Richard Eldridge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 229728 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Eldridge |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Eldridge |
| ASSINATURA | ELDRIDGE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4107-9854 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Modern Being in the World
This chapter explores the essentially narrative dimensions of substantive self-knowledge, conceived of as understanding to what extent and in what ways one has or has not exercised one’s distinctively human powers in reasonably endorsable ways within a social setting. (There are also important social preconditions for this conception of substantive self-knowledge.) The thought is that both Kant and Wordsworth conceive of self-knowledge in this wa…
Imagining Life Together
The Culturally Educated Spirit and Its Fate
Religious Longing and Modern Life
Wittgenstein had significant religious impulses, from his early Notebooks to his late entries in Culture and Value. Christian religious texts seemed to him to articulate significant human experiences that were worthy of respect. Yet he found himself consistently unable to commit himself to any organized institutional religious life. This essay investigates the reasons (as opposed to psychological peculiarities with causal force) that might lie be…
Kant and Literary Studies
Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature
“A Danger at Present Unperceived”
Philosophers concerned with self-understanding have often conceived of it as either a matter of immediate, unchallengeable introspective awareness or as a matter of gathering evidence about oneself scientifically and impersonally. In contrast, Gilbert Ryle rightly understood self-understanding as knowledge of one’s own commitments, desires, beliefs, wishes, and fears––all things that one has some share in forming and can to some extent alter. Wha…
Replies to Comments on Images of History by Warren Breckman, Robert R. Clewis, and Espen Hammer
In my replies to the perceptive and cogent observations and questions about my book offered by Warren Breckman, Robert Clewis, and Espen Hammer, I emphasize the thought that we must learn to live with standing tensions between settled institutions and improvisatory courses of action. In reply to Breckman, I suggest that Münchhausen's Trilemma is best regarded as a practical problem that should be addressed in different ways in different contexts …
Conceptual Analysis, Practical Commitment, and Ordinary Language
The Rift in the Lute
Maximilan de Gaynesford mounts an extended argument in favour of attunement between philosophy and poetry (or the study of it), understood in various interrelated formulations as ‘really doing philosophy in really appreciating poetry’ (9), ‘allowing our engagement with the one to shape our engagement with the other’ (30), and ‘doing something that a literary critic will recognize as doing literary criticism in doing something that a philosopher w…
Précis Images of History
My fundamental motivation in writing Images of History was to avoid some forms of hubris and despair that trouble contemporary philosophy and to develop instead a picture of human life in historical time. According to this picture, we live amid institutional and practical inheritances we can address but can never fully stabilize and perfect. In different ways, Kant and Benjamin each accept this thought, and they each develop a picture of philosop…
Methodological Individualism vs. Collectivist Holism in Historical Explanation
This review essay surveys and assesses Rage and Denials: Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890–1947 by Branko Mitrović, focusing on a) Mitrović's case that German art‐historical practices during this period were factually ill‐founded, inconsistent, and motivated by narcissism and ethnic prejudice, and b) the broader issue of whether collectivist historical explanations of artistic and cultural developments can ever be ap…
Modernist Philosophy
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, and art and society. Drawing on classical and conte…
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature
This title investigates literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered and in each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects.
History vs. (Epistemological) Theory
I nterpretive R easoning . By Laurent Stern
To Bear the Momentarily Incomplete”
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest.…
Authority and Estrangement
Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self Knowledge
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest.…
The Persistence of Romanticism
Has Romanticism been superseded by realism, modernism, and postmodernism, all of which are often taken to acknowledge reality more fully than Romanticism? What is it that Romantic thinkers and writers do? Why does what they do matter? Is Romanticism a think of the past? "These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the ongoing pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, crossed by …
The Persistence of Romanticism
Leading a Human Life
Narratives and moral evaluation
On Moral Personhood
In this remarkable blend of sophisticated philosophical analysis and close reading of literary texts, Richard Eldridge presents convincing argument that literature is the most important and richest source of insights in favor of historicized Kantian moral philosophy. He effectively demonstrates that only through the interpretation of narratives can we test our capacities as persons for acknowledging the moral laws as formula of value and for acti…
Form and Content
Journal Article FORM AND CONTENT: AN AESTHETIC THEORY OF ART Get access Richard Eldridge Richard Eldridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 25, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1985, Pages 303–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/25.4.303 Published: 01 April 1985
Deconstruction and its alternatives
Form and Content
Journal Article FORM AND CONTENT: AN AESTHETIC THEORY OF ART Get access Richard Eldridge Richard Eldridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 25, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1985, Pages 303–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/25.4.303 Published: 01 April 1985
Metaphysics and the interpretation of persons
The Normal and the Normative
It has become widely accepted in recent years that critical reflection about our practices and their rationales is something various people through acculturation learn to engage in (or to avoid) in various ways, not a simple matter of assuming a culture-neutral standpoint open to all human beings; philosophy is not a presuppositionless superscience. As a result, it seems that all we can do in attempting to justify a practice is appeal to what is …
Luminous Fragments of Life
The Lives of Jean Toomer
On Moral Personhood
In this remarkable blend of sophisticated philosophical analysis and close reading of literary texts, Richard Eldridge presents convincing argument that literature is the most important and richest source of insights in favor of historicized Kantian moral philosophy. He effectively demonstrates that only through the interpretation of narratives can we test our capacities as persons for acknowledging the moral laws as formula of value and for acti…
Romantic Rebirth in a Secular Age
Love's Knowledge
Narratives and moral evaluation
Leading a Human Life
The Persistence of Romanticism
The Persistence of Romanticism
Has Romanticism been superseded by realism, modernism, and postmodernism, all of which are often taken to acknowledge reality more fully than Romanticism? What is it that Romantic thinkers and writers do? Why does what they do matter? Is Romanticism a think of the past? "These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the ongoing pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, crossed by …
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest.…
Authority and Estrangement
Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self Knowledge
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest.…
History vs. (Epistemological) Theory
I nterpretive R easoning . By Laurent Stern
To Bear the Momentarily Incomplete”
The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature
This title investigates literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered and in each case, the effort is to track and evaluate how specific modes and works of imaginative literature answer to important needs of human subjects.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, and art and society. Drawing on classical and conte…
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
Modernist Philosophy
Methodological Individualism vs. Collectivist Holism in Historical Explanation
This review essay surveys and assesses Rage and Denials: Collectivist Philosophy, Politics, and Art Historiography, 1890–1947 by Branko Mitrović, focusing on a) Mitrović's case that German art‐historical practices during this period were factually ill‐founded, inconsistent, and motivated by narcissism and ethnic prejudice, and b) the broader issue of whether collectivist historical explanations of artistic and cultural developments can ever be ap…
“A Danger at Present Unperceived”
Philosophers concerned with self-understanding have often conceived of it as either a matter of immediate, unchallengeable introspective awareness or as a matter of gathering evidence about oneself scientifically and impersonally. In contrast, Gilbert Ryle rightly understood self-understanding as knowledge of one’s own commitments, desires, beliefs, wishes, and fears––all things that one has some share in forming and can to some extent alter. Wha…
Replies to Comments on Images of History by Warren Breckman, Robert R. Clewis, and Espen Hammer
In my replies to the perceptive and cogent observations and questions about my book offered by Warren Breckman, Robert Clewis, and Espen Hammer, I emphasize the thought that we must learn to live with standing tensions between settled institutions and improvisatory courses of action. In reply to Breckman, I suggest that Münchhausen's Trilemma is best regarded as a practical problem that should be addressed in different ways in different contexts …
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