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Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
In this collection of essays, Peter Burger addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the 18th century to the decline of modernism in the 20th. For sources, he draws on Weber, Benjamin, Foucault, Diderot, Sade, Wyndham Lewis, Peter Weiss, and Joseph Beuys, among others. In questioning the formal relationship between art and life, he argues that the avant-gardist movements brought about the crisis of postmodernism. "The penetrating essays collected in The Decline of Modernism show critical hermeneutics at its most dazzling and incisive. Anyone concerned with the international debate on the relation between politics and aesthetics must read this book." -Martin Jay |
In this prize-winning book, Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against the questions raised by its critics, and recasts the theory of democracy into a new and coherent whole. He concludes by discussing the directions in which democracy must move if advanced democratic states are to exist in the future. "A work of extraordinary intelligence and, what is even rare, a work of extraordinary wisdom." -New York Times Book Review
In this light-hearted book, Paul Strathern summarizes Ludwig Wittgenstein's life, providing a brief introduction to the thought of the philosopher who recast the way we think about language. Some of Wittgenstein's key arguments from Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations are summarized. |
In their new work, the authors of Metaphors We Live By tackle the assumptions and precepts of Western philosophy from the standpoint of cognitive science and find that most of our abstract thoughts are metaphorical, with the body as our basis. Philosophy in the Flesh rethinks a host of philosophical traditions, from the classical Greeks through modern analytic philosophy. The authors reveal the metaphorical structure underlying each mode of thought and show how the metaphysics of each theory flows from its metaphors.
The Decline of Modernism
Democracy and Its Critics
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