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Situatedness, or, Why we keep saying where we're coming from / David Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, David, 1951-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Situation (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Other Title:
- Situatedness
- Why we keep saying where we're coming from
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 forWords: CanWe Stop Situating Ourselves?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920288
- 9781282920286
- 1282920286
- 9780822383734
- 082238373X
- OCLC:
- 850217250
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