This article reviews Paula Olmos’s Narration as Argument collection.

To be able to produce and understand metaphorical statements is nothing much to boast about: these familiar skills, which children seem to acquire as they learn to talk, are perhaps no more remarkable than our ability to tell and to understand jokes. How odd then that it remains difficult to explain what we do in grasping metaphorical statements. In a provocative paper, "What Metaphors Mean,"1 Donald Davidson has recently charged many students of metaphor, ancient and modern, with having committed a (...) "central mistake." According to him, there is "error and confusion" in claiming "that a metaphor has, in addition to its literal sense or meaning, another sense or meaning." The guilty include "literary critics like Richards, Empson, and Winters; philosophers from Aristotle to Max Black; psychologists from Freud and earlier to Skinner and later; and linguists from Plato to Uriel Weinreich and George Lakoff." Good company, if somewhat mixed. The error to be extirpated is the "idea that a metaphor has a special meaning". If Davidson is right, much that has been written about metaphor might well be consigned to the flames. Even if he proves to be wrong, his animadversions should provoke further consideration of the still problematic modus operandi of metaphor. · 1. In "What Metaphors Mean," Critical Inquiry 5 : 31-47. All further references in text. Max Black is Susan Linn Sage professor of philosophy and humane letters emeritus at Cornell University and senior member of the Cornell program on science, technology, and society. His many influential works include Models and Metaphors, A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus, and, most recently, Caveats and Critiques. During the fall of 1978 he was Tarner Lecturer at Cambridge University and is currently preparing a book on rationality based on those lectures. (shrink)

_Queer Theory and Social Change_ argues that there is a crisis within Queer theory over whether or not its theories can actually deliver change. Max Kirsch presents a challenging alternative to the current fascination with post-modern analyses of identity, culture, and difference. It emphasizes the need for a discussion of the importance of communities and the role of globalization on queer movements.

EDITOR’S ABSTRACTIn this article, Huang provides a historical account of the way intellectuals have conceptualized democracy, representative assemblies, and political parties from the end of the Qing dynasty to the beginning of the Republican period. He outlines thirteen items that characterize Chinese democratic thought during this period, before tracing the historical origins of each.

Gegründet im Jahr 1859, zählt die Juristische Gesellschaft zu Berlin zu den ältesten ihrer Art in Europa und blickt auf eine lange Tradition zurück. In der Schriftenreihe der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin erscheinen seit 1959 ausgewählte Beiträge aus dem reichhaltigen Vortrags- und Veranstaltungsprogramm der Gesellschaft mit dem Ziel, der juristischen Wissenschaft und Praxis in der Hauptstadt ein anspruchsvolles Forum zu bieten.

In this article I construe Russell's definite description notation as a fragment of an "ideal language"– a language in which, as Russell puts it in the "Logical Atomism" lectures, "the words in a proposition correspond one by one with the components of the corresponding fact." Russell's notation – containing as it does variables, quantifiers and the identity sign – commits him to an ontology that is lavish indeed. It thus conflicts with the spirit of the theory of descriptions, which is (...) developed in the service of ontological frugality. I make use of arguments derived from the Tractatus to show that an ideal language need not contain logical signs. I thus defend the spirit of the theory of descriptions while departing from its letter. (shrink)

Excerpt from Asthetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft: In den Grundzugen Dargestellt Dies Buch ist eigentlich schon seit zwei Jahren fertig. Hemmungen und Ablenkungen haben die Veroffentlichung bis heute hintangehalten. Inzwischen sind einige Systeme der Asthetik und sehr viele Einzeluntersuchungen hervorgetreten. Sie wurden mit dem lebhaftesten Gefuhl der Erlcenntlichkeit benutzt, soweit der schon ge spannte Rahmen es erlaubte; aber gemalz dem Charakter dieser Darstellung, die nur Grundzuge bietet, habe ich es vermieden, mich des naheren mit den zufallig jungsten und gerade jetzt bekanntesten (...) Theorien auseinanderzusetzen. Fur die bis ins Einzelste dringende Erorterung scheint mir eine Zeitschrift geeigneter: die soeben begrundete Zeitschrift fur Asthetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschafk wird solchen Forderungen des Tages besser dienen konnen. Ferner habe ich mir im Hinblick auf jene Bucher ernstlich die Frage vorgelegt, ob mein Versuch uberflussig geworden sei. Aus mehreren Grunden glaubte ich doch, verneinend antworten zu durfen. Zunachst tritt die Bemuhung um das Ganze des Gegenstandes hier offenkundiger hervor als in den ubrigen Werken der neueren Literatur. lm vollen BewuBtsein der Tatsache, daBeine umfassende Asthetik aus der Feder eines Mannes ebenso luckenhaft ausfallen mu Bwie etwa die von einem und demselben Autor geschriebene -l(unstgeschichtei, wagte ich das Unternehmen, weil der Vorteil einheitlicher Auffassung mir groBer schien als die unvermeidlichen schaden. jetzt, wo ich denselben Gegenstand in anderer Gliederung vortrage, sehe ich, an wie vielen stellen mir nicht alles nach Wunsch gegluckt ist. Man vollbringt eben selten die Bucher, die man will. Man denkt sie sich bergan, und nachher bleiben sie unbeweglich auf der Ebene. Die ffauptschuld tragt der Geist unseres Zeitalters der Mittelbarkeit, in dem die Beziehung zum Leben zusammenschrumpft und fast nur noch uber Gelesenes gelesen, uber Geschriebenes geschrieben, uber Gesprochenes gesprochen wird. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.". (shrink)

Achieving judgment -- In sensible judgment -- Sentencing -- Dissenting -- Making judgments -- Judging as right -- Living on the premises -- Inferring, judging, arguing -- Questioning critique -- Sting of reason -- Critique's mystique -- Enigma absolute -- Moving establishment -- Being nomadic -- Chasing after modernity -- When to forget.

This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more. >.

The “International Congress for the Philosophy of Science” was held in the week of August 23–28, 1954 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. The Institute enjoys a very high reputation as one of the foremost schools of its kind in the world. It was at this Institute that Albert Einstein taught at the beginning of his academic career. The Congress was arranged as the Second Congress of the “Union Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences” which has its (...) permanent seat in Paris, France. The first Congress of the U.I.P.S. was held in Paris in 1949. It was then that the “International Forum of Zurich” was asked to organize five years later the Congress of Zurich. (shrink)