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Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Richard M. Wunderli

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Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster: 1200-1540, Clarendon Press, 1989, xvii, 425 pp., ill., fig., tables, app., biblio., index, $84.00.

Review Essay: Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise On Lovesickness, William Klein

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Jacques Ferrand, A Treatise on Lovesickness, trans. Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xvi, 709 pp., biblio., index, $49.95.

Front Matter

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Macintyre's Nietzsche: A Critique, R. Kevin Hill

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

In Alastair MacIntyre's "After Virtue", Nietzsche is presented as (1)an emotivist, (2) the culmination of the liberal tradition, and (3) fundamentally opposed to Aristotle. All three claims are criticized, thus casting doubt not only on MacIntyre's interpretation of Nietzsche, but also on his larger account of the history of Western ethical theory and practice, as well as on his proposal that we return to the tradition which Nietzsche has called into question.

Religion, Interpretation, And Diversity Of Belief: The Framework Model From Kant To Durkheim To Davidson (Book Review), G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Review of the book, Religion, Interpretation, and Diversity of Belief: The Framework Model from Kant to Durkheim to Davidson by Terry Godlove. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Seventeenth Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 1992-1993, University Of Minnesota - Morris. Philosophy Department

Midwest Philosophy Colloquium

Programs for the seventeenth Midwest Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Minnesota Morris in 1992-1993.

The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery

Articles & Book Chapters

In fairy tales, villains usually come to a bad end, snared in a trap of their own making, or visited with a disaster nicely suited to their particular villainy. Read a story of this kind to children and you will be struck by the profound satisfaction with which this predictable of events is greeted. Yet, if children cheer when the villain is done in, they are just as satisfied when the hero manages to get the villain by the throat but takes pity and spares him. These tales of retribution and mercy, even reduced to their barest bones, seem to …

The Sounds Of Music: First Movement, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

In his essay "Understanding Music," Roger Scruton has argued for a nonreductionist approach to aesthetics, emphasizing the contextually rich language and grammar that structure discourse about various forms of art. This accords with Wittgenstein's series of "reminders" about the importance of finding philosophical footholds in ordinary language. However refined artistic taste and aesthetic judgment may become, their fundamental source is in ordinary discourse about what surprises, pleases, and moves us. In what follows I will try to amplify these remarks and map the outlines of a conceptual investigation of the grammar of musical understanding. I will be less interested in …

Silence (And Its Voluble Partner), Andrew Taylor

Research outputs pre 2011

Silence may traditionally have been golden, but how is it valued today? Can it survive the impact of a technology which can, and does, bring the apparently irresistible seductions of noise to the remotest parts of the world, and which invades the most reclusive aspects of our lives? And what place has silence in a culture such as ours which classifies it as "unproductive"?

But what is silence anyway?

Professor Taylor considers two ways in which, from the Romantic period onward, silence has been conceived. One tradition equates silence with Truth itself; the other considers it the condition which enables …

Thinking Gelassenheit Through Heidegger: The Encounter With The Possible Impossible, Shahriar Mohammad Reza Shafaghi

Dissertations

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Asceticism/Askēsis: Foucault's Thinking Historical Subjectivity, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In the Introduction to The Use of Pleasure Foucault calls his work an askēsis, "an exercise of oneself in the activity of thought." The "living substance of philosophy," Foucault writes, is the essay, "which should be understood as the assay or test by which, in the game of truth, one undergoes changes, and not as the simplistic appropriation of others for the purpose of communication." Foucault's work, then, does not simply report to us his conclusions or theories. Foucault is not primarily interested in imparting information. What he offers instead is a kind of exercise book.

Guilt As Management Technology: A Call To Heideggerian Reflection, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Martin Heidegger was born in 1889 in Messkirch, Germany, a small town in the Black Forest. He died in 1976. As these dates indicate, Heidegger lived through a time when Western civilization was undergoing a series of upheavals probably now only dimly imaginable to those of us who are the products of them. His life spanned a technological revolution that changed even the most basic patterns of human (and certainly not only human) life in the industrialized world.

Seneca And The Schools Of Philosophy In Early Imperial Rome, Victoria Larson

Department of Classics and General Humanities Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Franta: The Body As A Metaphor For Human Suffering And Resistance, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Deaths Of Art: David Carrier's Metahistory Of Artwriting, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This essay is a critical examination of David Carrier's Artwriting (1987), which offered a philosophical account of the implicit strategies of narrative and presentation deployed by a wide range of art historians and critics. Here, this author raises some questions concerning Carrier's attempt to describe or define a genre of 'art-writing' distinct from philosophical aesthetics; he also discusses Carrier's views in the context of those writers whom Carrier examines in Artwriting.

Letter From Kiva, Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

Between the Species

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Review Essay: John Taylor And Wendy Childs, Eds., Politics And Crisis In Fourteenth-Century England, Kenneth G. Madison

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John Taylor and Wendy Childs, eds., Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xvi, 157 pp., index, $30.00.

Review Essay: M. Beresford And J. G. Hurst, Eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, R. Bruce Hitchner

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M. Beresford and J. G. Hurst, eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, Alan Sutton, 1989, 340 pp., ill., maps, $48.00.

"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain

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Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …

The Mystic As Pilgrim: Margery Kempe And The Tradition Of Nonfictional Travel Narrative, James P. Helfers

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Margery Kempe, fifteenth-century pilgrim and female mystic, stirred up controversy in her own day and continues to do so in the present. This controversy, then and now, centers on both Margery's spiritual life and its social expression. While she was alive, her contemporaries disagreed over the validity of her mystical experience and the way that experience manifested itself; now this conflict continues in contemporary critical debates over the nature of her literary and spiritual significance. The Book of Margery Kempe has heretofore been analyzed as autobiography, mystical treatise, devotional manual, and feminist tract. Clarissa Atkinson, for instance, sees the book …

Review Essay: Tarquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione Critica Basata Sulla Seconda Edizione Del 1570 Con Le Varianti Della Princeps (1562), Robert M. Johnston

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Torquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione critica basata sulla seconda edizione del 1570 con le varianti della princeps (1562), ed. Michael Sherberg, Classici italiani minori 16, Longo Editore, 1990, 332 pp.

Review Essay: Hilda L. Smith And Susan Cardinale, Women And The Literature Of The Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based On Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Renée Pigeon

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Hilda L. Smith and Susan Cardinale, Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies, No. 10, Greenwood Press, 1990, xxi, 353 pp., $45.00.

Review Essay: Elizabeth D. Harvey And Katherine E. Maus, Eds., Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory And Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, David Freeman

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Elizabeth D. Harvey and Katherine E. Maus, eds. Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, University of Chicago Press, 1990, 352 pp., $47.50.

The Artist As Entrepreneur: Long-Term Professional Bonds In Quattrocento Florence, Yael Even

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A number of comparatively recent publications on collaboration in Quattrocento art attest to the renewed interest in reassessing the nature of professional exchange among artist. These studies continue to shed more light on the prevalence and extent of collaborative artistic undertakings in Florence during this period. Originating in archival research, the studies reject the romanticized, traditional view of Early Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects as solitary geniuses, suggesting instead that these creative talents operated as entrepreneurs who collaborated to establish profitable careers.

Review Essay: Circa 1492: Art In The Age Of Exploration, Delno West

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Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, ed. Jay A. Levenson, Yale University Press, 1991, 671 pp., ill., $59.95.

Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke

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Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton, American University Studies 4, Peter Lang, 1990, 394 pp., biblio., index, $65.00.

Moral Lessons For Women Readers Of Jean Lemaire De Belges's Les Illustrations De Gaule Et Singularitez De Troye, Judy Kem

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Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473-1525), poet and historiographer of the French and Burgundian courts of the early Renaissance, wrote his epic history of Troy, Les Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (1511-1513), at the request of his patron, Margaret of Austria, to offer an "occupation voluptueuse, et non pas inutile" [sensual yet useful occupation] to the ladies of France (1:11). Lemaire dedicated each of the three books of his epic to a different noblewoman. Mercury, who narrates the prologues of all three volumes, identifies each noblewoman with one of the three goddesses of the Judgment of Paris: Margaret of …

Review Essay: David M. Dean And Norman L. Jones, Eds., The Parliaments Of Elizabethan England, F. Jeffrey Platt

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David M. Dean, and Norman L. Jones, eds., The Parliaments of Elizabethan England, Basil Blackwell, 1990, 226 pp., $45.00.

Review Essay: Dorothea Kehler And Susan Baker, In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives On Renaissance Drama, James Fitzmaurice

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Dorothea Kehler and Susan Baker, In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, Scarecrow Press, 1991, vi, 345 pp., biblio., index, $37.50.