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  • Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680–1820

    de Robin Valenza ...
    The divide between the sciences and the humanities, which often seem to speak entirely different languages, has its roots in the way intellectual disciplines developed in the long eighteenth century. As various fields of study became defined and to some degree professionalized, their ways of communicating evolved into an increasingly specialist vocabulary. Chemists, physicists, philosophers, and ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy and Social Hope

    de Richard Rorty ...
    Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes; ... Leer más

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  • Objectivity

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature ... Leer más

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  • The Myths We Live By

    de Mary Midgley ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. – The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, ... Leer más

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  • The Scientific Revolution

    de Steven Shapin ...
    This scholarly and accessible study presents "a provocative new reading" of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry ( Kirkus Reviews).In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a "revolution" ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the ... Leer más

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  • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1

    Philosophical Papers

    de Richard Rorty ...
    Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political ... Leer más

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  • The Reenchantment of Nature

    The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisis

    In this provocative assessment of the world's current ecological crisis, the author of the critically acclaimed In the Beginning exposes the false assumptions underlying the conflicts between science and religion, and proposes an innovative approach to saving the planet.Traditionally, science and religion have been thought of as two distinct and irreconcilable ways of looking at the world, and ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Absolutes

    A Critique of Relativism and a Defence of Universals

    A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties. ... Leer más

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  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edición de Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Leer más

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  • Theory's Empire

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    Edición de Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Corral ...
    Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to ... Leer más

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  • Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method

    The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Capital

    The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

    de John Guillory ...
    "[A] landmark work . . . which showed how literary evaluation draws authority from the institutions—principally universities—within which it is practiced." — The New YorkerWinner of the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature AssociationJohn Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new ... Leer más

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