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The Self-Deceiving Muse

Author : Alan Singer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271048468
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Self-Deceiving Muse written by Alan Singer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current philosophical discussions of self-deception remain steeped in disagreement and controversy. In The Self-Deceiving Muse, Alan Singer proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of self-deception. Singer asserts that self-deception, far from being irrational, is critical to our capacity to be acute &"noticers&" of our experience. The book demonstrates how self-deception can be both a resource for rational activity generally and, more specifically, a prompt to aesthetic innovation. It thereby provides new insights into the ways in which our imaginative powers bear on art and life. The implications&—philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical&—of such a proposition indicate the broadly interdisciplinary thrust of this work, which incorporates &"readings&" of novels, paintings, films, and video art.

The Self-deceiving Muse

Author : Alan Singer
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037210
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Self-deceiving Muse written by Alan Singer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character"--Provided by publisher.

Fatal Self-Deception

Author : Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501631
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Self-Deception written by Eugene D. Genovese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness and good cheer. It grew out of the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation. At the same time, this book also advocates the examination of masters' relations with white plantation laborers and servants - a largely unstudied subject. Southerners drew on the work of British and European socialists to conclude that all labor, white and black, suffered de facto slavery, and they championed the South's 'Christian slavery' as the most humane and compassionate of social systems, ancient and modern.

Fiction's Present

Author : R. M. Berry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079147920X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Fiction's Present written by R. M. Berry and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present adventurously engages the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. By juxtaposing scholarly articles with essays by practicing novelists, the book takes up not only the current state of literature and its criticism but also connections between contemporary philosophy and contemporary fiction. In doing so, the contributors aim to provoke further discussion of the present inflection of fiction—a present that can be seen as Janus-faced, looking both forward to the novel's radically changed, political, economic, and technological circumstances, and back to its history of achievements and problems. Editors R. M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo contend that examinations of fiction's present are most informative not when they defend philosophical distinctions or develop literary classifications, but when they grapple with elusive topics such as the meaning of a narrative present or the relation of fiction's medium to its representations of context. As the essays reveal, this process, when pursued diligently, breaks down traditional divisions of academic and intellectual labor, compelling the fiction writer to become more philosophical and the theorist to become more imaginative. The value of this book is not in the exhaustiveness of its treatment, but rather in the seriousness of the criticism it incites. The present materializes in quarrel, and it is toward such a beginning that the writings in Fiction's Present work.

Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform

Author : Laura Papish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019069212X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform written by Laura Papish and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his writings, and particularly in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Kant alludes to the idea that evil is connected to self-deceit, and while numerous commentators regard this as a highly attractive thesis, none have seriously explored it. Laura Papish's Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform addresses this crucial element of Kant's ethical theory. Working with both Kant's core texts on ethics and materials less often cited within scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy (such as Kant's logic lectures), Papish explores the cognitive dimensions of Kant's accounts of evil and moral reform while engaging the most influential -- and often scathing -- of Kant's critics. Her book asks what self-deception is for Kant, why and how it is connected to evil, and how we achieve the self-knowledge that should take the place of self-deceit. She offers novel defenses of Kant's widely dismissed claims that evil is motivated by self-love and that an evil is rooted universally in human nature, and she develops original arguments concerning how social institutions and interpersonal relationships facilitate, for Kant, the self-knowledge that is essential to moral reform. In developing and defending Kant's understanding of evil, moral reform, and their cognitive underpinnings, Papish not only makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship. Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform also reveals how much contemporary moral philosophers, philosophers of religion, and general readers interested in the phenomenon of evil stand to gain by taking seriously Kant's views.

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Author : Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society written by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun ...

Author : Sir Robert Ayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun ... written by Sir Robert Ayton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poems of ---. With a Memoir from Original Sources of Information by Charles Rogers

Author : Robert Aytoun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of ---. With a Memoir from Original Sources of Information by Charles Rogers written by Robert Aytoun and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Muse

Author : Jessie Burton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062409948
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Muse written by Jessie Burton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together. England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery. Drawn into a complex web of secrets and deceptions, Odelle does not know what to believe or who she can trust, including her mesmerizing colleague, Marjorie Quick. Spain, 1936. Olive Schloss, the daughter of a Viennese Jewish art dealer and an English heiress, follows her parents to Arazuelo, a poor, restless village on the southern coast. She grows close to Teresa, a young housekeeper, and Teresa’s half-brother, Isaac Robles, an idealistic and ambitious painter newly returned from the Barcelona salons. A dilettante buoyed by the revolutionary fervor that will soon erupt into civil war, Isaac dreams of being a painter as famous as his countryman Picasso. Raised in poverty, these illegitimate children of the local landowner revel in exploiting the wealthy Anglo-Austrians. Insinuating themselves into the Schloss family’s lives, Teresa and Isaac help Olive conceal her artistic talents with devastating consequences that will echo into the decades to come. Rendered in exquisite detail, The Muse is a passionate and enthralling tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives.

The Inquisitor's Tongue

Author : Alan Singer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573661678
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Inquisitor's Tongue written by Alan Singer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Singer’s riveting new novel, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, reimagines the Spanish Inquisition as a world in which spiritual horrors and acts of violence are the birth pangs of otherwise unimaginable identities. The novel is the intersection of two narratives. The confession of Osvaldo Alonzo de Zamora, a miraculously gifted converso wine taster, is read aloud by a duplicitous priest of the Inquisition as an admonitory lesson to a suspected sinner. The competing narrative is the story of that sinner, another guilt-driven character, referred to only as the “Samaritan,” who curiously is held in the thrall of Osvaldo’s confession. The Samaritan bears the scars of his own history of violence and hidden identity. In the wake of a final apocalypse the two narratives converge, bringing all of the characters together and eliciting the most damning revelation about the identity of the Inquisitor. Set amidst the religious and courtly spectacles of sixteenth-century Spain, The Inquisitor’s Tongue is linguistically adventurous, richly philosophical, deeply visceral, tantalizingly sensuous, and wickedly comic. It is a Goyaesque capricho on the follies of the will to identity.

Franz Liszt, Artist and Man. 1811-1840

Author : Lina Ramann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Franz Liszt, Artist and Man. 1811-1840 written by Lina Ramann and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ambiguity and Self-deception

Author : Karelisa Hartigan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity and Self-deception written by Karelisa Hartigan and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The actions of Apollo and Artemis motivate the plots of seven Euripidean plays. In these, the themes of ambiguity and self-deception are especially prominent. This book offers an analysis of each of the plays (Alkestis, Hippolytos, Ion, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Elektra, Orestes, and Iphigeneia at Aulis), and focuses primarily upon how these two ideas serve to illustrate the message of Euripides' drama.

The Art of Self-deception

Author : Giles Auty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Self-deception written by Giles Auty and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature

Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature written by Modern Humanities Research Association and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes both books and articles.

Mass Authorship and the Rise of Self-Publishing

Author : Timothy Laquintano
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384458
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mass Authorship and the Rise of Self-Publishing written by Timothy Laquintano and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, digital technologies have made it possible for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to rapidly and inexpensively self-publish a book. Once a stigmatized niche activity, self-publishing has grown explosively. Hobbyists and professionals alike have produced millions of books, circulating them through e-readers and the web. What does this new flood of books mean for publishing, authors, and readers? Some lament the rise of self-publishing because it tramples the gates and gatekeepers who once reserved publication for those who met professional standards. Others tout authors’ new freedom from the narrow-minded exclusivity of traditional publishing. Critics mourn the death of the author; fans celebrate the democratization of authorship. Drawing on eight years of research and interviews with more than eighty self-published writers, Mass Authorship avoids the polemics, instead showing how writers are actually thinking about and dealing with this brave new world. Timothy Laquintano compares the experiences of self-publishing authors in three distinct genres—poker strategy guides, memoirs, and romance novels—as well as those of writers whose self-published works hit major bestseller lists. He finds that the significance of self-publishing and the challenge it presents to traditional publishing depend on the aims of authors, the desires of their readers, the affordances of their platforms, and the business plans of the companies that provide those platforms. In drawing a nuanced portrait of self-publishing authors today, Laquintano answers some of the most pressing questions about what it means to publish in the twenty-first century: How do writers establish credibility in an environment with no editors to judge quality? How do authors police their copyrights online without recourse to the law? How do they experience Amazon as a publishing platform? And how do they find an audience when, it sometimes seems, there are more writers than readers?

Disturbed Consciousness

Author : Rocco J. Gennaro
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029340
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Disturbed Consciousness written by Rocco J. Gennaro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies. In Disturbed Consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors—some of them discussing or defending their own theoretical work—consider not only how a theory of consciousness can account for a specific psychopathological condition but also how the characteristics of a psychopathology might challenge such a theory. Thus one essay defends the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness against the charge that it cannot account for somatoparaphrenia (a delusion in which one denies ownership of a limb). Another essay argues that various attempts to explain away such anomalies within subjective theories of consciousness fail. Other essays consider such topics as the application of a model of unified consciousness to cases of brain bisection and dissociative identity disorder; prefrontal and parietal underconnectivity in autism and other psychopathologies; self-deception and the self-model theory of subjectivity; schizophrenia and the vehicle theory of consciousness; and a shift in emphasis away from an internal (or brainbound) approach to psychopathology to an interactive one. Each essay offers a distinctive perspective from the intersection of philosophy, consciousness research, and psychiatry. Contributors Alexandre Billon, Andrew Brook, Paula Droege, Rocco J. Gennaro, Philip Gerrans, William Hirstein, Jakob Hohwy, Uriah Kriegel, Timothy Lane, Thomas Metzinger, Erik Myin, Inez Myin-Germeys, Myrto Mylopoulos, Gerard O'Brien, Jon Opie, J. Kevin O'Regan, Iuliia Pliushch, Robert Van Gulick

Spoiled Distinctions

Author : Hannah Freed-Thall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190201037
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Spoiled Distinctions written by Hannah Freed-Thall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic experience. In a series of surprising readings, Hannah Freed-Thall frees Proust from his reputation as the most refined of high modernists. The author of In Search of Lost Time appears here as a journalist and newspaper enthusiast, a literary ventriloquist and connoisseur of popular scandals, and a writer attentive to the unsophisticated phenomenology of the here and now. The final chapters of the book consider the legacy of Proust's experiments with inestimable worth. Authors Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, and Yasmina Reza also explore the underside of cultural distinction. With Proust, they elaborate modernist variations on the beautiful and sublime--from nuance to the "whatever" and from the awkward to the sickly-sweet. Spoiled Distinctions thus revitalizes the critical discourse on aesthetics. Mapping the intersection of phenomenology, aesthetic theory, and the sociology of culture, the book reveals how enchanting the ordinary can be.