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Formal, Figural, and Historical: On the Limits of Argumentativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Karen S. Feldman
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Over lunch with two philosophy professors, i asked their views of what i understood to be a central ambiguity in kant's Critique of Judgment. The question proved controversial for reasons I had not anticipated. One of my interlocutors grew agitated.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , March 2016, pp. 415 - 422
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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