Richard Moran

Philosophical Imagination

Selected Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Philosophical Imagination is a collection of essays ranging over a wide range of philosophical themes: from the emotional engagement with fictions, to the functioning of metaphor in poetry and in rhetoric, to the concept of beauty in Kant and in Proust, and the nature of the first-person perspective in thought and action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 741g
• ISBN-13: 9780190633776
• ISBN-10: 0190633778
• Artikelnr.: 47868825

Autorenporträt

Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. Author of Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge (Princeton, 2001), The Story of My Life: Narrative and Self-Understanding (Aquinas Lectures, Marquette University Press, 2015)

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Art and Aesthetics
* 1. The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
* 2. Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image and Force
* 3. Artifice and Persuasion: the Work of Metaphor in Aristotle's
Rhetoric
* 4. Kant, Proust and the Appeal of Beauty
* 5. Cavell on Recognition, Betrayal, and the Photographic Field of
Expression
* 6. Proust and the Limits of the Will
* Readings of Contemporary Philosophers
* 7. Cavell on Outsiders and Others
* 8. Frankfurt on Identification: Ambiguities of Activity in Mental
Life
* 9. On Frankfurt's The Reasons of Love (Princeton 2004)
* 10. Iris Murdoch and Existentialism
* 11. Bernard Williams, History, and the "Impurity of Philosophy"
* Agency and the First Person
* 12. Interpretation Theory and the First Person
* 13. Anscombe on Practical Knowledge
* 14. Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis (co-authored
with Martin Stone)
* 15. Self-knowledge, 'Transparency', and the Forms of Activity
* 16. The Story of My Life: Narrative and Self-Understanding