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Author: Sean Burke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-09-15
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0748686843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ethical question is the question of our times. Within critical theory, it has focused on the act of reading. This original and courageous study reverses the terms of inquiry to analyse the ethical composition of the act of writing.
Author: Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780754669814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition. A series of figures of varying importance in Kierkegaard's authorship are treated, ranging from early Greek poets to late Classical philosophical schools. In general it can be said that the Greeks collectively constitute one of the single most important body of sources for Kierkegaard's thought. He studied Greek from an early age and was profoundly inspired by what might be called the Greek spirit. Although he is generally considered a Christian thinker, he was nonetheless consistently drawn back to the Greeks for ideas and impulses on any number of topics. He frequently contrasts ancient Greek philosophy, with its emphasis on the lived experience of the individual in daily life, with the abstract German philosophy that was in vogue during his own time. It has been argued that he modeled his work on that of the ancient Greek thinkers specifically in order to contrast his own activity with that of his contemporaries.
Author: Joel Alden Schlosser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1316021238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocrates continues to be an extremely influential force to this day; his work is featured prominently in the work of contemporary thinkers ranging from Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, to Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. Intervening in this discussion, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates' philosophy in ancient Athens to show its promise of empowering citizens and non-citizens alike. By drawing them into collective practices of dialogue and reflection, philosophy can help people to become thinking, acting beings more capable of fully realizing the promises of political life. At the same time, however, Joel Alden Schlosser shows how these practices' commitment to interrogation keeps philosophy at a distance from the democratic status quo, creating a dissonance with conventional forms of politics that opens space for new forms of participation and critical contestation of extant ones.
Author: Thomas Lathrop Stedman
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 1198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1620401711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNovelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn't. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac, and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love-love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
Author: Howard Jacobson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1408837447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new novel from the author of "The Finkler Question," winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010
Author: Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2018-08-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1438470819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques. For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Platos use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Platos Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Platos metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace. Zoller gives us a new way of going forward in Plato studies. Her reading of the Platonic conception of embodiment frees it from the negative associations of the past. Plato and the Body will radically shift the scholarly conversation. The book is truly an exhilarating read. Anne-Marie Schultz, author of Platos Socrates as Narrator: A Philosophical Muse
Author: Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0190465700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. Plato and Pythagoreanism reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
Author: Françoise Lionnet
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011-05-19
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0822348462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bold intervention in debates about the role of theory in the humanities advocates the development of a reciprocal, relational, and intersectional critical methodology attentive to the legacies of colonialism.
