Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the import of
what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely
systematic, speculative study of the major themes confronting
modern metaphysics. The idea of an emphatic has its roots in
Weiss's long-developed pluralistic ontology, with special focus on
what we experience as an "emphasis." The most obvious examples are
grammatical devices such as changed pitch in speech or exclamation
and question marks in writing. Weiss also analyzes emphatics in
etiquette, social status, nature, art, conventional behavior,
encyclopedias, psychiatry, and religion.
Brilliant in every respect, "Emphatics" rewrites Weiss's
systematic ontology in new terms. Not only are the lineaments of
the system reexamined, but this book floods the reader with new
perspectives and insights on relationship, signs, truth,
particularity, space-time causality, education, mind-body issues,
Being and other ultimate philosophical categories, and good and
evil.
Weiss engages the various objections to his position in a series
of question-and-answer epilogues at the end of each chapter that
allow the reader to follow step-by-step a great philosophical mind
at work. He takes his critics seriously, grapples with their
objections, and answers them honestly. His discourse creatively
revisits age-old questions and in reimagining new answers
establishes the continuing relevance of philosophy as an academic
discipline.
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