Books by Joseph (Temple University) Margolis

This text directs attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of art and human selves. It applies these themes to several issues from the post/modernism dispute to the propriety of the analogy between artworks and selves.

Were the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks "freedom fighters" or terrorist murderers? Eschewing the universal moral principles of traditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy, Joseph Margolis offers an alternative approach that accepts the lack of any neutral ground or privileged normative perspective for deciding moral disputes.