Ambiguity in the Western Mind
by Paulo, Craig J. N. de; Messina, Patrick A.; Stier, Marc; Messina, Patrick A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary
Ambiguity in the Western Mind includes a collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars such as John D. Caputo, Camille Paglia, Jaroslav Pelikan, and Roland Teske along with a preface by Joseph Margolis, all taking up the question of t
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Foreword | |||||
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ix | ||||
| Preface | |||||
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xi | ||||
| Introduction | |||||
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1 | (14) | |||
| In Praise of Ambiguity | |||||
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15 | (20) | |||
| Tragic Ambiguity in the Oedipus Tyrannos | |||||
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35 | (16) | |||
| Is Socrates a Model? Ambiguity in the Symposium of Plato | |||||
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51 | (21) | |||
| Augustine of Hippo on Seeing with the Eyes of the Mind | |||||
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72 | (16) | |||
| St. Augustine's Phenomenology of Confusion | |||||
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88 | (13) | |||
| Prudence in St. Thomas Aquinas: Certitude in Ambiguity | |||||
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101 | (16) | |||
| "Stay, illusion": Ambiguity in Hamlet | |||||
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117 | (14) | |||
| Leo Tolstoy, Russia's Greatest Heretic | |||||
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131 | (17) | |||
| HOlderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles: Erste Fassung | |||||
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148 | (23) | |||
| Paddling Against Ethics: Huck Finn as Moral Quagmire | |||||
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171 | (10) | |||
| Exploring Ambiguities in the Political Implications of Freud | |||||
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181 | (10) | |||
| Ambiguities in Nietzschean Philosophy: Problems for Feminism | |||||
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191 | (22) | |||
| An Afterthought on Ambiguity | |||||
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213 | (4) | |||
| Notes | 217 | (28) | |||
| Index | 245 |
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