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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900216770 Title: The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll : unexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014 ISBN/ISSN: 9780226105758 022610575X OCLC:900216770

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The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll : unexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death

Author:	Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Combining a deep knowledge of psychology, cultural anthropology, art history, and the history of religions - not to mention philosophy, this book demonstrates the unpredictability of writing and Read more...
Subjects	Philosophy, Comparative. Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804 Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898 View all subjects
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Named Person:	Immanuel Kant; Lewis Carroll; Immanuel Kant; Lewis Carroll
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Ben-Ami Scharfstein Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780226105758 022610575X
OCLC Number:	900216770
Description:	242 s. : illustrations
Contents:	Introduction: you, me, Kant, and Carroll -- The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll -- A comparatist's risks and rewards -- A handful of rules against philosophical self-isolation -- What death makes of philosophy -- Keeping the world together -- The common universe of aesthetics -- Are the deaf and blind epistemologically isolated? -- Pain, cruelty, and pathology in art -- On the transparency and opacity of philosophers -- The three philosophical traditions -- Does philosophy progress? -- Nonutopian observations on Machiavellism -- On the nature and limits of ineffability -- Ineffabilities are the demons and angels of incompleteness and incompletability -- What can and cannot words express? -- The bird with bread in its beak -- You, me, and Kaufmann's discovering the mind
Responsibility:	Ben-Ami Scharfstein

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