Parks and Pleasure Grounds
Author | : Charles H. J. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles H. J. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Wright |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2024-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1503637565 |
What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique. Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphysical "grounds" through figuration, understanding fictional being as self-sufficient, cohesive, and alive, rather than as beholden to the actual world as an existential anchor. Through philosophically attuned close readings of novels and reflections on writerly craft by Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Henry James, and Akwaeke Emezi, Wright shares an impassioned vision of reading as stepping into ontologically terraformed worlds, and of literary criticism as treading and re-treading the novel's grounds.
Author | : Great Britain. Local Government Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Local government |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kristi Giselsson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0739168959 |
In recent years traditional foundations of respect for others have been challenged on the basis that universal grounds — the assumption that we share a common humanity — have resulted in the exclusion of particular others from full moral consideration or respect. This current questioning of the concept of a common humanity is of enormous significance, in that universalism has been one of the central assumptions of modern western philosophy and a foundational key to its moral and political theory. This book attempts to address the question of just what grounds are needed in order to justify respect for others, and in addressing this question raises issues of fundamental importance; such as, what exactly does it mean to be human? On what basis can we claim that all humans are equal? Are there differences between animals and humans, and are these differences of moral significance — that is, should animals be accorded the same respect as humans? The author not only critically assesses past and current arguments for and against a common humanity, but also provides a distinctively new conceptualization of what it might mean to be human — and why being human is indeed morally significant.