Arthur Danto is the author of numerous books, including Nietzsche as Philosopher, Mysticism and Morality, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Narration and Knowledge, Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, and Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism, 1990.

Princeton University Press offers selections from the first chapter of:

After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History.


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Wittgenstein - Der Heimliche Philosoph 
Description: Wittgenstein continues to intrigue with his enigmatic blend of philosophic clarity and riddle. Terry Eagleton's review of THE LITERARY WITTGENSTEIN, edited by John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer, takes you on tour of Ludwig's castle -- it is there, even if you can't see it.
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Kojin Karatani 
Description: Kojin Karatani was born in Amagasaki city between Osaka and Kobe on August 6, 1941. He received his B.A. in economics and M.A. in English literature, both from Tokyo University.

Awarded the Gunzo Literary Prize at the age of 27 for an essay on Natsume Soseki, he began working actively as a literary critic, while teaching at Hosei University in Tokyo.

In 1975 he was invited to Yale University to teach Japanese literature as a visiting professor, where he became acquainted with Yale critics such as Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson.

In the 1980s, he devoted himself to abstract problems concerning "language, number, money", while at the same time committing himself to the political situation by editing the quarterly journal 'Critical Space' with Akira Asada.'Critical Space' was the most influential intellectual media in Japan until it folded in 2002.

From 1990 onward, Karatani has taught frequently at universities in the United States, becoming a visiting full professor at Columbia University in 1997.

He was also a regular member of ANY, the international architects' conference which was held annually for the last decade of the 20th century.

Now Karatani is chair of The International Center for Human Sciences at Kinki University in Osaka, while regularly teaching at Columbia University.

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Edward Conze (1904-1979) 
Description: "Generally speaking, it would be difficult to find anything as remote from the interests of the present day as the contents of this site. This in itself may recommend it to some of those for whom it is intended."

Edward Conze's work ranges from a thorough and innovative investigation into the Principle of Contradiction from a historical and dialectical materialist perspective to extensive Buddhist scholarship including the translation of numerous sutras and other Buddhist texts.
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Hegel, G.W.F. (1770-1831) 
Description: Along with J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. von Schelling, Hegel belongs to the period of “German idealism” in the decades following Kant. The most systematic of the post-Kantian idealists, Hegel attempted, throughout his published writings as well as in his lectures, to elaborate a comprehensive and systematic ontology from a “logical” starting point. He is perhaps most well-known for his teleological account of history, an account which was later taken over by Marx and “inverted” into a materialist theory of an historical development culminating in communism. For most of the twentieth century, the “logical” side of Hegel's thought had been largely forgotten, but his political and social philosophy continued to find interest and support. However, since the 1970s, a degree of more general philosophical interest in Hegel's systematic thought has also been revived.
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Daniel Hillis: The Knowledge Web 
Description: By W. Daniel Hillis