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- A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- cosmopolitanism, environmentalism, geoculture, essays, and globalization
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moraru, Christian and Amy J. Elias
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3073-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3075-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3074-6
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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is...
- Keyword:
- individualism, perception, philosophy, Aristotle, ethics, phenomena, and virtue
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Rabinoff, Eve
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3644-1, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3642-7, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3643-4
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, Aristotle, literary criticism, essays, invention, and Montaigne
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hartle, Ann
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6733-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2932-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2965-8
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- Contemporary decolonial criticism and critical phenomenological thought may be characterized as proceeding from a disenchantment with the philosophical aspiration towards universality. The overarching argument put forward in this dissertation is that there is, to the contrary, an intimate and even necessary connection between the decolonization of philosophy and the affirmation...
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- De Schryver, Carmen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16144 and etdadmin_upload_915763
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- Aristotle says that true assertions in practical philosophy are true “for the most part.” I argue an assertion is true “for the most part” if it refers to the hypothetical realization of a substance’s essential capacities under some set of impediments. The removal of impediments to the full realization of...
- Keyword:
- Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Nussbaum, Aristotle, Marx, and Bookchin
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hull, Andrew Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929335 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16267
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- My dissertation defends a hermeneutic conception of ideology and its critique that situates both in the world-disclosing function of language.I argue that we must conceive of ideologies as world-disclosing embodied interpretive schemas insofar as they guide our cognitive, affective, and conative access to reality by providing the background knowledge, meanings,...
- Keyword:
- Linguistic world-disclosure, Heidegger, Epistemic injustice, Immanent critique, Hermeneutics, and Ideology critique
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Schwarz, Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16154 and etdadmin_upload_916701
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- The Middle Included is the first comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek word logos in Aristotelian philosophy. Logos means many things in the Aristotelian corpus: essential formula, proportion, reason, and language. Surveying these meanings in Aristotle’s logic, physics, and ethics, Ömer Aygün persuasively demonstrates that these divers meanings of logos... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- mind & body, ancient & classical, history & surveys, language, Aristotle, and philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Aygün, Ömer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3401-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3400-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3402-7
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and In this volume fifteen eminent scholars illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth‑century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s engagements with literature and the arts. The essays in Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, contextualized with an insightful introduction by Eric Ziolkowski, explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature (poetry, prose,...
- Keyword:
- dance, music, existentialism, philosophy, visual arts, and aesthetics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ziolkowski, Eric
- Contributor:
- Jothen, Peder, Lorentzen, Jamie A., Linnet, Ragni, Fiskvik, Anne Margrete, Peterson, Nils Holger, Garff, Joakim, Pattison, George, Mooney, Edward F., Barnett, Christopher B. , Robinson, Marcia C., Pickett, Howard, Rovira, James, Boven, Martijn, and Green, Ronald M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3597-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3596-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3598-7
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Kierkegaard’s psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich—Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine—and has had a major influence on Heidegger, Sartre, and existential psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, his accomplishment has not always been fully appreciated, in part because it is so scattered across...
- Keyword:
- psychoanalysis, Kierkegaard, and pscyhologist
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McCarthy, Vincent A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3181-1, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3131-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3132-3