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Skeptical Engagements

Author : Freda Crews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195056600
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Skeptical Engagements written by Freda Crews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Out of My System (1975), the influential literary critic, Frederick Crews, documented the erosion of his Freudian sympathies. Now, in his latest carefully reasoned study, he reveals where that reappraisal took him and why he has come to regard himself as an opponent of all "self-validating" doctrines. Presenting a searing critique of pretension and folly in the literary academy, Crews applies his skepticism to such diverse figures as Joseph Conrad, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, and Leslie Fiedler.

Against Freud

Author : Todd Dufresne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755481
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Against Freud written by Todd Dufresne and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Freud is a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining examination of Freud's controversial ideas and legacy by the world's most knowledgeable critics of psychoanalysis.

Skeptical Engagements

Author : Frederick Crews
Publisher : Cybereditions Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781877275005
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Skeptical Engagements written by Frederick Crews and published by Cybereditions Corporation. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully reasoned and witty book presents a searing critique of the pretension and folly infecting the literary academy. Besides targeting the excesses of "theory," the essays cover such diverse figures as Joseph Conrad, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Philip Rahv, and Leslie Fiedler.

Norman N. Holland

Author : Jeffrey Berman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501372971
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Norman N. Holland written by Jeffrey Berman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous body of scholarship that appeals to both neophytes in the field and advanced researchers, many of whom have been influenced by his writings. Holland was one of the first proponents of reader-response criticism, the theorist of readers' identity themes, and the author of fifteen books that have become classics in the field. Jeffrey Berman analyzes all of Holland's books, and many of his 250 scholarly articles, highlighting continuities and discontinuities in the critic's thinking over time. A controversial if not polarizing figure, Holland is discussed in relation to his closest colleagues, including Murray Schwartz, Bernard Paris, and Leslie Fiedler, as well as his fiercest critics, among them Frederick Crews, David Bleich, and Jonathan Culler, creating a dynamic and personal portrait. Insofar as this text illuminates the evolving mind of a premier literary critic, it produces a parallel profile of the American reader, the primary object of Holland's extensive work.

A Cultivated Reason

Author : Christopher Williams
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271025025
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book A Cultivated Reason written by Christopher Williams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Plato&’s tripartite division of the soul, Descartes&’s criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and Kant&’s notion of the categorical imperative attest, philosophy has traditionally been wedded to rationalism and its &“intellectualist&” view of persons. In this book Christopher Williams seeks to wean his fellow philosophers away from an overly rationalistic self-understanding by using resources that are available within the philosophical tradition itself, including some that anticipate strands of Nietzsche&’s thought. The book begins by developing Hume&’s critique of rationalism, with reference especially to the section of the Treatise that deals with the continuing existence of bodies (an argument that subverts intellectualist criteria by attempting to satisfy them) and to his neglected essay &“The Sceptic&” where Hume reveals the importance of our embodiment through a comic portrayal of philosophers&’ efforts to &“correct our sentiments.&” Then it moves on to ward off charges of irrationalism by showing that, although our powers of self-correction are more limited than the rationalist thinks they are, a Humean position is able both to sustain a commitment to reflection and to sensitize us to a version of irrationalism, manifest in monotheistic theologies, that is otherwise difficult to detect. The book concludes, more speculatively, with a comparison of persons to artworks in order to show how our aesthetic dimension is the source of some of the normative work previously assigned to rationalist reason. Ranging as it does across subfields from epistemology and history of philosophy to ethics and aesthetics, A Cultivated Reason should appeal to a wide audience of philosophers and to scholars in other fields as well.

Skepticism

Author : G. Anthony Bruno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351976273
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Skepticism written by G. Anthony Bruno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, skepticism presents a challenge that every philosopher must reckon with. In this outstanding collection philosophers engage with skepticism in five clear sections: the philosophical history of skepticism in Greek, Cartesian and Kantian thought; the nature and limits of certainty; the possibility of knowledge and related problems such as perception and the debates between objective knowledge and constructivism; the transcendental method as a response to skepticism and the challenge of naturalism; overcoming the skeptical challenge. Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries is essential reading for students and scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as religion and sociology.

Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present

Author : Diego Machuca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472511492
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present written by Diego Machuca and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind. By exploring each of the distinct traditions and providing expert insights, this extensive reference work: - covers major thinkers such as Sextus Empiricus, Cicero, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. - acknowledges the influence of ancient skeptical traditions on later philosophy and explains why it is still a fertile topic of inquiry among today's philosophers and historians of philosophy. - analyzes various forms of skepticism including Pyrrhonian, Academic, religious, moral, and neo-Pyrrhonian. - addresses issues in contemporary epistemology and indicates new directions of study. Skepticism, a driving force in the history of philosophy, remains at the center of debates in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an essential point of reference for any student, researcher, or practitioner of philosophy, presenting a systematic and historical survey of this core philosophical topic.

Evolution and Literary Theory

Author : Joseph Carroll
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826209795
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Literary Theory written by Joseph Carroll and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, poststructuralism in its myriad forms has come to dominate literary criticism to the exclusion of virtually any other point of view. Few scholars have escaped the coercive authority of its programmatic radicalism. In Evolution and Literary Theory, Joseph Carroll vigorously attacks the foundational principles of poststructuralism and offers in their stead a bold new theory that situates literary criticism within the matrix of evolutionary theory.

Theory's Empire

Author : Daphne Patai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231134163
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Theory's Empire written by Daphne Patai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the essays in [this volume] question the inflated claims, facile slogans, and political pretensions that have in our time turned theory into a ubiquitous orthodoxy. [This is a] ... collection of essays that returns sanity and rationality to literary criticism, rescuing it from the esotericism, jargon, and delusions under which it had been buried by the "theorizers." -Back cover.

The Skeptic's Oakeshott

Author : S. Gerencser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299761
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Skeptic's Oakeshott written by S. Gerencser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skeptic's Oakeshott poses the thesis that Michael Oakeshott's political philosophy is best understood from the vantage point of his skepticism and his intellectual affinity to Hobbes, whose work he commented on extensively. Margaret Thatcher based much of her political philosophy on Oakeshott's theories, but Gerencser shows how she widely misinterpreted his work. He argues persuasively against those who understand Oakeshott in terms of the influence of British idealism. Instead, Gerencser argues that Oakeshott adopts and softens Hobbes' idea of consent as the basis of political authority. By insisting that political authority has its source in acknowledgement and recognition, Oakeshott's philosophy opens the doors to democratic politics. The book ends with persuasive criticisms of Oakeshott, especially for thinking that politics offers only two alternatives, either the legitimacy of authority is universally recognized or civil war and secession are the result. Gerencser argues for the necessity of conflict and the contestation of the legitimacy of authority. He uses examples from Oakeshott's own work to show that civil disobedience is not only integral to democratic politics, but is required by Oakeshott's own understanding of the political.

Freudians and Schadenfreudians

Author : Jeffrey Berman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350471852
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Freudians and Schadenfreudians written by Jeffrey Berman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability still to provoke, inspire, confound, outrage, and compel. The book begins by focusing on four highly prolific authors whose admiration for Freud is boundless: Lionel Trilling, Harold Bloom, Kurt R. Eissler, and Peter Gay. Berman then explores four more writers whose aim was not simply to debunk Freud and destroy his monstrous creation but to cast both into hell: D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Szasz, and Frederick Crews. Each chapter discusses the author's involvement with Freud, exploring the continuities and discontinuities of his or her writings, as well as offering snapshots of the writers, suggesting how their personal and professional lives were inextricably related. Berman draws out some surprising commonalities between the Freudolaters and Schadenfreudians, going on to discuss the current state of psychoanalysis and the “psychoanalytic credos” by which contemporary analysts live.

Shakespeare Left and Right

Author : Ivo Kamps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392949
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Left and Right written by Ivo Kamps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Should, for example, feminist criticism be subjected to a critique by voices it construes as hostile to its political agenda? Is it possible to present a critique of feminist criticism without implicitly impeding its politics? And, in the light of recent political events should the Right pronounce the demise of Marxism as a social science and interpretive tool? The essays in Shakespeare Left and Right, first published in 1991, present a tug of war about ideology, acted out over the body of Shakespeare. Part One focuses on the challenge thrown down by Richard Levin's widely discussed "Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy". Part Two considers these issues in relation to critical practice and the reading of specific plays. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics interested in Shakespeare studies.

Freud

Author : Frederick Crews
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627797173
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Freud written by Frederick Crews and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.

Literary Meaning

Author : Wendell V. Harris
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814735002
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Literary Meaning written by Wendell V. Harris and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this clearly written and accessible book, (Wendell) Harris sets out to expose the inadequacies of current methods and trends in literary criticism. . . . The book's greatest strength is its lucid presentation of critical works, which are then shown to be compromised by fallacies and flaws".-- CHOICE.

Mousetraps and the Moon

Author : Robert Wilcocks
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739101582
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Mousetraps and the Moon written by Robert Wilcocks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a follow-up to the author's earlier work, Maelzel's Chess Player: Sigmund Freud and the Rhetoric of Deceit (1994), this text looks at how Freud carried out his research and medical duties in the early years. Wilcocks (modern French literature, U. of Alberta, Edmonton) finds the picture to be less than flattering. His contention is that Freud's great influence may be attributed to his mastery of language, rather than his insight into human beings, and that he was "frequently dishonest and mostly incompetent" (from the introduction). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Treacherous Faith

Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199203393
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Treacherous Faith written by David Loewenstein and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treacherous Faith is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering

Freud's Foes

Author : Kurt Jacobsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 074256634X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Freud's Foes written by Kurt Jacobsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud's Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. Kurt Jacobsen defends psychoanalysis, while accepting that it has inherent flaws. He argues that although today's 'foes' pose as daring savants, they are only the latest wave of critics that psychoanalysis has encountered since its controversial birth, and he easily debunks their arguments.