Format:
xvi, 326 Seiten
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26 cm
Edition:
First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback
ISBN:
9780197521113
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0197521118
Uniform Title:
Essays
Content:
The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A theme connecting several of the essays is the different ways our capacity for imagination is drawn on in our responsiveness to art, to literature, to the lives of other persons, and in the practice of philosophy itself. Topics explored here include our emotional responses to mimetic works of art, the nature of metaphor as a vehicle of thought and in the work of rhetoric, and the understanding of the concept of beauty, as that is developed in contrasting ways in the work of Immanuel Kant and Marcel Proust. Several of the essays respond to the work of recent and contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Williams, Stanley Cavell, Harry Frankfurt, and Iris Murdoch, in the context of such themes as the philosophical problem of 'other minds', love and practical reason, the legacy of Sartrean existentialism, and the role of history in the disciplinary self-understanding of philosophy. The final group of essays focuses on questions about self-knowledge and the importance of the first-person perspective, developing ideas from Moran's influential book Authority and Estrangement (Princeton 2001). Topics discussed here include the nature of a person's 'practical knowledge' of her own action, the concept of the mental and the differences between self-understanding and the understanding of others, and the ambiguous role of narrative as a form of self-understanding. Throughout there is an attempt to draw out the connections between topics that are often discussed in isolation from each other, and to pursue them in the context of the recognizable human situations and questions which ground them. The essays are written in a vivid, humane, and accessible style which should attract a broad readership, both inside and outside the academic discipline of philosophy. --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and indexes
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Part I. Art and aesthetics. The expression of feeling in imagination -- Seeing and believing : metaphor, image, and force -- Artifice and persuasion : the work of metaphor in the Rhetoric -- Kant, Proust, and the appeal of beauty -- Cavell on recognition, betrayal, and the photographic field of expression -- Proust and the limits of the will -- Part II. Readings of contemporary philosophers. Cavell on outsiders and others -- Frankfurt on identification : ambiguities of activity in mental life -- On Frankfurt's The reasons of love -- Iris Murdoch and existentialism -- Williams, history, and the "impurity of philosophy" -- Part III. Agency and the first person. Interpretation theory and the first person -- Anscombe on practical knowledge -- Anscombe on the expression of intention : an exegesis (coauthored with Martin Stone) -- Self-knowledge, "transparency," and the forms of activity -- The story of my life : narrative and self-understanding.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190633776
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Philosophie
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