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Author : Brian Kent Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Quixotic Autonomy written by Brian Kent Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198025475
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Autonomous Agents written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold that autonomy is compatible with determinism and those who deny this, Mele shows that belief that there are autonomous agents is better grounded than belief that there are not.
Author : Ruth Anthony El Saffar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734202
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Quixotic Desire written by Ruth Anthony El Saffar and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this venturesome collection, scholars representing a variety of approaches contribute fifteen essays that shed new light not only on the uses of psychoanalysis for reading Cervantes, but also on the relationship between Freud's reading of Cervantes in the summer of 1883 and the very foundation of psychoanalytic paradigms.
Author : Sarah F. Wood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191515163
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 written by Sarah F. Wood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 explores the conflicted and conflicting interpretations of Don Quixote available to and deployed by disenchanted writers of America's new republic. It argues that the legacy of Don Quixote provided an ambiguous cultural icon and ironic narrative stance that enabled authors to critique with impunity the ideological fictions shoring up their fractured republic. Close readings of works such as Modern Chivalry, Female Quixotism, and The Algerine Captive reveal that the fiction from this period repeatedly engaged with Cervantes's narrative in order to test competing interpretations of republicanism, to interrogate the new republic's multivalent crises of authority, and to question both the possibility and the desirability of an isolationist USA and an autonomous 'American' literature. Sarah Wood's study is the first book-length publication to examine the role of Don Quixote in early American literature. Exploring the extent to which the literary culture of North America was shaped by a diverse range of influences, it addresses an issue of growing concern to scholars of American history and literature. Quixotic Fictions reaffirms the global reach of Cervantes's influence and explores the complex, contradictory ways in which Don Quixote helped shape American fiction at a formative moment in its development.
Author : George J. Agich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195074956
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Autonomy and Long-term Care written by George J. Agich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The realities and misconceptions of long-term care and the challenges it presents for the ethics of autonomy are analyzed in this perceptive work. While defending the concept of autonomy, the author argues that the standard view of autonomy as non-interference and independence has only a limited applicability for long-term care. He explains that autonomy should be understood as a comprehensiveness that defines the overall course of a person's life rather than as a way of responding to an isolated situation. Agich distinguishes actual and ideal autonomy and argues that actual autonomy is better revealed in the everyday experiences of long-term care than in dramatic, conflict-ridden paradigm situations such as decisions to institutionalize, to initiate aggressive treatments, or to withhold or to withdraw life-sustaining treatments. Through a phenomenological analysis of long-term care, he develops an ethical framework for it by showing how autonomy is actually manifest in certain structural features of the social world of long-term care. Throughout this timely work, the rich sociological and anthropological literature on aging and long-term care is referenced and the practical ethical questions of promoting and enhancing the exercise of autonomy are addressed.
Author : Lucas Swaine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190087678
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Ethical Autonomy written by Lucas Swaine and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Autonomy is a towering concept in human affairs. Its "evocative force" pulses through the discourse of classical antiquity, rising in present times and proliferating across the globe. Vital to social-scientific and philosophical understanding, autonomy stands prominently in the pantheon of democratic values, celebrated together with the basic liberties, justice, equality, toleration, and the rule of law. Autonomy is a mainstay of individual freedom and the lifeblood of democratic conceptions of citizenship. Many believe that personal autonomy promotes individuality and authenticity, empowering citizens and spurring positive social change. Various scholars occupy themselves with the question of how to facilitate or to increase personal autonomy in democratic polities. Some ask what liberal government can do to advance personal autonomy, through schooling and other educational measures, in order to enhance people's pursuits or to energize political participation. Others go so far as to propose that personal autonomy is a basic human right, one generating moral and legal entitlements around the world. Numerous advocates have assumed that personal autonomy fits snugly with other important moral and political values. Some presuppose a natural compatibility between personal autonomy and superior ethical agency, reckoning that the more autonomous someone is, the better morally that person will be. Others intimate, or declare outright, that it is decidedly deficient not to be autonomous at the personal level. These views are fabricated from the positive qualities of autonomy, with proponents assuming, even defining, autonomous people as basically moral actors.The rosy notions and happy assumptions about autonomy are dangerous mistakes. Not only do many personally autonomous individuals take form as very bad actors: numerous of them are terrible miscreants who commit despicable, even monstrous acts. Some autonomous individuals torture, rape, and murder people they encounter. Others are deeply wicked and depraved in other ways. Personally autonomous individuals come in many dreadful varieties, from degenerate malefactors to perpetrators of horrific evil. The jumble includes those who unburden themselves of emotional and volitional constraints, preparing themselves for shocking acts. And the mix features individuals who labor thirstily to generate options to do evil, or who mull over depraved choices that appear within their perimeters. These are people whose autonomy produces a number of difficult philosophical and practical conundrums for moral and political theory, for liberalism, and for citizenship in democratic political orders. Many personally autonomous individuals are upstanding citizens and fine people, but there are legion who are not. Theorists of personal autonomy have done well to consider ways in which autonomous acts can be immoral, but virtually none has faced up to the reality that the category of personally autonomous agents includes highly unethical individuals, people who create a myriad of thoroughgoing, deeply challenging problems that destabilize personal autonomy's fit with crucial moral and political values.""--
Author : Richard Winfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040289746
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Autonomy and Normativity written by Richard Winfield and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. Autonomy and Normativity explores central topics in current philosophical debate, challenging the prevailing post-modern dogma that theory, practice and art are captive to contingent historical foundations by showing how foundational dilemmas are overcome once validity is recognized to reside in self-determination. Through constructive arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, Autonomy and Normativity demonstrates how truth, right and beauty can retain universal validity without succumbing to the mistaken Enlightenment strategy of seeking foundations for rational autonomy. Presenting a compact, yet comprehensive statement of a powerful and provocative alternative to the reigning orthodoxies of current philosophical debate, Richard Winfield employs Hegelian techniques and focus to object to opponents, and presents a radical and systematic critique of the work of mainstream thinkers including Kant, Rawls, Husserl, Habermas and others. The ramifications for the legitimation of modernity are thoroughly explored, in conjunction with an analysis of the fate of theory, practice and art in the modern world. This book offers an invaluable resource for students of both analytic and continental philosophical traditions, and related areas of law, social theory and aesthetics.
Author : Richard Lindley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333367933
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Autonomy written by Richard Lindley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willard Gaylin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Perversion of Autonomy written by Willard Gaylin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaylin and Jennings tell us that we must change the everyday behavior shaping the landscape of modern American society. Our current culture of autonomy is predicated on rationality as the basis of human conduct. But, we are reminded here, man is not inherently rational; appeals to emotion are far more effective than logical argument in changing our conduct.
Author : Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521534992
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Autonomy: Volume 20, Part 2 written by Ellen Frankel Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines autonomy and the role it plays in philosophy, as well as public policy.
Author : Veljko Dubljević
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030136434
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Neuroethics, Justice and Autonomy: Public Reason in the Cognitive Enhancement Debate written by Veljko Dubljević and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explicitly addresses policy options in a democratic society regarding cognitive enhancement drugs and devices. The book offers an in-depth case by case analysis of existing and emerging cognitive neuroenhancement technologies and canvasses a distinct political neuroethics approach. The author provides an argument on the much debated issue of fairness of cognitive enhancement practices and tackles the tricky issue of how to respect preferences of citizens opposing and those preferring enhancement. The author persuasively argues the necessity of a laws and regulations regarding the use of cognitive enhancers. He also argues that the funds for those who seek cognitive enhancement should be allocated free of charge to the least advantaged. The work argues that the notion of autonomy has been mistakenly associated with the metaphysical concept of free will, and offers a political definition of autonomy to clarify how responsibility is implicitly grounded in the legal and political system. As such, this book is an essential read for everyone interested in neuroethics, and a valuable resource for policy makers, as well as scholars and students in philosophy, law, psychiatry and neuroscience.
Author : Petra Rethmann
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774859229
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Cultural Autonomy written by Petra Rethmann and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has challenged concepts such as local culture and cultural autonomy. And the rampant commodification of cultural products has challenged the way we define culture itself. Have these developments transformed the relationship between culture and autonomy? Have traditional notions of cultural autonomy been recast? This book showcases the work of scholars who employ a broad definition of culture to trace how issues of cultural autonomy have played out in various arenas, including literary criticism, indigenous societies, the Slow Food movement, and skateboarding culture. Although they focus on the marginalized issue of autonomy, they reveal that globalization has both limited as well as created new forms of cultural autonomy.
Author : Karim Bschir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471994
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Feyerabend written by Karim Bschir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend.
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351517651
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book George Orwell written by John Rodden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides a notable instance of a writer whose legacy has been claimed from a host of contending political interests. The exemplary clarity and force of his style, the rectitude of his political judgment along with his personal integrity have made him, as he famously noted of Dickens, a writer well worth stealing. Thus, the intellectual battles over Orwell's posthumous career point up ambiguities in Orwell's own work as they do in the motives of his would-be heirs. John Rodden's George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, breaks new ground in bringing Orwell's work into proper focus while providing much original insight into the phenomenon of literary fame.Rodden's intent is to clarify who Orwell was as a writer during his lifetime and who he became after his death. He explores the dichotomies between the novelist and the essayist, the socialist and the anti-communist and the contrast between his day-to-day activities as a journalist and his latter-day elevation to political prophet and secular saint. Rodden's approach is both contextual and textual, analyzing available reception materials on Orwell along with audiences and publications decisive for shaping his reputation. He then offers a detailed historical and biographical interpretation of the reception scene analyzing how and why did individuals and audiences cast Orwell in their own images and how these projected images served their own political needs and aspirations. Examined here are the views of Orwell as quixotic moralist, socialist renegade, anarchist, English patriot, neo-conservative, forerunner of cultural studies, and even media and commercial star. Rodden concludes with a consideration of the meaning of Or
Author : Julia Dominguez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148754393X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Quixotic Memories written by Julia Dominguez and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Miguel de Cervantes – one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe – is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes’s world, resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomized Renaissance humanist culture and that informed the transition to modernity. Quixotic Memories offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory and demonstrates how it plays an exceptionally critical role in Cervantes’s Don Quixote. It acknowledges Cervantes’s transition into modernity as he engaged with theories of memory that were developed in classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time. Julia Domínguez explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy. Engaging with primary and archival sources, Quixotic Memories provides a new reading of Cervantes’s famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author’s lifetime.
Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009296574
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel written by Lauren Gillingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself.
Author : Alan S. Rosenbaum
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Coercion and Autonomy written by Alan S. Rosenbaum and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-10-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few subjects in contemporary philosophical and political debate are more cloaked in ambiguity than the issue of coercion -- whether on an individual or global scale or in areas as diverse as family relations, employment, and international finance. In this first full-length treatment of the topic, Professor Rosenbaum carefully reviews previous thinking on this question and develops a persuasive original theory focusing on the conceptual relationship between human social autonomy and coercion.
