Experiments against reality : the fate of culture in the postmodern age /

Experiments against reality : the fate of culture in the postmodern age /

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Author / Creator:Kimball, Roger, 1953-
Imprint:Chicago : I.R. Dee, 2000.
Description:viii, 359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Philosophy, Modern.
Civilization, Modern.
Philosophy and civilization.
Civilization, Modern.
Philosophy and civilization.
Philosophy, Modern.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4459030
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ISBN:1566633354 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Experiments Against Reality
  • Part 1.
  • Art v. Aestheticism: The Case of Walter Pater
  • The Importance of T. E. Hulme
  • A Craving for Reality: T. S. Eliot Today
  • Wallace Stevens: Metaphysical Claims Adjuster
  • The Permanent Auden
  • The First Half of Muriel Spark
  • The Qualities of Robert Musil
  • Part 2.
  • James Fitzjames Stephen v. John Stuart Mill
  • The Legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The World According to Sartre
  • The Perversions of Michel Foucault
  • The Anguishes of E. M. Cioran
  • Part 3.
  • The Trivialization of Outrage
  • "The Two Cultures" Today
  • Francis Fukuyama and the End of History
  • Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents
  • Index

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