Edited by: Christie McDonald& Gary Whil
Available: Amazon
The essays in this collection focus on the essentially moral desire within humanistic inquiry to seek a point of contact between personal experience and intellectual reflection. The book is concerned with the development of a plural vocabulary of transformation that stems from the language of historians, philosophers, feminists, and aestheticians. It delineates a significant and widespread change in intellectual perspective that resists homogenizing the objects of study to abstract conceptual models and structures. What emerges from this volume are personal, responsible, situated languages that engage intellectuals after the waves of abstract theory of the past twenty years.
Contents:
Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl/Preface
Nancy F. Partner/History Without Empiricism/Truth Without Facts
Judith Schlanger/How Old Is Our Cultural Past?
Isabelle Stengers/The Humor of the Present
Nancy Austin/Naming the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon
Karsten Harries/Beauty, Language, and Re-Presentation: Notes Toward a Critique of Aesthetics–With Special Reference to Architecture
Mary Ann Caws/Making Space: For a Poetry of Architecture
Charles Altieri/Intentionality Without Interiority: Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective Agency
Jacques Schlanger/Changing One’s Beliefs
Rosi Braidotti/Theories of Gender
Sarah Westphal/Stories of Gender
Mary Bittner Wiseman/Three Renaissance Madonnas: Freud and the Feminine