Persons And Things
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Persons And Things
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Author : Barbara Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-30
Persons And Things written by Barbara Johnson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In Persons and Things, Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously, and that although a work of art “is formed around something missing,” this “void is its vanishing point, not its essence.” She shows deftly and delicately that the void inside Keats’s urn, Heidegger’s jug, or Wallace Stevens’s jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds. The new aesthetics should restore fluidities between persons and things. In pursuing it, Johnson calls upon Ovid, Keats, Poe, Plath, and others who have inhabited this in-between space. The entire process operates via a subtlety that only a critic of Johnson’s caliber could reveal to us.
Reflections Upon Some Persons And Things In Ireland
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Author : William Petty
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
Reflections Upon Some Persons And Things In Ireland written by William Petty and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Nature categories.
This is a collection of letters written in 1660 between the author and Sir Hierome Sankey concerning a speech given by the latter in Parliament. Dr William Petty was a writer and a mathematician. He wrote many things, though most were unpublished during his lifetime (1623-1687). He had a particular interest in Ireland
Persons And Other Things
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Author : Mark Glouberman
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021
Persons And Other Things written by Mark Glouberman and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God's name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the religious glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author's testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.
Persons And Things
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Author : Roberto Esposito
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2015-05-04
Persons And Things written by Roberto Esposito and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-04 with Philosophy categories.
What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito - one of Italy’s leading political philosophers - considers these questions and shows that starting from the body, rather than from the thing or the person, can help us to reconsider the status of both. Ever since its beginnings, our civilization has been based on a strict, unequivocal distinction between persons and things, founded on the instrumental domination of persons over things. This opposition arose out of ancient Roman law and persisted throughout modernity, to take its place in our current global market, where it continues to generate growing contradictions. Although the distinction seems to appear clear and necessary to us, what we are continually witnessing in legal, economic, and technological practice is a reversal of perspectives: some categories of persons are becoming assimilated with things, while some types of things are taking on a personal profile. With his customary rigour, Roberto Esposito argues that there exists an escape route out of this paradox, constituted by a new point of view founded in the body. Neither a person nor a thing, the human body becomes the decisive element in rethinking the concepts and values that govern our philosophical, legal, and political lexicons.
Objects And Persons
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Author : Trenton Merricks
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2001-05-24
Objects And Persons written by Trenton Merricks and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-24 with Philosophy categories.
There are no statues. Or rocks. Or chairs. Or stars. But there are microscopic objects arranged statuewise and rockwise and chairwise and starwise. Moreover, there are—in addition to microscopic objects arranged humanwise—composite human beings. Or so Trenton Merricks argues. The ontology of Objects and Persons is motivated, in large part, by causal considerations. One of the central ideas is that physical objects are causally non-redundant: physical objects cause things that are not wholly overdetermined by their proper parts. Merricks 'eliminates' statues and other inanimate composite macrophysical objects on the grounds that they would—if they existed—be at best completely causally redundant. Merricks defends our existence by arguing, from certain facts about mental causation, that we human beings cause things that are not overdetermined by our proper parts. A second strand of argument for Merricks's overall ontology involves a variety of philosophical puzzles, puzzles that are dealt with in illuminating and often novel ways. Many other issues are addressed along the way, including free will, the 'reduction' of a composite object to its parts, and the ways in which identity over time can "for practical purposes" be a matter of convention. Anyone working in metaphysics will enjoy this lucid and provocative book.
Persons
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Author : Robert Spaemann
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006
Persons written by Robert Spaemann and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Family & Relationships categories.
An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack. Robert Spaemann tackles urgent practical questions, such as our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals.
Animals As Persons
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Author : Gary Lawrence Francione
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008
Animals As Persons written by Gary Lawrence Francione and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Gary L. Francione explains our historical and contemporary attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal treatment. He then presents a theory of animal rights that focuses on the need to accord all sentient nonhumans the right not to be treated as property.
Law Anthropology And The Constitution Of The Social
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Author : Alain Pottage
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-24
Law Anthropology And The Constitution Of The Social written by Alain Pottage and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-24 with Law categories.
This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and some unexpected and thought-provoking analogies emerge from this intellectual encounter between law and anthropology. For example, contemporary anxieties about the legal status of the biotechnological body seem to resonate with the questions addressed by ancient Roman law in its treatment of dead bodies. The analogy between copyright and the transmission of intangible designs in Melanesia suddenly makes western images of authorship seem quite unfamiliar. A comparison between law and laboratory science presents the production of legal artefacts in new light. These studies are of particular relevance at a time when law, faced with the inventiveness of biotechnology, finds it increasingly difficult to draw the line between persons and things.
Persons
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Author : Antonia LoLordo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-06
Persons written by Antonia LoLordo and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Philosophy categories.
What is a person? Why do we count certain beings as persons and others not? How is the concept of a person distinct from the concept of a human being, or from the concept of the self? When and why did the concept of a person come into existence? What is the relationship between moral personhood and metaphysical personhood? How has their relationship changed over the last two millennia? This volume presents a genealogy of the concept of a person. It demonstrates how personhood--like the other central concepts of philosophy, law, and everyday life--has gained its significance not through definition but through the accretion of layers of meaning over centuries. We can only fully understand the concept by knowing its history. Essays show further how the concept of a person has five main strands: persons are particulars, roles, entities with special moral significance, rational beings, and selves. Thus, to count someone or something as a person is simultaneously to describe it--as a particular, a role, a rational being, and a self--and to prescribe certain norms concerning how it may act and how others may act towards it. A group of distinguished thinkers and philosophers here untangle these and other insights about personhood, asking us to reconsider our most fundamental assumptions of the self.
Reasons And Persons
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Author : Derek Parfit
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1986-01-23
Reasons And Persons written by Derek Parfit and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-23 with Philosophy categories.
This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.