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Realism

About: Realism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10799 publications have been published within this topic receiving 175785 citations.


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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: In this article, Carver discusses reading Marx: life and works, critical reception, Marx then and now Paul Thomas, and critical reception of Marx then, now, Paul Thomas 3.
Abstract: List of contributors Chronology 1. Reading Marx: life and works Terrell Carver 2. Critical reception: Marx then and now Paul Thomas 3. Social and political theory: class, state, revolution Richard W. Miller 4. Science: realism, criticism, history James Farr 5. History: critique and irony Terence Ball 6. Moral philosophy: the critique of capitalism and the problem of ideology Jeffrey Reiman 7. Political philosophy: Marx and radical democracy Alan Gilbert 8. Reproduction and the materialist conception of history: a feminist critique Susan Himmelweit 9. Gender: biology, nature, and capitalism Jeff Hearn 10. Aesthetics: liberating the senses William Adams 11. Logic: dialectic and contradiction Lawrence Wilde 12. History of philosophy: the metaphysics of substance in Marx Scott Meikle 13. Religion: illusions and liberation Denys Turner Bibliography Index.

39 citations

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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: Peyser's "Utopia and Cosmopolis" as mentioned in this paper explores the ways in which turn-of-the-century American writers struggled to understand the future in a newly emerging global community and provided a new context for understanding contemporary debates about America's relation to the rest of the world.
Abstract: When did Americans first believe they were at the centre of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalisation owe to their often utopian dreams? In "Utopia and Cosmopolis", Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a new context for understanding contemporary debates about America's relation to the rest of the world. Applying current theoretical work on globalisation to the writing of authors as diverse as Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, Peyser reveals the ways in which turn-of-the-century American writers struggled to understand the future in a newly emerging global community. Because the pressures of globalisation at once fostered the formation of an American national culture and made national culture less viable as a source of identity, authors grappled to find a form of fiction that could accommodate the contradictions of their condition. "Utopia and Cosmopolis" unites utopian and realist narratives in subtle, startling ways through an examination of these writers' aspirations and anxieties. Whether exploring the first vision of a world brought together by the power of consumer culture, or showing how different cultures could be managed when reconceived as specimens in a museum, this book steadily extends the horizons within which late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture can be understood. Ranging widely over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, "Utopia and Cosmopolis" is an important contribution to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature.

39 citations

08 Apr 2011
TL;DR: Early modernity in India consists in the formation of a new philosophical self, one which makes it possible to meaningfully conceive of oneself as engaging the ancient and the alien in conversation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This book deals with a fascinating and rich episode in the history of philosophy, one from which those who are interested in the nature of modernity and its global origins have a great deal to learn. Early modernity in India consists in the formation of a new philosophical self, one which makes it possible to meaningfully conceive of oneself as engaging the ancient and the alien in conversation. The ancient texts are now not thought of as authorities to which one must defer, but regarded as the source of insight in the company of which one pursues the quest for truth. This new attitude implies a change in the conception of one's duties towards the past. After reconstructing the historical intellectual context in detail, and developing a suitable methodological framework, the author reviews work on the concept of knowledge, the nature of evidence, the self, the nature of the categories, mathematics, realism, and a new language for philosophy. A study of early modern philosophy in India has much to teach us today — about the nature of modernity as such, about the reform of educational institutions and its relationship to creative research, and about cosmopolitan identities in circumstances of globalisation.

39 citations


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2020314
2019346
2018345