Simpson / Fish / Jameson Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We re Coming From

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8373-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

A distinguished critic explores the term "situatedness" - the self's position in time and place in the world and its treatment seen in legal theory, social science, literature, and philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, David

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Self-Affiliation and the Management of Confusion

2. Mitigating Circumstances: Secular Situatedness and the Law

3. With God on Our Side? The Science of Character

4. Literary Situations, Novel Solutions

5. Reasonable Situations: Philosophy, Biography, and Private Life

6. Lost for Words: Can We Stop Situating Ourselves?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Simpson is G. B. Needham Fellow and Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His previous books include The Politics of American English and The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature.