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Author : Valerie Stephens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781304623720
This is a slim volume of some of my poems, with the general, eclecticized theme of a study into the more numinous aspects of the human condition & self-edification & actualization processes.
Author : Valerie Stephens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781304648334
This is Volume Two of an experiment in Poetic Metaphysics. It seeks to guide the reader upon an inward journey, hopefully both enlightening & consoling, as they ponder upon the many vagaries and blessings of this mortal human experience.
Author : Valerie Stephens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304869715
Contained herein is Volume One of an anthology of the complete, major works of Valerie Lynn Stephens. Within its covers, the reader will find an eclectic collection ranging in literary genres from a novel of experimental literary fiction to poetry to essays of philosophical & theological import.
Author : Brayton Polka
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666701265
Brayton Polka’s book, On Poetry and Philosophy: Thinking Metaphorically with Wordsworth and Kant, is unique in bringing poetry and philosophy together in a single study. The poet and the philosopher whom he makes central to his project are both revolutionary founders of modernity, Wordsworth of romantic poetry and Kant of critical philosophy. Both the poet and the philosopher, as the author makes clear in his study, found their principles, at once poetically metaphorical and philosophically critical, on the religious values that are central to the Bible—that all human beings are equal before God.
Author : Francois Raffoul,Eric S. Nelson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441199850
The definitive reference guide to Heidegger's life and work, including 57 original essays covering all the key aspects of his thought.
Author : Daniel Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107023376
The first study of poetry by Victorian scientists, a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science.
Author : Tom Sorell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134841226
First Published in 2004. Scientism is the belief that science, especially natural science, is the most valuable part of our culture. Although not confined to philosophers, it is from Bacon and Descartes up to the naturalized epistemology of Quine that the clearest statements of the scientistic attitude are to be found. This book shows how Western philosophy has been dominated by an identification with the aims of science and the rationality of its methods. This has resulted in attempts to either dismiss the unscientific or to put it on a scientific footing. The author criticizes this scientific view of philosophy, wishing not to devalue science but to increase the value placed on the arts and humanities. He insists that philosophy is not a science and condemns recent attempts in the name of naturalism to revive the project of a scientific philosophy.
Author : Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531505660
Catastrophic Historicism unsettles the historicist constitution of Julia de Burgos (1914–53), Puerto Rico’s most iconic writer—a critical task that necessitates redefining the concept of historicism. Through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, and Frank Ankersmit, Mendoza-de Jesús shows that historicism grounds historical objectivity in the historian’s capacity to compose totalizing narratives that domesticate the contingency of the past. While critiques of historicism as a realism leave untouched the sovereignty of the historian, the book insists that reading the text of history requires an attunement to danger—a modality that interrupts historicism by infusing the past with a contingency that evades total appropriation. After desedimenting the monumental tradition that has reduced de Burgos to a totemic figure, Catastrophic Historicism reads the poet’s first collection, Poema en 20 surcos (1938). Mendoza-de Jesús argues that the historicity of Poema crystallizes in the lyrical speaker’s self-institution as an embodied ipseity, which requires producing racialized/gendered allegorical figures—the bearers of an abject flesh—that lack any ontological resistance to modern alienation. Rather than treating de Burgos’s poetics of selfhood as the ideal image of Puerto Rican sovereignty, Mendoza-de Jesús endangers this idealization by drawing attention to the abjection that sustains our attachments to ipseity as the form of a truly sovereign life. In this way, Catastrophic Historicism not only resets the terms of ongoing critiques of historicism in the humanities—it also intervenes in Puerto Rican historicity for the sake of its transformation.
Author : Lee M. Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487590567
In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values. Johnson shows how Wordsworth, when writing about the nature and significance of geometrical thought in The Prelude and The Excursion, designs his verse paragraphs in accordance with simple geometrical proportions which are thereby associated with the metaphysical value he attributes to geometry. Wordsworth finds geometrical forms to be hidden in the natural landscape and inherent in the structures of perception itself. This book is the first to make a sustained description of Wordsworth's symbolic patterns and metrical forms in his philosophic verse, with major examples drawn from Tintern Abbey, The Prelude, The Excursion, and the Immortality Ode. Although it presents an approach which differs radically from any in the established criticism of the poet, it is basically at one with the large body of work that concerns the nature of Wordsworth's imagination.
Author : Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443869775
This ambitious work reclassifies and restructures the history of ideas and the philosophy of culture through a wide-ranging and novel use of the idea of the organon. It does so by radically revising standard interpretations and theories of all branches of philosophy, and by providing an intellectual and philosophical foundation for the new organon of the cultural sciences. Furthermore, the seeded idea that saw its growth in the form of this book is the unshakable conviction that the only way by which a new apparatus of philosophy, an organon, could be created is by harking back to the vast sources of imagination, inspiration and mimēsis. This entire study is based on the notion that metaphysics, insofar as it is concerned with the world in its entirety and with human being’s existence and thought, should provide the foundation for the organon of cultural sciences, based on symbolic forms. Given that the colossal amount of information and knowledge of philosophy, arts, humanities, logic, mathematics, social sciences and natural sciences cannot be comprised, analyzed and comprehended per se, it is the organon’s objective to extract the main principles, ideas, postulates, theorems and theories of the cultural sciences, and, subsequently, to shape and restructure them as symbolic forms. Since all these principles are grounded on Becoming—which is not a stable or fixed entity such as Being, substance or thing—the symbolic forms preserve and change, elevate and further the organon of the cultural sciences, via a critical-dialectical process.
Author : Raymond Barfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497091
From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history of Western philosophy, Raymond Barfield explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence. Although some thinkers, like Giambatista Vico and Nietzsche, praised the wisdom of poets, and saw poetry and philosophy as mutually beneficial pursuits, others resented, diminished or eliminated the importance of poetry in philosophy. Beginning with the famous passage in Plato's Republic in which Socrates exiles the poets from the city, this book traces the history of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry through the works of thinkers in the Western tradition ranging from Plato to the work of the contemporary thinker Mikhail Bakhtin.
Author : Mikel Dufrenne
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810125438
Originally published in 1966, this pivotal work of Mikel Dufrenne revises Kant’s notion of a priori, a concept previously given insufficient attention by philosophers, to realize a rich understanding that finally does justice to one of Kant’s most troubling cruxes. Following the Husserlian analytics of phenomenology, Dufrenne postulates a dualistic conception of the a priori as a structure that expresses itself outside the human subject, but also as a virtual knowledge that points to a philosophy of immediate apprehension or feeling. A friend of Paul Ricoeur, with whom he was detained as a prisoner of war during World War II, Dufrenne’s work until now has been sorely overlooked by American philosophers.
Author : Jean Grondin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231148443
This history of metaphysics respects both the analytic and Continental schools while also transcending the theoretical limitations of each. The book provides an overview restoring the value of metaphysics to contemporary audiences.
Author : Michael A. Flannery
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438495736
This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869–1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodin combined Jamesian pragmatism and Roycean idealism in developing original scholarship (nearly sixty articles and eight books) from 1900 to 1947, in addition to a volume of posthumous papers published in 1957. Although he is seldom remembered today, the enduring importance of pragmatism and the rising influence of process theology today suggests that his close reading of early to mid-twentieth-century science and vast grasp of philosophical issues warrants a renewed interest in his work that can be a valuable antidote to the sterile and constricting effects of reductionism and dogmatic materialism prevalent today in both those fields.
Author : Hermann J. Cloeren
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110865684