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Philosophy

2014

Phenomenology

Selected Works

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Paradox And Metaphor: An Integrity Of The Arts, Lawrence Kimmel Oct 2014

Paradox And Metaphor: An Integrity Of The Arts, Lawrence Kimmel

Lawrence Kimmel

Art is movement, movement is life. Surprisingly, the spareness of paradox in art promotes a fullness of life. We must first speak as simply as possible about art as a fundamental human activity. Only then can we hope to say something of consequence about the so-called “fine arts” — which may be misleading as a description. In substance, the reference “fine art” simply means useless art: “fine” as being free from utility. Art is imaginatively productive, it makes something, whether painting, poem, or partita. But this making has no independent utility, and its character as a work of art is …


Literature And The Passion Of Virtue, Lawrence Kimmel Oct 2014

Literature And The Passion Of Virtue, Lawrence Kimmel

Lawrence Kimmel

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Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf, Jules Simon Dec 2013

Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf, Jules Simon

Jules Simon

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My thesis is that current cities and the way that cities are being
developed is unsustainable and poses global problems for the long-term
flourishing of the world’s inter-related and interdependent economies, for
matters of justice and happiness in socio-cultural relations between peoples,
and for the health of our natural environments. I argue that ‘urban
desertification’ happens in the complex relationship between cities (both urban
and suburban) and rural environments that support them as both a natural and
ethical phenomenon that I study using a form of analysis called
phenomenological ethics. First, …