Charles E Scott

The Lives of Things

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Produktbeschreibung

He develops these themes with lightness and wit, ultimately articulating a new interpretation of the appearances of things that are beyond the reach of language and thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780253215147
• ISBN-10: 0253215145
• Artikelnr.: 22223128

Autorenporträt

Charles E. Scott is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Question of Ethics, On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics in Politics (both published by Indiana University Press), and The Time of Memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Preface
Part 1. Physicality
1. Facts and Astonishments
2. What's the Matter with "Nature"?
3. Phusis and Its Generations
Part 2. Topics at "Nature's" Edge
4. Physical Memories
5. Starlight in the Face of the Other
6. Physical Weight on the Edge of Appearing
7. Lightness of Mind and Density
8. Feeling, Transmission, Phusis: A Short Genealogy of "Immanence"
9. Psalms, Poems, and Morals With Celestial Indifference
10. The Phusis of Nihil: Sight and Generation of Nihilism
Index