Search Results - "The Spectator"

Forgetting Lot's wife on destructive spectatorship / by Harries, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Artaud, spectatorship, and catastrophe -- Hollywood Sodom -- Anselm Kiefer's Lot's wife : perspective and the place of the spectator -- Coda: Lot's wife on September 11, 2001; or, Against figuration.…”
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Christian fundamentalism and the culture of disenchantment by Maltby, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Creed and critique -- Fundamentalist history, postmodern contingency -- End times fiction and the ironic reader -- Fundamentalist exclusivism, radical democracy -- Fundamentalist dominion, postmodern ecology -- Evangelical painting and the ironic spectator -- Disenchanted Christianity.…”
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What is honor? a question of moral imperatives / by Welsh, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.…”
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Gadamer's ethics of play hermeneutics and the other / by Vilhauer, Monica

Table of Contents: “…Facing the inadequate model of modern science -- Introducing the key of play -- Understanding art : the play of work and spectator -- Understanding tradition : full shift to understanding in the human sciences -- The ethical conditions of dialogic play : between I and thou -- Genuine play in action : the model of the philosopher -- The value of play : transition to play as a guide to life -- Play and practical philosophy : play as a guide to life -- The problem of closedness -- Cultivating an opening to dialogue.…”
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