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Cartesian Nightmare

Author : Peter A. Redpath
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004458913
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Cartesian Nightmare written by Peter A. Redpath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the presupposition among professional philosophers that René Descartes is the Father of Modern Philosophy. It demonstrates by intensive textual analysis of Descartes's Discourse and Meditations that he inaugurated a new type of sophistry rather than a new way of conducting philosophy. Transcendental Sophistry is a synthesis of Renaissance humanism and Christian theology, especially the theology of creation. This striking re-evaluation of the achievement of Descartes opens the history of Western philosophy to radical reinterpretation.

Masquerade of the Dream Walkers

Author : Peter A. Redpath
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042004023
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Masquerade of the Dream Walkers written by Peter A. Redpath and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through extensive textual analysis, this book concludes that the prevailing opinion about the nature of modern and contemporary philosophy is wrong. It maintains that almost all modern and contemporary philosophy is deconstructed, secularized, Augustinian theology, not philosophy. The work is divided into eight chapters, a guest Foreword by Herbert I. London (President of the Hudson Institute and Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University) notes, bibliography, and an index. Chapter 1 (Protagoras Sees the Ghost of Hippo) considers Cartesian thought, Hobbes, and Newton. Chapter 2 (I Feel the Spirit Move Me) examines Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Chapter 3 (The Urge to Emerge) investigates Lessing and Rousseau. Chapters 4 (To Dream the Impossible Dream) and 5 (Wake Up, Wake Up, You Sleepyhead) treat Kant. Chapters 6 (I Am Music) and 7 (Looking for God in All The Wrong Places) deal with Hegel. Chapter 8 (Dirty Dancing: Higher Education as Enlightened Swindling) concludes that a lack of philosophical and historical experience coupled with a widespread inability to read philosophical texts according to the intention of the author (1) causes us to mistake secularized theology for philosophy and (2) is a main cause for the decline of contemporary universities.

Descartes' Nightmare

Author : Susan McCabe
Publisher : Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Descartes' Nightmare written by Susan McCabe and published by Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr. This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2007 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry recipient selected by judge Cole Swenson of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Descartes and Cartesianism

Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191085197
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and Cartesianism written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings. Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson split the volume into four distinct parts; Cartesian Science, Mind and Perception, Actions and Passions, and Cartesian Woman. The contributors are internationally known and respected scholars of 17th century philosophy writing on a number of their favourite Cartesian topics.

Wisdom's Odyssey

Author : Peter A. Redpath
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001800
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom's Odyssey written by Peter A. Redpath and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes that the ancient Greeks had a prevailing method of doing philosophy which was rooted in philosophical realism. Through extensive historical and philosophical analysis, it demonstrates that this method was challenged in ancient times by an apocryphal notion of philosophy which eventually became confused with philosophical reasoning, and was passed on to posterity through the work of Christian theologians until it was called into question by leading thinkers of the thirteenth century. It shows how this thirteenth-century challenge influenced the growth of the Renaissance humanist movement and how this movement, in turn, passed on to modernity the same apocryphal notion of philosophy as a rhetorical theology of allegorical prefiguration.

Who's Afraid Of... ?

Author : Marion Gymnich
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3847100505
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Who's Afraid Of... ? written by Marion Gymnich and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear in its many facets appears to constitute an intriguing and compelling subject matter for writers and screenwriters alike. The contributions address fictional representations and explorations of fear in different genres and different periods of literary and cultural history. The topics include representations of political violence and political fear in English Renaissance culture and literature; dramatic representations of fear and anxiety in English Romanticism; the dramatic monologue as an expression of fears in Victorian society; cultural constructions of fear and empathy in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaw's Fear Itself (2003); facets of children's fears in twentieth- and twenty-first-century stream-of-consciousness fiction; the representation of fear in war movies; the cultural function of horror film remakes; the expulsion of fear in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go and fear and nostalgia in Mohsin Hamid's post-9/11 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy

Author : Roman Theodore Ciapalo
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813208817
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy written by Roman Theodore Ciapalo and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy bring a wealth of philosophical insights and methodological approaches to bear on a common concern, namely, the possibility and extent of a fruitful dialogue between Christian philosophy and postmodern thought. They tackle the timely question of how realism ought to respond to the threat to what Gilson called "the Western Creed" posed by modernity's heir apparent. Enriched and invigorated by the insights of St. Thomas, Jacques Maritain, Yves R. Simon, and others, the articles assembled in this volume offer a provocative vision of the way in which a world bearing the imprint of modernity can nevertheless avoid succumbing to the false alternative proposed by postmodernism. Contributors include: Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., Don T. Asselin, Michael Baur, David B. Burrell, C.S.C., John Deely, Curtis L. Hancock, Thomas S. Hibbs, Gregory J. Kerr, John F.X. Knasas, Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., James L. Marsh, Matthew S. Pugh, Gregory M. Reichberg, Robert Royal, James V. Schall, S.J., Rosalind Smith Edman, Brendan Sweetman, Joseph M. de Torre, Merold Westphal, and Robert E. Wood. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Roman T. Ciapalo is associate professor of philosophy at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.

Faith & the Life of the Intellect

Author : Curtis L. Hancock
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813213118
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Faith & the Life of the Intellect written by Curtis L. Hancock and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the contributions offer personal reflections on those events and experiences that helped shape their response to the general issue of faith seeking understanding."--BOOK JACKET.

Vladimir Nabokov

Author : Barbara Wyllie
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897286
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov written by Barbara Wyllie and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is celebrated as one of the most distinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century. In Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of the life and works of the writer, from his childhood and earliest stories in pre-revolutionary Russia, to The Original of Laura—a novel written almost entirely on index cards published for the first time in 2009, perhaps against Nabokov’s wishes. This literary biography investigates the author’s poetry and prose, in both Russian and English, and examines the relationship between Nabokov’s extraordinary erudition and the themes that recur throughout his works. His expertise as a specialist in butterflies complemented his wide knowledge of Russian and Western European culture, philosophy, and history, and informed the themes of transformation and transcendence that dominate his work. Wyllie traces his lifelong preoccupations with time, memory, and mortality across both his Russian and English works, and she illuminates his distinctive through detailed analysis of his major novels. Wyllie assesses his poetry and prose style alongside Nabokov’s own autobiography, letters, and critical writings—as well as the only recently-published The Original of Laura—in order to create a complete and updated picture of the writer in the context of his works. Vladimir Nabokov presents a fascinating portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most eclectic, prolific, and controversial authors. It is an essential read for fans of Nabokov and scholars of twentieth century English and Russian literature.

Nabokov's Fifth Arc

Author : J. E. Rivers
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477302883
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Nabokov's Fifth Arc written by J. E. Rivers and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which “twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series.” The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokov’s life—his youth in Russia, voluntary exile in Europe, two decades spent in the United States, and the final years of his life in Switzerland—are now followed by a fifth arc, his continuing life in literary history, which this volume both explores and symbolizes. This is the first collection of essays to examine all five arcs of Nabokov’s creative life through close analyses of representative works. The essays cast new light on works both famous and neglected and place these works against the backgrounds of Nabokov’s career as a whole and modern literature in general. Nabokov analyzes his own artistry in his “Postscript to the Russian Edition of Lolita,” presented here in its first English translation, and in his little-known “Notes to Ada by Vivian Darkbloom,” published now for the first time in America and keyed to the standard U.S. editions of the novel. In addition to a defense of his father’s work by Dmitri Nabokov and a portrait-interview by Alfred Appel, Jr., the volume presents a vast spectrum of critical analyses covering all Nabokov’s major novels and several important short stories. The highly original structure of the book and the fresh and often startling revelations of the essays dramatize as never before the unity and richness of Nabokov’s unique literary achievement.

The Limits of Realism

Author : Tim Button
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199672172
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Realism written by Tim Button and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Button explores the relationship between minds, words, and world. He argues that the two main strands of scepticism are deeply related and can be overcome, but that there is a limit to how much we can show. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, and we cannot hope to say exactly where.

To Dwell with a Boundless Heart

Author : David William Jardine
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book To Dwell with a Boundless Heart written by David William Jardine and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the affinities between curriculum theory, hermeneutics, and ecology. Some of the historical origins of modernist curriculum, such as the works of Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, and Jean Piaget, are critiqued. The works of major figures in the interpretive paradigm, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, are used to unearth a more generous, more ecologically sane understanding of curriculum and our lives with children.

Giambattista Vico, Post-mechanical Thought, and Contemporary Psychology

Author : Michael S. Littleford
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Giambattista Vico, Post-mechanical Thought, and Contemporary Psychology written by Michael S. Littleford and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work begins with the humanistic psychologists' criticism of behaviorism and other mechanical trends in psychology. As the work develops, it encompasses the humanists' criticisms within Vico's broader and more coherent critique of, and his positive historical and philosophical alternative to mechanical philosophy and psychology. The work concludes with the beginnings of a new paradigm for psychological research and practice. The new perspective includes, situates, and connects the relative truths of mechanical, humanistic, and other partial psychological trends. The new Vichian perspective also relates the various psychological trends to relevant similar ones in a wide variety of fields, and in the process, encompasses many post-mechanical thinkers not currently used in the efforts to construct a complete and coherent psychology.

Descartes' Dream

Author : Philip J. Davis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486442527
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Descartes' Dream written by Philip J. Davis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances. They survey the conditions that elicit the application of mathematic principles; the applications' effectiveness; and how applied mathematics transform perceptions of reality. 1987 edition.

Readings in Abnormal Psychology and Mental Hygiene

Author : William Sentman Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Abnormal Psychology and Mental Hygiene written by William Sentman Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sweet Dreams

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262250721
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Dreams written by Daniel C. Dennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since Daniel Dennett's influential Consciousness Explained was published in 1991, scientific research on consciousness has been a hotly contested battleground of rival theories—"so rambunctious," Dennett observes, "that several people are writing books just about the tumult." With Sweet Dreams, Dennett returns to the subject for "revision and renewal" of his theory of consciousness, taking into account major empirical advances in the field since 1991 as well as recent theoretical challenges. In Consciousness Explained, Dennett proposed to replace the ubiquitous but bankrupt Cartesian Theater model (which posits a privileged place in the brain where "it all comes together" for the magic show of consciousness) with the Multiple Drafts Model. Drawing on psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, he asserted that human consciousness is essentially the mental software that reorganizes the functional architecture of the brain. In Sweet Dreams, he recasts the Multiple Drafts Model as the "fame in the brain" model, as a background against which to examine the philosophical issues that "continue to bedevil the field." With his usual clarity and brio, Dennett enlivens his arguments with a variety of vivid examples. He isolates the "Zombic Hunch" that distorts much of the theorizing of both philosophers and scientists, and defends heterophenomenology, his "third-person" approach to the science of consciousness, against persistent misinterpretations and objections. The old challenge of Frank Jackson's thought experiment about Mary the color scientist is given a new rebuttal in the form of "RoboMary," while his discussion of a famous card trick, "The Tuned Deck," is designed to show that David Chalmers's Hard Problem is probably just a figment of theorists' misexploited imagination. In the final essay, the "intrinsic" nature of "qualia" is compared with the naively imagined "intrinsic value" of a dollar in "Consciousness—How Much is That in Real Money?"

Critical Approaches to Information Technology in Librarianship

Author : John Buschman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to Information Technology in Librarianship written by John Buschman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-08-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constant developments in information technology are creating fundamental changes in librarianship. This book challenges the uncritical acceptance of these changes caused by technology. The volume begins by explaining the importance of a critical approach to information technology in librarianship. The first part of the book then explores the fundamental critical issues at the heart of technology in the library. Chapters in this section consider such topics as the neutrality of technology, information technology and censorship, the role of computers in education, and the sometimes critical views of scientists on technology. The second part of the volume looks more closely at issues related to the application of technology in librarianship. These chapters discuss technology and the civic role of libraries, the political apsects of electronic information, and the role of technology in the labor process. A selected bibliography concludes the work.