Mind's Bodies

Mind's BodiesSubverting the boundaries between philosophy and literature, this book addresses such topics as aesthetics, criticism, epistemology, and ethics and social theory. Mind's Bodies: Thought in the Act both marks and subverts the boundaries between philosophy and literature. On the analogy of the body mind relation, Lang argues for the textual character of philosophical writing, addressing as grounds for that claim topics in aesthetics, criticism, ethics

and he sets forth Kant's main ideas from the Critique of Pure Reason and the ethics to the philosophy of law

and courage are necessary to successful inquiry is the key to the understanding of the Socratic paradox that virtue is knowledge

and how nonnormative Americans experience the mistrust that their identities and backgrounds engender in this way

their interactions with the gut

and exclusionary undertones tied to medievalizing epicism

challenging some of the standard assumptions that may be true for some dark-matter candidates

a "moderate" movement among the Kharijis which from its base in Basra gradually spread among the Berbers of the Maghrib in the 750s

but that from which modern science can most sensibly profit

the war on terror and the plight of refugees

and nationalities

Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany

critiquing the work of Jose Carlos Mariategui