The Metaphysics of Everyday Life An Essay in Practical Realism

The title of this book, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life, may bring to mind the title of Freud’s lively book, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, published in 1904. Although scientifically obsolete, Freud’s little volume aptly describes numerous kinds of familiar phenomena. In The Psychopathol...

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Tác giả chính: Baker, Lynne Rudder
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-357932014-01-19T23:31:23Z The Metaphysics of Everyday Life An Essay in Practical Realism Baker, Lynne Rudder Practical Realism The title of this book, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life, may bring to mind the title of Freud’s lively book, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, published in 1904. Although scientifically obsolete, Freud’s little volume aptly describes numerous kinds of familiar phenomena. In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Freud focused on ordinary mistakes that go unnoticed: forgetting proper names, mistakes in reading, mislaying things, forgetting to do things, and so on. These banal errors appear to be random but, according to Freud, are products of subconscious desires. Putting aside Freud’s own explanations, we can applaud Freud’s seeing significance in occurrences that are usually overlooked as haphazard and purposeless. Whereas Freud saw psychological significance in ordinary things and our interactions with them, I see ontological significance in ordinary things and our interactions with them 2013-10-14T08:08:26Z 2013-10-14T08:08:26Z 2007 Book 978-0-511-35486-1 http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35793 en application/pdf Cambridge University Press
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The Metaphysics of Everyday Life An Essay in Practical Realism
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