Ambiguity in the Western Mind,9780820463766

Ambiguity in the Western Mind

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ISBN13: 9780820463766
ISBN10: 0820463760
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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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
Craig J.N. de Paulo
ix
Preface
Joseph Margolis
xi
Introduction
Craig J.N. de Paulo, Patrick Messina and Marc Stier
1(14)
In Praise of Ambiguity
John D. Caputo
15(20)
Tragic Ambiguity in the Oedipus Tyrannos
Robert Guay
35(16)
Is Socrates a Model? Ambiguity in the Symposium of Plato
Marc Stier
51(21)
Augustine of Hippo on Seeing with the Eyes of the Mind
Roland J. Teske, S.J.
72(16)
St. Augustine's Phenomenology of Confusion
Craig J.N. de Paulo
88(13)
Prudence in St. Thomas Aquinas: Certitude in Ambiguity
John M. Haas
101(16)
"Stay, illusion": Ambiguity in Hamlet
Camille Paglia
117(14)
Leo Tolstoy, Russia's Greatest Heretic
Jaroslav Pelikan
131(17)
HOlderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles: Erste Fassung
Arthur Grugan
148(23)
Paddling Against Ethics: Huck Finn as Moral Quagmire
Elizabeth Morgan
171(10)
Exploring Ambiguities in the Political Implications of Freud
Bruce Lapenson
181(10)
Ambiguities in Nietzschean Philosophy: Problems for Feminism
Elizabeth Kaufer Busch
191(22)
An Afterthought on Ambiguity
Marc Stier
213(4)
Notes 217(28)
Index 245

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