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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist
philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "fusion" or "confluence
philosophy", a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy
premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in
one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address
perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.
Exemplifying the many virtues of the confluence approach, this
collection of essays covers all core areas of Buddhist philosophy,
as well as topics and disputes in contemporary Western philosophy
relevant to its study. They consider in particular the ways in
which questions concerning personal identity figure in debates
about agency, cognition, causality, ontological foundations,
foundational truths, and moral cultivation. Most of these essays
engage Siderits' work directly, building on his pathbreaking ideas
and interpretations. Many deal with issues that have become a
common staple in philosophical engagements with traditions outside
the West. Their variety and breadth bear testimony to the legacy of
Siderits' impact in shaping the contemporary conversation in
Buddhist philosophy and its reverberations in mainstream
philosophy, giving readers a clear sense of the remarkable scope of
his work.
Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study
of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical
questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the
world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book
identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young
people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in
extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of
reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature.
Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and
metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and
Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of
children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include:
Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown,
Lewis Carroll, Eoin Colfer, Gary Crew, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle,
Imme Dros, Sarah Ellis, Mem Fox, Zana Fraillon, Libby Gleeson,
Kenneth Grahame, Armin Greder, Sonya Hartnett, Tana Hoban, Judy
Horacek, Tove Jansson, Oliver Jeffers, Jon Klassen, Elaine
Konigsburg, Norman Lindsay, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robert
Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Jill Paton
Walsh, Philippa Pearce, Ivan Southall, William Steig, Shaun Tan,
Tarjei Vesaas, David Wiesner, Margaret Wild, Jacqueline Woodson and
many others.
Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along
two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption
that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a
change in that object's ontological status has been a key
philosophical concept throughout history. Building upon Slavoj
Zizek's The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used
as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between
the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the
ontological, but also politics and aesthetics. With articles
written by internationally renowned philosophers such as Frank
Ruda, Graham Harman, Paul Livingston and Zizek himself, this book
shows how modes of parallax remain in numerous modern theoretical
disciplines, such as the Marxian parallax in the critique of
political economy and politics; and the Hegelian parallax in the
concept of the work of art, while also being important to debates
surrounding speculative realism and dialectical materialism.
Spanning philosophy, parallax is then a rich and fruitful concept
that can illuminate the studies of those working in epistemology,
ontology, German Idealism, political philosophy and critical
theory.
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