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21. | | Title: The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Gender Studies | Art History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze . Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: A theory of language and mind Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: PhilosophyPublisher's Description: In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect. Bencivenga, one of the most iconoclastic voices to emerge in contemporary American philosophy, contests the . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Classical PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | | 26. | | Title: The temptations of evolutionary ethics Author: Farber, Paul Lawrence 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | History | Ethics | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are bui . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Dangerous emotionsAuthor: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Social and Political Thought | TravelPublisher's Description: Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses , taking the reader to Easter Island, Japa . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Inference, explanation, and other frustrations: essays in the philosophy of science Author: Earman, John Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justiceAuthor: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: The fate of place: a philosophical historyAuthor: Casey, Edward S 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Architecture | Intellectual History | GeographyPublisher's Description: In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philos . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Nietzsche, genealogy, morality: essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of moralsAuthor: Schacht, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | European History | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an il . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemptionAuthor: Wolin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his co . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Learning to be a sage: selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, arranged topicallyAuthor: Zhu, Xi 1130-1200 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Asian Studies | China | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) - a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman Author: Dorter, Kenneth 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Literature and LanguagePublisher's Description: In this innovative analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Dōgen's manuals of Zen meditationAuthor: Bielefeldt, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Philosophy | JapanPublisher's Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious characte . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Interpretation radical but not unruly: the new puzzle of the arts and history Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of h . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Political criticism Author: Shapiro, Ian Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Philosophy | SociologySimilar Items | 38. | | Title: Yorick's world: science and the knowing subject Author: Caws, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality.Caws's work has been shaped equall . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time" Author: Fritsche, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his book Being and Time - to his practical involvement with National Socialism. Yet the question has never been addressed through a comparison of Being and Time with other texts on history and politics written . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Genethics: moral issues in the creation of people Author: Heyd, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | EthicsPublisher's Description: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound . . . [more]Similar Items |
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