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Informationen zum Autor Gerald C. MacCallum, Jr., (1925-1987) was professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He made great contributions to his profession by serving on many boards and committees, including the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Future and Status of the Profession, and through his many public lectures to universities and professional organizations in the United States and abroad. In late 1986, just before his death, he completed his book, Political Philosophy. Marcus G. Singer (1926-2016) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the author of Generalization in Ethics: An Essay in the Logic of Ethics, with the Rudiments of a System of Moral Philosophy , and the editor of several volumes of philosophical writings. Rex Martin, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, is the author of A System of Rights and Historical Explanation: Re-enactment and Practical Inference. Klappentext When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors Krupnick s wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick s work with the deep places of his own imagination. " Zusammenfassung These 14 essays on the philosophy of the law address topics which include legislative intent and negative and positive freedom.
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Gerald C. MacCallum, Jr., (1925-1987) was professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He made great contributions to his profession by serving on many boards and committees, including the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Future and Status of the Profession, and through his many public lectures to universities and professional organizations in the United States and abroad. In late 1986, just before his death, he completed his book,
Political Philosophy. Marcus G. Singer (1926-2016) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the author of
Generalization in Ethics: An Essay in the Logic of Ethics, with the Rudiments of a System of Moral Philosophy, and the editor of several volumes of philosophical writings. Rex Martin, professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, is the author of
A System of Rights and
Historical Explanation: Re-enactment and Practical Inference.
