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001 2013040563
003 DLC
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008 131017s2014 ilu b 000 0 eng c
010 $a 2013040563
020 $a9780226105758 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9780226105895 (e-book)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aB799$b.S38 2014
082 00 $a100$223
100 1 $aScharfstein, Ben-Ami,$d1919-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll :$bunexpected essays on philosophy, art, life, and death /$cBen-Ami Scharfstein.
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2014.
300 $a242 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-242).
505 0 $aIntroduction: you, me, Kant, and Carroll -- The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll -- A comparatist's risks and rewards -- A handful of rules against philosophical self-isolation -- What death makes of philosophy -- Keeping the world together -- The common universe of aesthetics -- Are the deaf and blind epistemologically isolated? -- Pain, cruelty, and pathology in art -- On the transparency and opacity of philosophers -- The three philosophical traditions -- Does philosophy progress? -- Nonutopian observations on Machiavellism -- On the nature and limits of ineffability -- Ineffabilities are the demons and angels of incompleteness and incompletability -- What can and cannot words express? -- The bird with bread in its beak -- You, me, and Kaufmann's discovering the mind.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Comparative.
650 0 $aArt, Comparative.
650 0 $aMachiavellianism (Psychology)
600 10 $aKant, Immanuel,$d1724-1804.
600 10 $aCarroll, Lewis,$d1832-1898.