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  • - The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant
    av Tom Huhn
    997,-

    Reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. This book argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgement and taste.

  • - Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics
    av Sylvia (Stetson University) Walsh
    541,-

  • - The Self as Metaphoric Double
    av Sheridan (The College of Charleston) Hough
    479,-

  • - The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics
     
    479,-

  • - A New Politics of Poetry
    av Hugh (Univ. of California) Roberts
    541,-

  • - Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
    av Arabella Lyon
    479,-

  • - The Dance of the Eye
    av David Jacobson
    479,-

    This text presents a revisionist interpretation of Emerson's philosophical discourse placing him at the juncture of modernism and postmodernism in the Western philosophical tradition.

  • - Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics
    av Reed Way Dasenbrock
    505,-

  • - Toward a History of Human Nature
    av Michel Meyer
    519 - 1 250,-

    A wide-ranging exegesis that systematically traces the history of philosophical conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant and Freud. It asks whether passion tortures people because it blinds them.

  • av David Haney
    479,-

    An exploration of the philosophical and rhetorical implications of William Wordsworth's desire for language to be an "incarnation" of thought. This book concentrates on familiar Wordsworthian texts such as "The Prelude" and also on less frequently read texts such as "The Excursion".

  • - Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato's Dialogues
    av Jill Gordon
    402 - 745,-

    Acknowledging the powerful impact that Plato's dialogues have had on readers, this text aims to show how the literary techniques Plato used, function philosophically to engage readers in doing philosophy and attracting them toward the philosophical life.

  • - Veridiction in Modern European Literature
    av Ilya Kliger
    465,-

    Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.

  • - Fictional Events and Actual Emotions
    av E.M. Dadlez
    479,-

  • - Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment
    av John C. O'Neal
    479 - 997,-

    Covering sensationism, a philosophy of the French Enlightenment and 18th-century French literature, this study presents the main ideas of sensationism philosophers such as Condillac, Bonnet and Helvetius. An examination of the mind-body problem is also included in the discussion.

  • av Michel Meyer
    479,-

  • - Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue
    av Daniel R. Ahern
    825,-

    Examines Nietzsche's approach to what he called "the tragic age of the Greeks" as the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the "Socratic era," but also for his overall critique of Western culture.

  • - Plato and the Problem of Socrates
    av David N. McNeill
    465 - 893,-

    Investigates what Nietzsche called the "problem of Socrates," as that problem manifests itself in Plato's work. In particular, the book demonstrates how Socrates' own confrontation with this problem is the key to understanding the distinctively mimetic, dialogic, and reflexive character of Socratic philosophy.

  • - Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
    av Chad Wellmon
    465 - 1 137,-

    Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.

  • - Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art
    av Alan Singer
    479 - 1 015

    Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character.

  • - Dialogues with Plato in Contemporary Thought
    av Max Statkiewicz
    465 - 758,-

    Examines the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato's dialogues.

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