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Book Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics

Download or read book Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics written by Claire Ortiz Hill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred years ago, J.M.W. Turner packed up two large leatherbound sketchbooks, pencils, and watercolors and set off for the north of England. When he returned from the tour that he regarded as one of the most important of his career, Turner had completed more than two hundred sketches - works that later became the basis of more than fifty major oil paintings and watercolors. For this illustrated book, David Hill has taken photographs of many of the actual sites Turner sketched on his northern tour. The result is an look at the whole of Turner's creative process, from site to exhibited picture, and at the quality and intensity of the artist's experience.

Book Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics

Download or read book Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking  identities

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  • Author : Lucille Cairns
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9783034308656
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Rethinking identities written by Lucille Cairns and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking 'Identities' offers a hyper-contemporary and wide-ranging analysis of questions of identity based on nation and region, language, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion or even 'the human'. This volume presents a fresh perspective on identity studies in the twenty-first century and in the age of globalization.

Book Logic and Metaphysics in Hegel

Download or read book Logic and Metaphysics in Hegel written by Horatiu M. Trif-Boia and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myths of the Self

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  • Author : Olav Bryant Smith
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780739108437
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Myths of the Self written by Olav Bryant Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Olav Bryant Smith, Kant's "critical philosophy," precisely his defense of necessary knowledge, inadvertantly opened the door to discussions of interpretive philosophy and ultimately postmodernity. This unique opening to a discussion of postmodern thought framesMyths of the Self: Narrative Identity and Postmodern Metaphysics. Author Olav Smith uses process philosophy, specifically the constructive postmodern metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, to move away from the skepticism of modernity. This maneuver, along with an invigorating discussion of not often paired philosophers: Kant, Heidegger, Whitehead, and Ricoeur, leads readers into a discussion of the self that is a synthesis of a narrative theory of identity and a constructive "postmodern" metaphysics. Smith's original approach to Kant'sCritique of Reason, his unique pairing of Heidegger and Whitehead as well as Whitehead and Ricoeur makes this book essential reading for philisophers working in the Continental and especially the Analytic American tradition.

Book The Ethics of Identity

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  • Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-10-03
  • ISBN : 069125477X
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Ethics of Identity written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. To what extent do they constrain our freedom, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? Is diversity of value in itself? Has the rhetoric of human rights been overstretched? Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions, developing an account of ethics that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances and that takes aim at clichés and received ideas about identity. This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality—the task of making a life—and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.

Book Horizons of Difference

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  • Author : Ruthanne Crapo Kim
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2022-07-01
  • ISBN : 1438488475
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Horizons of Difference written by Ruthanne Crapo Kim and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horizons of Difference offers twelve original essays inspired by Luce Irigaray's complex, nuanced critique of Western philosophy, culture, and metaphysics, and her call to rethink our relationship to ourselves and the world through sexuate difference. Contributors engage urgent topics in a range of fields, including trans feminist theory, feminist legal theory, film studies, critical race theory, social-political theory, philosophy of religion, environmental ethics, philosophical aesthetics, and critical pedagogy. In so doing, they aim to push the scope of Irigaray's work beyond its horizon. Horizons of Difference seeks conversations that Irigaray herself has yet to fully consider and explores areas that stretch the limits of the notion of sexuate difference itself. Sexuate difference is a unifying mode of thought, bringing disparate disciplines and groups together. Yet it also resists unification in demanding that we continually rethink the basic coordinates of space, place, and identity. Ultimately, Horizons of Difference insists that the fragmented, wounded subjectivities within the dominant regime of masculine sameness can inform how we negotiate space, find place, and transform identity.

Book What Is a Person

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  • Author : Christian Smith
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-11-30
  • ISBN : 0226765946
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book What Is a Person written by Christian Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.

Book Border Within

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  • Author : Ian Angus
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997-05-28
  • ISBN : 0773566767
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Border Within written by Ian Angus and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-05-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The border is the governing metaphor of the book. Angus argues that English Canadian identity revolves around maintaining a border between Canada and the United States, and suggests that the border between countries can also be seen as a border between self and Other, between humanity and nature. Multiculturalism and the ecology movement's rethinking of the relation between humanity and nature suggest that English Canadian social and political philosophy is oriented toward sustaining a border between self and Other, in order to preserve what is one's own while maintaining and respecting the Other. Angus argues that contemporary public discourse is hampered both by the tribalizing devolution of the politics of identity and the globalizing forces of corporate political economy. Addressing this impasse requires a new understanding of the politics of identity in English Canada and the creation of a theory of Canadian social identity as postcolonial, particularist, and pluralist.

Book Sameness and Substance Renewed

Download or read book Sameness and Substance Renewed written by David Wiggins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosophy inherits from its past. In this new version, he vindicates the absoluteness, necessity, determinateness and all or nothing character of identity against rival conceptions. He defends a form of essentialism that he calls individuative essentialism, and then a form of realism that he calls conceptualist realism. In a final chapter he advocates a human being-based conception of the identity and individuation of persons, arguing that any satisfactory account of personal memory must make reference to the life of the rememberer himself. This important book will appeal to a wide range of readers in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and analytic philosophy.

Book Particulars  Actuality  and Identity Over Time

Download or read book Particulars Actuality and Identity Over Time written by Michael Tooley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Occasions of Identity

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  • Author : André Gallois
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Occasions of Identity written by André Gallois and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Truth

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  • Author : Kurt Pritzl
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 081321680X
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Truth written by Kurt Pritzl and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Fresh interpretations of the greatest philosophers on the nature of truth and speculative essays on truth in law, the arts, and science*

Book After Identity

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  • Author : Georgia Warnke
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-10
  • ISBN : 9780521709293
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book After Identity written by Georgia Warnke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual understanding than we commonly acknowledge. A racial, sexed or gendered understanding of who we and others are is neither exhaustive of the 'meanings' we can be said to have nor uniquely correct. We are neither always, or only, black or white, men or women or males or females. Rather, all identities have a restricted scope and can lead to injustices and contradictions when they are employed beyond that scope. In concluding her argument, Warnke considers the legal and policy implications that follow for affirmative action, childbearing leave, the position of gays in the military and marriage between same-sex partners.

Book Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Download or read book Rethinking Jewish Philosophy written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.

Book Person  Soul  and Identity

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  • Author : Robert Bolton
  • Publisher : Angelico Press / Sophia Perennis
  • Release : 2016-12-21
  • ISBN : 9781621382355
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Person Soul and Identity written by Robert Bolton and published by Angelico Press / Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reality of the self is as important for religion as the existence of God. Without it, any religious message can only go from nothing to nothing, and scepticism about self and soul breeds religious unbelief. This book explores the deepest questions of personal identity in order to refute modern nihilism which denies the reality of the self.

Book Identity and Difference

Download or read book Identity and Difference written by Martin Heidegger and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two essays on the nature of Identity.