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Throughout much of the twentieth century, the relationship between
analytic and continental philosophy has been one of disinterest,
caution or hostility. Recent debates in philosophy have highlighted
some of the similarities between the two approaches and even
envisaged a post-continental and post-analytic philosophy. Opening
with a history of key encounters between philosophers of opposing
camps since the late nineteenth century - from Frege and Husserl to
Derrida and Searle - the book goes on to explore in detail the main
methodological differences between the two approaches. This covers
a very wide range of topics, from issues of style and clarity of
exposition to formal methods arising from logic and probability
theory. The final section of this book presents a balanced critique
of the two schools' approaches to key issues such as time, truth,
subjectivity, mind and body, language and meaning, and ethics.
"Analytic versus Continental" is the first sustained analysis of
both approaches to philosophy, examining the limits and
possibilities of each. It provides a clear overview of a
much-disputed history and, in highlighting the strengths and
weaknesses of both traditions, also offers future directions for
both continental and analytic philosophy.
While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the
twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years,
with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the
philosophical map. Although it is an old tradition, current
technological and social developments have dramatically changed
both the questions it faces and the methodology required to answer
those questions. Recent developments also make it a particularly
important and exciting area for research and teaching in the
twenty-first century. The Routledge Handbook of Applied
Epistemology is an outstanding reference source to this exciting
subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising entries by
a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into
six main parts: The Internet Politics Science Epistemic
institutions Individual investigators Theory and practice in
philosophy. Within these sections, the core topics and debates are
presented, analyzed, and set into broader historical and
disciplinary contexts. The central topics covered include: the
prehistory of applied epistemology, expertise and scientific
authority, epistemic aspects of political and social philosophy,
epistemology and the law, and epistemology and medicine. Essential
reading for students and researchers in epistemology, political
philosophy, and applied ethics the Handbook will also be very
useful for those in related fields, such as law, sociology, and
politics.
Throughout much of the twentieth century, the relationship between
analytic and continental philosophy has been one of disinterest,
caution or hostility. Recent debates in philosophy have highlighted
some of the similarities between the two approaches and even
envisaged a post-continental and post-analytic philosophy. Opening
with a history of key encounters between philosophers of opposing
camps since the late nineteenth century - from Frege and Husserl to
Derrida and Searle - the book goes on to explore in detail the main
methodological differences between the two approaches. This covers
a very wide range of topics, from issues of style and clarity of
exposition to formal methods arising from logic and probability
theory. The final section of this book presents a balanced critique
of the two schools' approaches to key issues such as time, truth,
subjectivity, mind and body, language and meaning, and ethics.
"Analytic versus Continental" is the first sustained analysis of
both approaches to philosophy, examining the limits and
possibilities of each. It provides a clear overview of a
much-disputed history and, in highlighting the strengths and
weaknesses of both traditions, also offers future directions for
both continental and analytic philosophy.
While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the
twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years,
with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the
philosophical map. Although it is an old tradition, current
technological and social developments have dramatically changed
both the questions it faces and the methodology required to answer
those questions. Recent developments also make it a particularly
important and exciting area for research and teaching in the
twenty-first century. The Routledge Handbook of Applied
Epistemology is an outstanding reference source to this exciting
subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising entries by
a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into
six main parts: The Internet Politics Science Epistemic
institutions Individual investigators Theory and practice in
philosophy. Within these sections, the core topics and debates are
presented, analyzed, and set into broader historical and
disciplinary contexts. The central topics covered include: the
prehistory of applied epistemology, expertise and scientific
authority, epistemic aspects of political and social philosophy,
epistemology and the law, and epistemology and medicine. Essential
reading for students and researchers in epistemology, political
philosophy, and applied ethics the Handbook will also be very
useful for those in related fields, such as law, sociology, and
politics.
Analytic and Continental philosophy have become increasingly
specialised and differentiated fields of endeavour. This important
collection of essays details some of the more significant
methodological and philosophical differences that have separated
the two traditions, as well as examining the manner in which
received understandings of the divide are being challenged by
certain thinkers whose work might best be described as
post-analytic and meta-continental. Together these essays offer a
well-defined sense of the field, of its once dominant distinctions
and of some of the most productive new areas generating influential
ideas and controversy. In an attempt to get to the bottom of
precisely what it is that separates the analytic and continental
traditions, the essays in this volume compare and contrast them on
certain issues, including truth, time and subjectivity. The book
engages with a range of key thinkers from phenomenology,
post-structuralism, analytic philosophy and post-analytic
philosophy, examines the strengths and weaknesses of each
tradition, and ultimately encourages enhanced understanding,
dialogue and even rapprochement between these sometimes
antagonistic adversaries.
The highly acclaimed biography of one of the most important and
controversial Secretaries of State of the twentieth century, this
is an intimate portrait of the quintessential man of action who was
vilified by the McCarthyites for being soft on communism, yet set
in place the strategies and policies that won the Cold War and
brought down the USSR. This is the authoritative biography of Dean
Acheson, the most important and controversial secretary of state of
the twentieth century. Drawing on Acheson family diaries and
letters as well as revelations from Russian and Chinese archives,
historian James Chace traces Acheson's remarkable life, from his
days as a schoolboy at Groton and his carefree life at Yale to his
work for President Franklin Roosevelt on international financial
policy and his unique partnership with President Truman. It is an
important and dramatic work of history chronicling the momentous
decisions, events, and fascinating personalities of the most
critical decades of American history.
Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910
from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling
political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When
Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard
Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer
on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the
ex-president of Princeton, astonished everyone by seizing the
Democratic nomination from the bosses who had made him New Jersey's
governor. Most revealing of the reformist spirit sweeping the land
was the charismatic socialist Eugene Debs, who polled an
unprecedented one million votes.
Wilson's "accidental" election had lasting impact on America and
the world. The broken friendship between Taft and TR inflicted
wounds on the Republican Party that have never healed, and the
party passed into the hands of a conservative ascendancy that
reached its fullness under Reagan and George W. Bush. Wilson's
victory imbued the Democratic Party with a progressive idealism
later incarnated in FDR, Truman, and LBJ.
1912 changed America.
Analytic and Continental philosophy have become increasingly
specialised and differentiated fields of endeavour. This important
collection of essays details some of the more significant
methodological and philosophical differences that have separated
the two traditions, as well as examining the manner in which
received understandings of the divide are being challenged by
certain thinkers whose work might best be described as
post-analytic and meta-continental. Together these essays offer a
well-defined sense of the field, of its once dominant distinctions
and of some of the most productive new areas generating influential
ideas and controversy. In an attempt to get to the bottom of
precisely what it is that separates the analytic and continental
traditions, the essays in this volume compare and contrast them on
certain issues, including truth, time and subjectivity. The book
engages with a range of key thinkers from phenomenology,
post-structuralism, analytic philosophy and post-analytic
philosophy, examines the strengths and weaknesses of each
tradition, and ultimately encourages enhanced understanding,
dialogue and even rapprochement between these sometimes
antagonistic adversaries.
Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics offers a sustained but
varying examination of the spatial-temporal dynamics that compose
place. Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and
related disciplines, essays blend personal and scholarly accounts
of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poeisis, a creation
formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.
Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays
consider a wide range of subjects, including aesthetics, buildings,
environment, food and alcohol, private and public memory, and race
and class. Among the topics covered by contributors are the Imagine
Austin urban planning initiative; the terroir of Texas barbecue;
the racist past of Grand Saline, Texas; Denton, Texas, and
authenticity as rhetorical; negative views of Texas and how the
state (or any place) is subject to reinvention; social, historical,
and economic networks of place and their relationship to the food
we eat; and Texas gun culture and working-class character. Spanning
the wide geography of Texas, essays model methods for examining
place in ways that are not reducible to common physical or
geographic attributes. Although focused on Texas, Inventing Place
offers universal concepts for the study of place, culture, and
rhetoric by bringing in the personal alongside the scholarly and
demonstrating new approaches to writing.
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