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Reality and Culture

Essays on the Philosophy of Bernard Harrison

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More than being a volume about the philosophy of Bernard Harrison, this volume is about how Harrison conceptualizes the creation of the human world. One might be tempted to classify Harrison as a major voice in many diverse

discussions—philosophy of literature, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, color studies, epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, philosophy of culture, Wittgenstein, antisemitism, and more—without recognizing a unifying strand that ties them together. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Harrison contests and destabilizes a persistent and misleading alignment of culture with subjectivity—whether found in unexamined distinctions between nature and culture or appearance and reality. His general aim has been to undermine the belief that human culture deals in smoke and mirrors, and that the only realities are those of extra-human nature. He emphasizes the paraxial foundation of meaning, and argues that the creative inventions of language and culture are as real as any extra-linguistic reality. While not dismissing the possibility that some extra-human reality exists, he holds that the pre-conceptual world is unorganized; he emphasizes that the only world that we can access is, indeed, the human world that is the outcome of human cognition. This volume offers new critical essays that examine Harrison’s corpus, written by distinguished voices in philosophy and literary studies. It bridges many of the abysses of conflicting opinion opened by the culture wars of the past half-century. Importantly, it includes an opening essay by Harrison that elucidates the unifying strand running through his variegated philosophical writings, and concludes with a chapter in which he replies to and reflects on the other critical essays herein.

    Collection : Value Inquiry Book Series

  • Publication 2014
  • ISBN 978-90-420-3819-6
  • Support Livre broché
  • Num. dans la collection 270
  • Nombre de pages 286

Contents

Michael Krausz: Editorial Foreword

Patricia Hanna and Dorothy Harrison: Foreword

Preface

Bernard Harrison: Prologue: Reality and Culture

Part One: Literature and Reality

John Gibson: What Do Humanists Want?

Murray Baumgarten: Reading Dickens: Pleasure and the Play of Bernard Harrison’s “Social Practices”

Richard Eldridge: Harrison, Wittgenstein, Donne, and the Powers of Literary Art

Part Two: The Constitution of the Moral Life

Leona Toker: Bernard Harrison on the English Novel

Alan Tapper: From Meaning to Morality in Kovesi and Harrison

Edward Alexander: Paying a Debt: Bernard Harrison versus the Old-New Antisemitism

Part Three: Language and Practice

Danièl Moyal-Sharrock: Bernard Harrison, Literature, and the Stream of Life

Patricia Hanna: Language without Meaning: The Limits of Biolinguistics

Michael Krausz: Bernard Harrison’s “World”

Dennis Patterson: Meaning, Truth, and Practices: A Conundrum

Michael Morris: Language, Fiction, and the Later Wittgenstein

Bernard Harrison: Replies and Reflections

Works Cited

Appendix: Selected Publications of Bernard Harrison

About the Authors

Name Index

Subject Index

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