David Midgley
Biographic Data
| ID | 984744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Midgley |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Midgley |
| SIGNATURE | MIDGLEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6922-3224 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Essential Mary Midgley
The Service of Self and the Service of Kali
We move on now from strange beliefs based on optimistic distortions of evolutionary theory to ones based on pessimistic distortions, from Lamarck’s escalator to nature red in tooth and claw. Are we then still in realms which ought to be called religious at all? Certainly this is a gloomy and alarming cult. But it is still one celebrated with powerful incantations, such as Tennyson’s and that of M.T. Ghiselin (quoted on p. 340 and to be looked at …
A New Theory of Cultural Archetypes
This book presents a new theory of cultural archetypes, capturing global unity and local diversity in the process.
Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere
Initially propounded by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in 1962 in order to describe the realm of social discourse between the state on one hand, and the private sphere of the market and the family on the other, the concept of a bourgeois public sphere quickly became a central point of reference in the humanities and social sciences. This volume reassesses the validity and reach of Habermas’s concept beyond political theory by exploring concrete …
Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America
Beyond Habermas
During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a “bourgeois public sphere” in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the “public sphere” itself has become perhaps one of the most debated concepts at the very heart of modernity. For Habermas, the tension between the administrative power of th…
Beyond Habermas
Günter Grass, Im Krebsgang
The Essential Mary Midgley
Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects for the first time the very best of this famous philosopher's work, described by the Financial Times as 'common sense philosophy of the highest order'. This unrivalled introduction to a great philosopher and brilliant writer incorporates carefully selec…
Writing Weimar
The German Novel in the Twentieth Century
The German Novel in the Twentieth Century
From the demise of realism to the origins and growth of modernism, this book examines 20th-century German writing. It gives an account of developments in narrative technique as German novelists lived through a century of cultural and political change culminating in the Reunification. Using selected novels by Fontane, Rilke, Musil, Kafka, Hesse, Doblin, Thomas Mann, Gunter Grass, Uwe Johnson and Christa Wolf, the book sets out close studies of the…
"Das hilflose Europa"
David R. Midgley, "Das hilflose Europa": Eine Aufforderung, die politischen Essays von Robert Musil neu zu lesen, The German Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1, Modern Austrian and (Erstwhile) GDR Literature (Winter, 1994), pp. 16-26
The Persistence of Modernity
The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays, drawn from works by one of Germany's foremost philosophers, that go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.Albrecht Wellmer defends the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been called postmodernism is in fact a further articulatio…
The German Historical Novel in Exile after 1933. Calliope Contra Clio
Wedekind's Lulu
Wiederfinden’
Wiederfinden’
Wedekind's Lulu
The German Historical Novel in Exile after 1933. Calliope Contra Clio
The Persistence of Modernity
The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays, drawn from works by one of Germany's foremost philosophers, that go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.Albrecht Wellmer defends the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been called postmodernism is in fact a further articulatio…
"Das hilflose Europa"
David R. Midgley, "Das hilflose Europa": Eine Aufforderung, die politischen Essays von Robert Musil neu zu lesen, The German Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1, Modern Austrian and (Erstwhile) GDR Literature (Winter, 1994), pp. 16-26
The German Novel in the Twentieth Century
The German Novel in the Twentieth Century
From the demise of realism to the origins and growth of modernism, this book examines 20th-century German writing. It gives an account of developments in narrative technique as German novelists lived through a century of cultural and political change culminating in the Reunification. Using selected novels by Fontane, Rilke, Musil, Kafka, Hesse, Doblin, Thomas Mann, Gunter Grass, Uwe Johnson and Christa Wolf, the book sets out close studies of the…
Writing Weimar
The Essential Mary Midgley
Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects for the first time the very best of this famous philosopher's work, described by the Financial Times as 'common sense philosophy of the highest order'. This unrivalled introduction to a great philosopher and brilliant writer incorporates carefully selec…
Günter Grass, Im Krebsgang
Beyond Habermas
During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a “bourgeois public sphere” in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the “public sphere” itself has become perhaps one of the most debated concepts at the very heart of modernity. For Habermas, the tension between the administrative power of th…
Beyond Habermas
Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America
Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere
Initially propounded by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in 1962 in order to describe the realm of social discourse between the state on one hand, and the private sphere of the market and the family on the other, the concept of a bourgeois public sphere quickly became a central point of reference in the humanities and social sciences. This volume reassesses the validity and reach of Habermas’s concept beyond political theory by exploring concrete …
A New Theory of Cultural Archetypes
This book presents a new theory of cultural archetypes, capturing global unity and local diversity in the process.
The Essential Mary Midgley
The Service of Self and the Service of Kali
We move on now from strange beliefs based on optimistic distortions of evolutionary theory to ones based on pessimistic distortions, from Lamarck’s escalator to nature red in tooth and claw. Are we then still in realms which ought to be called religious at all? Certainly this is a gloomy and alarming cult. But it is still one celebrated with powerful incantations, such as Tennyson’s and that of M.T. Ghiselin (quoted on p. 340 and to be looked at …
Art (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · German (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · German History and Society (4 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works)