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The writer writing: Philosophic acts in literature. Princeton University Press, 1992.
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1931-, Miller Eugene G., ed. Writers and philosophers: A sourcebook of philosophical influences on literature. Greenwood Press, 1990.
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Alice, Eckardt, Girardot N. J, and Parmet Harriet L, eds. Collecting myself: A writer's retrospective. Scholars Press, 1993.
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Did Darwin write the Origin backwards?: Philosophical essays on Darwin's theory. Prometheus Books, 2011.
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Serafimova, Vera. History of Russian literature of XX-XXI centuries. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1138897.
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The textbook consists of review and monographic chapters, presents a modern view of the literary process of the XX-beginning of the XXI century, examines the work of poets, prose writers, playwrights who caused an extraordinary rise in spirituality and culture of the period under consideration. The analysis of the top works of Nobel prize winners: I. Bunin, B. Pasternak, M. Sholokhov, A. Solzhenitsyn, V. Shalamov, I. Brodsky, writers-front — line poets and prose writers is given. Attention is paid to the work of writers of Russian emigration. The section "Modern prose" includes materials about philosophical and aesthetic searches in the works of such writers As V. Rasputin, L. Borodin, Yu. Polyakov, B. Ekimov, A. Bitov, V. Makanin, A. Kabakov, V. Tokareva, etc. It offers questions and tasks for independent work, topics of essays, term papers and theses, a list of bibliographic sources. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. It is intended for students of higher educational institutions.
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Podoksenov, Aleksandr. Mikhail Prishvin and Russian culture of the XIX-XX centuries: dialogues with the epoch. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1246522.
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The monograph examines the problem of M. M. Prishvin's creative dialogue with outstanding figures of Russian culture: V. V. Rozanov, D. S. Merezhkovsky, G. V. Plekhanov, I. A. Bunin, A. A. Blok, M. Gorky, N. O. Lossky, A. F. Losev. The influence of their philosophical and ideological ideas on the writer's art is analyzed.
 It is addressed to cultural scientists, philosophers, philologists and anyone interested in Russian literature.
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice. HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
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1938-, Rosenfeld Alvin H., ed. The writer uprooted: Contemporary Jewish exile literature. Indiana University Press, 2008.
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Rosenfeld, Alvin H. The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature (Jewish Literature and Culture). Indiana University Press, 2008.
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The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature (Jewish Literature and Culture). Indiana University Press, 2008.
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Mehigan, Tim. The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist. Edited by Paul Hamilton. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696383.013.14.
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This chapter presents a philosophical reading of the writer Heinrich von Kleist (1788–1811) and his oeuvre. Kleist’s connections with the movement of Romanticism only become properly evident when measured against the weight of philosophical problems Kleist felt to be pressing even before his career as a writer began. The most considerable of these was the problem of philosophical scepticism, a by-product of his early encounter with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The picture of Kleist presented here is one of an earnest mind in search of an answer to a problem that emerged in the philosophical discussion after Kant and, in one sense at least, has never left us.
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Spiridonova, Lydia A., ed. The Global Value of M. Gorky. А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0633-8.
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Maxim Gorky was one of the key figures of the twentieth century. In many coun- tries of the world: in the USA and Canada, Italy and Germany, China and Japan — Gorky is not only considered a world-class writer, but is also called one of the intel- lectual leaders of his time, whose voice the whole world listened to. In this work on an unknown archival material disclosed the global value of the writer’s personality and work, the influence of his philosophical and aesthetic views on the literature of other countries, his diverse ties with foreign writers, politicians, philosophers and artists. Gorky’s life and work are presented on a broad historical and philosophical background, which allows a new interpretation of such cardinal problems of the cen- tury as the assessment of wars and revolutions, social movements and literary move- ments. On the 150th anniversary of the birth of M. Gorky. The book is intended for philologists, historians, cultural scientists, as well as for a wide range of readers.
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Thomas, Francis-No. Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature. Princeton University Press, 2014.
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Paryż, Marek, ed. Annie Proulx. University of Warsaw Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547983.
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The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodification of regional culture and interprets them as symptoms of a dangerous global tendency.
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Ellis, Jonathan, ed. Reading Elizabeth Bishop. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421331.001.0001.
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A comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and other writing, including correspondence, literary criticism, prose fiction and visual art. Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and literary traditions, this collection of essays explores how Bishop moves between literal geographies like Nova Scotia, New England, Key West and Brazil and more philosophical categories like home and elsewhere, human and animal, insider and outsider. The book covers all aspects and periods of the author’s career, from her early writing in the 1930s to the late poems finished after Geography III and those works published after her death. It also examines how Bishop’s work has been read and reinterpreted by contemporary writers.
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Forsdyke, Sara, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains essays on Thucydides as an historian, literary artist, and political philosopher. It also features papers on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides’ complex project and its impact on later periods. The Handbook is organized into four sections of papers: Thucydides as an Historian, Thucydidean Historiography, Thucydides and Political Theory, and Context and Ancient Reception of Thucydidean Historiography. It therefore bridges traditionally divided approaches to the author. Articles avoid technical jargon and long footnotes, and are written in an accessible style. Finally, the Handbook includes a thorough introduction as well as four maps. Up-to-date bibliographies and two volume indices enable further study and easier cross referencing of topics within the volume. In sum, the volume offers a comprehensive introduction to a writer whose simultaneous depth and innovativeness have been the focus of intense historical, literary, and philosophical study since ancient times.
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Riccardi, Mattia. Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803287.001.0001.
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The book offers a systematic account of Nietzsche’s philosophical psychology. The main theme is the nature of and relation between unconscious and conscious mind. Whereas Nietzsche takes consciousness to be a mere ‘surface’—as he writes in Ecce Homo—that evolved in the course of human socialization, he sees the bedrock of human psychology as constituted by unconscious drives and affects. But how does he conceive of such basic psychological items and what does he mean exactly when he talks about consciousness and says it is a ‘surface’? And how does such a conception of human psychology inform his views about self, self-knowledge, and will? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this book. This is done by combining a historical approach with conceptual analysis. On the one hand, Nietzsche’s claims are carefully reconstructed by taking into account the intellectual context in which they emerged. On the other hand, in order to work out their philosophical significance, the claims are discussed in the light of contemporary debates such as those about higher-order theories of consciousness and mind-reading.
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Quincey, Thomas De. Essays On Philosophical Writers And Other Men Of Letters V1. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.
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Quincey, Thomas De. Essays On Philosophical Writers And Other Men Of Letters V1. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006.
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Slusser, George. Gregory Benford. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038228.003.0002.
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This chapter focuses on Gregory Benford's career as science fiction (SF) writer. Benford has remained steadfast in his claim that science is at the center both of the twentieth century and of the form of literature he sees as its central mode of expression. He is of the belief that SF should deal with the impact of scientific ideas and discoveries on society and the individual. This chapter discusses Benford's deep understanding of the philosophical currents born, as early as the Western seventeenth century, from the impact of scientific discovery on conventional worldviews; his view of physical environments in which human activity becomes radically problematic, if not unthinkable, and thus unnarratable in terms of conventional fictional structures, governed by a Newtonian stability; his insistence on writing “with the net up,” strictly adhering to the laws of physics rather than conveniently “suspending disbelief”; and his synthesis of the often-contradictory demands of science and fiction. The chapter suggests that Benford's work is philosophical fiction of the highest order.
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Lodge, Paul, and Lloyd Strickland, eds. Leibniz's Key Philosophical Writings. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844983.001.0001.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern period, offering a wealth of original ideas in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophical theology, among them his signature doctrines such as substance and monads, pre-established harmony, and optimism. This volume contains introductory chapters on eleven of Leibniz’s key philosophical writings, covering youthful works (“Confessio philosophi”, “De summa rerum”), seminal middle-period writings (“Discourse on Metaphysics”, “New System”), to masterpieces of his maturity (“Monadology”, “Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese”), as well as his two main philosophical books (New Essays on Human Understanding, and Theodicy), and three of his most important philosophical correspondences, with Antoine Arnauld, Burcher de Volder, and Samuel Clarke. The chapters, written by internationally renowned experts on Leibniz, offer clear, accessible accounts of the ideas and arguments of these key writings, along with valuable information about their composition and context. By focusing on the primary texts, these chapters enable readers to attain a solid understanding of what each text says and why, and give them the confidence to read the texts themselves. Offering a detailed and chronological view of Leibniz’s philosophy and its development through some of his most important writings, this volume is an invaluable guide for those encountering Leibniz for the first time. However, the chapters also contain much material that will enrich the understanding of those already familiar with Leibniz’s ideas.
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Gibson, Twyla Gail. Plato's code: Philosophical foundations of knowledge in education. 2000.
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Skenazi, Cynthia. Montaigne on Aging. Edited by Philippe Desan. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.43.
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Scholars have long seen in Montaigne’s turn inward, toward a psychological and philosophical investigation of human identity a mark of the modernity of the Essays, but they have focused on a static conception of the self, without taking into account Montaigne’s emphasis on his decline. This article discusses the essayist’s pervasive references to his old age as a way to relate to oneself, the other, the world, and to his literary endeavor. The portrait of the writer as a man growing old is embedded in the systems of knowledge of the day, yet Montaigne’s pragmatic reflections on how to adjust to the damages of time on his physical and cognitive capacities still speak to us.
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Woessner, Martin. Beyond Realism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805281.003.0009.
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Martin Woessner places ideas about literary and philosophical realism in tension with what he takes to be Coetzee’s aims as a post-secular writer. In Woessner’s argument, Coetzee’s fiction exhibits a ‘yearning for transcendence’ that invites readers to participate in states that are ‘beyond realism’. Situating Coetzee in relation to a range of post-secular thinkers, Woessner focuses on his handling of several religious concepts, including redemption, salvation, and grace. He argues that Coetzee should be understood as an author who provides a space for the transcendental imagination, in a way that affirms Richard Rorty’s claim that the ‘search for redemption’ lives on in our secular age in ‘novels, plays, and poems’.
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Fontana, Biancamaria. Condemned to Celebrity. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691169040.003.0007.
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This chapter talks about how Staël used the time of her exile to complete the book she had begun after her flight from Paris in September 1792—a study of the influence of passions on individual and collective happiness. Following what seems a recurrent pattern in her life, frustration over some immediate practical object led her to invest in some more durable intellectual project. Unlike the pamphlets she had published during the Revolution, Of the Influence of Passions was conceived as a philosophical work, rather than as an occasional intervention in the political debate—though in the end the content of the text was probably closer to contemporary political issues than the writer had originally intended.
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Rowe, Anne. Iris Murdoch. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312162.001.0001.
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This volume takes into account the variety of talents that inform not only Iris Murdoch’s twenty-six best-selling novels, but also her philosophical, theological and critical writing, which together express stringent views on art, politics and morality. It identifies Murdoch as a proudly Anglo-Irish writer whose work straddles the boundary between popular and intellectually serious novels which spanned the entire latter half of the twentieth century. This thematically based study outlines the overarching themes and issues that characterise her fiction decade by decade; explores her unique role as a British philosopher-novelist; explains the paradoxical nature of her outspoken atheism and highlights the neglected aesthetic aspect of her fiction, which innovatively extended the boundaries of realist fiction by borrowing from the visual arts, drama, poetics and music. The importance of the settings of her homeland of Ireland and her beloved London concludes the study, and while Iris Murdoch is acknowledged throughout as a writer who vividly evokes the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century she is also presented as one whose unconventional life and complex presentation of gender and psychology speaks perhaps more urgently to twenty-first century readers than they did to those of the century in which she wrote.
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Cassin, Barbara, ed. Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190681166.001.0001.
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This is an encyclopedic dictionary covering hundreds of important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy--or any--translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and cross-cultural complexities. Spanning the classical, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods, these are terms that influence thinking across the humanities. The entries, written by more than 150 distinguished scholars, describe the origins and meanings of each term, the history and context of its usage, its translations into other languages, and its use in notable texts. The dictionary also includes essays on the special characteristics of particular languages--English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.Originally published in French, this one-of-a-kind reference work is now available in English, with new contributions from Judith Butler, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Ben Kafka, Kevin McLaughlin, Kenneth Reinhard, Stella Sandford, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jane Tylus, Anthony Vidler, Susan Wolfson, Robert J. C. Young, and many more. The result is an invaluable reference for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the multilingual lives of some of our most influential words and ideas.
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McGuckin, John Anthony. St Gregory of Nyssa. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0002.
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Chapter 1 gives Biographical background and studies the historical context(s) of Gregory of Nyssa and his close family members, situating them as aristocratic and long-established Christian leaders of the Cappadocian area. It offers along with the course of Gregory’s Vita a general outline of the main philosophical and religious controversies of his era, particularly his ecclesiastical involvement in the Neo-Nicene apologetical movement associated with the leadership of his brother Basil (of Caesarea), which he himself inherited in Cappadocia, with imperial approval, after 380. It concludes with a review of Gregory’s significance as author: in terms of his style as a writer, his work as an exegete, his body of spiritual teaching, and lastly, the manner in which his reputation waxed and waned from antiquity to the present.
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Gentry, Philip M. Making Sense of Silence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190299590.003.0005.
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The premiere of John Cage’s 4′33″ in 1952 is considered against the backdrop of McCarthyist persecution of gay men. Drawing upon the “aesthetic of indifference,” Cage’s work is situated within the postwar development of gay male identity, contrasting Cage with philosophical rivals such as his old friend Harry Hay and the queer anarchist writer Paul Goodman. The chapter also looks in detail at the origins of the premiere, making the case that later versions miss out on the work’s historic presence, especially its first score in which the silence was more strictly notated rather than left as an abstract context. Together, this historical context of an emergent gay cultural identity alongside a carefully crafted musical experience provides an excellent closing example of the possibilities of these new postwar tools of self-fashioning.
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Simons, Margaret A. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036347.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter presents the literary writings of Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86), the renowned French existentialist author of The Second Sex. Such insight into her own thought is often provided by Beauvoir's prefaces to works by other authors. For instance, Beauvoir's 1964 “Preface” to La Bâtarde has been described as more reflective of her philosophy than of author Violet Leduc's life. Beauvoir's confrontation with her critics is another source of drama in this study. A criticism that spans the decades of these texts is the charge that an existential novel, with its focus on action and philosophical questions, forsakes the aesthetic function of literature. Yet, for Beauvoir, the true mission of the writer is to describe in dramatic form the relationship of the individual to the world in which he stakes his freedom.
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Hamilton, Paul, ed. The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696383.001.0001.
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This volume in the Oxford Handbook series is on the subject of European Romanticism, an intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political movement usually described as taking place between 1789 and 1848. The book first examines texts written by major writers in different European languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, Polish, and Scandinavian. Chapters on these are written by leading scholars in the field. Then follows a second section elaborating the naturally interdisciplinary quality of Romanticism, encapsulated by the different discourses with which writers of the time set up an internal comparative dynamic. The chapters are written by specialists to highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of understanding. Romantic variety of this kind is also typically written against the Enlightenment project of an Encyclopedia cast as a literal inventory rather than a conversation in which different views of the world figure each other. Discourses push their individual claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, philosophy, political theory, the sciences, and the media. The chapters are original interpretations of aspects of an inherently interactive world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject but which grant them unusual articulacy as well.
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Rivett, Sarah. Learning to Write Algonquian Letters. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492564.003.0003.
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Atlantic networks of Protestant and Jesuit letters fueled missionary linguistic activity in North America in the 1660s and 1670s, which influenced early modern debates about the representational power of words. A fragmented theological and philosophical context in Europe put pressure on New World missionaries to try to salvage mystical ideas about the representational power of words. Espousing the idea that Algonquian could be redeemed along with the souls of its speakers, missionaries John Eliot in New England and Chrétien Le Clercq in Nova Scotia transformed the New World into language laboratories, in which theological aspirations for Algonquian translation came into conflict with the practical and material reality of learning and proselytizing in Wampanoag and Mi’kmaq. Missionary linguistics revealed language to be socially and culturally contextual rather than universal, and signs to be material rather than metaphysical, thus forcing North American missionaries in dialogue with Enlightenment ideas about language.
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Otto, Jennifer. “Of the Hebrew Race”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820727.003.0005.
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Eusebius refers to Philo far more frequently than any previous early Christian writer. In most of these citations, he describes Philo as a Hebrew. The chapter begins with an analysis of the clear distinction Eusebius draws between Hebrews and Jews. By describing Philo as a Hebrew, Eusebius associates him with a philosophical way of life, or bios, practiced before the institution of the Mosaic law and perpetuated by the Essenes, the Therapeutae, and ultimately, Eusebius’s Christian contemporaries. Philo the Hebrew is invoked to support Eusebius’s claim that the Christians are the legitimate heirs to the Hebrew scriptures, scriptures better understood by the Christians than by the Jews. When Eusebius cites Philo as a witness to the suffering of the Jews in the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion, however, he does not refer to him as a Hebrew.
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Jackson, Claire Rachel. Dio Chrysostom. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.34.
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This chapter examines the Greek imperial writer Dio Chrysostom’s biography, works, and place within the Second Sophistic. Dio’s corpus is broad and eclectic, including advice to emperors, discussions of local politics, literary criticism, philosophical treatises, and fictionalized myths. Moreover, the stories told about his life both in his own works and in those of later interpreters raise questions about just how literally to understand Dio’s autobiography. This chapter tackles these questions surrounding the relationship between Dio’s life and corpus through close readings from selected speeches, focusing particularly on Dio’s rhetorical personas, self-positioning between Greece and Rome, and the contrast between his more political and more literary-critical speeches. As such, this chapter offers models both for understanding these contrasting facets of Dio’s life and corpus and for reading Dio holistically within a Second Sophistic context.
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Sytsma, David S. Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190274870.001.0001.
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Richard Baxter, one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century, is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth-century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists to write against the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time, he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale, corresponded with Joseph Glanvill, and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. This book is a chronological and thematic account of Baxter’s relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late seventeenth-century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works, including Baxter’s Methodus theologiae christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence, this book discusses Baxter’s response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance, laws of motion, the soul, and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England, Baxter’s overall approach to reason and philosophy, and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God’s power, wisdom, and goodness, understood as vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter’s views on reason, analogical knowledge of God, and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile, though partially accommodating, response to mechanical philosophy.
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Whitmarsh, Tim. How to Write Anti-Roman History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649890.003.0014.
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In this chapter, Tim Whitmarsh reconstructs an example of a type of history writing—accounts with a pronounced anti-Roman bias—that has left only exiguous traces in the extant collection of ancient textual sources. Whitmarsh traces this oppositional history by scrutinizing the several categories of professed opponents whom Dionysius of Halicarnassus ventriloquizes. Whitmarsh tentatively identifies Metrodorus of Scepsis as a likely target of Dionysius’ critiques and then reverse engineers Metrodorus’ arguments, drawing also on criticisms that Plutarch appears to have directed at Metrodorus. Whitmarsh finds, in the arguments he excavates from Metrodorus’ opponents, an anti-providential idea of random historical “swerves” that served to undercut Roman claims to greatness. He concludes by lamenting the loss of Metrodorus’ work, arguing that it would have provided not just a counterweight to the heavily pro-Roman emphasis in extant Greek historiography, but also an example of an entirely different philosophical underpinning.
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Shew, Melissa, and Kimberly Garchar, eds. Philosophy for Girls. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072919.001.0001.
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Written by twenty expert women in philosophy and representing a diverse and pluralistic approach to philosophy as a discipline, this book engages girls and women ages sixteen to twenty-four, as well as university and high school educators and students who want a change from standard anthologies that include few or no women. The book is divided into four sections that correspond to major fields in philosophy—metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and ethics—but the chapters within those sections provide fresh ways of understanding those fields.Every chapter begins with a lively anecdote about a girl or woman in literature, myth, history, science, or art. Chapters are dominated by women’s voices, with nearly all primary and secondary sources used coming from women in the history of philosophy and a diverse set of contemporary women philosophers. All chapters offer the authors’ distinct philosophical perspectives written in their own voices and styles, representing diverse training, backgrounds, and interests. The introduction and prologue explicitly invite the book’s readers to engage in philosophical conversation and reflection, thus setting the stage for continued contemplation and dialogue beyond the book itself. The result is a rigorous yet accessible entry point into serious philosophical contemplation designed to embolden and strengthen its readers’ own senses of philosophical inquiry and competence. The book’s readers will feel confident in knowing that expert women affirm an equitable and just intellectual landscape for all and thus have lovingly collaborated to write this book.
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Menn, Stephen, and Justin E. H. Smith. Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197501627.001.0001.
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Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703–after 1752) is the first modern African philosopher to study and teach in a European university and write in the European philosophical tradition. This book provides an extensive historical and philosophical introduction to Amo’s life and work, and provides Latin texts, with facing translations and explanatory notes, of Amo’s two philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind and the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to our Living and Organic Body, both published in 1734. The Impassivity is an extended argument that the mind cannot be acted on, that sensation is a being-acted-on by the sensed object, and therefore that sensation does not belong to the mind, and must belong instead to the body. The Distinct Idea works out the implications for the mind’s actions, and tries to show how the mind understands, wills, and effects things through the body by ‘intentions’ which direct motions in our body intentionally toward external things. Both dissertations try to show how far each type of human act belongs to the mind, how far to the body, and expose and resolve earlier philosophers’ self-contradictions on these questions.
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Gjesdal, Kristin, ed. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190467876.001.0001.
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Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other topics of an existential and philosophical kind. It is no surprise that Ibsen’s work has gained the attention of philosophically minded readers from Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Freud, to Adorno, Cavell, and beyond. Once staged at avant-garde theaters in Paris, London, and Berlin, Ibsen is now a global phenomenon. The enigmatic character of Hedda Gabler remains intriguing to ever-new generations of actors, audiences, and readers. Through ten newly commissioned chapters written by leading voices in the fields of drama studies, European philosophy, Scandinavian studies, and comparative literature, this volume brings out the philosophical resonances of Hedda Gabler in particular and Ibsen’s drama more broadly.
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Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson. Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One: A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism. Adamant Media Corporation, 2000.
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Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199642625.001.0001.
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‘To a rational being there can be but one rule of conduct, justice, and one mode of ascertaining that rule, the exercise of his understanding.’ Godwin’s Political Justice is the founding text of philosophical anarchism. Written in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution, it exemplifies the political optimism felt by many writers and intellectuals. Godwin drew on enlightenment ideas and his background in religious dissent for the principles of justice, utility, and the sanctity of individual judgement that drove his powerful critique of all forms of secular and religious authority. He predicts the triumph of justice and equality over injustice, and of mind over matter, and the eventual vanquishing of human frailty and mortality. He also foresees the gradual elimination of practices governing property, punishment, law, and marriage and the displacement of politics by an expanded personal morality resulting from reasoned argument and candid discussion. Political Justice raises deep philosophical questions about the nature of our duty to others that remain central to modern debates on ethics and politics. This edition reprints the first-edition text of 1793, and examines Godwin’s evolving philosophy in the context of his life and work.
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Cheyne, Peter, ed. Coleridge and Contemplation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799511.001.0001.
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In his philosophical writings, Coleridge increasingly developed his thinking about imagination, a symbolizing precursor to contemplation, to a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest form as a manifestation of ‘Reason’. Coleridge is a particularly challenging figure because he was a thinker in process, and something of an omnimath, a Renaissance man of the Romantic era. The dynamic quality of his thinking, the ‘dark fluxion’ pursued but ultimately ‘unfixable by thought’, and his extensive range of interests make essential an approach that is philosophical yet also multi-disciplinary. This is the first collection of essays to be written mainly by philosophers and intellectual historians on a wide range of Coleridge’s philosophical writings. With a foreword by Baroness Mary Warnock, and original essays on Coleridge and Contemplation by prominent philosophers such as Sir Roger Scruton, David E. Cooper, Michael McGhee, and Andy Hamilton, this volume provides a stimulating collection of insights and explorations into what Britain’s foremost philosopher-poet had to say about the contemplation that he considered to be the highest of the human mental powers. The essays by philosophers are supported by new developments in philosophically minded criticism from Coleridge scholars in English departments, including Jim Mays, Kathleen Wheeler, and James Engell. They approach Coleridge as an energetic yet contemplative thinker concerned with the intuition of ideas and the processes of cultivation in self and society. Other essays, from intellectual historians and theologians, clarify the historical background, and ‘religious musings’, of Coleridge’s thought regarding contemplation.
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Eijk, Philip van der. The Role of Medicine in the Formation of Early Greek Thought. Edited by Patricia Curd and Daniel W. Graham. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195146875.003.0015.
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The philosophical aspects of Greek medicine are now more widely appreciated, not only by historians of science and medicine but also by students of philosophy in a more narrow sense. There has also been a greater appreciation of the fact that Greek medical writers not only reflect a derivative awareness of developments in philosophy but that they also actively contributed to the formation of philosophical thought more strictly defined, for instance by developing concepts and methodologies for the acquisition of knowledge and understanding. Yet the consequences of this for a renewed study of the formation of Greek philosophy have yet to be drawn; and disciplinary boundaries between historians of medicine on the one hand and philosophers and historians of philosophy on the other still pose obstacles to an integrated account of Greek thought that takes on board the contributions by the medical writers. Some preliminary remarks may therefore be in order.
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Lasker, Daniel J. Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction. Liverpool University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113515.001.0001.
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This book is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. The core of the book is a detailed discussion of the four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they could definitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth. In each case, the book presents a succinct history of the Christian doctrine and then proceeds to a careful examination of the Jewish efforts to demonstrate its impossibility. The main text is written in a non-technical manner, with the Christian doctrines and the Jewish responses both carefully explained; the notes include long quotations, in Hebrew and Arabic as well as in English, from sources that are not readily available in English. At the time of its original publication in 1977, this book was regarded as a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history; the new, wide-ranging introduction surveys and summarizes subsequent scholarship, and re-establishes its position as a major work.
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Milnes, Tim. Literature and Philosophy. Edited by David Duff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660896.013.38.
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This chapter proposes that our very notions of ‘literature’ and ‘philosophy’ are, to a great extent, forged in the Romantic era. The chapter surveys the eighteenth-century background to this issue in the sceptical empiricism of David Hume and the German transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, F. W. von Schelling, and J. G. Fichte. In examining the writings of William Blake, Edmund Burke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, it also charts the ways in which the revolutionary debates of the 1790s politicized the disciplines of philosophy and ‘theory’, leading to an anti-philosophical rhetoric in the work of writers such as Thomas Love Peacock, Charles Lamb, and Lord Byron. Finally, the chapter scrutinizes the boundaries between Romantic philosophy and the Scottish common-sense philosophy of Thomas Reid and Dugald Stewart, before examining the philosophical significance of the idea of ‘Literature’ in the work of Romantic writers, particularly Percy Shelley and John Keats.