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Material Type: | Biography |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Kitcher |
ISBN: | 9780195321029 0195321022 |
OCLC Number: | 750417928 |
Description: | XXIII, [1], 304 s. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | AcknowledgementsAwakening1: So soft this morning, ours2: His reignbolt's shot3: Respectable4: Nayman of Noland5: Crossmess parzel6: Life's robulous rebus7: Three score and ten toptypsical readings8: The hubbub caused in Edenborough9: The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude10: Everybody heard their plaint11: Tell me more12: Loud, heap miseries upon us13: The tasks above are as the flasks below14: From Liff away15: The four of us and sure, thank God, there are no more of us16: A picture primitive17: Lightbreakfastbringer18: Arise, sir ghostus!19: Male and female, unmask we hem20: The keys to. Given!21: Aisy now, you decent man |
Responsibility: | Philip Kitcher. |
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Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given, just 'mind your hats goan in!' * Jean-Michel Rabate, Princeton University * Kitcher begins Joyce's Kaleidoscope by asking the right question: not 'What does each word mean?' but 'What meaning does our experience of reading convey?' This will find an elegant and satisfactory answer if we accept this invitation to a spiraling tour of the book. The 'passkey' has been given, just 'mind your hats goan in!' * Jean-Michel Rabate, Princeton University * This book performs the remarkable feat of making the pleasures of Finnegans Wake enticing to the general reader. Philip Kitcher shows that Joyce's last masterpiece, rather than an esoteric word game, is a heartwarming portrait of the aging artist in his family, as sad and funny as the portrait of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. An irresistible invitation to Finnegans Wake, Joyce's Kaleidoscope also appeals to experienced readers by illuminating the humanity of Joyce'svision. * Maud Ellmann, University of Notre Dame * In this stellar book, Karen Zivi realigns the theorization of rights with 'agonistic' theories of democracy that have put traditional liberalisms under scrutiny. Using Judith Butler's concept of 'performativity' she takes issue with Wendy Brown's critique of 'rights-politics,' writing in very clear language and deploying intriguing and controversial case studies. Unusually, Zivi starts the story with a pertinent and easy-to-read survey of the analytical tradition ofrights-analysis begun in the 1960s. This is an invaluable work on the most important topics today in political theory and practice. * Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol * Philip Kitcher is just the person we need to rein in a virtuoso performance that threatens at every turn to spin out of control. There's no novel more in need of, and more worthy of, a philosophical perspective, and Kitcher, himself a virtuoso devotee of literature, will henceforth have provided Joyce's summa its firm foundation. * Paul Fry, Yale University * Read more...

