1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460786603321

Titolo

Actions, reasons, and reason / / edited by Marco Iorio and Ralf Stoecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-034630-3

3-11-038454-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

128/.4

Soggetti

Act (Philosophy)

Ethics

Reason

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A Desirer’s Reason -- Explaining Actions by Reasons -- How to Improve On Bittner’s Proposal -- Reasons, Reason-Giving and Explanation -- How Much Can We Say about Practical Judgement? -- A Modest Defense of Regret -- Of Ducks and Men -- Reasons for Bare Respect -- Pacifism and Moral Judgment -- The Metaphysical Need and the Utopian Impulse -- Reasonable Movies for Reasonable Agents -- Performing on the Media Stage -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents. During the last decades Rüdiger Bittner, one of the internationally best renown german philosophers and winner of the Gottlob Frege award 2011, has developed a surprisingly different picture: We are much more part than master of the universe. The articles in the volume address this challenging view, illuminating and discussing it from various angles of practical philosophy including the aesthetics of film and theatre. Authors: Ansgar Beckermann (Bielefeld), Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld), Raymond Geuss (Cambridge), Martina Herrmann (Dortmund), Marco Iorio (Potsdam), Susanne Kaul (Bielefeld),



Jens Kulenkampff (Erlangen), Hajo Kurzenberger (Hildesheim), Kirsten Meyer (Berlin), Onora O'Neill (Cambridge), Ralf Stoecker (Bielefeld), Jay Wallace (Berkeley).

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452102203321

Autore

Manea Norman

Titolo

The fifth impossibility [[electronic resource] ] : essays on exile and language / / Norman Manea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-57116-0

9786613600769

0-300-18487-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Margellos world republic of letters

Disciplina

859.434

Soggetti

Exiles

Immigrants - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Exile -- A Friend In Berlin -- Empty Theaters? -- Writers And The Great Beast -- The Incompatibilities -- On Clowns: The Dictator And The Artist -- Happy Guilt -- Blasphemy And Carnival -- Cioran -- Through Romanian Eyes: A Half Century Of The NRF In Bucharest -- Berenger At Bard -- Made In Romania -- An Exile On September 11 And After -- The Walser Debate -- Beyond The Mountains -- Some Thoughts On Saul Bellow -- A Stroll With Nathan -- The Exiled Language -- Casa Minima -- Monuments Of Shame: Twenty Years After The Berlin Wall -- Ephemeridae -- The Dada Capital Of Exiles -- The Fifth Impossibility -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the exiled writer.



Among pieces on the cultural-political landscape of Eastern Europe and on the North America of today, there are astute critiques of fellow Romanian and American writers. Manea answers essential questions on censorship and on linguistic roots. He unravels the relationship of the mother tongue to the difficulties of translation. Above all, he describes what homelessness means for the writer. These essays-many translated here for the first time-are passionate, lucid, and enriching, conveying a profound perspective on our troubled society.