Selves and Other Texts
The Case for Cultural Realism
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveselvesothertexts0000marg
- Internet Archiveselvesothertexts00marg
- ISBN-100271021500
- ISBN-139780271021508
- Goodreads3540203
and 6 more
- LibraryThing5198632
- Library of Congress Control Number2001021462
- OCLC Control Number46634324
- Better World Books9780271021508
- Better World BooksP8-DIB-788
- Open LibraryOL10284164M
Classifications
- LCCBH39.M3942 2001
- LCCBH39 .M3942 2001
Description
"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 a 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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