Author: Jakub Mácha
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000776875
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity. Inspired by Wittgenstein’s later work and Derrida’s theory of deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but rather oscillate between singular and universal moments. There is a broad consensus that exemplary cases mediate between singular instances and universal concepts or norms. In the first part of the book, Mácha contends that there is a kind of différance between singular examples and general exemplars or paradigms. Every example is, in part, also an exemplar, and vice versa. Furthermore, he develops a paracomplete approach to the logic of exemplarity, which allows us to say of an exemplar of X neither that it is an X nor that it is not an X. This paradox is structurally isomorphic to Russell’s paradox and can be addressed in similar ways. In the second part of the book, Mácha presents four historical studies that exemplify the ideas developed in the first part. This part begins with Plato’s Forms, understood as standards/paradigms, before considering Kant’s theory of reflective judgment as a general epistemological account of exemplarity. This is then followed by analyses of Hegel’s conceptual moment of particularity and Kuhn’s concept of paradigm. The book concludes by discussing the speculative hypothesis that all our knowledge is based on paradigms, which, following the logic of exemplarity, are neither true nor false. The Philosophy of Exemplarity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of language, logic, history of philosophy, and literary theory.
Author: Michele Lowrie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317696395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is historically rooted firmly in ancient Roman rhetoric, oratory, literature, and law – genres that also secured its transmission. Their pragmatic approach results in a conceptualization of politics, social organization, philosophy, and law that is derived from the concrete. It is commonly supposed that, with the shift from pre-modern to modern ways of thinking – as modern knowledge came to privilege abstraction over exempla, the general over the particular – exemplarity lost its way. This book reveals the limits of this understanding. Tracing the role of exemplarity from Rome through to its influence on the fields of literature, politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis and law, it shows how Roman exemplarity has subsisted, not only as a figure of thought, but also as an alternative way to organize and to transmit knowledge.
Author: Irene E. Harvey
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488128
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity—or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what examples are and where they come from to the complex key issues of how examples function in the discourses they inhabit and what this functioning tells us about the nature of examples or exemplarity itself. The problem is treated especially in connection to Rousseau and Aristotle, with reference to deconstruction (especially Derrida) and the range of Western metaphysics. Ultimately, a new theory of examples is offered, one not drawn from the assumptions made by earlier philosophers but rather from the usage and functioning of examples in philosophical discourse.
Author: Alexander Gelley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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These 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy.
Author: Dana Hollander
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804769974
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Exemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular? The book traces Derrida's interest in this topic, particularly emphasizing his work on "philosophical nationality" and his insight that philosophy is challenged in a special way by its particular "national" instantiations and that, conversely, discourses invoking a nationality comprise a philosophical ambition, a claim to being "exemplary." Taking as its cue Derrida's readings of German-Jewish authors and his ongoing interest in questions of Jewishness, this book pairs his philosophy with that of Franz Rosenzweig, who developed a theory of Judaism for which election is essential and who understood chosenness in an "exemplarist" sense as constitutive of human individuality as well as of the Jews' role in universal human history.
Author: Gregory T. Doolan
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215234
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Gregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics
Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190655844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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In Exemplarist Moral Theory of Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, whom we identify through the emotion of admiration. Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, she shows how narratives of exemplars and empirical work on the most admirable persons can be incorporated into the theory to serve both theoretical and practical purposes.
Author: Rebecca Langlands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040604
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--
Author: Michela Summa
Publisher: Quodlibet
ISBN: 8822907086
Category : Philosophy
Languages : un
Pages : 257
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Michela Summa, Karl Mertens, Introduction. Exemplarity: A Pattern of Thought for Aesthetic Cognition • Eva Schürmann, Die Verwirklichung des Allgemeinen im Konkreten. Über Kunst als Exemplifikation • Annapaola Varaschin, La normatività esemplare nell’estetica di Kant • Serena Feloj, Ästhetische Exemplarität und die Normativität des Geschmacks bei Kant • David Espinet, Lernen von der Kunst. Exemplarische Autonomie und praktische Einbildungskraft bei Kant • Elena Tavani, Exemplarity and Time: In the Wake of a (Kantian) Rule-in-Becoming • Dario Cecchi, L’arte della politica come performativo esemplare. Rileggendo le lezioni di Arendt sul giudizio estetico • Nicolas de Warren, Philosophical Ornamentation. The Exemplification of Ernst Bloch’s Spirit of Utopia in an Old Pitcher • Mirjam Schaub, Lucretia in the Writings of Augustine and Leibniz. A Complicated Philosophical Case Study that never Wished to Serve as an Example • Elisa Caldarola, Exemplification, Knowledge, and Education of the Emotions through Conceptual Art • Enza Maria Macaluso, La forma vivente come modello per l’esemplarità dell’immagine • Alfonso Di Prospero, Esperienza estetica, giustizia e inferenza induttiva
Author: Matthew B. Roller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107162599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.
