On dialogue : an essay in free thought / Robert Grudin.
On dialogue : an essay in free thought / Robert Grudin.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Date
1996.
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N110/71
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English
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Physical content
ix, 228 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction: Dialogue and Freedom. First Interlude: The Shape of Dialogue: Some Questions -- 2. The Language of Liberty: Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Book of Dialogic Tricks. Second Interlude: On Two Victorian Tiles -- 3. The Liberty of Ideas. Third Interlude: Dialogic Effects in Renaissance Art --...
Eleventh Interlude: Meditations on Dialogue and Sexuality -- 12. The Stranger in the Mirror: Patterns of Self-Inquiry. Twelfth Interlude: Self-Inquiry and the One/Many Distinction -- 13. Conclusion: The Dialogic Mind.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1996.
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Summary
On Dialogue embraces what might be called the generous ways of thinking - metaphor, paradox, ambiguity, copia - ways that lead to multiplicity and diversity of ideas. In its broadest implications, Grudin's work is about the nature of the self and its place in society. Grudin celebrates the paradox that self-transcendence can lead to greater connect...
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On dialogue : an essay in free thought / Robert Grudin.
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"A Richard Todd book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
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N110/71
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74VM5NE3VV0X
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ISBN
0395771870
9780395771877
DDC
110
MMS ID
991003727119702626
