Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity determined in the identification
This volume is a collection of new, published and revised essays, providing a distinctive, thoroughgoing, realist approach to contemporary psychological theories, concepts, methods, and applications.
In recent scholarly work, T.S. Eliot has usually been associated with cultural elitism and political conservatism, or even with proto-fascism and anti-Semitism. This book proposes a different view. Du
This volume synthesizes cutting-edge philosophical reflections on interpretation (Krausz, Lamarque, Leddy, Hagberg, Gibson) with their application to the practice of interpreting religious texts (Grub
In an autobiographical introduction the author tells about the two forces which have shaped his intellectual life: philosophy as an academic profession and philosophy as a search for a view of life. T
From the vantage point of doing philosophy of language comparatively, Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy explores how reflective elaboration of some distinct features of Chin
This book is a philosophical commentary on Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, dealing with each of Schopenhauer's principal topics in turn. It also provides the reader
Scholars of philosophy from the US, Hong Kong, and Australia look at the engagement between Chinese philosophy and Western analytic philosophy as exemplified by the work of Donald Davidson 1917-2003.
Desjardins begins by exploring the question of the Good, and represents the goal of the philosophic life as being in relation to it. Then she surveys related interpretations of the divine, focusing on
From the vantage point of comparative philosophy, this anthology explores how analytic and "Continental" approaches in the Western and other philosophical traditions can constructively engage each oth
Chinese and American philosophers and art historians analyze the art of the Chinese avant-garde. Considering first the present then the history and geography, they discuss crisis, working it out, thro
In this still-relevant collection of 17 reprinted essays (eight of which are from The Idea of Creativity in Science and Art, Martinus Nijhoff, 1981), Krausz (philosophy, Bryn Mawr College) and other m
In Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Admir Skodo, an array of historical and philosophical chapters decenter the idea of forma
This anthology investigates how Searle’s philosophy and Chinese philosophy can jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and shows how such comparative methodology of constructive enga
This book uses Western philosophical tradition to make a case for a form of thinking properly associated with ancient China. It argues that Chinese thinking is concrete rather than formal and abstract
The volume presents the results of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind. It discusses from different points of view the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthe
This is the first study to survey the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, which during the last few decades has emerged on the crossroads between anthropology and non-Western art scholarship.Whil
