Authors:Anatol Lieven, John Hulsman,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: vintage, realism, ethical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-11-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0307277380
ISBN-13: 9780307277381
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of concrete proposals for tackling the terrorist threat and contend with Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman show us how to strengthen our security, pursue our national interests, and restore American leadership in the world.
Author: David Der-Wei Wang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: china, century, realism, fictional
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 1992-10-15
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0231076568
ISBN-13: 9780231076562
David Wang’s knowledge of modern Chinese literature and his readings provide reinterpretation of the three major Chinese novelists after Lu Xun, traditionally ranked as the dominant voice and influence in the genre of Chinese fictional realism. Wang offers a detailed exegesis of the writers’ major works, arguing that Mao Dun, Lao She and Shen Congwen give rise to the polyphonic development of Chinese realism that Lu Xun primarily set into motion.
Author: Paul Fleming
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: tragedy, realism, bourgeois, average, mediocrity, art, exemplarity
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-12-11
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0804758905
ISBN-13: 9780804758901
Following Hegel’s analysis of art’s increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life—common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events—while also avoiding all notions of mediocrity. He focuses on three sites of this tension: the average audience (Lessing), the average artist (Goethe and Schiller), and the everyday, or average life (Grillparzer and Stifter). The book’s title, Exemplarity and Mediocri
Author: Brook Thomas
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: promise, contract, failed, realism, literary, american
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1997-02-03
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520206479
ISBN-13: 9780520206472
In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas’s new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America’s transition from industrial capitalism to the corporate capitalism of the twentieth century. Thomas argues that, radically conceived, contract promised to generate an equitable social orderone organized around interpersonal exchange rather than conformity to a transcendental
Author: Joe Frank Jones III
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: rationality, philosophy, common, preserving, realism, modest
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2001-06-05
List price: $54.50
ISBN-10: 0761819959
ISBN-13: 9780761819950
What do words have to do with the world? Do our concepts "make" the world the way it is for us? If concepts do "make" the world what it is for us, is this "making" complete, without residue of a natural world, and how does this "making" occur? Is there a real world to which word and concepts refer that anchors their meaning? What is the role of the imagination in making words have meaning? Is understanding embodied, conceptual, or both? "A Modest Realism" explores these questions through its examination of the foundations of articulatable experience. It joins language and experience in a non-e
Author: Roy Bhaskar
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, realism, texts, classical, pulse, freedom, dialectic
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2008-08-13
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415454913
ISBN-13: 9780415454919
Dialectic is now widely regarded as a classic of contemporary philosophy. This book, first published in 1993, sets itself three main aims: the development of a general theory of dialectic, of which Hegelian dialectic can be seen to be a special case; the dialectical enrichment and deepening of critical realism, viz. into the system of dialectical critical realism; and the outline of the elements of a totalizing critique of Western philosophy. The first chapter clarifies the rational core of Hegelian dialectic. Chapter two then proceeds to develop a general theory of dialectic. Isolating t
Author: E. W. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reasoning, principles, practical, pragmatism, process, realism, judicial
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0521855667
ISBN-13: 9780521855662
In the absence of a sound conception of the judicial role, judges at present can be said to be ’muddling along’. They disown the declaratory theory of law but continue to behave and think as if it had not been discredited. Much judicial reasoning still exhibits an unquestioning acceptance of positivism and a ’rulish’ predisposition. This book, written by a practicing judge, dismantles these outdated theories and seeks to bridge the gap between legal theory and judicial practice. The author propounds a coherent and comprehensive judicial methodology for modern times.
