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The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll : unexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death
- Title
- The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll : unexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death / Ben-Ami Scharfstein.
- Author
- Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-2019
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242).
- Contents
- Introduction: you, me, Kant, and Carroll -- The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll -- A comparatist's risks and rewards -- A handful of rules against philosophical self-isolation -- What death makes of philosophy -- Keeping the world together -- The common universe of aesthetics -- Are the deaf and blind epistemologically isolated? -- Pain, cruelty, and pathology in art -- On the transparency and opacity of philosophers -- The three philosophical traditions -- Does philosophy progress? -- Nonutopian observations on Machiavellism -- On the nature and limits of ineffability -- Ineffabilities are the demons and angels of incompleteness and incompletability -- What can and cannot words express? -- The bird with bread in its beak -- You, me, and Kaufmann's Discovering the mind.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4192
- ISBN
- 9780226105758 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022610575X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013040563
- 40023525960
- OCLC
- 859446801
- Author
- Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-2019, author.
- Title
- The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll : unexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death / Ben-Ami Scharfstein.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242).
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023525960
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4192