Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice: Essays for Marx Wartofsky

Book Overview

Preface; C.C. Gould. Marxology; R.S. Cohen. Art: Institutional Blessing: the Museum as Canon-Maker; H. Hein. Suddenly One Has the Right Eyes': Illusion and Iconoclasm in the Early Gombrich; G. Horowitz. Danto, Dutton, and our Pre-Understanding of Tribal Art and Artifacts; M.Kelly. In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation and the Hybrid Arts; P. Kivy. Two Vignettes in the History of the Mensuration of Value; D. Lackey. Irony, Ltd., and the Future of Art; B. Lang. A Genealogy of Aura': Walter Benjamin's Idea of Beauty; G. Smith. Science: Analysis and Synthesis According to Ibn al-Haytham; R. Rashed. Changes in the Concepts of Space and Time Brought about by Relativity; J. Stachel. Philosophy and Its History: Hegel and the Doctrine of Expressivism; A. Buchwalter. Translating Feuerbach; P. Caws. Is the Enlightenment Over? W.J. Earle. Realism; P. Feyerabend. An Anatomy of Wittgenstein's Picture Theory; J. Hintikka. Rationality and Commitment; I. Levi. The Theses on Feuerbach: a Road not Taken; A. MacIntyre. Donald Davidson's Philosophical Strategies; J. Margolis. Time and Conscious Experience; J. Proust. Ten Philosophical Poems; A. Shimony. Politics and Praxis: The Philosophy of Optimism and Pessimism; J. Agassi. Life is not a Poem? B. Elevitch. Levinas, Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide; R.S. Gottlieb. Marx after Marxism; C.C. Gould. The Good and the Rational; E. Koh?k. The End of a Metaphor: the Base and the Superstructure; G. Markus. The Marxian Vision of a (Better) Possible Future: End of a Grand Illusion? W.McBride. On the Communicative Dimension of Social Practice; T. McCarthy. The Bread of Faithful Speech; C. Ryan. Unsafe at Any Depth: Geological Methods, Subjective Judgments, and Nuclear Waste Disposal; K. Shrader-Frechette. Community and Difference: Reflections in the Wake of Rodney King; L.C. Simpson. Partisanship, Universalism, and the Dialectics of Moral Consciousness; W.H. Truitt.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792324811
• ISBN13: 9780792324812
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"