Bøger af Joseph Margolis

Philosophy Looks At The Arts: Contemporary Readings In Aesthetics is a comprehensive collection of essays and articles edited by Joseph Margolis. The book explores the relationship between philosophy and the arts, with a particular focus on contemporary aesthetics. The anthology includes contributions from leading philosophers and scholars, covering a wide range of topics such as the nature of art, the role of the artist, the meaning of beauty, and the interpretation of works of art. Margolis has carefully curated the readings to provide a balanced and thought-provoking overview of the field, making this book an essential resource for students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, and the arts.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

This book combines a detailed and documented appraisal of the present state of pragmatism as a viable philosophy and a bold conception of how it may be most effectively strengthened and enlarged in a manner capable of reconciling the best forces of the whole of Western philosophy.

In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self as a historical artifact and argues that important topics in the philosophy of art, pictorial representation, and the nature of interpretation make no sense when separated from a "philosophical anthropology" along the lines he suggests.

Were the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks "freedom fighters" or terrorist murderers? Eschewing the universal moral principles of traditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy, Joseph Margolis offers an alternative approach that accepts the lack of any neutral ground or privileged normative perspective for deciding moral disputes.

This updated book offers one of the first sustained philosophical analyses of cultural phenomena in the Anglo-American tradition. Special attention is given to ontology and methodology, and there is wide-ranging coverage of pertinent and leading views.

Pragmatism's Advantage is a highly original reading of the contemporary interplay between pragmatism and continental European philosophy based on an unexpectedly inventive union of Hegelian and Darwinian themes.

Examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. This book establishes a taxonomy of different kinds of realism and relativism. It looks at the various relationships in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern for praxis and the concern for historicity.

Provides an introduction to philosophy in the tradition of "The Problems of Philosophy" and "Central Questions of Philosophy". This book focuses on Western Philosophy, of epistemology, ontology, language and logic. It introduces such concepts as Knowledge and Belief, Perception and Sensation, Identity and Individualism, and Language and Truth.

The Unraveling of Scientism, a companion to Joseph Margolis's Reinventing Pragmatism, follows the thread of American analytic philosophy through the second half of the twentieth century, the period of its greatest influence and activity. Margolis...

Reinventing Pragmatism examines the force of the new pragmatisms, from the emergence of Rorty's and Putnam's basic disagreements of the 1970s until the turn of the century.

Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the signal problem has always been the same: how can we distinguish between physical nature and human culture? How do these realms relate?The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism identifies a conceptual tendency that can be drawn from the work of the twentieth century's best-known analytic philosophers of art: Arthur Danto, Richard Wollheim, Kendall Walton, Nelson Goodman, Monroe Beardsley, Noel Carroll, and Jerrold Levinson, among others. This trend threatens to impoverish our grasp and appreciation of the arts by failing to do justice to the culturally informed nature of the arts themselves. Through his analysis, Margolis sets out to retrieve an adequate picture of the essential differences between physical nature and human culture particularly through language, history, meaning, significance, the emergence of the human self or person, and the essential features of human life all to explain how such difference bears on our perception of paintings and literature. Clearly argued and provocatively engaging, Margolis's work reestablishes what is essential to a productive encounter with art.

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Thus he writes, " . their characteristic powers - in effect, their freedom - must inform the order of purely physical causes in a distinctive way" (p.

Offers an introduction to analytic aesthetics. This book helps define the structure of aesthetics in 24 articles.