UID:
almafu_9958057566002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 312 p. )
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780520915145
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0520915143
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9780585098968
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0585098964
Content:
With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling one of philosophy's master themes, he develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. Here he applies this doctrine to Western theories of history and the interpretation of cultural phenomena--offering the first sustained analysis of the logic, methodology, and metaphysics of interpretation committed to a thoroughgoing relativism and the historicized structure of cultural phenomena. Versed in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, Margolis draws on the best views of Western philosophy to investigate a topic regularly ignored in that tradition. The result is the surprising synthesis of two historically antipathetic approaches to philosophy.
Note:
Includes index.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Reinterpreting Interpretation --
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2. Interpretation at Risk --
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3. Prospects for a Theory of Radical History --
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4. Puzzles of Pictorial Representation --
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5. Textuality and Intertextuality --
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6. History and Fiction --
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7. Interpretation and Self-Understanding --
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Notes --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520087699
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520087690
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520915145
