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The Philosophy of Time

Author : Roger McLure
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134322321
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Time written by Roger McLure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the visibility of time. Is time perceptible only through the veil of change? Or is there a naked presence of 'time itself'? Or has time always effaced itself? McClure's new work also stages confrontations between phenomenology of time and analytical philosophy of time. By doing so he explores ancient issues from a fresh perspective, such as whether time passes, whether experimental time is 'real time', and whether the very concept of time is contradictory.

Authenticity, Death, and the History of Being

Author : Hubert Dreyfus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136717846
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Authenticity, Death, and the History of Being written by Hubert Dreyfus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Heidegger and the study of his thought have earned wide acceptance, extending beyond philosophy to influence an array of other disciplines. Critically selected by leading scholars in the field, the articles in this new collection bring together the most essential and representative scholarship on Heidegger. Focusing on the major phases of his work which attracted most attention from contemporary thinkers, as well as exploring new and important areas of Heidegger scholarship, this four-volume set is an invaluable resource for any curriculum supporting philosophy, as well as political theory, literature, classics, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture

Author : William J. Lillyman
Publisher : University of California Humanities Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 0195360168
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture written by William J. Lillyman and published by University of California Humanities Research Institute. This book was released on 1994-02-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in the University of California Humanities Research Institute Series, this book brings together prominent literary theorists and architects to offer a variety of perspectives on the relation between postmodernism and architecture. The contributors include such luminaries from the forefront of literary studies as J. Hillis Miller, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Francois Lyotard; the architects Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, and Robert Stern offer their perspectives on the critical role of architecture and contemporary culture. The high caliber of the discourse and the variety of approaches included will draw a scholarly audience from a wide range of disciplines.

The Tenseless Theory of Time

Author : W.L. Craig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401734739
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Tenseless Theory of Time written by W.L. Craig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he present book and its companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time," namely, "whether a static or a dynamic conception ofthe world is correct. "] I had originally intended to treat this question in the space of a single volume; but the study swelled into two. I found that an adequate appraisal of these two competing theories of time requires a wide-ranging discussion of issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, philosophy of space and time, and even philosophy of religion, and that this simply could not be done in one volume. If these volumes succeed in making a contribution to the debate, it will be precisely because of the synoptic nature of the discussion therein. Too often the question of the nature of time has been prematurely answered by some philosopher or physicist simply because he is largely ignorant of relevant discussions outside his chosen field of expertise. In these two complementary but independent volumes I have attempted to appraise what I take to be the most important arguments drawn from a variety of fields for and against each theory of time.

Writing the Book of the World

Author : Theodore Sider
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199697906
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Book of the World written by Theodore Sider and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Sider presents a broad new vision of metaphysics centred on the idea of structure. To describe the world well we must use concepts that 'carve at the joints', so that conceptual structure matches reality's structure. This approach illuminates a wide range of topics, such as time, modality, ontology, and the status of metaphysics itself.

The Transformative Power of Performance

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134047495
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Transformative Power of Performance written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes. With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.

Consciousness

Author : Henry Rutgers Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Consciousness written by Henry Rutgers Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Felt Meanings of the World

Author : Quentin Smith
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780911198768
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Felt Meanings of the World written by Quentin Smith and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critical dialogue with the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel to contemporary schools of thought, the author convincingly argues that traditional rationalist metaphysics has failed to accomplish its goal of demonstrating the existence of a divine cause and moral purpose of the world. To replace the defective rationalist metaphysics, the author builds a new metaphysics on the idea that moods and affects make manifest the world's felt meanings; he argues that each feature of the world is a felt meaning in the sense that each feature is a source of a feeling-response if and when it appears. The author asserts that we must synthesize our two ways of knowing-poetic evocations and exact analyses-in order to decide which mood or affect is the appropriate appreciation of any given feature of the world. Smith gives evocative and exact explications of such features as the world's temporality, appearance, and mind-independency, as these features appear in the appropriate recitations.

Time

Author : Phillip Turetzky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134770812
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Time written by Phillip Turetzky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time offers a comprehensive history of the philosophy of time in western philosophy from the Greeks through to the twentieth century. In the first half of the book, Philip Turetzky explores theories in ancient and modern philosophy chronologically: from Aristotle to Nietzsche. In the latter half, Turetzky describes the philosophy of time in three twentieth-century philosophical traditions: * analytic philosophy including philosophers such as McTaggart and Mellor * phenomenology Husserl and Heidegger * a distaff tradition which Turetzky identifies as including Bergson and Deleuze.

Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity

Author : W.L. Craig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735328
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity written by W.L. Craig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger project of which this volume forms part is an attempt to craft a coherent doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time. Central to this project is the integration of the concerns of theology with the concept of time in relativity theory. This volume provides an accessible and philosophically informed examination of the concept of time in relativity, the ultimate aim being the achievement of a tenable theological synthesis.

The Importance of Time

Author : L.N. Oaklander
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401733627
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Time written by L.N. Oaklander and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991. The members of that seminar wanted to promote interest in the philosophy of time and Jon N. Turgerson offered to become the first Director of the society with the initial costs underwritten by the Drake University Center for the Humanities. Thus, the Philosophy of Time Society (PTS) was formed in 1993. Its goal is to promote the study of the philosophy of time from a broad analytic perspective, and to provide a forum as an affiliated group with the American Philosophical Association, to discuss the issues in and related to the philosophy of time. The society held its first meeting during the Eastern Division of the AP A in Atlanta, George, in December 1993. In 1997 I began my tenure as Executive Director of PTS and with my term ending in 2000, I decided to put together a volume of selected papers read at PTS meetings over the years. The result is the present volume. It contains some of the latest developments in the field, including discussions of recent books by Michael Tooley, Time, Tense, and Causation, and D. H. Mellor, Real Time II, and much more. The main issue in the philosophy of time is and remains the status of temporal becoming and the passage of time.

Peirce and Value Theory

Author : Herman Parret
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781556193408
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Peirce and Value Theory written by Herman Parret and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in particular Peirce's work on ethics and aesthetics.The book is divided in four sections. Section I discusses the status of ethics as a normative science and its relation with logic; some applications are presented, e.g. in the field of bioethics. Section II investigates the specific position of Peircean aesthetics with regard to classical American philosophy, especially Buchler, to Husserlian phenomenology, and to European structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson). Section III contains papers on internal aspects of Peirce's aesthetics and its place in his thought. The final section presents applications of Peirce's aesthetic theory: analyses of visual art (mainly paintings), of literary texts and of musical meaning.

Presentism

Author : Ernâni Magalhães
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presentism written by Ernâni Magalhães and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentism: Essential Readings contains writings--classic and contemporary--that acquaint the reader with different versions of presentism, standard philosophical and scientific objections to presentism, and their attempted solutions. Detailed introductions to each part of the book make the discussions accessible to students and those unfamiliar with this fascinating and controversial philosophy.

Legendary Figures

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803227392
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Figures written by Clayton Koelb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. Clayton Koelb traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels,øfrom Flaubert?s Salammb– to Christa Wolf?s Cassandra. Koelb argues that this new ?historical sense,? which arose in the mid?nineteenth century, gained eloquent expression in Flaubert?s writings. What is crucial about the new historical sense is that it views the past as essentially ?alien? and ?other.? The connection between past and present may be powerful, but it is always indirect and difficult to negotiate. As a result, the past seems exotic and unattainable, the object of nostalgia and desire. Koelb distinguishes this sense of history, with its persistent discontinuities between past and present, from the more continuous and progressive views of history of novelists like Sir Walter Scott and such philosophers as Hegel, Marx, and Luk¾cs. In their writings, history ?proceeds according to the laws of cause and effect, and each epoch can be understood as both the result of the previous one and the cause of the next.? In contrast, the modernist writers that Koelb examines?Flaubert, Pater, Mann, Broch, Wilder, Yourcenar, and Wolf?imagine a past that is ?mythic? and ?legendary? and thus a metaphor for everything distant, complicated, unattainable, and unknowable.

Listening through the Noise

Author : Joanna Demers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019977448X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Listening through the Noise written by Joanna Demers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West.

Redeeming Art

Author : Donald Kuspit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621532011
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Redeeming Art written by Donald Kuspit and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-05-02 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of a formidable art critic whose reflections on art, artists, and art criticism constitute an eclectic exploration of the ways in which art and art criticism have influenced contemporary thought and psychology. The book's investigation into the social impact of artwork also reflects on the inner life of the artist.

Transcendentalism Overturned

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400706243
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Transcendentalism Overturned written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-02 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, the understanding of consciousness, absolutized as a system of a priori laws of the mind, that was advanced by Kant and Husserl. As these studies show, transcendentalism critically informed 20th Century phenomenological investigation into such issues as temporality, historicity, imagination, objectivity and subjectivity, freedom, ethical judgment, work, praxis. Advances in science have now provoked a questioning of the absolute prerogatives of consciousness. Transcendentalism is challenged by empirical reductionism. And recognition of the role the celestial sphere plays in life on planet earth suggests that a radical shift of philosophy's center of gravity be made away from absolute consciousness and toward the transcendental forces at play in the architectonics of the cosmos.