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| Author | : Joseph Margolis |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780271038650 |
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.
| Author | : Gordon B. Moskowitz |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781593850852 |
An ideal text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, this accessible yet authoritative volume examines how people come to know themselves and understand the behavior of others. Core social-psychological questions are addressed as students gain an understanding of the mental processes involved in perceiving, attending to, remembering, thinking about, and responding to the people in our social world. Particular attention is given to how we know what we know: the often hidden ways in which our perceptions are shaped by contextual factors and personal and cultural biases. While the text's coverage is sophisticated and comprehensive, synthesizing decades of research in this dynamic field, every chapter brings theories and findings down to earth with lively, easy-to-grasp examples.
| Author | : Montserrat Castelló |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2012-02-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1780523874 |
University Writing: Selves and Texts in Academic Societies examines new trends in the different theoretical perspectives (cognitive, social and cultural) and derived practices in the activity of writing in higher education. These perspectives are analyzed on the basis of their conceptualization of the object - academic and scientific writing; of the writers - their identities, attitudes and perspectives, be it students, teachers or researchers; and of the derived instructional practices - the ways in which the teaching-learning situations may be organized. The volume samples writing research traditions and perspectives both in Europe and the United States, working on their situated nature and avoiding easy or superficial comparisons in order to enlarge our understanding of common problems and some emerging possibilities.
| Author | : Joseph Margolis |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0271038683 |
| Author | : Milly Williamson |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2016-10-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1509511431 |
It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.
| Author | : Michael J. Gorman |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2023-03-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1666795313 |
This study explores the relationship between the individual person (the self), the divine, and other people in the writings of the apostle Paul and the Roman Stoic Epictetus. It does so by examining self-involving actions expressed with reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, etc.) in various kinds of sentences: for example, “Examine yourself” and “You do not belong to yourself.” After situating the topic within the fields of linguistics and ancient Greek, the study then examines the reflexive constructions in Epictetus’s Discourses, showing that reflexive texts express fundamental aspects of his ethic of rational self-interest in imitation of the indwelling rational deity. Next, the investigation examines the 109 reflexive constructions in Paul, providing an exegesis of each reflexive text and then synthesizing the results. Paul’s reflexive phrases are essential statements of his theology and ethics, expressing an interconnected narrative Christology, narrative apostolic identity, and narrative ethic. Most importantly, the study finds that for Epictetus, concern for others is a rational means to self-realization, whereas for Paul, concern for others is a community ethic grounded in the story of the indwelling Christ and is the antithesis of self-interest.
| Author | : Michel Foucault |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 2011-04-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0312572921 |
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parresia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing practices of truth-telling in ancient democracies and tyrannies.
| Author | : Charles Bazerman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Written communication |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sarah Spence |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1996-12-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521572798 |
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into existence without both the gap between Latinity and the vernacular and a shift in perspective towards a visual and spatial orientation. This results in a self which is not an agent that will act on the outside world like the Renaissance self, but, rather, one which inhabits a potential, middle ground, or 'space of agency', explained here partly in terms of object-relations theory.
| Author | : Michael Pakaluk |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1991-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780872201132 |
