University Press of America
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978-0-7618-3796-1 • Paperback • August 2007 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
Bruce Fleming is Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He is a graduate of Haverford College, and holds subsequent degrees from the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, studied in Paris and Siena, and has taught at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and at the National University of Rwanda. He is the recipient of an O. Henry short story award and the Antioch Review Award for Distinctive Prose, a career award. His most recent books include Annapolis Autumn: Life, Death and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy (2005) and Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash (2006). His previous books with University Press of America are: Disappointment or The Light of Common Day (2005); Sexual Ethics (2004); Art and Argument (2003); and Science and the Self (2004). He has published a novel, Twilley (1997), and a volume of dance criticism entitled Sex, Art, and Audience (2000), as well as other scholarly books, personal essays and stories in literary quarterlies, and articles for venues such as The Washington Post and The Village Voice.
Part 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: Because we're alive, we're creatures of motion, and so creatures of change
Chapter 3 We're all beginners at the game of life
Chapter 4 Our projects are what give us goals, which in turn give us a reason for acting
Chapter 5 Meaning in life comes from perceiving the whole map of pathways and surrounding area
Chapter 6 The personal world is different from the social world
Chapter 7 Science is knowledge as independent of any particular situation possible
Chapter 8 Collective projects comprise a social system
Chapter 9 Arguments between individuals or groups arise over the distinction each of us makes between project and unorganized territory
Part 10 Endnotes
Part 11 Bibliography
Part 12 Index
Part 13 About the Author