Purely Objective Reality

Author : John Deely
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1934078093
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purely Objective Reality written by John Deely and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 'Letter on Humanism' of 1947, Heidegger declared that the subject/object opposition and the terminology that accrues to it had still not been properly addressed in the history of philosophy, and he awaited a proper disquisition that resolved the problem. To date, that has not been provided. This volume explains and solves the prevailing problems in the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, in the process making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. This book shows that what is thought to be 'objective' in the commonplace use of the term is demonstrably different from what objectivity entails when it is revealed by semiotic analysis. It demonstrates in its exegesis of the 'objective' that human existence is frequently governed by examples of a 'purely objective reality' – a fiction which nevertheless perfuses, is perfused by, and guides experience. The ontology of the sign can be mind-dependent or mind-independent, just as the status of relation can be as legitimate on its own terms whether it is found in ens rationis or in ens reale. The difference in the awareness of human animals consists in this very contextualization that Deely's writings in general have made so evident: the ability to identify signs as sign relations, and the ability to enact relations on a mind-dependent basis. Purely Objective Reality offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival – or destruction – of planet Earth.

Author : John N. Deely
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1934078077
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purely Objective Reality written by John N. Deely and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume solves the problem of the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. Foremost American philosopher, John Deely, offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival, or destruction, of planet Earth. --Book Jacket.

Author : University of Toronto Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802091420
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Author : S. M.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Author : Andrew Pepper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137425733
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction written by Andrew Pepper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly changing world. In doing so, this collection of essays examines how the relationship between global crime, capitalism, and policing produces new configurations of violence in crime fiction – and asks whether the genre can find ways of analyzing and even opposing such violence as part of its necessarily limited search for justice both within and beyond the state.

Author : Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351185330
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe written by Laurence Roulleau-Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on. It argues that knowledge is organised in conceptual spaces linked to paradigms and programmes which in turn are linked to ethnocentred knowledge processes; that until recently Western approaches, including Post-Colonial, French Social Science and American approaches, have dominated non-Western theories; and that Western theories have sometimes seemed incapable of explaining phenomena produced in other societies. It goes on to argue that the blurring of boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies is very important; and that such a Post-Western approach will mean co-production and co-construction of common knowledge, the recognition of ignored or forgotten scientific cultures and a "global change" in sociology which imposes theoretical and methodological detours, displacements, reversals and conversions. The book brings together a wide range of Western and Chinese sociologists who explore the consequences of this new approach in relation to many different issues and aspects of sociology.

Author : Sebastian Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134813724
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason written by Sebastian Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. The book introduces and assesses: * Kant's life and background of the Critique of Pure Reason * the ideas and text of the Critique of Pure Reason * the continuing relevance of Kant's work to contemporary philosophy. Ideal for anyone coming to Kant's thought for the first time. This guide will be vital reading for all students of Kant in philosophy.

Author : Yoon Shin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793638756
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology written by Yoon Shin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology, Yoon Shin critically builds on James K. A. Smith’s postmodern Pentecostal epistemology with the aid of Reformed epistemology. It takes the reader through an interdisciplinary journey that exposits and illumines the relationship among Pentecostal spirituality, continental and analytic philosophy, postliberalism, moral psychology, and philosophy of emotion. This work clarifies misunderstandings of Smith, in Smith, and between continental and analytic epistemology, constructively and coherently synthesizing the sources through interdisciplinary analysis and thereby demonstrating the value of mashup philosophy. The resulting epistemology strengthens the mostly descriptive epistemology of Smith with the warrant criteria of Alvin Plantinga.

Author : James D. Proctor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195175336
Total Pages : 349 pages
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Download or read book Science, Religion, and the Human Experience written by James D. Proctor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays looks at the relationship between science and religion. The book begins from the premise that both science and religion operate in, yet seek to reach beyond specific historical, political, ideological, and psychological contexts.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300162960
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Evil written by Terry Eagleton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all? /div