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Just theory : an alternative history of the Western tradition /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downing, David B., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana, Illinois : National Council of Teachers of English, [2019]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: what is just theory?
  • Introduction: framing the common good
  • Cultural turn 1. Inventing western metaphysics
  • Why is Plato so upset at the poets, and what is western metaphysics?
  • Reframing the republic : from the homeric to the platonic paideia
  • Finding love (and writing) in all the wrong places : Plato's pharmacy and the double-edged sword of literacy in the Phaedrus
  • Aristotle's natural classification of things : when dialectic trumps rhetoric and poetry gets rescued
  • Cultural turn 2. Rewriting western metaphysics : aesthetics and politics in the age of capital
  • Rewriting western metaphysics for a revolutionary age
  • The prelude to the revolution : the limits of literary freedom in a market society
  • Women's rights, class wars, and the master-slave dialectic : signs of the rising countermovements
  • The struggle between communality and hierarchy : lessons of the paris commune for the twenty-first century
  • From God's great chain to nature's slow-motion evolution : reframing our regulative fictions
  • Cultural turn 3. Surviving the sixth extinction and resolving the crisis of care
  • Epilogue.