Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism

by Joseph Margolis

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023457
• ISBN13: 9780271023458
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"