Name: Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism
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Author: Joseph Margolis
ISBN: 9780271023458

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Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism

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Physical Book

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Author

Joseph Margolis

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0271023457

ISBN13

9780271023458

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Synopsis "Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism "

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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