The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll
Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death
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Acknowledgments
Introduction • You, Me, Kant, and Carroll
1 • The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll
2 • A Comparatist’s Risks and Rewards
3 • A Handful of Rules against Philosophical Self-Isolation
4 • What Death Makes of Philosophy
5 • Keeping the World Together
6 • The Common Universe of Aesthetics
7 • Are the Deaf and Blind Epistemologically Isolated?
8 • Pain, Cruelty, and Pathology in Art
9 • On the Transparency and Opacity of Philosophers
10 • The Three Philosophical Traditions
11 • Does Philosophy Progress?
12 • Nonutopian Observations on Machiavellism
13 • On the Nature and Limits of Ineffability
• Ineffabilities Are the Demons and Angels of Incompleteness and Incompletability
• What Can and Cannot Words Express?
14 • The Bird with Bread in Its Beak
15 • You, Me, and Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind
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