The Elusiveness Of The Ordinary

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300129526

Get Book

The Elusiveness of the Ordinary by Stanley Rosen Pdf

The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary—how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact. Rosen’s approach is both historical and philosophical. He offers Montesquieu and Husserl as examples of the scientific approach to ordinary experience; contrasts Kant and Heidegger with Aristotle to illustrate the transcendental approach and its main alternatives; discusses attempts by Wittgenstein and Strauss to return to the pre-theoretical domain; and analyzes the differences among such thinkers as Moore, Austin, Grice, and Russell with respect to the analytical response to ordinary language. Rosen concludes with a theoretical exploration of the central problem of how to capture the elusive ordinary intact.

Author : Laura E. Tanner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192650214

Get Book

The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson by Laura E. Tanner Pdf

Framing Marilynne Robinson's fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson's novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and revelatory. Although the heightened apprehension of the quotidian in Robinson's novels often registers powerfully and beautifully in representational terms, its aesthetic intensity is enacted at the expense of characters who patrol the margins of the ordinary with unceasing vigilance. Inhabiting the everyday self-consciously, her protagonists perform a forced relationship to the ordinary that seldom relaxes into the natural or the familiar; scarred by grief, illness, aging, and trauma, they inhabit a world of transcendent beauty suffused with the terrifying threat of loss. Stiffly perched on the edge of un-cushioned furniture or propped awkwardly in the midst of someone else's conversation, Robinson's characters hover in the margins of a lived experience they are often forced to observe self-consciously and vigilantly. The signature acts of transfiguration that punctuate Robinson's narratives originate from and anticipate the inevitability of absence: the death of loved ones (Housekeeping), the impending death of the self (Gilead), the fracture of family (Home), the repetition of trauma and abandonment (Lila), the prohibition of everyday intimacy in interracial romance (Jack). Highlighting the tensions of the uncomfortable ordinary that disrupt a trajectory of transcendence in her fiction, this book situates Robinson's novels within sociological, psychological, and phenomenological studies of trauma, grief, aging, race, and gender, as well as narrative theory and everyday life studies. Focusing on the experiential dynamics of the lived worlds her novels invoke, The Elusive Everyday argues for the complexity, relevance, and contemporaneity of Robinson's fiction.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813219608

Get Book

The Intimate Strangeness of Being by William Desmond Pdf

This book explores the contested place of metaphysics since Kant and Hegel, arguing for a renewed metaphysical thinking about the intimate strangeness of being.

Author : H. D. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000456240

Get Book

The Elusive Mind by H. D. Lewis Pdf

First published in 1969, The Elusive Mind argues that the mental processes are of a quite different nature from physical ones and belong to an entity which is elusive in the sense that it can only be known, in the first instance, by each person in his own case in the course of having any kind of experience. This ‘elusive’ self is much involved with the body in any conditions we know, but it could also survive the dissolution of the body. The views of thinkers like Ryle, Hampshire, Malcolm, Feigl, and Ayer are subjected to an exceptionally close and critical scrutiny. In presenting these views, the author offers us the substance of the first series of Gifford Lectures he delivered in the University of Edinburgh; and, in what he says on such topics as dreaming; mysticism; and the ‘I-Thou’ relation and on Christian Theology. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy, philosophy of mind, ethics, and religion.

Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781493035809

Get Book

Charm by Joseph Epstein Pdf

Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. “Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm,” he writes. “Charm is magic of a kind; it casts a spell. In the presence of charm the world seems lighter and lovelier. A charming person can cause you to forget your problems, at least temporarily, to hold the world’s dreariness at bay. Charm is a reminder that the world is filled with jolly prospects and delightful possibilities. Watching Fred Astaire dance, or listening to Blossom Dearie sing, or reading the poems of C.P. Cavafy, or merely looking at Rita Hayworth or Ava Gardner, one recalls that the world can be a pretty damn fine place.”

Author : Catherine H. Zuckert,Michael P. Zuckert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226993331

Get Book

The Truth about Leo Strauss by Catherine H. Zuckert,Michael P. Zuckert Pdf

Is Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? The Truth about Leo Strauss puts this question to rest, revealing for the first time how the popular media came to perpetuate such an oversimplified view of such a complex and wide-ranging philosopher. More important, it corrects our perception of Strauss, providing the best general introduction available to the political thought of this misunderstood figure. Catherine and Michael Zuckert—both former students of Strauss—guide readers here to a nuanced understanding of how Strauss’s political thought fits into his broader philosophy. Challenging the ideas that Strauss was an inflexible conservative who followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt, the Zuckerts contend that Strauss’s signature idea was the need for a return to the ancients. This idea, they show, stemmed from Strauss’s belief that modern thought, with its relativism and nihilism, undermines healthy politics and even the possibility of real philosophy. Identifying this view as one of Strauss’s three core propositions—America is modern, modernity is bad, and America is good—they conclude that Strauss was a sober defender of liberal democracy, aware of both its strengths and its weaknesses. The Zuckerts finish, appropriately, by examining the varied work of Strauss’s numerous students and followers, revealing the origins—rooted in the tensions within his own thought—oftheir split into opposing camps. Balanced and accessible, The Truth about Leo Strauss is a must-read for anyone who wants to more fully comprehend this enigmatic philosopher and his much-disputed legacy.

Author : Lesley Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429906343

Get Book

The Elusive Child by Lesley Caldwell Pdf

'Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of concern regarding the place, care, treatment and life of Children, in Europe and beyond. This broad-ranging and provocative collection of papers, a volume in the Winnicott Studies Monograph Series, focuses on all factors pertaining to the child and childhood, including the role that psychoanalysis has to play. The book offers a unique and fascinating understanding of developmental issues from early infancy through latency and into adolescence from various psychoanalytic approaches. The papers, written by experts in the field examine closely all aspects of this fascinating subject from Freud to Winnnicott; from neo-natal care to adolescence. The contributors take into account issues such as fostering and adoption, vital scrutiny of the role of the family, and presentation of children in the media while all the time asking the salient question, "What is a child?"

Author : George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781476667744

Get Book

The Elusive African Renaissance by George Klay Kieh, Jr. Pdf

Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health and political instability--and offers prescriptions that differ from the dominant neoliberal solutions.

Author : Michael D. Barber
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0838751237

Get Book

Social Typifications and the Elusive Other by Michael D. Barber Pdf

This book fully discusses Schutz's account of social reality and theory of motivation, including how his phenomenology casts the Marxian sociology of knowledge in a new light.

Author : Louise A. Poresky
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874131707

Get Book

The Elusive Self by Louise A. Poresky Pdf

The complex novels by Virginia Woolf are seen with clarity and coherence in "The Elusive Self," a thorough and detailed literary interpretation by Louise A. Poresky. The result is a reliable map that guides the reader through the nine novels. Adding the wisdom of religion and psychology to her literary criticism, Dr. Poresky demonstrates how Woolf's characters strive to achieve personal wholeness. The quest progresses sequentially through the novels as a major character in each work struggles against certain demons, whether the superficial dictates of society or the voices that say women cannot be artists, and thus realizes the difference between ego and essence.

Author : Jason Daniel Tougaw
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Literature and science
ISBN : 9780300221176

Get Book

The Elusive Brain by Jason Daniel Tougaw Pdf

A highly original account of how literature and neuroscience interact to explain the relationship between the mind, body, and brain

Author : Barrett Hodsdon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476627885

Get Book

The Elusive Auteur by Barrett Hodsdon Pdf

The director's authorial role in filmmaking--the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision--has been much debated among film critics and scholars for decades. Drawing on generations of criticism, this study describes how the designation "auteur" has gone from stylistic criterion to product label--in what has always been an essentially collaborative industry. Examining the controversy in regard to Hollywood directors, the author compares directors and would-be auteurs of the classic studio system with those of contemporary Hollywood and its new climate of cultural entrepreneurship.

Author : Kim R. Lindquist
Publisher : Kim R. Lindquist
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

The Elusive Rule of Law by Kim R. Lindquist Pdf

Language and the universal need of comparative criminal law information prompted this writing. My early international experience involved Latin America and the Spanish language exclusively. This ultimately resulted in the writing and publication of four books in Spanish directed at the comparative criminal procedure of those countries. Since that time my studies have expanded into the Eastern Hemisphere, with English as the common language. With that expanded experience, I came to appreciate the fact that the East shares the same comparative law reality with the West, their varied cultural differences only underscoring the universal nature of the criminal law principles and mechanisms otherwise held in common. I have come to realize that those universal principles and mechanisms must be addressed in English as well. This book is the result. The task has been daunting by virtue of the massive amount of information involved. At the same time, it has proved extremely satisfying. The endeavor has allowed me to revisit, confirm, and refine the accuracy of the principles dealt with, at the same time improving hopefully their pedagogical expression. The work has also allowed me to bring together in a more coherent whole the concepts and ideas otherwise spread among the preceding books and related writings. Although tempted to feel great intellectual comfort in achieving a single source of important but varied information, I am fairly but harshly brought back to earth with the realization of the illusory nature of that achievement. Indeed, given the profound depth and breadth of Rule of Law, its scholastic dominion is as elusive as Rule of Law itself. Nonetheless, I sincerely hope this writing will help.

Author : Muhammad Zafzaf
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815653813

Get Book

The Elusive Fox by Muhammad Zafzaf Pdf

Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox, Zafzaf’s first novel to be translated into English, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society. More than a novel, The Elusive Fox is a portrait of a city during a time of fluid cultural and political mores in Morocco.

Author : Hywel David Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349055166

Get Book

The Elusive Self by Hywel David Lewis Pdf