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Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism

Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism

Margolis, Joseph

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0271023457
ISBN13: 9780271023458
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Oct 15 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can be viewed as just as real as the physical nature from which they are emergent, while not being reducible to it. The book starts off with a review of prominent philosophies of art over the past half-century, focusing especially on Beardsley, Goodman, and Danto, so as to highlight the need for carefully distinguishing between the metaphysical and epistemological features of physical nature and human culture. The second part of the book builds on the first part's analyses of artworks to propose a theory of selves as self-interpreting texts. Selves and Other Texts aims to develop new ways of understanding the conceptual inseparability of our analysis of physical nature and our analysis of ourselves.

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