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| Selves
and Other Texts
The Case for Cultural Realism
Joseph
Margolis
December | 2001 | 6 x 9 inches
Philosophy, Philosophy - Aesthetics, Philosophy - Metaphysics
Hardback: $35.00 SH
ISBN-10: 0-271-02150-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02150-8
Paperback: $23.95 SH
ISBN-10: 0-271-02345-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02345-8
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| 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 be viewed as just as "real" as the physical
nature from which they are emergent, while not being reducible to
it. The book starts off with a review of prominent philosophies of
art over the past half-century, focusing especially on Beardsley,
Goodman, and Danto, so as to highlight the need for carefully distinguishing
between the metaphysical and epistemological features of physical
nature and human culture. The second part of the book builds on the
first part's analyses of artworks to propose a theory of selves as
"self-interpreting texts." Selves and Other Texts aims to develop
new ways of understanding the conceptual inseparability of our analysis
of physical nature and our analysis of ourselves. |
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| Joseph
Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple
University. His previous books include What, After All, Is a Work
of Art? (Penn State Press, 1999). |
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