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Autore |
Harvey Irene E. <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Labyrinths of exemplarity : at the limits of deconstruction / / Irene E. Harvey |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
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9780791488126 |
0791488128 |
9780585483276 |
0585483272 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Example |
Paradigm (Theory of knowledge) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface: Dimensions of Exemplarity -- Introduction: Exemplarity as the Elixir of Thinking -- Threads of Exemplarity -- For Emile -- For Sophie -- For Us -- Theories of Exemplarity -- Thematized -- The Unthematized Theories of Exemplarity -- Exemplarity and Deconstructibility -- Derrida’s Rousseau -- The Rhetorics of Exemplarity -- Theories of Rhetorics and the Places of Example -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Labyrinths of Exemplarity presents the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the problem of exemplarity—or how we move between the general and the particular in order to try to understand our world. The author's focus ranges from the most basic and fundamental issues of what examples are and where they come from to the complex key issues of how examples function in the discourses they inhabit and what this functioning tells us about the nature of examples or exemplarity itself. The problem is treated especially in connection to Rousseau and Aristotle, with reference to deconstruction (especially Derrida) and the range of Western metaphysics. Ultimately, a new theory of examples is offered, one not drawn from the assumptions made by earlier philosophers but rather from the usage and functioning |
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