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490A Phenomenological (Husserlian) Defense of Bergson’s “Idealistic Concession”Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (2): 399-415. 2010.When summarizing the findings of his 1896 Matter and Memory, Bergson claims: “That every reality has... a relation with consciousness—this is what we concede to idealism.” Yet Bergson’s 1896 text presents the theory of “pure perception,” which, since it accounts for perception according to the brain’s mechanical transmissions, apparently leaves no room for subjective consciousness. Bergson’s theory of pure perception would appear to render his idealistic concession absurd. In this paper, I attem…Read more
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197Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate (edited book)MIT Press. 1994.The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set ofreactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to powerand critique.
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137Encyclopedia of aesthetics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.Are things ugly or are they just not beautiful? The answer to this and many other questions can be found in this encyclopedia, the first large-scale comprehensive English-language reference on aesthetics and destined to be a classic in the field. Drawing from experts in the areas of philosophy, art, history, psychology, feminist theory, legal theory, and many more, the encyclopedia presents 600 signed essays alphabetically arranged. Most entries include a headnote clarifying the topic. Entries r…Read more
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95Public art controversy: The Serra and Lin casesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (1): 15-22. 1996.
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92On the Mind’s Pronouncement of TimeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 247-262. 2004.This essay contests the standard historical comparison that links Husserl’s account of time-consciousness to the tradition by way of Book XI of Augustine’sConfessions. This comparison rests on the mistaken assumption that both thinkers attribute the soul’s distention and corresponding apprehension of time to memory. While true for Augustine and Husserl’s 1905 lectures on time, Husserl concluded after 1907 that these lectures advanced the flawed and counter-intuitive position that memory extends …Read more
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89The gadamer/habermas debate revisited: The question of ethicsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 14 (3-4): 369-389. 1988.
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79Iconoclasm in aestheticsCambridge University Press. 2003.Although philosophers have characteristically taken the view that art is a vehicle of some universal meaning or truth, art historians emphasize the concrete, historical location of the individual work of art. Is aesthetics capable of sustaining these two approaches? Or, as Michael Kelly argues: Is art actually determined by its historical particularity? His book covers the views of four philosophers--Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida, and Danto--ultimately iconoclasts, despite their significant philoso…Read more
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64On the Mind’s Pronouncement of TimeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 247-262. 2004.This essay contests the standard historical comparison that links Husserl’s account of time-consciousness to the tradition by way of Book XI of Augustine’sConfessions. This comparison rests on the mistaken assumption that both thinkers attribute the soul’s distention and corresponding apprehension of time to memory. While true for Augustine and Husserl’s 1905 lectures on time, Husserl concluded after 1907 that these lectures advanced the flawed and counter-intuitive position that memory extends …Read more
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60Table of contents : 1. The beginnings of phenomenology: Husserl and his predecessors Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston College 2. Philosophy of existence 1: Heidegger Jacques Taminiaux, University of Louvain, Belgium 3. Philosophy of existence 2: Sartre Thomas Flynn, Emory University 4. Philosophy of existence 3: Merleau-Ponty Bernard Cullen, Queen's University, Belfast 5. Philosophies of religion: Jaspers, Marcel, Levinas William Desmond, Loyola College 6. Philosophies of science: Mach, Duhem, Bache…Read more
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44Hermeneutics and science: Why hermeneutics is not antiscienceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 481-500. 1987.
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43Michael Kelly is the author of 68 entries altogether. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French is far more than a simple revision of the original Oxford Companion to French Literature, published in 1959, and described by The Listener as the `standard work of reference for English-speaking enquirers into French literature'. As the change in title implies, this completely new work presents an authoritative guide not only to ten centuries of literature produced in the territory now called F…Read more
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39Book Review:On the Logic of the Social Sciences. Jurgen Habermas, Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Jerry A. Stark (review)Ethics 101 (2): 413-. 1991.
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35A Philosophy of Mass Art (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2): 481-485. 2000.Noel Carroll’s A Philosophy of Mass Art is intended as a contribution to a “systematic” philosophy of mass art, but his more immediate aim is to clarify and criticize the principles and presuppositions that contemporary theorists bring—mistakenly, he argues—to their reflections on mass art. In a sense, Carroll offers to provide for the philosophy of mass art what he claims mass art can provide for morality, namely, clarificationism : “Logical argumentation and conceptual clarification are its ma…Read more
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35Contents: The Communist Party and the politics of cultural change in postwar Italy, 1945-50 / Stephen Gundle -- Writing and the real world : Italian narrative in the period of reconstruction / Michael Caesar -- The making and unmaking of Neorealism in postwar Italy / David Forgacs -- The place of Neorealism in Italian cinema from 1945 to 1954 / Christopher Wagstaff -- Tradition and social change in the French and Italian cinemas of the reconstruction / Pierre Sorlin -- Humanism and national unit…Read more
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31Hermeneutics and critical theory in ethics and politics (edited book)MIT Press. 1989.These twelve essays, written by philosophers, examine the usefulness, objectivity, and range of applicability of interpretive methods in ethics and politics, with the goal of isolating the role of methodology to allow debate to focus on substantive conflicts.
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29"Examine[s] the history of Marxist philosophical issues in particular, dialectical materialism as developed by French Communist Party intellectuals... Remarkably clear, deeply researched, and well-written."- Political Science Quarterly
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26Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.) (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.A four-volume reference work that surveys how philosophers, art historians, and others reflect critically on art and culture. The first comprehensive reference work on aesthetics that presents articles on the history of Western and non-Western aesthetics along with extensive accounts of the contemporary debates.
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22Danto, Arthur C. What Art Is. Yale University Press, 2013, xii + 192 pp., $24.00 cloth, $15.00 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (2): 201-203. 2014.
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22A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of ArtColumbia University Press. 2012.For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands. Following an analysis of th…Read more
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18Review of Albrecht Wellmer: The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethic, and Postmodernism (review)Ethics 103 (3): 581-584. 1993.
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18The Consciousness of SuccessionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 127-139. 2009.For all its subtle differences, Husserl scholarship on time-consciousness has reached a consensus that Husserl’s theory underwent a significant interpretiveimprovement starting around 1908 / 1909. On this advance, which concerned the intentional structure and directedness of absolute consciousness, I have cautioned against reading Augustine’s theory of time as a philosophical predecessor to Husserl’s. In a recent “confrontation” with my efforts, Roger Wasserman tried to defend a reading of Augus…Read more
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14Historical and Art-Historical CoverageEncyclopedia of AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 295. 2000.
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13Encyclopedia of Aesthetics: Multi Volume Set (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2014.The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics is an unparalleled reference resource that surveys the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and nature, from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory. The four-volume first edition, published in 1998, effected a revival of aesthetics that created a receptive context for the contemporary importance of the field. Spanning six volumes and 815 articles, the new edition of the Encyclopedia has been updated and expanded to r…Read more
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12The Encyclopedia as a Learning ToolEncyclopedia of AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 298. 2000.
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12More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is cl…Read more
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