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Genre and Conversation

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

The Real Reason You Cannot be Transracial

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Adam Hochman
wiley   +1 more source

A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
wiley   +1 more source

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