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The first personal narrative about World War II was published two
months after America entered the war on December 8, 1941. Between
then and the year following the end of the war, over 500 of these
narratives were published to feed the public's need to know about
the war. These eyewitness accounts, written by war correspondents,
service men and women, home front civilians, and defense workers,
were a welcome change to the stark military dispatches printed in
the daily press. Great Stories of World War II provides a fully
annotated, bibliographic listing of each of these sources.
Additionally, each entry includes citations for any reviews the
work received in any of six major American reviewing journals. This
unique guide provides personal insights into race relations, sexual
conduct, combat, missionary life, life as a prisoner of war,
concentration camp experiences, and military and civilian politics
of the war years from both the male and female perspective.
Remarkably detailed and generally uncensored, these disclosures of
life during the Second World War constitute an invaluable and
underutilized resource for historians, geographers, and students of
this great historical event.
What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have
struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the
cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to
this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is when it
undertakes to lay its icy fingers on the frilled and beating wings
of the butterfly of love."
Love, elusive and philosophically intractable as it is, has long
fascinated philosophers. In this collection of classic and modern
writings on the topic of erotic love, Robert Solomon and Kathleen
Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and
combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers
writing today.
The result is a broadly conceived, comprehensive, and important
work, nearly as stimulating and provocative as love itself. It
examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of
philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of
the wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and
continue to bring, to the study of love.
"Stunning This brilliant interdisciplinary collection is as
provocative, enchanting, and richly rewarding as its topic.
Unrivaled in scope and richness, blending classic and contemporary
readings on love, here is a wellspring of insights for scholars,
students, and general readers alike."--Mike W. Martin, author of
"Self-Deception and Morality."
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Desde su aparicion en 1981, La transfiguracion del lugar comun se
ha convertido en referencia obligada de la reflexion filosofica
sobre el arte moderno. Danto responde con brillantez a la ya
clasica pregunta "Cuando se produce el arte?." Para despejar las
incognitas que de aqui se derivan, propone la metafora del lugar
comun y su paradojica aplicacion al arte: por que los objetos mas
banales quedan transfigurados al ser convertidos en obra de arte?
En que se diferencian a pesar de ser materialmente indiscernibles?
Que estrategia utiliza el arte de hoy para lograr estos fines? En
respuesta a estas cuestiones, Danto relativiza el juicio subjetivo
del gusto y nos invita a participar en los juegos de lenguaje y los
ambitos institucionales propios del arte moderno. De ellos toma
toda su fuerza para abrir la posibilidad de nuevos significados en
esta epoca de agotamiento. La interpretacion artistica puede que ya
no vuelva a ser una tarea espontanea o comoda, pero si se revelara
imprescindible a la hora de restituir el peculiar y enorme valor
cognitivo de la experiencia estetica.
A central theme of this book is that the main problems of
philosophy and certainly the main traditional problems in the
theory of knowledge, concern the space between language and the
world. Professor Danto distinguishes between descriptive concepts,
concerned with saying how the world is and semantic concepts, which
have to do with the application of descriptions of the world.
Failure to make these distinctions is responsible for a class of
seemingly irresolvable disputes over the foundations of knowledge;
but when the distinction is appreciated, a plausible philosophical
theory of what it is to know the world can be framed which is free
from the standard scepticisms.
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