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Margolis, Joseph

 
9780271023458: Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0271023457 ISBN 13 : 9780271023458
Editeur : Penn State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can be viewed as just as "real" as the physical nature from which they are emergent, while not being reducible to it. The book starts off with a review of prominent philosophies of art over the past half-century, focusing especially on Beardsley, Goodman, and Danto, so as to highlight the need for carefully distinguishing between the metaphysical and epistemological features of physical nature and human culture. The second part of the book builds on the first part's analyses of artworks to propose a theory of selves as "self-interpreting texts." Selves and Other Texts aims to develop new ways of understanding the conceptual inseparability of our analysis of physical nature and our analysis of ourselves.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His previous books include What, After All, Is a Work of Art? (Penn State Press, 1999).

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Éditeur
Penn State University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271023457
ISBN 13 
9780271023458
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
222
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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