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For an Architecture of Reality


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Michael Benedikt teaches, practices architecture, and writes in Austin, where he is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas. His second book, Deconstructing the Kimbell (0-930829-16-6), is also published by Lumen."Benedikt has written a bold theoretical essay, with stirring cultural implications, that argues to restore the missing sense of reality to architecture and insists on â€...

Realism Reconsidered


Realism Reconsidered


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Realism remains the most important and controversial vision of international politics. But what does it mean to be a realist? This collection addresses this key question by returning to the thinking of perhaps the most influential realist of modern times: Hans J. Morgenthau. In analyses of issues ranging from political philosophy, to international law, to the impact of nuclear weapons and the challenges of American foreign policy, the authors demonstrate that Morgenthau's thinking exemplifies a rich realist tradition that is often lacking in contemporary analyses of international relations and foreign policy. At a time when realism is once again at the center of both scholarly and political debates, this book shows that the legacy of classical realism can enrich our understanding of world politics and contribute to its future direction.

Realism (Movements in Modern Art)


Realism (Movements in Modern Art)


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Realist art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity. It has no shared style or manifesto of intention. Yet a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they are. This book examines realism in Europe and America, beginning with its roots in the aims of Gustave Courbet in nineteenth-century France. The realist outlook is exemplified in the work of Georg Grosz in his observations of urban life in Weimar Germany or, in America, in the high focus paintings of Edward Hopper and Grant Wood. The author also examines the so-called "socialist realism" of Stalin's Soviet Union and the condemnation in Germany of artists not conforming to Nazi academic-realist demands. He describes French and Italian painting between the wars and the political intentions of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. British realists, among them Stanley Spencer, Lucian Freud and David Hockney, are discussed in detail, as are the Pop artists Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol.

Study in Realism


Study in Realism


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1920. Realism in modern philosophy is born in controversy, and its foe is idealism in some form. History repeats itself in this matter. Contents: introduction; things we perceive; things remembered and things expected; stuff of fancy; world of common belief; principles; values; the mind; larger outlook; epilogue.

Civic Realism


Civic Realism


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"Peter Rowe's Civic Realism is a most important and timely book that proposes a critical examination of the historical relationship between civic place and urban architecture and suggests that this relationship needs to be restructured for a contemporary practice. The book's relevance is heightened by Rowe's concern for the difficult task of making these civic places, and for the necessary presence of an architecture willing to establish a dialogue with the urban realm, beyond aesthetic ideologies." -- Mario Gandelsonas, Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society. By contrast, the alternatives are not very attractive. On the one side are state-sponsored edifices and places of authoritarian nature. On the other are the exclusive enclaves of corporate-dominated urban and suburban environments. Rowe begins with an example of a civic place that has stood the test of time--Siena's Piazza de Campo. To be a citizen of Siena is to participate in the life of the Campo. The Campo was and is real, with a realism that encompasses everyday life, occasional events, solemn occasions, and extraordinary celebrations. It is this sense of the word "real" that, together with "civic" forms the design practice called "civic realism." Topics covered in the book include the role of the state and civil society in the construction of civic spaces, aesthetic and architectural dimensions of realism, individual and collective uses of urban space, and how civic places constitute as well as represent the civic aspects of our lives. The examples, mostly from the modern period, include recent public spaces in Barcelona, several of the Grand Projets in Paris, neorealist projects in post-war Rome, contemporary transformations of the Manhattan grid, and Plecnik's water axis in pre-war Ljubljana.

Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism


Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism


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Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism : Art Between the Wars (Modern Art Practices and Debates) by David Batchelor, and Paul Wood, and Briony Fer Published in 1993 by Yale University Press

Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth


Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth


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Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction


Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction


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Roots of Realism (Cass Series on Security)


Roots of Realism (Cass Series on Security)


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Political realism sees politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. Political realism, when applied to international relations, has sought to explain how states seek to preserve themselves in an environment characterized by anarchy and the always-present threat of aggression. The essays in this volume examine the tradition of realist political analysis of international relations from the Sophists and Thucydides to the modern era. The volume emphasizes both the continuity in realist thinking and the differences among realist thinkers.

Realism


Realism


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The original essays collected in this book offer a comprehensive evaluation of realism as a theory of international relations. Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings.In the realist family there has been a flourishing of variants and interpretations, a fact that many critics of realism tend to obscure or dismiss. In the past decade and a half we have seen the emergence of neo-realism, structural realism, security realism, and other readings. Now is a good time to reflect on the richness and diversity of the realist family of theories, compare the variants, examine the differences among them, explore what unites them, and elucidate the policy implications of each. This unique book makes an important contribution to the study of international relations. The essays collected within it offer an incisive analysis of the logic and history of theories in the realist family. They also demonstrate the value of scholarship that looks beyond fleeting intellectual fads to the enduring themes of life in a crowded and dangerous world.

Chaucerian Realism (Chaucer Studies)


Chaucerian Realism (Chaucer Studies)


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NB DSB BLURB ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS What is the difference between saying something and meaning it, and saying something and not meaning it? A modern question. A Chaucerian question. Through his analysis of intentionality and the metaphysics of speech, Robert Myles shows why Chaucer's appreciation of the functioning of language and thought could be `modern'. Through his analysis of Chaucer's works, particularly the Friar's Tale, Myles demonstrates that Chaucer's understanding of these is modern and the myth of the medieval mind as other than our own is exploded. The medieval belief in intentionality, the object-directedness of all beings, allowed appreciation of a fact: thought and language areintentional. On a practical level Chaucer deliberately exploits three-level semantics (signs are simultaneously mind-drected and world-directed) to create `realistic' fiction in the modern literary sense of the term. Myles also argues that Chaucer is a realist in the philosophical sense, a view which goes counter to the current of much recent criticism. This book will not only be a challenging addition to medieval and Chaucerian studies, but has interesting implications for the historical study of intentionality, semiotics and epistemology. DR ROBERT MYLESis senior lecturer at the English and French Language Centre, McGill University, and a research fellow at the Department of English, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Sacred Realism; Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative


Sacred Realism; Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative


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Reading Realism in Stendhal (Cambridge Studies in French)


Reading Realism in Stendhal (Cambridge Studies in French)


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This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? and answers it by way of a critical study of Stendhal's writing. Ann Jefferson argues that a recognition of the role of reading in representation is particularly crucial to an understanding of Stendhal's realism, and her account includes substantial discussions of De l'Amour, Le Rouge et le Noir, the Vie de Henry Brulard and La Chartreuse de Parme. Her study also draws a number of illuminating parallels between Stendhal and aspects of modern critical theory, and uses them in order to reveal the high degree of sophistication and self-consciousness in Stendhal's writing, qualities which are attributed here to the intensity of his preoccupation with his readers. By focusing on the issue of reading in Stendhal this book not only proposes a reassessment of Stendhal's own work, but also opens up lines of enquiry on the critical problem that is realism.

Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law


Hobbes, Realism and the Tradition of International Law


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Charles Covell considers the political thought of Thomas Hobbes in relation to the tradition of international law, and with the intention to challenge the reading of Hobbes as the exponent of the realist standpoint in international thought and practice. The relation of Hobbes to international law is explained through attention to the place that he occupies among the modern secular natural law thinkers, such as Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel, who founded the modern system of the law of nations.

The Many Faces of Realism (Paul Carus Lectures)


The Many Faces of Realism (Paul Carus Lectures)


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"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are. Another part is provided by the analysis of a very simple example of what I call 'contextual relativity'. The position I defend holds that truth depends on conceptual scheme and it is nonetheless 'real truth'."In my third lecture I turn to the Kantian antecedents of this view, explaining what I think should be retained of the Kantian idea of autonomy as the central theme of morality, and extracting from Kant's work a 'moral image of the world' that connects the ideals of equality and intellectual liberty. In this lecture I defend the idea that moral images are an indispensible part of our moral and cultural heritage."In the final lecture I defend the idea of moral objectivity. I compare our epistemological positions in ethics, history, analysis of human character, and science, and I argue that in no area can we hope for a 'foundation' which is more ultimate than the beliefs that actually, at a given time, function as foundational in the area, the beliefs concerning which one has to say 'this is where my spade is turned'. In ethics such beliefs are represented in moral images of the world".

Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism


Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism


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Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason Through Realism


Dictionary of Modern French Literature: From the Age of Reason Through Realism


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Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction


Here and Now: History, Nationalism, and Realism in Modern Hebrew Fiction


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REALISM AND RELATIVISM


REALISM AND RELATIVISM


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REALISM AND RELATIVISM : A Perspective on Kenneth Burke by Robert L. Heath Published in 1986 by Mercer University Press

Scientific Realism


Scientific Realism


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Scientific Realism : A Critical Reappraisal (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science) by N. Rescher Edition 1 Published in 1899 by Springer

Realism And Regionalism


Realism And Regionalism


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Realism And Regionalism : (1860-1910) (Background to American Literature) by Roger Lathbury Published in 2005 by Facts on File

Realism and Relativism


Realism and Relativism


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Realism and Relativism : Philosophical Issues by Ernest Sosa Published in 2002 by Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated

Crusading Realism


Crusading Realism


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Crusading Realism : The Bush Doctrine and American Core Values After 9/11 by Lamont Colucci Published in 2008 by University Press of America

The Realism Of Jesus


The Realism Of Jesus


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The Realism Of Jesus : A Paraphrase And Exposition Of The Sermon On The Mount (1922) by J. Alexander Findlay Published in 2007 by Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Critical Realism and Housing Research (Critical Realism


Critical Realism and Housing Research (Critical Realism


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Critical Realism and Housing Research (Critical Realism : Interventions) by Julie Lawson Edition 1 Published in 2006 by Routledge

Instrumental Realism


Instrumental Realism


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Instrumental Realism : Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology (The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Technology) by Ihde, and Don Published in 1991 by Indiana University Press

Diplomatic Realism


Diplomatic Realism


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Diplomatic Realism : William R. Castle, Jr., and American Foreign Policy, 1919-1953 (Kolowalu Books) by Alfred L. Castle Published in 1998 by University of Hawaii Press

Hindu Realism


Hindu Realism


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Hindu Realism : Being An Introduction To The Metaphysics Of The Nyaya-Vaisheshika System Of Philosophy (1912) by Jagadish Chandra Chatterji Published in 2007 by Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Realism and Truth


Realism and Truth


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In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the determination of reference.

Reflections of Realism


Reflections of Realism


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Reflections of Realism is a collection of poetry that was created over a decade and was inspired by both simple and complex emotions. This book--as it relates to love--depicts memories and emotions with a striking clarity. Reflections of Realism is provoking, tantalizing, mesmerizing, inspiring, obsessing, bewitching, bewildering, and so much more. At each poem's core resides the reality of love and its surrounding emotions.

Direct Realism


Direct Realism


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`...a vigorous and challenging defence of direct realism in which one gets not only a clear overview of what precisely the problems are, but also a forceful and often insightful attempt to solve them. ...the book makes a highly readable and stimulating contribution to recent literature in the philosophy of perception.' Critical Philosophy, 2:1 (1985)

Realism and Revolution


Realism and Revolution


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Sandy Petrey explores the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of speech acts as defined by J. L. Austin and as exemplified by the history of the French Revolution. Through analysis of the techniques of representation in works by Balzac, Stendhal, and Zola, Petrey suggests that the expression of a truth depends on the same collective forces necessary to change a regime.

Moral Realism


Moral Realism


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Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of them. His central thesis, as well as the many novel supporting arguments used to defend it, will spark much controversy among those concerned with the foundations of ethics.

American Realism


American Realism


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Despite the acclaim given since 1945 to American abstract painting and sculpture, realism has continued to play a uniquely important role in American art. This lavishly illustrated book explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility, and liveliness of the American realist tradition. Sixteen sections discuss and display the finest and most important work of different artists, groups, schools, and periods—including American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, Precisionism, American Scene Painting, Edward Hopper, Urban realism, Photorealism, and Postmodern realism today—and provide convincing proof that the American realist legacy occupies an unparalleled position in the world art of the past one hundred years. Edward Lucie-Smith discusses the work of pioneering masters of American realism such as Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Charles Sheeler, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth. He then examines the work of contemporary realist painters, from Wayne Thiebaud, Leon Golub, Isabel Bishop, Alice Neel, and Fairfield Porter to younger artists, such as Eric Fischl and Jeff Koons, who have achieved star status as practitioners of this innovative tradition. The book thus carries the story of American realism up to the present, showing how it continues to flourish in the United States today as strongly as it has in the past. A magnificent volume, with over one hundred color plates, American Realism both celebrates and reveals the strengths of a great American legacy. 250 illustrations, 115 in color.

Chesnutt and Realism


Chesnutt and Realism


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An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism. With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) has emerged as a major American writer of his time—the age of Howells, Twain, and Wharton. In Chesnutt and Realism, Ryan Simmons breaks new ground by theorizing how understandings of literary realism have shaped, and can continue to shape, the reception of Chesnutt’s work. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, little attention has been paid to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call Chesnutt a realist? A writer whose career was circumscribed by the dismal racial politics of his era, Chesnutt refused to conform to literary conventions for depicting race. Nor did he use his imaginative skills to evade the realities he and other African Americans faced. Rather, he experimented with ways of portraying reality that could elicit an appropriate, proportionate response to it, as Simmons demonstrates in extended readings of each of Chestnutt’s novels, including important unpublished works that have been overlooked by previous critics. Chesnutt and Realism also addresses a curiously neglected subject in American literary studies—the relationship between American literary realism and race. By taking Chesnutt seriously as a contributor to realism, this book articulates the strategies by which one African American intellectual helped to define the discourses that influenced his fate. Ryan Simmons is Assistant Professor of English at Utah Valley State College

Magical Realism


Magical Realism


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Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history and a significant influence among the literatures of the world. In essays on texts by writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Abe Kobo, Gabriel García Márquez, and many others, magical realism is examined as a worldwide phenomenon.Presenting the first English translation of Franz Roh’s 1925 essay in which the term magical realism was coined, as well as Alejo Carpentier’s classic 1949 essay that introduced the concept of lo real maravilloso to the Americas, this anthology begins by tracing the foundations of magical realism from its origins in the art world to its current literary contexts. It offers a broad range of critical perspectives and theoretical approaches to this movement, as well as intensive analyses of various cultural traditions and individual texts from Eastern Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia, in addition to those from Latin America. In situating magical realism within the expanse of literary and cultural history, this collection describes a mode of writing that has been a catalyst in the development of new regional literatures and a revitalizing force for more established narrative traditionsâ??writing particularly alive in postcolonial contexts and a major component of postmodernist fiction.

A Prospectus for the Triumph of Realism


A Prospectus for the Triumph of Realism


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A Prospectus for the Triumph of Realism by Thomas A. Russman Published in 1987 by Mercer University Press


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