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Confronting Aristotle's Ethics ancient and modern morality / by Garver, Eugene

Table of Contents: “…What Aristotle's Rhetoric can tell us about the rationality of virtue -- Decision, rational powers, and irrational powers -- The varieties of moral failure -- Passion and the two sides of virtue -- Aristotle's ethical virtues are political virtues -- The ethical dimensions of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Living politically and living rationally : choosing ends and choosing lives.…”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Barukh Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature / by Diamond, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Barukh Kurzweil : a cultural biography -- Metaphysical postulates underlying Kurzweil's literary criticism -- Kurzweil's esthetics and theory of criticism -- Kurzweil on modern Hebrew literature I. …”
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The historiography of communism by Brown, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Communism, society, and history -- History and history's problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part one : identifying the problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part two : some principles of critical analysis -- Ideology and the metaphysics of content -- "Society against the state" : the fullness of the primitive -- Left futures (with Randy Martin) -- Rethinking the crisis of socialism (with Randy Martin).…”
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River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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Jewish religion after theology by Sagi, Abraham

Table of Contents: “…-- Yeshayahu Leibovitz : the man against his thought -- Leibowitz and Camus : between faith and the absurd -- Jewish religion without theology -- The critique of theodicy : from metaphysics to praxis -- The Holocaust : a theological or a religious-existentialist problem? …”
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River of dreams imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain / by Smith, Thomas Ruys, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the American Nile : "ultima thule" -- Empire : Jefferson and "the Mississippi we must have" -- Frontier : Jackson and the "half-horse, half-alligators" -- Travel and tourism : Europeans on "this foul stream" -- Moving panoramas : the "useful illusion" of the visual Mississippi -- Crime and punishment : "extraordinary metaphysical scamps" in the Mississippi underworld -- Epilogue : the Civil War and Mark Twain.…”
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Jewish religion after theology by Sagi, Abraham

Table of Contents: “…-- Yeshayahu Leibovitz : the man against his thought -- Leibowitz and Camus : between faith and the absurd -- Jewish religion without theology -- The critique of theodicy : from metaphysics to praxis -- The Holocaust : a theological or a religious-existentialist problem? …”
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The historiography of communism by Brown, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Communism, society, and history -- History and history's problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part one : identifying the problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part two : some principles of critical analysis -- Ideology and the metaphysics of content -- "Society against the state" : the fullness of the primitive -- Left futures (with Randy Martin) -- Rethinking the crisis of socialism (with Randy Martin).…”
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How poets see the world the art of description in contemporary poetry / by Spiegelman, Willard

Table of Contents: “…The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".…”
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How poets see the world the art of description in contemporary poetry / by Spiegelman, Willard

Table of Contents: “…The way things look each day : how poets see the world -- Just looking : Charles Tomlinson and the "labour of observation" -- What to make of an augmented thing : Amy Clampitt's syntactic dramas -- Charles Wright and "the metaphysics of the quotidian" -- A space for boundless revery : varieties of ekphrastic experience -- John Ashbery's haunted landscapes -- Jorie Graham's "new way of looking".…”
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The Blackwell companion to science and Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Christian bioethics -- pt. 8. Metaphysical implications -- pt. 9. The mind -- pt. 10. …”
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William James in focus willing to believe / by Gavin, W. J. (William J.), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…James's life: will to believe as affirmation -- "Will to believe": policing versus free-roaming -- Principles of psychology: consciousness as a constitutive stream -- Varieties of religious experience: mysticism as a vague "exemplar" -- Pragmatism: corridor as "latent" and "the will to believe" -- Metaphysics: radical empiricism and pure experience -- "Pure" versus "impure" experience: examples of pure experience -- Challenges to "the will to believe" -- Conclusion: pragmatism, death, and "the will to believe".…”
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The Blackwell companion to science and Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Christian bioethics -- pt. 8. Metaphysical implications -- pt. 9. The mind -- pt. 10. …”
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William James in focus willing to believe / by Gavin, W. J. (William J.), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…James's life: will to believe as affirmation -- "Will to believe": policing versus free-roaming -- Principles of psychology: consciousness as a constitutive stream -- Varieties of religious experience: mysticism as a vague "exemplar" -- Pragmatism: corridor as "latent" and "the will to believe" -- Metaphysics: radical empiricism and pure experience -- "Pure" versus "impure" experience: examples of pure experience -- Challenges to "the will to believe" -- Conclusion: pragmatism, death, and "the will to believe".…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.…”
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The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / by Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Table of Contents: “…-- Conscience and the person -- Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection -- What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine -- Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm -- The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas -- Part II: New articles -- The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges -- The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity -- The creative imagination as treated in Western thought -- The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.…”
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Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.…”
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Knowing God by experience the spiritual senses in the theology of William of Auxerre / by Coolman, Boyd Taylor, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…A synaesthetic beatific vision -- The manifold effects of the metaphysical good -- The Trinity as manifold delectable -- Creation : the manifestation of the delectabilia divina -- The virtue of faith : knowledge of God in a visual mode -- The virtue of charity : love of God in a tactile mode -- Symbolic theology : exterior perception of God's effects -- Mystical theology : interior perception of God's effects -- Taste and see : the spiritual senses and the Eucharist -- Conclusion : spiritual apprehension : the spiritual senses and the knowledge of God.…”
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Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form / by Kornbluh, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.…”
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