Metaphysics

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …

relation between analytical meth- odology and metaphysics. This relation, we shall see, eventually yields … (1763). In the 1764 essay, Kant, showed how metaphysics requires a specific method to certify its independence … contrast to mathematics, Kant observes that metaphysics proceeds via analysis: it performs a progressive … constructed by it.106 Contrary to mathematics, metaphysics deals with concepts that are not built by our … summarize by saying that the starting point of metaphysics coincides with its target: meta- physics is a …

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

writes what is ultimately an autobiography: the metaphysics of me. If he carefully conceals what really happened … Anthropology Upside Down Conclusion: The Metaphysics of Me 218 Notes 233 Bibliography 271 Index 291Acknowledgments … of the subject engaged in that study – the “metaphysics of me,” as he put it. “Anthropology,” in other … is that “each language ... conceals a unique metaphysics. There is no reason for assuming that a native …

Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …

tendency to posit ideals and turns it into a metaphysics or theology. In matters of knowledge, per- fectionists … Why that is so depends on your religion or metaphysics. But second-rate it is. If this is true, then …

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this …

relation to the rational ideas of dogmatic metaphysics so central to the “Transcendental Dialectic” …

Although he had a short career, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in the span of seventeen years. Convinced that “style must live,” he focused …

far away from German philosophy’s trademark: metaphysics’ reliance on conceptual abstraction.6 His next …

With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s …

systematic theology, the refusal of ecstatic metaphysics, questionable Plato scholarship, the hegemony … gatherings in his16 numinous seditions politico-metaphysics are “ghostly” ontologies. Harrison, who writes …

Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s …

dimension of otherness. It is in the register of metaphysics, transcendence, and grand representa- tions. …

While heteronormativity continues to permeate nearly all threads of the socio-cultural fabric, several early twenty-first-century German films offer insight into how we might challenge that dominance and disrupt its linear …

notions of assemblage (Puar) and performative metaphysics (Barad) as modes of privileging organization …

Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction …

“The animal out of the desert”: The Nomadic Metaphysics of Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion … argues that “Ondaatje’s strategy of ‘nomadic metaphysics’ obscures the mate- rial history of, and therefore … rooted identity” and to show that the “‘nomadic metaphysics’” informing the novel actually “obscures the … them as other. Mason’s analysis of nomadic metaphysics also helps us to understand Ondaatje’s deprivileging …

It’s more difficult for the lecturer to understand and respond to the perspectives and interests in the room and more difficult to have a free-flowing question and answer session. [...] …

include meta-ethics and the metaphysics of persons, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, the philosophy of … philosophical Contact hours per week: 3-0-0 to issues in metaphysics and epistemology. views of art and literature … Philosophy 1000 PHILOSOPHY 1000 to issues in metaphysics and epistemology. Introduction to Philosophy … truth, knowledge, humanity's ultimate questions. Metaphysics skepticism, realism and anti-realism, and considers …