The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll : unexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death /

What if Immanuel Kant floated down from his transcendental heights, straight through Alice's rabbit hole, and into the fabulous world of Lewis Carroll? For Ben-Ami Scharfstein this is a wonderfully instructive scenario and the perfect way to begin this wide-ranging collection of decades of star...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-2019 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Temas:
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898.
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Philosophy, Comparative.
Art, Comparative.
Machiavellianism (Psychology)
Philosophie comparée.
Art comparé.
Machiavélisme (Psychologie)
PHILOSOPHY > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > Reference.
Art, Comparative
Philosophy, Comparative
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: you, me, Kant, and Carroll
  • The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll
  • A comparatist's risks and rewards
  • A handful of rules against philosophical self-isolation
  • What death makes of philosophy
  • Keeping the world together
  • The common universe of aesthetics
  • Are the deaf and blind epistemologically isolated?
  • Pain, cruelty, and pathology in art
  • On the transparency and opacity of philosophers
  • The three philosophical traditions
  • Does philosophy progress?
  • Nonutopian observations on Machiavellism
  • On the nature and limits of ineffability
  • Ineffabilities are the demons and angels of incompleteness and incompletability
  • What can and cannot words express?
  • The bird with bread in its beak
  • You, me, and Kaufmann's Discovering the mind.

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