Author: Neil Roughley
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: transdisciplinary, perspectives, particularity, universality, anthropological, humans
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2000-11
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 3110169746
ISBN-13: 9783110169744

Kant claimed that the principal topics of philosophy all converge on one question: "Was ist der Mensch?" Starting with the main claim that conceptions of the human play a significant structuring role in theory construction, the contributors in this volume investigate the roles that conceptions of the human play both in philosophy and in other human and social sciences. Renowned scholars from various disciplines - philosophy, anthropology, psychology, literary studies - discuss not only the relations between philosophicy and empirical knowledge of the human being. In a rare dialogue bet

Author: Richard Strier
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, texts, structures, particularity, radicalism, renaissance, resistant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-03-31
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520209052
ISBN-13: 9780520209053

Taking Wittgenstein’s "Don’t think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts mustor cannotsay or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Steph