pragmatismus als Idealismus. Peirce, Fichte und der radikale Anti-Cartesianismus  Jakub Kloc-Konkolowicz Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book by the great French radical historian Maurice Dommanget (1888–1976) to be translated into English, this book is an engaging, sympathetic telling of the life and works of Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), an unjustly forgotten figure of the French Revolutionary era. Maréchal was not only a militant atheist and opponent of royalty, but, as the author of the Manifesto of the Equals he laid the groundwork for modern communism. With an introduction by Jean-Numa Ducange.Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part 1 Before the Revolution Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Part 2 During the French Revolution Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Part 3 After the Revolution Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of liturgy. It also explores how the legacy of Goethe can be used to develop new strata of religious and Jewish thought. We learn how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 The Life of Quotation  1 The Life of Quotation  2 Phenomenology?  3 Psychology or Archive Fetish?  4 Just More Derrida? 2 Myth, Language, and the Origins of Tradition  1 Innerlichkeit and New-Old Beginnings  2 Martin Buber and Innerlichkeit  3 Innerlichkeit and the Hebrew Bible  4 Buber’s Hebrew Humanism  5 Walter Benjamin’s Challenge to Buber  6 Benjamin and Nietzsche  7 Benjamin and Goethe  8 The Challenge of Lebensphilosophie  9 Franz Rosenzweig’s New Thinking  10 Between Bildung and Anti-Bildung  11 Rosenzweig and Nietzsche  12 Conclusion 3 Quotation as Heterodoxy: Walter Benjamin’s Karl Kraus  1 Benjamin’s Essay “Karl Kraus”  2 The Ur-Kraus: Benjamin’s Early Move to Language and Origin  3 Jewish Negation as Jewish Quotation: a Prolegomenon to Jewish Secular Identity  4 The Life of Quotation in Benjamin’s Kraus 4 Quotation as Pedagogy: Franz Rosenzweig’s Goethe  1 The Jewish Goethekenner  2 Using Goethe’s Poetics Hermeneutically: Quotation in the Introduction of the Star  3 From a Post-Goethekenner to a Premodern  4 Das Geflügelte Wort (the Winged Word): Rosenzweig’s Life of Quotation 5 Quotation, Experience, and the Secularizing of Life  1 Experience, Language, and Life  2 Quotation, Experience, and Hermeneutics  3 The Arcades Project: Quotation, Montage, and the Medium of Reflection  4 Jewish Thought, Quotation, and the Secularizing of Life 6 Quotation and the Liturgical Life  1 Jewish Books, Jewish Worlds, Jewish Words  2 Biblical Words, Living Words, Winged Words  3 Biblical Words, Dialogue, Commentary  4 From the Star to Liturgy to Life: a Forgotten Interlocutor  5 Rosenzweig’s Experience with Ismar Elbogen  6 The Influence of Elbogen’s Der jüdische Gottesdienst on Rosenzweig’s Star  7 From Scholarship on Liturgy to Philosophy and the Future of Judaism  8 Liturgy as Polemic and Propaedeutic: Petition and Temptation  9 Rosenzweig’s Application of a Jewish Liturgical Hermeneutic  10 Into Life Conclusion: The Life of Quotation and the (Re)Invention of Tradition Primary Sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPerspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch eröffnet Forschern, denen die philosophische Begründung des Denkens wichtig ist, eine Publikationsmöglichkeit. Wir verstehen uns nicht als Schulorgan einer philosophischen Lehrmeinung, sondern sehen unsere Aufgabe darin, an der Intensivierung des wissenschaftlichen Philosophierens mitzuwirken. Besonders fördern wir den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs und laden ihn zur Mitarbeit ein.Table of ContentsTeil 1 Leben perspektivisch gebrochen Weiterleben, Fortleben, Überleben ‚Familienähnlichkeiten‘ zwischen Ricœur, Derrida und Bataille oder: Abriss einer Überlebensphilosophie  Artur R. Boelderl Nietzsches Philosophie des Südens  Jutta Georg Die Mystik bei Henri Bergson als geschichtliche Dynamik  Rolf Kühn Metaphysische und postmetaphysische Positionen einer Philosophie der Geschichte  Heinz-Gerd Schmitz Teil 2 In Würde und Freiheit Würde als Freiheit des Geistes zum Guten: Pelagius als Quelle von Giovanni Pico della Mirandola?  Salvatore Lavecchia Subjektivität und Absolutheit: Wer wir sind und sein können  Harald Seubert Teil 3 Zurück zu den Anfängen Das Wesen der Seele zwischen Logos und Mythos Unsterblichkeit, Ideentheorie und Selbsterkenntnis im Licht des Schönen-Guten in Platons Phaidros 245b1–251b7  Claudia Luchetti Solon bei Platon  Beate Fränzle Táxis tou chrónou: Zu Eugen Finks Anaximanderauslegung  Damir Barbarić Teil 4 Buchbesprechungen Jutta Georg, Renate Reschke, Vivetta Vivarelli (Hrsg.), Nietzsche im Horizont der Literatur, Paderborn 2022, 197 Seiten  Renate Müller-Buck (Rez.) Bernhard Stricker, Die Literatur, der Skeptizismus und das gute Leben. Stanley Cavell als Leser (LiLi. Studien zur Literatur und Linguistik, Bd. 3), Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler 2021, 630 Seiten  Philipp Zimmermann (Rez.) Tina Röck, Dynamic Realism. Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, Edinburgh 2022, 312 + vii Seiten  Ludwig Jaskolla (Rez.) Mitarbeiterliste 2023 Richtlinien für die Einreichung von Beiträgen

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Table of ContentsAbhandlungen/Articles Arianna BETTI/Maria VAN DER SCHAAR: The Road from Vienna to Lvov: Twardowski’s Theory of Judgement between 1894 and 1897 Andrew Kenneth JORGENSEN: Types of Negation in Logical Reconstructions of Meinong Gert-Jan C. LOKHORST/Lou GOBLE: Mally’s Deontic Logic Olaf L. MÜLLER: Echte ontologische Alternativen Douglas James MacDERMID: Is Davidson’s Epistemology Coherent? Jeffrey GOODMAN: A Defence of Creationism in Fiction Matthias GÜNTHER: Gesetze und vollständige Erklärungen: Churchlands Verwechslung Diskussion/Discussion Fraser MacBRIDE: Whence the Particular-Universal Distinction? Herbert HOCHBERG: Russell and Ramsey on Distinguishing between Universals and Particulars Besprechungen/Review Articles Dieter MÜNCH: Neues zum frühen Brentano Buchnotizen/Critical Notes Eingelangte Bücher/Books Received

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders. Anders is one of few philosophers to deal intensely with the moral consequences of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. He can rightly be called the philosopher of the atomic age, and his thinking a philosophy of modern technology. In biting manifestoes, sharp aphorisms, and penetrating essays, in stirring diary notes and political fables, Anders strikes out the age in which we live. As a twentieth-century visionary, he exposes the absence of the moral and social imaginations that is necessary to prevent our history from ending in a total catastrophe. In the gap between our technical creations and our utter inability to imagine their destructive potential lies the basis for the unstoppable activity of this practical philosopher. From every possible angle, he attempts to comprehend this modern schizophrenia in its roots and consequences. Anders is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He tried to describe and analyze the variety of manifestations of the “self-destructive progress of our technical civilization,” which makes humanity into an “anti-quated” sort. He diagnosed countless important problems, ranging from the world of media to the dictates of the world of machinery, and he investigated their social, political, and philosophical meaning. To read his writings is more than becoming acquainted with a rich and colorful philosopher. It is more than an encounter with a moving and passionate individual. It is ultimately a confrontation with oneself, with our own guilt and responsibility, with our personal hopes and fears, with our lack of imagination and with our need to recover it.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword. One Introduction. Two Portrait of Günther Anders. Three The Core Thinking of Anders. Four The Relation of Anders to Academic Philosphy. Five Anders's Philosophy of Technology in Relation to That of Heidegger. Six Anders and the Technology Debate. Seven Evaluation and Closing Remarks. Chronology. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrating Richard Rorty’s breadth of scholarship and his influence on diverse issues across the social sciences and humanities, this comprehensive bibliography contains 1,165 citations. A unique reference work on neo-pragmatism, this bibliography is essential for anyone researching Rorty’s work and its impact on philosophy, literature, the arts, religion, the social sciences, politics, and education.Table of ContentsForeword by Richard J. Bernstein. Introduction. Abbreviations. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

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Table of ContentsEinleitung. I Husserls Verständnis von Philosophie und Wissenschaft und die Kritik der neuzeitlichen Naturwissenschaft. 1 Die Phänomenologie als Wiederaufnahme der antiken Idee von der Philosophie. 2 Objektivismus und natürliche Einstellung. 3 Kritik der neuzeitlichen Naturwissenschaft. II Phänomenologische Wissenschaftlichkeit und Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt. 1 Idee und Aufgabe einer phänomenologischen Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt. 2 Phänomenologische Wissenschaftlichkeit und Methode. 3 Normalität als Grundlage phänomenologischer Wissenschaftlichkeit. III Die Systematik der Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. 1 Die Bedeutung der Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt im Übergang zur transzendentalen Phänomenologie. 2 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Thematisierung der Lebenswelt in der transzendentalen Phänomenologie. IV Ein neuer methodischer Zugang zur Systematik der Lebensweltwissenschaft. 1 Das Programm einer Lebensweltwissenschaft und ihre Grundprobleme. 2 Zur Methodik einer Thematisierung der Lebenswelt. 3 Horizont und lebensweltliches Apriori. 4 Das lebensweltliche Apriori im Zusammenspiel von Natur und Kultur.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that the most forceful contribution to George Gurdjieff's world-view is Sufism, understood as the tradition of seeking truth wherever it can be found, especially at the meeting place of the world religions. Gurdjieff's masterpiece, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is philosophically analyzed in its use of literary devices to jolt the reader into radical transformation.Table of ContentsFrontispiece Editorial Foreword ONE Fragments in an Aimful life TWO Connections with Sufism THREE Gurdjieff’s Theory of Art FOUR Travel and Transformation: Beelzebub’s Tales within the Context of Philosophical Travel Literature FIVE The Tales Themselves: An Overview SIX The Holy Planet Purgatory SEVEN A Sample of Tales EIGHT What Happens When a Master Dies? A Review of the Recent Literature Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThis book gathers six trenchant new analyses of the idea of the person as raised by the German philosopher and social theorist Max Scheler (1874–1928). The issues raised in the volume are both timely and perennial, from considerations of postmodernity, phenomenology, and metaphysics, to sharp-edged comparisons with other thinkers, including Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Eric Voegelin, Richard Rorty, and Hannah Arendt.Trade Review”The papers contained in this volume fulfill the promise of its subtitle. They offer new, significant, and interesting contributions to our understanding of Scheler, and especially of the relationship between the phenomenology and his metaphysics. The volume will serve well in advancing the resurgence of interest in Scheler’s philosophy.” in: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2005)Table of ContentsMax Scheler, 1928 Preface Foreword by Manfred S. Frings INTRODUCTION Stephen SCHNECK: Introduction ONE Michael D. BARBER: Modern and Postmodern Aspects of Scheler’s later Personalism TWO Philip BLOSSER: Scheler’s Concept of the Person Against Its Kantian Background THREE Daniel O. DAHLSTROM: Scheler’s Critique of Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology FOUR Eugene KELLY: Ethical Personalism and the Unity of the Person FIVE William PETROPULOS: Max Scheler and Eric Voegelin on the Eternal in Man SIX Stephen SCHNECK: A Question of Space: Max Scheler and Hannah Arendt on the Person’s Place About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume are from the Second Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Krakow, Poland in 2002. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, ethics, aesthetics, experience, knowledge, rationality, metaphysics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe.Table of ContentsForeword by Hans Joas Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited TOWARD DEMOCRACY TWO Gert-Rüdiger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey’s Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey’s Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy ETHICS EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational? NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics AESTHETICS TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty ELEVEN Leif ÖSTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics? THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRÜGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey’s and Helmuth Plessner’s Approaches FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana’s Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object SIXTEEN Emil VIŠŇOVSKÝ: Dewey’s Reconstruction of Rationality SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Jürgen Habermas’ Construction and Deconstruction of the World NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Acknowledgments PROLOGUE ONE The Death of Reason, the End of History, and the Decline of Philosophy? Approaching the Present TWO The Jewish Question THREE The Theoretical Strategy of Judaism FOUR A Philosophy of Experience FIVE Toward an Ethic of Compassion CONCLUSION Works Cited About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisIs virtual reality the latest grand narrative that humanity has produced? Our civilization is determined by a shift from an “original event” to a virtual “narrative”. This concerns not only virtual reality but also psychoanalysis, gene-technology, and globalization. Psychoanalysis transforms the dream into a narrative and is able to spell out the dream’s symbols. Gene-technology narrates dynamic, self-evolving evolution as a “gene code”. Discourses on “globalization” let the globe appear as once more globalized because reproduced through narrative. Finally, reality itself has come to be narrated in the form of a second reality that is called “virtual”. This book attempts to disentangle the characteristics of human reality and posthuman virtual reality and asks whether it is possible to reconcile both.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain. It makes available to English-Speaking readers recent feminist thought in Latin America and Spain to facilitate dialogue among Latin American, North American, and European thinkers.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Introduction Acknowledgments Martha ZAPATA GALINDO: Feminist Movements in Mexico: From Consciousness-Raising Groups to Transnational Networks Norma VASALLO BARRUETA: An Approach to Cuban Feminist Ideas and Objectives: Echoes from the Past, Voices from the Present Amy A. OLIVER: Latin American Feminist Philosophy: Early Twentieth-Century Uruguay Adriana MARRERO: Equal Opportunities, Unfair Rewards: Social Constructions and Gender Strategies in Uruguayan High School Students Francesca GARGALLO: Multiple Feminisms: Feminist Ideas and Practices in Latin America María ESTHER POZO: On the Trail of Gender María JULIA PALACIOS: A Critical Examination of Women’s History Celia AMORÓS: Thinking Patriarchy María LUISA FEMENÍAS: The Challenge of Differences in Latin American Feminism Ofelia SCHUTTE: Postmodernity and Utopia: Reclaiming Feminist Grounds on New Terrains Ana MARÍA BACH, Margarita ROULET, and María ISABEL SANTA CRUZ: Feminist Philosophy and Utopia: A Powerful Alliance Claudia DE LIMA COSTA: Unthinking Gender: The Traffic in Theory in the Americas Alicia H. PULEO: Philosophy, Politics, and Sexuality Graciela HIERRO: The Ethics of Pleasure About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the first decade of a new century, this collection of bilingual essays examines Camus’s continuing popularity for a new generation of readers. In crucial respects, the world Camus knew has changed beyond all recognition: decolonization, the fall of the Iron Curtain, a new era of globalization and the rise of new forms of terrorism have all provoked a reconsideration of Camus’s writings. If the Absurd once struck a particular chord, Meursault is as likely now to be seen as a colonial figure who expresses the alienation of the settler from the land of his birth. Yet this increasing orthodoxy must also take account of the reasons why a new community of Algerian readers have embraced Camus. Equally, once isolated because of his anti-Communist stance, Camus has been taken up by disaffected members of the Left, convinced that new forms of totalitarianism are abroad in the world. This volume, which ranges from interpretations of Camus’s literary works, his journalism and his political writings, will be of interest to all those seeking to re-evaluate Camus’s work in the light of ethical and political issues that are of continuing relevance today.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Mark ORME and Christine MARGERRISON: Introduction I: Maurice WEYEMBERGH: Réflexions sur l’(in)actualité de Camus Colonialism II: Peter DUNWOODIE: Negotiation or Confrontation? Camus, Memory and the Colonial Chronotope III: Maria Teresa PULEIO: Albert Camus lu par Assia Djebar, ou comment écrire “ensemble” l’histoire des pieds-noirs et des colonisés IV: Raylene RAMSAY: Colonial/Postcolonial Hybridity in Le Premier Homme and Jean-Marie Tjibaou’s “First Man”, Kanaké V: Christine MARGERRISON: Sous le regard des hommes: “La Femme adultère” Ethics VI: Kevin NEWMARK: Tongue-tied: What Camus’s Fiction Couldn’t Teach Us about Ethics and Politics VII: Jørn BOISEN: Hédonisme et éthique: un paradoxe camusien? VIII: Geraldine F. MONTGOMERY: “Plus loin que la morale”: considérations sur la quête camusienne d’une éthique et d’un au-delá IX: Tobias CHEUNG: Life-Worlds and the Problem of Subjectivity: A Comparison Between L’Étranger and Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country X: Rouven PORZ, Jackie LEACH SCULLY and Christoph REHMANN-SUTTER: The Absurd in the Field of Genetic Diagnosis XI: Lissa LINCOLN: Discours du juste ou juste un discours? Discours et jugement chez Albert Camus dans un âge de justification morale Politics XII: André ABBOU: L’actualité de Camus, demain. Contre “l’ensauvagement”: ré-humaniser l’homme XIII: Guy DUGAS: Camus, Sénac, Roblès: les écrivains de l’École d’alger face au terrorisme XIV: John FOLEY: Albert Camus and Political Violence XV: Virginie LUPO: Camus, l’éternel contemporain XVI: Anne TEULAT: Lire Camus au XXIe siècle: un journalisme visionnaire et éthique XVII: Mark ORME: Camus et le défis de la démocratie au XXIe siècle XVIII: Samantha NOVELLO: Tragedy and “Aesthetic Politics”: Re-thinking the Political beyond Nihilism in the Work of Albert Camus Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel’s unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Kenneth A. Bryson Foreword by Kathleen Rose Hanley Acknowledgement List of Abbreviations Introduction ONE: Marcel’s Critique of Cartesianism TWO: Human Being as a Being-in-a-Situation THREE: The Objectivity of Knowledge FOUR: Secondary Reflection, Ethics, and the Transcendent FIVE: Religious Experience, and the Affirmation of God SIX: A Marcelian Critique of the Problem of Skepticism SEVEN: Marcel and Traditional Philosophical Problems EIGHT: Non-Conceptual Knowledge: Marcel and Maritain NINE: From an Epistemological Point of View: Buber and Marcel Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisThe Baltic philosopher Vasily Sesemann (1884-1963), rooted in the Classics and influenced but not dominated by Kant, Herder, Bergson, Husserl, and Lossky, was a first-rate scholar in the fields of aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and history of philosophy. But he is still relatively unknown internationally because he wrote mostly in Lithuanian and some of his many works are only now being translated into English. This successor volume to his Aesthetics collects eight noteworthy essays, ranging from the scholarly to the popular, on aesthetics, aesthetic education, national culture, and theory of knowledge. They reveal a sympathetic and responsive mind equally at home in Ancient Greek and modern French, German, and Russian philosophy; and capable both of untendentiously expounding their dominant ideas and fruitfully anticipating newer developments even as the latter began to take shape in early-to-mid-20th-century Western European philosophy. Hallmarks of Sesemann’s thought are the Heraclitean preference for becoming (dynamism, change) over being (stasis, timelessness) and the idea that any culture, in order to survive and grow, must be intellectually deep and open to foreign influences. This insight has crucial relevance to the debates about multiculturalism today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Editors’ Preface: Sighting and Sizing Up Sesemann Arūnas Sverdiolas: Vasily Sesemann: The Other and Time Aesthetic Evaluation in the History of Art (On the Relation between Art History and Aesthetics) Aesthetics Aesthetic Culture and Aesthetic Education Physical Education and Aesthetic Culture Protecting the Culture and the Beauty of the Past The Issue of National Culture New Directions in Contemporary Epistemology A Review of Worobiow’s Book on Čiurlionis

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Book SynopsisAlfred North Whitehead’s interpreters usually pay less attention to his later monographs and essays. Process and Reality is taken to be the definitive center of the Whiteheadian universe and the later works, thereby, appear to many only as applications or elaborations of themes already introduced earlier. Yet, is it also possible that the dominance of this perspective has obscured or even distorted further creative developments of Whitehead’s thought? This volume offers a sort of Copernican revolution in Whitehead interpretation, methodologically and conceptually inviting its contributors to observe Whitehead’s work from the perspective of his later works. The aim of this preferencing is meant not to invalidate earlier approaches to Whitehead’s thought nor is the inference that the later works are more authoritative. Yet, just as the first space-based images of our planet forever changed humanity’s understanding of its place in the universe, shifting the alleged center of, or even decentering of the view on, Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” to the later works, we might discover previously obscured ideas or new vistas of thought relevant not only to our current philosophical landscape, but also to the pressing issues of our fragile and endangered world. This volume invites its contributors and readers to consider whether one thereby also moves beyond metaphysics?Table of ContentsThe Contemporary Whitehead Studies Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Roland Faber and Brian G. Henning: Introduction: Whitehead’s Other Copernican Turn Complexities of System, Life, and Novelty Vincent Colapietro: Toward a Metaphysics of Expression Christoph Kann: Renewing Speculation: The Systematic Aim of Whitehead’s Philosophic Cosmology Dennis Soelch: Beyond Metaphysics?—A Historiographical Approach to Whitehead’s Speculative Philosophy Deena Lin: Citing the Paradox: Probing the Systematization of Whitehead as Philosopher Subject Clinton Combs: Before Metaphysics: Modes of Thought as a Prequel to Whitehead’s “Trilogy” Roland Faber: Immanence and Incompleteness: Whitehead’s Late Metaphysics Depths of Nature, Order, and Organicity Robert J. Valenza: The Organism of Forms in Later Whitehead Jeremy Dunham: Beyond Dogmatic Finality: Whitehead and the Laws of Nature Joachim Klose: Alfred North Whitehead’s Receptacle Helmut Maaßen: Contingency and Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Experience Regine Kather: The Web of Life and the Constitution of Human Identity: Rethinking Nature as the Main Issue of Whitehead’s Late Metaphysics Evocations of Value, Beauty, and Concern Brian G. Henning: Re-Centering Process Thought: Recovering Beauty in A. N. Whitehead’s Late Work Stascha Rohmer: The Self-Evidence of Civilization Michael Halewood: Fact, Values, Individuals, and Others: Towards a Metaphysics of Value Steven Shaviro: Self-enjoyment and Concern: On Whitehead and Levinas Jude Jones: Provocative Expression: Transitions In and From Metaphysics in Whitehead’s Later Work Isabella Palin: The Dream of Solomon Works Cited About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains essays on an array of topics originally presented orally by a master teacher and scholar. With characteristic rhetorical elegance, Msgr. Synan, late professor at the Pontifical Institute in Toronto, delivered these papers in a variety of settings on issues relating to his specialty of mediaeval Christian philosophy and to his interest in Jewish-Christian dialogue, on the theology of sanctity and of death, and on morally significant historical events. Medieval figures represented here include Aquinas, Augustine, Abelard, and Godfrey of St. Victor; some topics treated are war and peace, philosophical innovations, ecclesiology, evil, goliardic verse, law and abortion, Church councils and Jews in the Middle Ages, and convictions uniting Jews and Christians. This book also contains representative sermons–including a Month’s Mind for Etienne Gilson, an introduction detailing Synan’s background and professional contributions, an updated bibliography of his published works, and an extensive index. Especially appealing to those who knew Synan are three posthumous tributes and thirteen photographs from throughout his life. The selections in this volume are scholarly but non-technical, intended for anyone moved to seek elucidation of the topics discussed.Trade Review“Both those who knew E.A. Synan and those who did not will appreciate this carefully edited collection of his previously unpublished papers. They show not only the breadth of Synan’s well-known interests in medieval philosophy and theology and in Jewish-Christian relations, but also the considerable depth of his humanity.” – Paul V. Spade, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsFrontispiece List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Acknowledgments Medieval Figures The Innovations of Aquinas The Conversions of Augustine Thomas Aquinas: “Evil is found in the world” Augustine on War and Peace The Ecclesiology of Augustine Abelard’s Moslem as a Good Pagan Verses and Wisdom in the Twelfth Century Jewish-Christian Relations Shadows on the Cavern Wall The Church and the Jews: The Dialogue of Yesteryear—As Christians Heard It The Church and the Jews after the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) What Unites Jews and Christians? Selected Topics The Theology of Sanctity The Theology of Suffering and Dying Captain Dreyfus and the Third Man Convocation Addresses and Sermons Convocation Addresses Five Sermons Three Tributes Bibliography of Edward A. Synan’s Published Works About the Editor Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume encapsulates the contemporary scholarship on John Dewey and shows the place of Dewey’s thought on the philosophical arena. The authors are among the leading specialists in the philosophy of John Dewey from universities across the US and in Europe.Table of ContentsLarry Hickman: Introduction Aesthetics John Ryder: Experience, Knowledge and Art James Campbell: Aesthetics as Social Philosophy Robert E. Innis: The ‘Quality’ of Philosophy: On the Aesthetic Matrix of Dewey’s Pragmatism Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński: Social and Political Powers in John Dewey’s Aesthetics Richard Anthony Spurgeon Hall: The Deweyan Aesthetic of Charles Ives Sebastian Stankiewicz: Qualitative Thought, Thinking Through the Body, and Embodied Thinking: Dewey and his Successors Ethics Ramón del Castillo: John Dewey and the Ethics of Recognition Ángel M. Faerna: Dewey’s Value Theory and the Analytic Tradition of Moral Philosophy Matthew Caleb Flamm: Santayana’s Critique of Dewey’s Philosophy: Pragmatic Moralism and the Politicization of Philosophy Hugh McDonald: Dewey’s Theory of Values Science and Logic Larry Hickman: Scientific Concepts in Dewey’s Pedagogy Philipp Dorstewitz: Dewey’s Science: A Transactive Model of Research Processes Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen: A Hedgehog Who Thought He Was a Fox: Dewey Betwixt the One and Many-World Philosophies Society Walter Feinberg: Teaching Religion in Public Schools: A Critical Appraisal of Dewey's Ideas on Religion and Education Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley: John Dewey and Josiah Royce in Dialogue on the Individual and Community Maciej Kassner: John Dewey and Friedrich von Hayek on Individualism and Freedom Gregory Fernando Pappas: Dewey’s Ethical-Political Philosophy as Resource in Today’s Global Crises and as A Guide to a Post-Ideological Politics for the 21st Century List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. The 12 essays, which cover the wide-ranging scope of Shusterman’s pragmatist thought, divide into three sections: Literary Theory and Philosophy of Art; Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics; and Somaesthetics. Written by an international group of authors from different philosophical perspectives, the book’s essays not only provide a good introduction to Shusterman’s innovative pragmatist theories, but show their useful applications to important and controversial topics in philosophy, politics, religious and gender studies, the arts, and somaesthetics. The book also includes two new texts by Shusterman: an introductory essay in which he explains the trajectory of his intellectual development and a detailed response to the other contributors, which closes the book.Trade Review"There are few contemporary thinkers in the tradition of American pragmatism as prolific or as creative as Richard Shusterman. His thought and work range from analytic aesthetics to political philosophy, from ethics to the importance of bodily habits in modern society. … Th[is] volume … highlights the remarkable international reception of Shusterman’s ideas. … [it] represents a valuable and unique contribution to contemporary pragmatism. No serious student of Dewey’s pragmatism or of Shusterman’s continually developing project of somaesthetics should be without this book on their shelves." – in: Journal of Aesthetic Education (2014) "the articles of the collection make up a nice read …" – in: Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28/4Table of ContentsDorota Koczanowicz and Wojciech Małecki: Introduction Richard Shusterman: A Pragmatist Path through the Play of Limits: from Literature to Somaesthetics Literary Theory and Philosophy of Art Anna Budziak: The Idea of Emotion in T. S. Eliot and in Richard Shusterman Kacper Bartczak: Neo-pragmatist Models of Self-Development and the Poetic Subjectivity in John Ashbery’s Poetry Wojciech Małecki: Challenging the Taboo of the Autobiographical Dorota Koczanowicz: “You Must Change Your Life”: Pragmatism and the Therapeutic Function of Art Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics Sami Pihlström: Philosophy and Life: Pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and Metaphysics Adam Chmielewski: Faith and the Limits of Fallibilism Don Morse: Erotic Pragmatism: Shusterman’s Deweyan Advances Jerold J. Abrams: Shusterman and the Paradoxes of Superhuman Self-Styling Somaesthetics Monika Bokiniec: “Body Trouble”? Somaesthetics and Feminism Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński: Aesthetics and Corporal Values Robert Dobrowolski: Sampling (No)Body Martin Jay: Somaesthetics and Democracy: Dewey and Contemporary Body Art Richard Shusterman: Continuing Connections: Comments on the Preceding Essays About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines solutions to the crisis of modernity proposed by the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the Mexican philosopher Antonio Caso. Acceptance of the objective claims of modern scientific rationality and the consequent rejection of the objective validity of artistic, moral, and religious claims generates the crisis of modernity. The problem is that of justifying artistic, moral, and religious claims. Miguel de Unamuno in his classic work, The Tragic Sense of Life, addresses the conflict between the belief in personal immortality and modern scientific rationality. Holding that there is no rational justification for the belief in immortality, Unamuno finds a solution in a “saving scepticism” to act “as if” he deserved immortality. In his book Existence as Economy, as Art, and Charity Caso attempts to create an aposteriori metaphysics based on the “current” results of science supplemented by the intuitions of art and morality. In doing so, Caso believes that he has enlarged the scope of the knowable to include objects of art, morality, and religion. Unamuno, by accepting the strict line of demarcation between faith and reason has no other recourse but to turn to decisionism. By turning to intuitionism, Caso believes that he has blurred the line of demarcation. Decisionism and intuitionism, therefore, are worthy of further exploration.Trade Review”Candelaria shows that Unamuno’s and Caso’s philosophical concerns are not exclusive of particular groups or countries; on the contrary, they are problems which occupied their contemporaries and which are not yet resolved. Their analysis and discussion is therefore still pertinent in our days … Candelaria considers that Unamuno and Caso are not really philosophers but essay-writers who philosophize as men of “flesh and bone” about philosophical issues. Candelaria is right to note and contextualize the importance of Unamuno and Caso, as well as their influence in the next generations. Their followers, even when critical of work, used their ideas to back up their alternative searches and proposals in the fields of culture and philosophy … This book is addressed to a non-specialized public since its structure and language are accessible to novices in philosophy and readers who barely know Unamuno or Caso. It thus adequately fulfils its informative objective. Its main achievement is to richly contextualize Unamuno’s and Caso’s thought with philosophical schools and canonical authors of different periods and latitudes, European and English-speaking in particular, as well as with references to Spanish American authors and currents of thought which are less known to the Anglo-speaking reader … I believe it is a useful essay for those who take an interest in knowing more about the Spanish or the Mexican.” – María Cristina Campos Fuentes (translated by Stella Villarmea), in: L’Érudit franco-espagnol, Vol. 3, Spring 2013Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Miguel de Unamuno Philosopher of Spiritual Innards Consciousness and Life: ¿Para Qué? The Longing for Immortality and Pascal’s Doubt Failed Solutions and Dissolutions The Way Out: A Quixotic Basis for Practical Ethics Conclusion Egoism and Sacrifice: The Existentialism of Antonio Caso Toward an Anti-Positivist Philosophy Making Way for a Metaphysics of Morality Existence as Economy, as Art, and as Morality From Psychological Egoism to Moral Altruism Conclusion Coda: Variations of the Modern Problem Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book Synopsis“At last, Russia has begun to speak in a truly original voice.” So said Anatoly Vaneev, a Soviet dissident who became Karsavin’s disciple in the Siberian gulag where the philosopher spent his last two years. The book traces the unusual trajectory of this inspiring voice: Karsavin started his career as Russia’s brightest historian of Catholic mysticism; however, his radical methods – which were far ahead of their time – shocked his conservative colleagues. The shock continued when Karsavin turned to philosophy, writing flamboyant and dense essays in a polyphonic style, which both Marxists and religious traditionalists found provocative. There was no let-up after he was expelled by Lenin from Soviet Russia: in exile, he became a leading theorist in the Eurasian political movement, combining Orthodox theology with a left-wing political orientation. Finally, Karsavin found stability when he was invited to teach history in Lithuania: there he spent twenty years reworking his philosophy, before suffering the German and Soviet invasions of his new homeland, and then deportation and death. Clearing away misunderstandings and putting the work and life in context, this book shows how Karsavin made an original contribution to European philosophy, inter-religious dialogue, Orthodox and Catholic theology, and the understanding of history.Trade Review”very thorough… Rubin’s book is an admirable contribution to the scholarly literature on Russian religious philosophy.” in: The Russian Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, October 2013Table of ContentsList of Diagrams Preface The Making of a Metaphysical Historian Prelude: Who was Lev Karsavin? Early life (1882–1901) Scholarly beginnings and first crisis (1902–1915) The Foundations of Medieval Religiosity (1915–1916) Karsavin, historical Christianity and FMR A Theology Unfolds The Petrograd years (1917–1922): “I have singed my wings . . .” The roots of all-unity (1): Catholicism and Revelation of the Blessed Angela The roots of all-unity (2): Nicholas of Cusa The early essays (1919–1922) Conclusion The Flames of Love and Knowledge Noctes Petropolitanae: love and temptation Expulsion On First Principles (1921–1925) Conclusion The Symphonic Face of Lev Karsavin: From History to Politics Bread, butter and—metaphysics in exile (1924–1926) The Philosophy of History (1921–1923) Karsavin and the Eurasian movement (1926–1930) Conclusion Personhood as the True Countenance of Being The move to Lithuania On Personhood (1928) The correspondence with Wetter (1940) “Strength made perfect in weakness . . .” From occupation to deportation (1940–1949) Karsavin’s Lithuanian and camp works Coda: Karsavin’s years in Abez and Anatoly Vaneev (1950–1952) Epilogue: Karsavin Today Prelude Eastern and Western theology yesterday and today Conclusion Bibliography Works by Lev Karsavin Works by Other Authors Abbreviations for Selected Works by Karsavin Appendix: Karsavin’s Poem on Death (1931) Index

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Book SynopsisRichard M. Weaver was one of the leading rhetoricians of the 1950s, whose philosophical and pedagogical writings helped revitalize interest in rhetoric. This book examines the relationship between Weaver's rhetorical theory and his cultural views, focusing on the rhetorical insights.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Cultural Theory, Part I Cultural Theory, Part II Literary Theory Rhetorical and Composition Theory Science, Metaphysics, and Sectional Culture The Rhetoric of Social Science: Brute Facts and Created Realities General Semantics and Spacious Rhetoric Rhetorical Genres Conclusion Works Cited Index

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