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The Flux of History and the Flux of Science

By: Joseph Margolis,Professor Joseph Margolis

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The Flux of History and the Flux of Science

By: Joseph Margolis,Professor Joseph Margolis

Does thinking have a history? If there are no necessarily changeless structures to be found in things and in our inquiry into them, then what knowledge of the world and ourselves is possible? In this boldly original and elegantly written study, Joseph Margolis argues for a radically historicized view of history that treats it as both a real process and a narrative account, each a product of continual change. Developing his argument through discussions of such influential philosophers of history and the natural sciences as Vico, Danto, Collingwood, Habermas, Hempel, Popper, Putnam, and Gadamer, he provides a coherent theory of flux and invariance that resolves several deep puzzles regarding human nature and understanding. While maintaining a thorough command of Anglo-American philosophy, Margolis challenges many of its most cherished assumptions and demonstrates the sense in which history and interpretation are one and the same. Exploring one of the master themes of this century, his book offers a novel theory of the human condition whose conclusions and concerns seem certain to inform philosophy in the next century as well. Does thinking have a history? If there are no necessarily changeless structures to be found in things and in our inquiry into them, then what knowledge of the world and ourselves is possible? In this boldly original and elegantly written study, Joseph Margolis argues for a radically historicized view of history that treats it as both a real process and a narrative account, each a product of continual change. Developing his argument through discussions of such influential philosophers of history and the natural sciences as Vico, Danto, Collingwood, Habermas, Hempel, Popper, Putnam, and Gadamer, he provides a coherent theory of flux and invariance that resolves several deep puzzles regarding human nature and understanding. While maintaining a thorough command of Anglo-American philosophy, Margolis challenges many of its most cherished assumptions and demonstrates the sense in which history and interpretation are one and the same. Exploring one of the master themes of this century, his book offers a novel theory of the human condition whose conclusions and concerns seem certain to inform philosophy in the next century as well.

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Univ of California Press

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0520083199

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Everyday Aesthetics

Prosaics, the Play of Culture and Social Identities

By: Professor Katya Mandoki

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Everyday Aesthetics

Prosaics, the Play of Culture and Social Identities

By: Professor Katya Mandoki

Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life. She argues that in every process of communication, whether face to face or through the media, fashion, and political propaganda, there is always an excess beyond the informative and functional value of a message. This excess is the aesthetic. Following Huizinga's view of play as an ingredient of any social environment, Mandoki explores how various cultural practices are in fact forms of playing since, for the author, aesthetics and play are Siamese twins. One of the unique contributions of this book is the elaboration and application of a semiotic model for the simultaneous analysis of social interactions in the four registers, namely visual, auditory, verbal and body language, to detect the aesthetic strategies deployed in specific situations. She argues that since the presentation of the self is targeted towards participants' sensibilities, aesthetics plays a key role in these modes of exchange. Consequently, the author updates important debates in this field to clear the way for a socio-aesthetic inquiry through contexts such as the family, school, medical, artistic or religious traditions from which social identities emerge.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409485331

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The Long Peace of East Asia

By: Professor Timo Kivimäki

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The Long Peace of East Asia

By: Professor Timo Kivimäki

During the past three decades, East Asia has been more peaceful than Europe, the Americas or any continent, in terms of battle deaths per capita. When generating theories on peace and war, studies almost never look at the experiences of East Asia. Since East Asia is a spectacular case of pacification, and since it has not contributed much to our theories of peace and conflict, The Long Peace of East Asia is an important book for studies on peace and war.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472422295

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Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

By: Professor Francis J Mootz III

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Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

By: Professor Francis J Mootz III

Mootz offers an antidote to the fragmentation of contemporary legal theory with a collection of essays arguing that legal practice is a hermeneutical and rhetorical event that can best be understood and theorized in those terms. This is not a modern insight that wipes away centuries of dogmatic confusion; rather, Mootz draws on insights as old as the Western tradition itself. However, the essays are not antiquarian or merely descriptive, because hermeneutical and rhetorical philosophy have undergone important changes over the millennia. To "return" to hermeneutics and rhetoric as touchstones for law is to embrace dynamic traditions that provide the resources for theorists who seek to foster persuasion and understanding as an antidote to the emerging global order and the trend toward bureaucratization in accordance with expert administration, violent suppression, or both.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409481921

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Can Peace Research Make Peace?

Lessons in Academic Diplomacy

By: Professor Timo Kivimäki

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Can Peace Research Make Peace?

Lessons in Academic Diplomacy

By: Professor Timo Kivimäki

This book is about the process and, more generally, about the opportunities that peace research and the teaching of conflict resolution can offer academic diplomacy. As such the book is both an empirical and a theoretical project. While it aims at being the most comprehensive analysis of the conflict in West Kalimantan, it also launches a new theoretical approach, neo-pragmatism, and offers lessons for the prevention of conflicts elsewhere. While being based on the classical pragmatist theories of truth and explanation, the approach developed in this book incorporates the complications to social science theory caused by the 'discovery' of socially constructed realities, and concepts such as speech acts. Yet, instead of just theorizing speech acts and social constructs, the theoretical mission is to offer pragmatic, detailed, concrete prescriptions of what to do to deconstruct realities that threaten peace by the means available for research and scholars of peace.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409471888

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9781409471882

Reframing the Social

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

By: Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan

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Reframing the Social

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

By: Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan

Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Niklas Luhmann and critical social systems theorists, to challenge the commonly held view that the systems-based approach is holistic in nature and necessarily downplays the role of human agency. Theoretically sophisticated and investigating the work of a theorist whose work has until now received insufficient attention in Anglo-American thought, this book will be of interest to those working in the field of social theory, as well as scholars concerned with philosophy of social science, the project of analytical sociology, and the nature of the relationship between the natural and social sciences.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409494349

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9781409494348

Beyond Orientalism

Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter

By: Fred Reinhard Dallmayr,Packey J Dee Professor of Philosophy and Political Science Fred Dallmayr

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Beyond Orientalism

Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter

By: Fred Reinhard Dallmayr,Packey J Dee Professor of Philosophy and Political Science Fred Dallmayr

Explores some steps toward non-assimilative encounters in the "global village.

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SUNY Press

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0791430693

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9780791430699

Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

By: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

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Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

By: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays about Kafka's The metamorphosis.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438114028

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Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays

By: Professor Benjamin Tilghman

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Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays

By: Professor Benjamin Tilghman

Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together his most significant and influential work on aesthetics. Spanning a period of thirty years and covering topics in aesthetics from literature to painting, the collection traces the development of Tilghman's two principal themes; a rejection of philosophical theory as a way of resolving problems about our understanding and appreciation of art and the importance of the representation and presentation of the human and human concerns in art. Tilghman is profoundly influenced by the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his work is informed throughout by his conception and practice of philosophy. Written with exceptional clarity and with many references to original work in both painting and literature, this collection will be an invaluable resource not only for professional philosophers but for those working in the arts generally, art historians, critics and literary theorists.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409485110

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9781409485117

A Voice That Spoke for Justice

The Life and Times of Stephen S. Wise

By: Melvin I. Urofsky,Professor of History and Public Policy Melvin I Urofsky

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A Voice That Spoke for Justice

The Life and Times of Stephen S. Wise

By: Melvin I. Urofsky,Professor of History and Public Policy Melvin I Urofsky

In the first half of this century, a talented and charismatic leadership restructured the American Jewish community to meet the demands and opportunities of a pluralistic, secular society. The work of this generation of titans still guides the current modes of American Jewish life. The last of these giants was the influential reformer Stephen S. Wise--a progenitor of American Zionism, creator of the American and World Jewish Congresses, and founder of the Jewish Institute of Religion. As rabbi of the Free Synagogue, Wise led the fight for a living Judaism responsive to social problems. This engrossing study is more than a chronicle of an ethnic community's adjustment to a host society. Thanks to Melvin Urofsky's painstaking research, it succeeds in revealing the true story behind a legendary and controversial figure in American Jewish history.

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0873955382

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9780873955386

The Fabric of Self

A Theory of Ethics and Emotions

By: Diane Rothbard Margolis,Professor Diane Rothbard Margolis

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The Fabric of Self

A Theory of Ethics and Emotions

By: Diane Rothbard Margolis,Professor Diane Rothbard Margolis

Margolis illuminates our path through a cluttered conceptual territory. I think this is a straining, important contribution to our understanding of emotion and the self". -- Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work"Margolis's grasp of the complexities of selfhood in contemporary life is a key contribution of her work. She takes us on a fascinating and readable excursion in social theory". -- John P. Hewitt, author of Dilemmas of the American SelfWays of viewing the self change when social environments change, argues Diane Rothbard Margolis in this powerful work of social theory. She analyzes six views of the self found in contemporary Western cultures and shows how each plays a critical role in society and in our everyday lives. Each image of the self is a moral construct expressing what is forbidden, allowed, and expected. Each was created at a historical moment that demanded a new assessment of fight and wrong. No moral orientation is, in absolute terms, better or worse than any other, Margolis contends; each continues to exist because it permits or demands some form of action required by contemporary society.Although the idea of the self as an individualistic "exchanger" -- rational, self-interested, competitive -- may dominate current discourse, especially in market economies, Margolis describes other constructs: the obligated self, the cosmic self, the reciprocating self, the called person, and the civic self. She delineates the moral ideas from which these images arise and develops a theory of emotions to explain how we live by several moral orientations simultaneously. Her perspective on moral orientations andemotions illuminates such contemporary dilemmas as why women and men may play the same social role quite differently, why women encounter the glass ceiling, and why nationalism persists despite the growth of world markets.

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Yale University Press

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0300069901

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9780300069907

The Edwardian Detective

1901-15

By: Professor Joseph A Kestner

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The Edwardian Detective

1901-15

By: Professor Joseph A Kestner

This title was first published in 1999 & examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of Edward VII and the early reign of George V. The book assesses the literature as cultural history, with a focus on issues such as legal reform, marital reform, surveillance, Germanophobia, masculinity/femininity, the "best-seller", the arms race, international diplomacy and the concept of "popular" literature. The work also addresses specific issues related to the relationship of law to literature, such as: the law in literature; the law as literature, the role of literature in surveillance and policing; the interpretation of legal issues by literature; the degree to which literature describes and interprets law; the description of legal processes in detective literature; and the connections between detective literature and cultural practices and transitions.

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420

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Routledge

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135181527X

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9781351815277

The Prospect of Internet Democracy

By: Dr Michael Margolis,Professor Gerson Moreno-Riaño

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The Prospect of Internet Democracy

By: Dr Michael Margolis,Professor Gerson Moreno-Riaño

The internet opens up new opportunities for citizens to organize and mobilize for action but it also provides new channels that established political, social and economic interests can use to extend their powers. Will the internet revolutionize politics? The Prospect of Internet Democracy is a rich and detailed exploration of the theoretical implications of the internet and related information and communication technologies (ICTs) for democratic theory. Focusing in particular on how political uses of the internet have affected or seem likely to affect patterns of influence among citizens, interest groups and political institutions, the authors examine whether the internet's impact on democratic politics is destined to repeat the history of other innovative ICTs. The volume explores the likely long-term effects of such uses on the conduct of politics in the USA and other nations that declare themselves modern democracies and assesses the extent to which they help or hinder viable democratic governance.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409499235

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9781409499237

Learning and Community

Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

By: Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer

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Learning and Community

Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

By: Joseph and Martha Mendelson Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Archives of Conservative Judaism Jack Wertheimer

Rich ethnographies of Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the U.S.

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UPNE

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1584658290

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The Advancement of Science : Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

By: San Diego Philip Kitcher Professor of Philosophy University of California

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The Advancement of Science : Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

By: San Diego Philip Kitcher Professor of Philosophy University of California

During the last three decades, reflections on the growth of scientific knowledge have inspired historians, sociologists, and some philosophers to contend that scientific objectivity is a myth. In this book, Kitcher attempts to resurrect the notions of objectivity and progress in science by identifying both the limitations of idealized treatments of growth of knowledge and the overreactions to philosophical idealizations. Recognizing that science is done not by logically omniscient subjects working in isolation, but by people with a variety of personal and social interests, who cooperate and compete with one another, he argues that, nonetheless, we may conceive the growth of science as a process in which both our vision of nature and our ways of learning more about nature improve. Offering a detailed picture of the advancement of science, he sets a new agenda for the philosophy of science and for other "science studies" disciplines.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019802150X

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9780198021506

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

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The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

Based on the author s analysis of in-depth interviews and relevant research literature, this booki nvestigates and explores the experiences, problems and pressures faced by black and ethnic minority women managers in the United Kingdom. To date, research addressing the issues of black managers has been almost exclusively American, predominantly black African-Americans, and the overall amount of published research has been limited. Indeed, studies of black and ethnic minority professional women, especially in corporate settings, have been virtually excluded from the growing body of research on women in management. This book has been written to fill this gap.

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Sage

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1446223620

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Book's by Professor Joseph Margolis

The Flux of History and the Flux of Science

The Flux of History and the Flux of Science

Everyday Aesthetics

Everyday Aesthetics

The Long Peace of East Asia

The Long Peace of East Asia

Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

Can Peace Research Make Peace?

Can Peace Research Make Peace?

Reframing the Social

Reframing the Social

Beyond Orientalism

Beyond Orientalism

Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays

Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment and other Essays

A Voice That Spoke for Justice

A Voice That Spoke for Justice

The Fabric of Self

The Fabric of Self

The Edwardian Detective

The Edwardian Detective

The Prospect of Internet Democracy

The Prospect of Internet Democracy

Learning and Community

Learning and Community

The Advancement of Science : Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

The Advancement of Science : Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

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