Transformations in personhood and culture after theory : the languages of history, aesthetics, and ethics / edited by Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1994], ©1994.
Description
xii, 190 pages ; 24 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Series
Literature and philosophy. [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Preface / Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl
  • 1. History Without Empiricism/Truth Without Facts / Nancy E. Partner
  • 2. How Old Is Our Cultural Past? / Judith Schlanger
  • 3. The Humor of the Present / Isabelle Stengers
  • 4. Naming the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon / Nancy Austin
  • 5. Beauty, Language, and Re-Presentation: Notes Toward a Critique of Aesthetics - With Special Reference to Architecture / Karsten Harries
  • 6. Making Space: For a Poetry of Architecture / Mary Ann Caws
  • 7. Intentionality Without Interiority: Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency / Charles Altieri
  • 8. Changing One's Beliefs / Jacques Schlanger
  • 9. Theories of Gender / Rosi Braidotti
  • 10. Stories of Gender / Sarah Westphal
  • 11. Three Renaissance Madonnas: Freud and the Feminine / Mary Bittner Wiseman.
ISBN
  • 027101010X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271010118 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
93023859
OCLC
28184103
RCP
C - O
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