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- An essay in post-Romantic literary theory: art, artifact, and the innocent eye.BruceEdward Fleming -1991 - Lewiston, N.Y., USA: E. Mellen Press.Offers a theory of art that overturns post-Romantic, prescriptive theories and reclaims the independent and direct experience of art as being of primary importance. The text examines the relevance of perception and attacks social usefulness as the criterion of excellence in the arts.
- Science and the Self: The Scale of Knowledge.BruceEdward Fleming -2004 - Upa.Science and the Self offers a fundamental re-conception of the relationship between science, a specific type of knowledge, and the other types of knowledge that are equally part of life. This book offers a refreshing, coherent view that explains the nature of the self in the world, the nature of belief, and whether miracles are possible.
- Sexual Ethics: Liberal Vs. Conservative.BruceEdward Fleming -2004 - Upa.Sexual Ethics considers the traditional Western views, as well as Freudian explanations, of sexuality. AuthorBruce E. Fleming proposes that sex operates in an intrinsically undefined area, one stranded between the two realms that otherwise define our public and private lives. The most heated debate regarding sexual matters is between liberal and conservatives. Whether or not these two groups can continue to co-exist under the umbrella of American democracy depends on their willingness to adhere to the basic principals of (...) democracy. (shrink)
- Disappointment: Or the Light of Common Day.BruceEdward Fleming -2005 - Upa.In his new work, Disappointment,Bruce Fleming starts from the realization that even objective views of the world are so only under specific circumstances. Subjects range from war and the nature of explanation systems such as science and astrology to a concept Fleming calls "coloring." When we identify coloring, it seems to us that a single quality of something larger has eclipsed all its other qualities—for example, skin color or sexual orientation coming to stand for the whole much more (...) complex individual. (shrink)
- Running is Life: Transcending the Crisis of Modernity.BruceEdward Fleming -2010 - Upa.This book is set in many places—Cairo, the Eastern Sierras, Las Vegas, New York's Adirondack Mountains, and Barcelona, among others—but always in the moving body of the runner hurtling both through and into the world. It is a hymn to human motion and an explanation of its sweetness.No categories
- Modernism and its discontents: philosophical problems of twentieth-century literary theory.BruceEdward Fleming -1995 - New York: P. Lang.Literary theory of the twentieth century in the Anglo-American tradition forms a coherent whole, dividing into discrete clusters. This theory is riddled with purely logical problems inherent in its enterprise, resulting from the fact that Modernist theory develops as an offshoot of Romanticism. Such fundamental flaws, or discontents, afflict all Modernist theory, from Russian Formalism through Structuralism and Deconstruction. The problems of Modernist theory cannot be solved; at most we can resolve to take theory in a new direction.
- The Aesthetic Sense of Life: A Philosophy of the Everyday.BruceEdward Fleming -2007 - Upa.The Aesthetic Sense of Life is a fast-moving book about how to see the world and get value from living every day with the "everyday." Do the infinite number of sensations we're surrounded with every day have intrinsic value? If not, what gives them value? Who appreciates the sunrise if we don't? Is it enough for just us to appreciate it? Or do we have to share it? The Aesthetic Sense of Life considers and answers to questions such as these (...) in clear, readable prose, offering a way of looking at life that makes clear its value and its meaning. The aesthetic sense of life is neither the viewpoint of the saints—for whom the sensations of the world are mere murmuring and illusion—nor the viewpoint of those completely fulfilled by their things, their gadgets, the particulars of their own lives. Most of us fall in the middle between these two extremes: we appreciate, say, a good cup of coffee, a power tool, a new set of towels, or a juicy steak, but don't think the answer to the riddle of existence is to be found in any of these. We appreciate them without thinking them sufficient. What's missing from them? What's missing is this: a sense that they can give meaning to life. (shrink)
- The Thanksgiving Symposium: A Modern Platonic Dialogue on Love.BruceEdward Fleming -2007 - Upa.What if Plato's Symposium took place in present-day America rather than in ancient Athens? The Thanksgiving Symposium imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato's dialogue, The Thanksgiving Symposium focuses on the age-old question: what is the nature of love? In The Thanksgiving Symposium, three men and three women of varying ages and degrees of closeness meet for Thanksgiving dinner. Their particular situations give rise to a discussion of love in the general and the specific, leavened with the normal give (...) and take of social interaction. During the evening, much is discussed and some things are decided. Plato's dialogue verges on being a play about philosophy rather than a philosophy, people discussing things rather than a philosopher telling us what to conclude. The Thanksgiving Symposium develops this aspect of Plato while offering a new philosophy that responds to the old. Is the result a play? A dialogue? A philosophy? Like Plato's Symposium, it is all of these at once. (shrink)
- The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement.Edward Jacobs,Brian D. Earp,Paul S. Appelbaum,LoriBruce,Ksenia Cassidy,Yuria Celidwen,Katherine Cheung,Sean K. Clancy,Neşe Devenot,Jules Evans,Holly Fernandez Lynch,Phoebe Friesen,Albert Garcia Romeu,Neil Gehani,Molly Maloof,Olivia Marcus,Ole Martin Moen,Mayli Mertens,Sandeep M. Nayak,Tehseen Noorani,Kyle Patch,Sebastian Porsdam-Mann,Gokul Raj,Khaleel Rajwani,Keisha Ray,William Smith,Daniel Villiger,Neil Levy,Roger Crisp,Julian Savulescu,Ilina Singh &David B. Yaden -2024 -American Journal of Bioethics 24 (7):6-12.Volume 24, Issue 7, July 2024, Page 6-12.
- No product is perfect: The positive influence of acknowledging the negative.Bruce E. Pfeiffer,Hélène Deval,Frank R. Kardes,Edward R. Hirt,Samuel C. Karpen &Bob M. Fennis -2014 -Thinking and Reasoning 20 (4):500-512.Negative acknowledgement is an impression management technique that uses the admission of an unfavourable quality to mitigate a negative response. Although the technique has been clearly demonstrated, the underlying process is not well understood. The current research identifies a key mediator and moderator while also demonstrating that the effect extends beyond the specific acknowledged domain to the overall evaluation of a target object. The results of study 1 indicate that negative acknowledgement works through mitigating negatively valenced cognitive responses. People who (...) are presented with a negative acknowledgement are less likely to counterargue when forming an evaluation. The results of study 2 reveal that individual differences in need for structure impact the effectiveness of the technique. People who are high in need for structure are more susceptible to the effect presumably because of their desire for easy-to-use information that aids the formation and maintenance of simple knowledge structures. (shrink)
- The Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelics Ethics (HOPE) Working Group Consensus Statement.Edward Https://Orcidorg Jacobs,Brian D. Https://Orcidorg Earp,Paul S. Https://Orcidorg Appelbaum,Lori Https://OrcidorgBruce,Ksenia Cassidy,Yuria Celidwen,Katherine Cheung,Sean K. Clancy,Neşe Devenot,Jules Evans,Holly Fernandez Https://Orcidorg Lynch,Phoebe Https://Orcidorg916X Friesen,Albert Garcia Romeu,Neil Gehani,Molly Maloof,Olivia Marcus,Ole Martin Moen,Mayli Https://Orcidorg Mertens,Sandeep M. Nayak,Tehseen Noorani,Kyle Patch,Sebastian Porsdam-Mann,Gokul Raj,Khaleel Rajwani,Keisha Https://Orcidorg Ray,William Smith,Daniel Https://Orcidorg624X Villiger,Neil Levy,Roger Crisp &Julian Https://Orcidorg Savulescu -forthcoming -.No categories
- The family unconscious: "an invisible bond".EdwardBruce Bynum -1984 - Wheaton, Ill., U.S.A.: Theosophical Pub. House." The family group, the individual, clinical psychologists, all will find this book enormously helpful.
- Dendral and meta-dendral: Their applications dimension.Bruce G. Buchanan &Edward A. Feigenbaum -1978 -Artificial Intelligence 11 (1-2):5-24.
- DENDRAL and Meta-DENDRAL: roots of knowledge systems and expert system applications.Edward A. Feigenbaum &Bruce G. Buchanan -1993 -Artificial Intelligence 59 (1-2):233-240.
- Our African unconscious: the Black origins of mysticism and psychology.EdwardBruce Bynum -2021 - Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.• Examines the Oldawan, the Ancient Soul of Africa, and its correlation with what modern psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious • Draws on archaeology, DNA research, history, and depth psychology to reveal how the biological and spiritual roots of religion and science came out of Africa • Explores the reflections of our African unconscious in the present confrontation in the Americas, in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern psychospirituality The fossil record confirms that humanity originated (...) in Africa. Yet somehow we have overlooked that Africa is also at the root of all that makes us human--our spirituality, civilization, arts, sciences, philosophy, and our conscious and unconscious minds. In this African-revisioned look at the unfolding of human history and culture,EdwardBruce Bynum reveals how our collective unconscious is African. Drawing on archaeology, DNA research, history, depth psychology, and the biological and spiritual roots of religion and science, he demonstrates how all modern human beings, regardless of ethnic or racial categorizations, share a common deeper identity, both psychically and genetically, connected with a primordial African unconscious. Exploring the beginning of early religions, spirituality, and mysticism in Africa, along with philosophy, art, and science, the author looks at the Egyptian Nubian role in the rise of civilization and the emergence of Kemetic Egypt, revealing how and why ancient Egypt was separated from the rest of Africa in the Western mind--despite it being the most sophisticated expression of the Mother Continent. He examines the Oldawan, the Ancient Soul, and its correlation with what modern psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious. Revealing the spiritual and psychological ramifications of our shared African ancestry, the author examines its reflections in the present confrontation in the Americas, in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern Black spirituality, which arose from African diaspora religion and philosophy. By recognizing our shared African unconscious, the matrix that forms the deepest luminous core of human identity, we can learn to see and feel that the differences between one person and another are merely superficial and ultimately there is no real separation between the material and the spiritual. (shrink)
- The role of technology in enhancing low resource agriculture in Africa.Bruce J. Horwith,Phyllis N. Windle,Edward F. MacDonald,J. Kathy Parker,Allen M. Ruby &Chris Elfring -1989 -Agriculture and Human Values 6 (3):68-84.Traditional forms of farming, herding, and fishing are remarkably adapted to African conditions but these traditional approaches are being overtaken by modern pressures, particularly population growth. According to a report published by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a nonpartisan analytical support agency of the U. S. Congress, one promising way to help African farmers and herders would be for development assistance organizations to focus more attention on the various forms of low-resource agriculture that predominate in Africa.In keeping with OTA's (...) mission and primary audience, “Enhancing Agriculture in Africa: A Role for U. S. Development Assistance” (1988) is a policy-oriented synthesis of available technical information. The report provides Congress with a range of options that, if pursued, could help Africans enhance agriculture, increase their food security, and improve their lives.This paper is drawn from the larger OTA report, and it focuses on the role technology might play in enhancing low-resource agriculture. Readers should see the full assessment (OTA, 1988) for more information on policy considerations; the specific technologies mentioned; or a complete list of advisory panel members, workshops and participants, and commissioned papers.OTA's report comes at a critical time: for a variety of reasons—ranging from changing values to increased budget constraints—U. S. foreign assistance policy is undergoing a fundamental reevaluation. This review of the potential of low-resource agriculture, and options the United States might pursue to enhance this approach, was intended to aid in this reevaluation. (shrink)
- Production rules as a representation for a knowledge-based consultation program☆.Randall Davis,Bruce Buchanan &Edward Shortliffe -1977 -Artificial Intelligence 8 (1):15-45.
- The C.S. Lewis Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to his Life, Thought, and Writings.Colin Duriez,Bruce L. Edwards,Michael H. Macdonald,Andrew A. Tadie &Cynthia Marshall -1995 -Utopian Studies 6 (2):124-133.Export citation
Bookmark - The Linguist as Castaway.Bruce L. Edwards -1988 -Renascence 40 (2):129-144.
- Retrospective on “Production rules as a representation for a knowledge-based consultation program”.Randall Davis,Bruce G. Buchanan &Edward H. Shortliffe -1993 -Artificial Intelligence 59 (1-2):181-189.
- DENDRAL: A case study of the first expert system for scientific hypothesis formation.Robert K. Lindsay,Bruce G. Buchanan,Edward A. Feigenbaum &Joshua Lederberg -1993 -Artificial Intelligence 61 (2):209-261.
- Homelessness and WorldlinessThe World, the Text, and the CriticThe Question of Palestine. [REVIEW]Bruce Robbins &Edward W. Said -1983 -Diacritics 13 (3):69.No categories
- The Triumph of Grace in the Theology of Karl Barth.G. C. Berkouwer,F. F.Bruce,Edward John Carnell,J. Gresham Machen,Reinhold Niebuhr &Paul Tillich -1956No categories
- Book Reviews Section 2.William A. Spencer,Joseph C. English,Manuel Maldonado Rivera,Paul F. Anater,RichardEdward Kelly,Hubert J. Keenan,Edward J. Power,Richard R. Renner,Bruce G. Beezer,Don Cochrane,George S. Macia,Harold B. Dunkel &Frederick C. Neff -1973 -Educational Studies 4 (2):75-84.No categories
- Book Reviews Section 1.W. Sherman Ruth,Trevor G. Howe,Sylvester Kohut,Franklin Parker,Daniel Sklakovich,Charles A. Tesconi Jr,C. H. Dobinson,Anthony Scarangello,Gordon C. Ruscoe,J. Stephen Hazlett,Edward H. Berman,D.Bruce Franklin,Ursula Springer,George W. Bright,Abdul A. Al-Rubaiy &John W. Friesen -1972 -Educational Studies 3 (2):89-99.No categories
- Solidarity and Worldliness: ForEdward Said.Bruce Robbins -2004 -Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 3 (1):1-9.
- PeterEdward Lionel Russell 1913-2006.Bruce Taylor -2011 - In Taylor Bruce,Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 172, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, X. pp. 275.Peter Russell was King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford 1953–81. He was recruited into the secret service in the mid-1930s and was sent to Spain during the Civil War. On returning to Oxford, Russell joined Military Intelligence and among other duties was responsible for seeing that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor reached the Bahamas safely. He resumed his academic career after the war and quickly established himself as a scholar of exceptional range and (...) dynamism. Influential publications included ‘Don Quixote as a funny book’ MLA 64, 312–26. Russell was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1977. Obituary byBruce Taylor. (shrink)
- Handbook of research on development and religion [Book Review].Bruce Duncan -2014 -The Australasian Catholic Record 91 (1):124.Duncan,Bruce Review(s) of: Handbook of research on development and religion, edited by Matthew Clarke (Cheltenham UK:Edward Edgar, 2013), pp viii+ 602, hb, US$280.Export citation Bookmark
- Book Reviews Section 5.T. Barr Greenfield,Natalie A. Naylor,Clifford G. Erickson,Roy D. Bristow,Marjorie Holiman,Bruce M. Lutsk,Edward C. Nelson,Richard M. Schrader,Calvin B. Michael,Max Bailey,Robert E. Belding,Hank Prince,Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia,Edgar B. Gumbert,Robert J. Nash,Robert R. Sherman,Philip G. Altbach,Edward F. Carr,Lawrence W. Byrnes &Robert Gallacher -1972 -Educational Studies 3 (4):255-270.No categories
- Ron Amundson.Robert Arrington,Robert Audi,Bruce Aune,William Bechtel,Jonathan Bennett,Alan Berger,Richard Creel,Kathleen Emmett,Edward Erwin &Owen Flanagan -1989 -Behaviorism 17:85.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Applications of Energy: Nineteenth Century. R.Bruce Lindsay.Edward Daub -1978 -Isis 69 (2):310-311.
- (1 other version)Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey.Bruce Kuklick -1985 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (3):175-175.
- Said And Secularism.Bruce Robbins -2008 - In Mina Karavanta & Nina Morgan,Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: reconstellating humanism and the global hybrid. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 140.Export citation Bookmark
- A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000.Bruce Kuklick -2001 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historianBruce Kuklick tells the fascinating story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the USA, in the context of the intellectual and social changes of the times. Kuklick sketches the genesis of these intellectual practices in New England Calvinism and the writing of Jonathan Edwards. He discusses theology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the origins of collegiate philosophy in the early (...) part of the nineteenth century. We see the development of secular preconceptions and the emergence, after Darwin's writings of the mid-late nineteenth century, of forms of thought hostile to religion. Philosophy is situated in a variety of cultural contexts - the ministry, the growing system of higher learning, the conflict between philosophers and theologians and between amateur and professional thinkers, the suspicion of European ideas, and worries about the relevance of philosophy to public and political life. Kuklick's narrative portrays such great thinkers as Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, C. I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, W. V. Quine, and Richard Rorty, and assesses their contributions to philosophy. He brings us right up to date with the first historical treatment of the period after pragmatism, and the fragmentation of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. Kuklick steers a controversial course between the divergent views that historians and philosophers take of the significance of philosophy in recent years. Anyone interested in American intellectual history, or in how philosophy got where it is today, will enjoy this book. (shrink)
- Book Review Section 1. [REVIEW]Craig Kridel,John A. Beineke,Malcolm B. Campbell,Wayne J. Urban,Bruce Anthony Jones,Lynda Stone,Patricia A. Major,John R. Thelin,Edward H. Berman &Donald Vandenberg -1994 -Educational Studies 25 (2):101-152.No categories
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2005.Richard K. Emmerson,Barbara A. Shailor,Susan Mosher Stuard,Madeline H. Caviness,Edward Peters,Thomas J. Heffernan,Constance Brittain Bouchard,Lawrence M. Clopper,Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Bruce W. Holsinger,Carol Symes,PaulEdward Dutton,David N. Klausner,Nancy van Deusen,William Chester Jordan &Vickie Ziegler -2005 -Speculum 80 (3):1022-1034.No categories
- In Defense of the Earth's Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to Copernicanism in the Seventeenth Century byEdward Grant. [REVIEW]Bruce Eastwood -1985 -Isis 76:378-379.
- Stakeholders and the Moral Responsibilities of Business.Bruce Langtry -1994 -Business Ethics Quarterly 4 (4):431-443.This paper discusses the normative ethical theory of the business firm advanced principally by William E. Evan and R.Edward Freeman. According to their stakeholder theory, the firm should be managed for the benefit of its stakeholders: indeed, management has a fiduciary obligation to stakeholders to act as their agent. In this paper I seek to clarify the theory by discussing the concept of a stakeholder and by distinguishing stakeholder theory from two varieties of stockholder theory-I call them ‘pure’ (...) and ‘tinged.’ I argue that the distinctive claims of stakeholder theory, as contrasted with tinged stockholder theories, have been inadequately supported by argument. (shrink)
- Reply to E.Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks. [REVIEW]Edward Slingerland -2000 -Philosophy East and West 50 (1):146 - 147.
- Reply to E.Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks.Review author[S.]:Edward Slingerland -2000 -Philosophy East and West 50 (1):146-147.
- Edward Rosen. Three Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped Between Tycho Brahe and Ursus. New York: Abaris Books, 1986. Pp. 384. ISBN 0-89835-242-8. $20.00. [REVIEW]Bruce Moran -1987 -British Journal for the History of Science 20 (2):235-236.
- The phenomenology of prayer.Bruce Ellis Benson &Norman Wirzba (eds.) -2005 - New York: Fordham University Press.This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that the phenomenology of prayer is as much about the character and boundaries of phenomenological analysis as it is about (...) the heart of religious life.The contributors: Michael F. Andrews,Bruce Ellis Benson, Mark Cauchi, Benjamin Crowe, Mark Gedney, Philip Goodchild, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Lissa McCullough, Cleo McNelly Kearns,Edward F. Mooney, B. Keith Putt, Jill Robbins, Brian Treanor, Merold Westphal, Norman Wirzba, Terence Wright and Terence and James R. Mensch.Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. He is the author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion on Modern Idolatry and The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music. Norman Wirzba is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Georgetown College, Kentucky. He is the author of The Paradise of God and editor of The Essential Agrarian Reader. (shrink)
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Julius Robert Mayer. Prophet of Energy. By RobertBruce Lindsay. London: Pergamon Press, 1973. Pp. viii + 238. £2.75. [REVIEW]Edward Daub -1975 -British Journal for the History of Science 8 (1):88-89.No categories
- Book Review Section 1. [REVIEW]William T. Lowe,Jack K. Campbell,Jack Conrad Willers,John R. Thelin,Barbara Townsend,W.Bruce Leslie,Anthony A. Defalco,Frederick L. Silverman,Edward G. Rozycki,Gertrude Langsam,Alanson van Fleet,Michael Story,James M. Giarelli,J. J. Chambliss,J. E. Christensen &Kenneth C. Schmidt -1982 -Educational Studies 13 (1):51-86.No categories
- The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards. [REVIEW]Bruce Kuklick -1996 -International Studies in Philosophy 28 (4):111-112.No categories
- The Simile of the Fugitive Homicide, Iliad 24.480–84: Analogy, Foiling, and Allusion.Bruce Heiden -1998 -American Journal of Philology 119 (1):1-10.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Simile of the Fugitive Homicide, Iliad 24.480–84:Analogy, Foiling, and AllusionBruce HeidenHomer elaborates "the most dramatic moment in the whole of the Iliad"1 with a unique, disturbing, and pathetic simile. Only in the scene of Priam's unheralded arrival in Achilles' lodging does the predicament of a murderer seeking refuge in a strange land ever provide the material for a Homeric illustration.(Il. 24.477–86)The simile explicitly compares only the wonder experienced (...) by the fugitive's host in the simile and by Achilles in the main narrative as each gazes upon his unexpected visitor. But since the narrator withholds this [End Page 1] link until the end of the simile, the implicit analogy between Priam and the murderer, both suppliants in a stranger's dwelling, seems at least equally prominent. Yet the tenor and the vehicle of this comparison are more notable for their dissimilarity than their resemblance: Priam is not a murderer,2 he is not in a foreign land but in his own, the man he supplicates is an enemy.3 According to MacLeod, "The simile heightens the moment by contrasting a more usual situation with this one."4 Mark W. Edwards writes of the "shock effect" produced by the reversal of roles between Priam and Achilles.5 While these authors see dissimilarity as a functional element of the simile, they do not explore the effects, or potential effects, of an emotional intensification achieved through the particular contrasts presented by this simile alone.6Upon close examination, the simile of the fugitive homicide reveals a multitude of internal and external associations that suggest mysterious, even uncanny interpretive density. It is hardly to be imagined that these associations could have been accurately recognized, much less interpreted, on a single hearing. Indeed, less acute listeners might not even have been troubled by the simile, while the more acute would have registered different disturbing subtleties and pondered them differently. Discussion here, therefore, does not aim at reproducing a single ideal reading of the passage, or at imputing to the poet techniques for eliciting such a reading. Instead it exposes a range of provocations which the simile offers to its audiences and suggests a range of interpretive responses. [End Page 2]The concept of foiling seems promising for the interpretation of sharp contrasts such as those in the simile of the fugitive homicide. In foiling, one or both contrasted qualities are emphasized through their juxtaposition. We find this technique constantly employed in the priamel, a structure that Homer could combine with similes.7 Fränkel perceived that "an interplay of polar (absolute or extreme) opposites is a basic constituent of early Greek (especially archaic) thought and feeling.... as a consequence thought constantly operated with contrasting foils."8 But he scarcely applied this insight to Homeric similes, despite his extensive study of them.9 Porter has convincingly argued that in the numerous similes in the Iliad in which the carnage of the battlefield is compared to scenes of peace, "the grimness and bloodiness of the battlefield are inevitably rendered darker and more tragic by the constant brief glimpses we get in the similes of a world where milk flows, etc.... Conversely, these momentary glimpses of the world of peace are made more idyllic and poignant by the panorama of violence and destruction which surrounds them."10The simile of the fugitive homicide is a bit more complicated than most of the juxtapositions discussed by Porter. Rather than comparing a scene of war to one of peace, this simile compares a scene comprising two elements, one violent, the other not (Achilles, Priam), to another scene of two elements, one violent the other nonviolent (the suppliant homicide and his host). Thus the comparison of violent and nonviolent is doubled. But Porter's basic principle of the mutual emphasis of peace and war through contrastive juxtaposition still applies. The comparison of Priam to a murderer seems to serve as a foil that emphasizes the harmlessness, indeed victimhood, of the elderly Trojan king. Priam's juxtaposition with the violent man he is supplicating would have the same effect: never could he be more powerless than when prostrate before the... (shrink)No categories
- Book Review Section 2. [REVIEW]Donald R. Warren,Ronald E. Butchart,Edward R. Beauchamp,Thomas L. Bernard,Alpha E. Wilson,Lynn Phillips,M. Mobin Shorish,Bruce W. Tuckman,Llyod Suttell,Leo Fay,Dayle M. Bethel &Robert A. Morgart -1974 -Educational Studies 5 (3):148-159.No categories
- Bruce R. Wheaton, The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of wave-particle Dualism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xxiv + 355. ISBN 0-521-25098-6. £22.50, $39.50. With a Foreword by Thomas S. Kuhn. [REVIEW]Edward Mackinnon -1985 -British Journal for the History of Science 18 (3):347-348.
- Bruce Kuklick, "The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930". [REVIEW]Edward H. Madden -1978 -Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 14 (1):53.Export citation Bookmark
- Book Review: The Emergence of Evangelical Spirituality: The Age of Edwards, Newton, and Whitefield. [REVIEW]D.Bruce Hindmarsh -2019 -Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 12 (1):163-165.No categories
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