While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. This book offers an inquiry into the concept of love itself.
Offers a critique of the standard approach to social research - namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. This book proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative and qualitative research.
With this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and... Læs mere
Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a way out of the impasse of high versus low discourse, demonstrating the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language.
The author argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive explanations founded on simple universal laws, linear causal models, and predict-and-act... Læs mere
Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these... Læs mere
This interpretation of Aristotle's "Poetics" seeks to demonstrate that it is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. The core of the book is an appraisal of Aristotle's view of tragic drama.
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