Selves and Other Texts
Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can...
What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
What, After All, Is a Work of Art? directs our attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of both art and human selves. While these are familiar themes in Margolis's wel...
Arts and the Definition of the Human
The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves-our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human-are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and langu...
Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly
With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. H...
Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, a...
Introduction to Philosophical Problems
This is a classic introduction to philosophy in the tradition of Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" and A.J. Ayer's "Central Questions of Philosophy". As in those books, here Margolis focuses on the core of Western...
Pragmatism's Advantage
This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmati...
History, Historicity and Science
This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical ...
Companion to Pragmatism
A Companion to Pragmatism, comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today. Unique in depth and coverage of classical figures and their philosophies as w...
Joseph Roth
The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from the schoolboy to the veteran of 44, marked by war, poverty, al...
Joseph Dirand
When describing a space that intertwines both minimalism and elegance, the name Joseph Dirand immediately comes to mind. The son of Jacques Dirand, one of the most renowned interior photographers of his time, Joseph Dirand is now one of the most s...
Philosophy of Interpretation
This is a lively, freshly invited collection of papers by a number of well-known philosophers and other specialists who have focused very pointedly on certain central conceptual puzzles posed by the general practice of interpretation in the arts, ...
Joseph Roth - Gesammelte Werke
Joseph Roth - Gesammelte Werke
Notebooks Of Joseph Joubert
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks 'to call everything by its true name' while asking us to 'remember everything is double.' 'Joubert speaks in whispers,' Auster writes. 'One must draw very close to hear what he is saying.'
Philosophical Challenge of September 11
In this book, fourteen leading philosophers reflect on the philosophical implications of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A philosophical reflection on the implications of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Consists of fourte...
Joseph Christiano'S Bloodtype Diet A
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Nostromo: (Joseph Conrad Classics Collection)
Nostromo: (Joseph Conrad Classics Collection)
