Heroism and Magnanimity: The Post-Modern Form of Self-Conscious Agency (The Aquinas Lecture for 2019) - Hardcover

Robert Brandom (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874621933 ISBN 13: 9780874621938

Publisher: Marquette University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Demonstrates that Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit points the way to a new, post-modern form of normativity, and so self-consciousness. The lecture shows that its practical aspect is a magnanimous form of agency exercised by self-conscious individuals, who thereby create a new kind of recognitive community structured by rationalising recollection in the form of confession, forgiveness, and trust.

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About the Author

Robert Brandom is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has given the John Locke lectures at Oxford, the Hempel lectures at Princeton, the Howison and Townsend lectures at Berkeley, a William James lecture at Harvard, and the Woodbridge lectures at Columbia. He has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and at All Souls College Oxford, and was Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in 2015 the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marquette University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0874621933
• ISBN 13: 9780874621938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 85