The matter of high words : naturalism, normativity, and the postwar sage / Robert Chodat.
2017
PS225 .C48 2017
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Title
The matter of high words : naturalism, normativity, and the postwar sage / Robert Chodat.
ISBN
9780190682187 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PS225 .C48 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.90054
Summary
Ambitious scientific accounts of human thought and behaviour have been a mainstay of American intellectual culture since World War II. But if such theories are true, what is the status of our highest words, the vocabularies that orient and inspire our actions? What forms are available today for exploring and embodying such terms as 'good,' 'courage,' or 'justice'? This work considers the rise of the 'postwar sage,' a strand of post-1945 American writing that takes up these questions in distinctive and illuminating ways.
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Ambitious scientific accounts of human thought and behaviour have been a mainstay of American intellectual culture since World War II. But if such theories are true, what is the status of our highest words, the vocabularies that orient and inspire our actions? What forms are available today for exploring and embodying such terms as 'good,' 'courage,' or 'justice'? This work considers the rise of the 'postwar sage,' a strand of post-1945 American writing that takes up these questions in distinctive and illuminating ways.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2017).
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Print version: 9780190682156
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