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    French Studies In The Philosophy Of Science : Contemporary Research in France (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402093685
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science 276
    DDC: 501
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frankreich ; Naturwissenschaften ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Having examined previous volumes of the Boston Studies series devoted to different countries, and having discussed the best way to present contemporary research in France, we have arrived at a careful selection of 15 participants, including the organizers. Our aim is to bring together philosophers and practicing scientist from the major institutions of the country, both universities and research centers. The areas of research represented here cover a wide spectrum of sciences, from mathematics and physics to the life sciences, as well as linguistics and economics. This selection is a showcase of French philosophy of science, illustrating the different methods employed: logico-linguistic analysis, rational reconstruction and historical inquiry. These participants have the ability to relate their research both to the French tradition and current discussions on the international scene. Also included is a substantial historical introduction, explaining the development of philosophy of science in France, the various schools of thought and methods as well as the major concepts and their significance.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Legend of Philosophy's Striptease (Trends in Philosophy of Science); French Philosophy of Technology; A Problem in General Philosophy of Science: The Rational Criteria of Choice; Science and Realism: The Legacy of Duhem and Meyerson in Contemporary American Philosophy of Science; Philosophy and 20th Century Physics; Foundations of Physics: The Empirical Blindness; Philosophy of Chemistry; Pharmacology as a Physical Object; Philosophy of Biology: An Historico-Critical Characterization; Philosophy and Contemporary Biological Research; What is a Mental Function?
    Description / Table of Contents: Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceDuhemian Themes in Expected Utility Theory
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9368-5
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    The scientist's atom and the philosopher's : how science succeeded and philosophy failed to gain knowledge of atoms (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048123629
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    Series Statement: Boston studies in the philosophy of science 279
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Chalmers, Alan The scientist's atom and the philosopher's stone
    DDC: 541.22
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Philosophy (General) ; Physics History ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Atomistik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Naturphilosophie ; Geschichte
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2362-9
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    Going Amiss In Experimental Research (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402088933
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science 267
    DDC: 500
    Keywords: Science (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General)
    Abstract: " Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures. These failures have a variety of features, depending on the particulars of their sources. For the experimenter these pitfalls should be avoided and their effects minimized. For the historian-philosopher of science and the science educator, on the other hand, they are instructive starting points for reflecting on science in general and scientific method and practice in particular. Often more is learned from failure than from confirmation and successful application. The identification of error, its source, its context, and its treatment shed light on both practices and epistemic claims. This book shows that it is fruitful to bring to light forgotten and lost failures, subject them to analysis and learn from their moral. The study of failures, errors, pitfalls and mistakes helps us understand the way knowledge is pursued and indeed generated. The book presents both historical accounts and philosophical analyses of failures in experimental practice. It covers topics such as ""error as an object of study"", ""learning from error"", ""concepts and dead ends"", ""instrumental artifacts"", and ""surprise and puzzlement"". This book will be of interest to historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science as well as to practicing scientists and science educators. "
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Mapping "Going Amiss"; Error: The Long Neglect, the One-Sided View, and a Typology; Error as Historiographical Challenge: The Infamous Globule Hypothesis; Learning Without Error; Living Extremely Flat: The Life of an Automaton; John von Neumann's Conception of Error of (in)Animate Systems; Experimental Reorientations; Concepts from the Bench: Hans Krebs, Kurt Henseleit and the Urea Cycle; How Experiments Make Concepts Fail: Faraday and Magnetic Curves; A Pioneer Who Never Got It Right: James Dewar and the Elusive Phenomena of Cold
    Description / Table of Contents: Distinguishing Real Results from Instrumental Artifacts: The Case of the Missing RainGoing Right and Making It Wrong: The Reception of Fizeau's Ether-Drift Experiment of 1859; The Spectrum of ß Decay: Continuous or Discrete? A Variety of Errors in Experimental Investigation; The Scent of Filth: Experiments, Waste, and the Set-Up; In the Thick of Organic Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8893-3
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    The Founders of Western Thought - The Presocratics : A diachronic parallelism between Presocratic Thought and Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402097911
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 257
    Keywords: History ; Philosophy (General) ; Science (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: There are two main contributions in this book: Firstly, to make the founding and evolution of the Western thought accessible to the reflective man of our day, since the spirit of the Presocratics – although it is considered to constitute a true intellectual revolution – remains unknown to the broader community and secondly to shed greater light – probably for the first time – on the scientific dimension of the Presocratics’ work, and show its timeless value. This book is a balanced interdisciplinary philosophic-scientific presentation of the evolution of Western thought through the presocratic tradition, where the synthesis of rationality and intuition – rather than their opposition – is the key to answering all questions of science, as we now understand the them. It is a book that investigates the roots of Western science and philosophy, where probably for the first time a coherent interrelation is shown between Presocratics’ thought and classical, as well as modern physical sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Juncture; Introduction to the Presocratics; Thales of Miletus (ca. 625-546 B.C.); Anaximander of Miletus (ca. 610-546 B.C.); Anaximenes of Miletus (ca. 585-525 B.C.); Pythagoras of Samos (ca. 570-496 B.C.); Xenophanes of Colophon (ca. 570-470, B.C.; Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca. 540-480 B.C.); Parmenides of Elea (ca. 515-450 B.C.); Empedocles of Acragas (ca. 494-434 B.C.); Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (ca. 500-428 B.C.); Democritus of Abdera (ca. 460-360 B.C.); Epilogue;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9791-1
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    Rethinking Popper (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402093388
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in The Philosophy of Science 272
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.: Rethinking Popper
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994
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    Mapping the Future of Biology : Evolving Concepts and Theories (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402096365
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 266
    DDC: 570.1
    Keywords: Biology Philosophy ; Developmental biology ; Evolution (Biology) ; Life sciences ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    The English Galileo : Thomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402054990
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 268
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Schemmel, Matthias The English Galileo
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Harriot, Thomas 1560-1621 ; Bewegung ; Mechanik ; Geschichte
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5499-0
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    Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945 (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402022746
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 566 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 23
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Neurath, Otto, 1882 - 1945 Economic writings
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Economics ; Microeconomics ; Economics Methodology ; Environmental economics ; Philosophy ; Quelle ; Neurath, Otto 1882-1945 ; Wiener Kreis ; Politische Ökonomie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1904-1945 ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This book makes available for the first time in English a substantial part of Otto Neurath's economic writings. The essays and small monographs translated here extend from his student years to his last ever finished piece. They chart not only Neurath's varied interests in the economic history of antiquity, in war economics and schemes for the socialisation of peacetime economies, in the theory of welfare measures and social indicators and in issues of the theory of collective choice, but also show his philosophical interests emerging in his contributions to seminal debates of the German Social Policy Association. This volume shows that Neurath's important contributions to the socialist calculation debate are but one aspect of a many-sided and original oeuvre. The translations are preceded by an introductory essay by one of the editors which contextualises the selections by locating them in the various debates of the time that provided their original setting. This book is of interest to economists, philosophers of social science and of economics as well as to historians of philosophy of science and of analytic philosophy.
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2274-3
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    The Sexual Revolution in Modern English Literature (1973)
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    ISBN: 9789401168007
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Germanic languages
    Abstract: One: The Victorian Ethos and Edwardian Repercussions -- I. The Victorian Sex-Ethic -- II. Thomas Hardy and the Sexual Theme -- III. H. G. Wells and the New Sexual Morality -- Two: The Sexual Revolution and the Modern Drama -- IV. Bernard Shaw and the New Love-Ethic -- V. Somerset Maugham on Women and Love -- VI. Noel Coward and the Love-Ethic of the Jazz Age -- Three: Eros in England -- VII. Eros and Agape in James Joyce -- VIII. D. H. Lawrence and the Religion of Sex -- IX. Aldous Huxley: Sex and Salvation -- Four: The English Literary Scene: from the Thirties to the Present -- X. The New Sex Morality -- XI. Sex and Sadism -- XII. The Subversion of Sexual Morality -- Five: Finale -- XIII. Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: The study of its literature is a useful guide to the degree of sexual security existing in a culture. ' When a future historian comes to treat of the social taboos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a fourteen-volume life-work, his theories of the existence of an enormous secret language of bawdry and an immense oral literature of obscene stories and rhymes known, in various degrees of initiation, to every man and woman in the country, yet never consigned to writing or openly admitted as existing, will be treated as a chimerical notion by the enlightened age in which he writes. ' If I were asked to name some characteristics typical of the mid-20th century, I would put first the uncritical worship of money, the spread of nationalism, the tyranny of the orgasm, the homosexual protest and the apotheosis of snobbery. Money, sex, and social climbing motivate society. " The English are, on the whole, an inhibited people. They have a basic prudery and gaucheness in sex matters which sets them apart from almost every other nation in Europe . . . . In England, the realisation that many of the restraints and taboos of Victorian times are unnatural and even psychologically harmful, combined with the decline of organized religion, has led to a considerable laxity in sex matters, particularly since World War II! 1.
    Description / Table of Contents: One: The Victorian Ethos and Edwardian RepercussionsI. The Victorian Sex-Ethic -- II. Thomas Hardy and the Sexual Theme -- III. H. G. Wells and the New Sexual Morality -- Two: The Sexual Revolution and the Modern Drama -- IV. Bernard Shaw and the New Love-Ethic -- V. Somerset Maugham on Women and Love -- VI. Noel Coward and the Love-Ethic of the Jazz Age -- Three: Eros in England -- VII. Eros and Agape in James Joyce -- VIII. D. H. Lawrence and the Religion of Sex -- IX. Aldous Huxley: Sex and Salvation -- Four: The English Literary Scene: from the Thirties to the Present -- X. The New Sex Morality -- XI. Sex and Sadism -- XII. The Subversion of Sexual Morality -- Five: Finale -- XIII. Concluding Remarks.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-6800-7
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    Literature and Society (1972)
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    ISBN: 9789401748513
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 266 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: I: Asocial Literature -- I. The Asocial Writer -- II. A Trinity of the Absurd -- III. The Individual versus Society -- IV. Revolt and Madness -- II: The Literature of Social Criticism -- V. The Problem of Definition -- VI. Shaw the Social Prophet -- VII. The Social Conscience of the Thirties -- VIII. The Social Criticism of John Dos Passos -- IX. The Moral Commitment of John Steinbeck -- X. The Socioeconomic Motif in the Literature of the Angry Young Men -- XI. The Call of Conscience -- XII. The Nemesis of War -- XIII. The Atomic Holocaust -- XIV. The Kingdom of Nightmare and Death -- III: The Literature of Social Commitment -- XV. The Politics of the Writer -- XVI. Ignazio Silone: the Revolutionary Turned Saint -- XVII. The Epic Theater of Bertolt Brecht -- XVIII. The Cult of Socialist Realism -- IV: Conclusion -- XIX. Conclusion.
    Abstract: 1. Prolegomena The purpose of this book is to examine anew and from a number of different perspectives the highly complex and controversial relation between literature and society. This is not meant to be a study in sociology or political science; the analysis of literature - its structure, content, function, and effect - is our primary concern. What we shall try to find out is how the imaginative work is rooted in and grows out of the parent social body, to what extent it is influenced in subject matter as well as form and technique by the domi­ nant climate of ideas in a given historical period, and to what degree and in what manner literature "influences" the society to which it is addressed. The stream of literary influence is of course difficult to trace to its putative source, for here we are not dealing, as in science, with isolated physical phenomena which can be fitted precisely within some cause-and-effect pat­ tern. The relationship between literature and society is far more subtle and complex than social scientists or cultural critics commonly assume.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-4851-3
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    Literature and Society (1972)
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    ISBN: 9789401027700
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Language and languages—Style. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: I: Asocial Literature -- A. Expressionism and the Aesthetics of the Absurd -- I. The Asocial Writer -- II. A Trinity of the Absurd -- B. The Revolt Against Society: Anarchism, Alienation, the Beat Ethic and Madness -- III. The Individual versus Society -- IV. Revolt and Madness -- II: The Literature Of Social Criticism -- A. The Voice of Social Criticism -- V. The Problem of Definition -- VI. Shaw the Social Prophet -- VII. The Social Conscience of the Thirties -- VIII. The Social Criticism of John Dos Passos -- IX. The Moral Commitment of John Steinbeck -- X. The Socioeconomic Motif in the Literature of the Angry Young Men -- B. The Literature of Social Protest -- XI. The Call of Conscience -- XII. The Nemesis of War -- XIII. The Atomic Holocaust -- XIV. The Kingdom of Nightmare and Death -- III: The Literature of Social Commitment -- XV. The Politics of the Writer -- XVI. Ignazio Silone: the Revolutionary Turned Saint -- XVII. The Epic Theater of Bertolt Brecht -- XVIII. The Cult of Socialist Realism -- IV: Conclusion -- XIX. Conclusion.
    Abstract: 1. Prolegomena The purpose of this book is to examine anew and from a number of different perspectives the highly complex and controversial relation between literature and society. This is not meant to be a study in sociology or political science; the analysis of literature - its structure, content, function, and effect - is our primary concern. What we shall try to find out is how the imaginative work is rooted in and grows out of the parent social body, to what extent it is influenced in subject matter as well as form and technique by the domi­ nant climate of ideas in a given historical period, and to what degree and in what manner literature "influences" the society to which it is addressed. The stream of literary influence is of course difficult to trace to its putative source, for here we are not dealing, as in science, with isolated physical phenomena which can be fitted precisely within some cause-and-effect pat­ tern. The relationship between literature and society is far more subtle and complex than social scientists or cultural critics commonly assume.
    Description / Table of Contents: I: Asocial LiteratureA. Expressionism and the Aesthetics of the Absurd -- I. The Asocial Writer -- II. A Trinity of the Absurd -- B. The Revolt Against Society: Anarchism, Alienation, the Beat Ethic and Madness -- III. The Individual versus Society -- IV. Revolt and Madness -- II: The Literature Of Social Criticism -- A. The Voice of Social Criticism -- V. The Problem of Definition -- VI. Shaw the Social Prophet -- VII. The Social Conscience of the Thirties -- VIII. The Social Criticism of John Dos Passos -- IX. The Moral Commitment of John Steinbeck -- X. The Socioeconomic Motif in the Literature of the Angry Young Men -- B. The Literature of Social Protest -- XI. The Call of Conscience -- XII. The Nemesis of War -- XIII. The Atomic Holocaust -- XIV. The Kingdom of Nightmare and Death -- III: The Literature of Social Commitment -- XV. The Politics of the Writer -- XVI. Ignazio Silone: the Revolutionary Turned Saint -- XVII. The Epic Theater of Bertolt Brecht -- XVIII. The Cult of Socialist Realism -- IV: Conclusion -- XIX. Conclusion.
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    The Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature (1971)
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    Abstract: I: Sex, Religion, Science, and Literature -- I. Introduction -- II. The Science of Psychoanalysis and Sexuality -- II: The Naturalistic Eros in America -- III. The Forerunners of Revolt -- IV. Dreiser and Sexual Freedom -- V. Sherwood Anderson: The Phallic Chekhov -- VI. Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age -- VII. Eugene O’Neill: The Tragedy of Love without God -- VIII. The Hemingway Cult of Love -- IX. Faulkner’s World of Love and Sex -- III: The Mystique of Sex in Contemporary American Literature -- Section A: Sex as Salvation -- X. Henry Miller: Prophet of the Sexual Revolution -- XI. The Sexualized World of the Beat Generation -- XII. Norman Mailer: Salvation and the Apocalyptic Orgasm -- Section B: The Dialectic of the Sex Mystique -- XIII. The Death of Love -- XIV. Satyriasis and Nymphomania -- IV: Conclusion -- XV. Conclusion -- Appendix: The Problem of Censorship.
    Abstract: 1. The Dialectic of the Sex-Motif in Literature Sex is a function of culture; in literature today it plays only a small though aggressively righteous part. Nature, long held in bondage, periodically breaks out in revolt, but its victory is never complete. In every society, prim­ itive as well as modem, the sexual instinct is for good or evil always subject to some measure of regulation and restraint. In literature, where the battle between love and sex, spirit and flesh, is fought out in terms of symbolic action, the writers support their cause, for or against sexual freedom, with varying degrees of evangelical ardor and outspokenness. On this issue there is no unanimity for the simple reason that American culture is not unified in its beliefs concerning the nature of man. The central conflict between instinctual needs and the claims of the ideal, between physical desire and the inner check, between Dionysus and Christ, goes on all the time. Sublimation is the cultural process whereby sexual energy is deflected from its biological source and diverted into spiritually "higher" and socially more useful channels. But sublimation is for most men hard to achieve. As civilization grows more complex, the individual is exposed to a series of increasingly severe moral strains. Pitted against Nature while subject to its laws, he must hence­ forth be governed in his behavior by inner as well as outer controls.
    Description / Table of Contents: I: Sex, Religion, Science, and LiteratureI. Introduction -- II. The Science of Psychoanalysis and Sexuality -- II: The Naturalistic Eros in America -- III. The Forerunners of Revolt -- IV. Dreiser and Sexual Freedom -- V. Sherwood Anderson: The Phallic Chekhov -- VI. Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age -- VII. Eugene O’Neill: The Tragedy of Love without God -- VIII. The Hemingway Cult of Love -- IX. Faulkner’s World of Love and Sex -- III: The Mystique of Sex in Contemporary American Literature -- Section A: Sex as Salvation -- X. Henry Miller: Prophet of the Sexual Revolution -- XI. The Sexualized World of the Beat Generation -- XII. Norman Mailer: Salvation and the Apocalyptic Orgasm -- Section B: The Dialectic of the Sex Mystique -- XIII. The Death of Love -- XIV. Satyriasis and Nymphomania -- IV: Conclusion -- XV. Conclusion -- Appendix: The Problem of Censorship.
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    The Ironic Vision in Modern Literature (1969)
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Language and languages—Style.
    Abstract: I: The Evolution of Irony -- I: The Ironic Vision in Modern Literature -- II: Tragic Irony: Ancient and Modern -- II: The Philosophers Set the Stage for the Ironic Vision -- III: Schopenhauer: The Implicit Irony of Pessimism -- IV: The Dilemma of the Superman -- III: Religious Irony -- V: Irony and the Religious Quest -- VI: Death the Supreme Ironist -- IV: Irony in Modern Poetry, Fiction, and Drama -- VII: Thomas Hardy the Cosmic Ironist -- VIII: Anatole France and Aesthetic Irony -- IX: Chekhov’s Naturalistic Irony -- X: Illusion Versus Reality -- V: Irony and the Diabolical -- XI: The Devil as Ironist -- XII: The Irony of Thomas Mann -- VI: The Nihilism of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Art -- XIII: The Irony of the Absurd -- VII: Conclusion -- XIV: Conclusion.
    Description / Table of Contents: I: The Evolution of IronyI: The Ironic Vision in Modern Literature -- II: Tragic Irony: Ancient and Modern -- II: The Philosophers Set the Stage for the Ironic Vision -- III: Schopenhauer: The Implicit Irony of Pessimism -- IV: The Dilemma of the Superman -- III: Religious Irony -- V: Irony and the Religious Quest -- VI: Death the Supreme Ironist -- IV: Irony in Modern Poetry, Fiction, and Drama -- VII: Thomas Hardy the Cosmic Ironist -- VIII: Anatole France and Aesthetic Irony -- IX: Chekhov’s Naturalistic Irony -- X: Illusion Versus Reality -- V: Irony and the Diabolical -- XI: The Devil as Ironist -- XII: The Irony of Thomas Mann -- VI: The Nihilism of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Art -- XIII: The Irony of the Absurd -- VII: Conclusion -- XIV: Conclusion.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-0977-0
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    Modern Literature and the Death of God (1966)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Humanities ; Comparative literature. ; Religion.
    Abstract: I. the Loss of Faith -- I. Modern Literature and the Death of God -- II. God and the Alienated Self -- III. Eros and the Death of God -- II. the Search for God -- IV. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- V. Dostoevski and the Problem of Religion -- VI. The Literature of Suicide -- VII. The Numinous in Fiction -- VIII. Religion and the Novel -- IX. Catholicism in Fiction -- X. The Dialectics of Tragedy in an Age of Unfaith -- III. the Summing up -- XI. Conclusion.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-0770-7
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