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Contingency and normativity : in dialogue with Richard Rorty /
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Richard Rorty's "neo-pragmatism" launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This "contingentism," with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and chance, depicts normativity as a practical human possibility rather than a metaphysical bottleneck which we must overcome at the cost of repudiating the concrete ways we grant epistemic and ethical meaning to our activities. The book is a critical survey of Rorty's philosophy, in light of contemporary theoretical debates around language, truth, justification, and naturalism, as well as his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within by using the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of both analytic philosophy and pragmatism.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004393837 :
0929-8436 ;
Sexualités décadentes chez Jean Lorrain : Le héros fin-de-sexe /
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Voici pour la première fois une étude détaillée du phénomène de la Décadence littéraire qui met en exergue l'influence centrale de l'homosexualité masculine dans le développement de ce mouvement artistique qui vit le jour à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Divisée en deux parties intimement liées, cette étude consiste d'abord en un retour aux sources littéraires et, ensuite, en une analyse spécifique de la pratique du genre sous l'optique originale des sexualités décadentes. La vie et l'œuvre de Jean Lorrain [1855-1906], écrivain normand, fournissent la matière à un examen innovateur de cette Décadence toujours mal définie. L'originalité de l'apport de cette œuvre réside surtout dans le choix des textes de Lorrain et l'approche critique 'gaie et lesbienne' que l'on adopte pour déconstruire astucieusement ses romans masculins - à savoir, Monsieur de Bougrelon [1897], Monsieur de Phocas [1901], et Le Vice errant [1902]. Les trois personnages principaux forment une sorte de triptyque littéraire de la Décadence physique, morale et sociale de l'époque. D'une façon convaincante Winn arrive à dépeindre le portrait d'un Lorrain héraut de la littérature gaie contemporaine. Destinée aux théoriciens de la Décadence et aux amateurs de l'œuvre de Lorrain, cette étude constitue aussi une démarche innovatrice dans le domaine de l'histoire de la sexualité. En appendice l'on peut lire plusieurs lettres inédites signées Lorrain. See Less
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1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004648753
Scholarly personae in the history of Orientalism, 1870-1930 /
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This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar. Focusing on the field of study known as Orientalism in the decades around 1900, this volume examines how Semitists, Sinologists, and Japanologists, among others, conceived of their scholarly tasks, what sort of demands these job descriptions made on the scholar in terms of habits, virtues, and skills, and how models of being an orientalist changed over time under influence of new research methods, cross-cultural encounters, and political transformations. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Christiaan Engberts, Holger Gzella, Hans Martin Krämer, Arie L. Molendijk, Herman Paul, Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn and Henning Trüper.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004406315
Insatiable appetite: food as cultural signifier in the middle east and beyond /
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Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity. Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.
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Includes index. :
1 online resource. :
9789004409552