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Author : Roman Jakobson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 3110106175
Author : George Herbert Mead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226516714
The book shows ... how Mead's social psychology evolved gradually into a theory of self-consciousness and its social gestalt, an epistemology, and finally a philosophy of history and a realistic ontology of objective relativity.
Author : Robert Musil
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106007369090
Writings: Young Torless, Three Women, The Perfecting of a Love and other Writings, by Musil by Robert Musil>
Author : Meister Eckhart
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780141904603
Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness - the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided - with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond.
Author : Hildegard of Bingen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141960043
Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it is largely for her apocalyptic and mystical writings that she is remembered. This volume includes selections from her three visionary works, her treatises on medicine and the natural world, her devotional songs, and fascinating letters to prominent figures of her time. Dealing with such eternal subjects as the relationship between humans and nature, and men and women, Hildegard's works show her to be a wide-ranging thinker who created such fresh, startling images and ideas that her writings have been compared to Dante and Blake.
Author : Epictetus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141917481
Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Robert Dobbin
Author : Sarah Kofman,Georgia Albert,Elizabeth Rottenberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804732965
The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994).
Author : José Martí
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142437042
José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí's were the eyes through which much of Latin America saw the United States. His impassioned, kaleidoscopic evocations of that period in U.S. history, the assassination of James Garfield, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the execution of the Chicago anarchists, the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans, and much more, bring it rushing back to life. Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen. The middle section focuses on his journalism, which offers an image of the United States in the nineteenth century, its way of life and system of government, that rivals anything written by de Tocqueville, Dickens, Trollope, or any other European commentator. Including generous selections of his poetry and private notebooks, the book concludes with his astonishing, hallucinatory final masterpiece, "War Diaries", never before translated into English. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Aleksandra Kollontaĭ,Alix Holt
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393009742
Alix Holt, in her careful, objective comments on the life and work of Miss Kollontai, has served her subject well. . . .She has given us this chance to become acquainted with the thought of a woman liberated before her time. New York Times Book Review"
Author : Marguerite de Navarre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226142739
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. An astute politician and diligent humanist, she was a champion of gender equality and the evangelical reform movement, which recognized that the clergy was more concerned with maintaining the church’s power than ministering to the faithful. As the years passed and the glitter of life at court waned, however, Marguerite came to realize her true vocation: writing. Selected Writings brings together a representative sampling of Marguerite’s varied writings, most of it never before translated into English, enabling Anglophone readers to enjoy the full breadth of her work for the first time. From verse letters and fables to mythological-pastoral tales, from spiritual songs to a selection of novellas from the Heptameron, the wide range of works included here will reveal Marguerite de Navarre to be one of the most important writers—male or female—of sixteenth-century France.
Author : Maryanne Amacher
Publisher : Blank Forms Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1733723579
The first ever book on American composer and sound-art pioneer Maryanne Amacher, with letters, manifestos, notes and more elucidating her eclectic thinking on sound and perception Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called "sound art," although her thought and work challenges assumptions about the limitations of that genre. Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviewsrepresents the first ever book-length collection devoted to the composer, whose life and work are as vast as they are as yet unknown. From personal notes and letters to program notes, manifestos and unrealized project proposals, the documents are framed by longer interviews with Amacher that discuss corresponding periods of her life. Because Amacher worked across nearly every imaginable media format, this book will be of tremendous interest to theorists and practitioners in media and communications, urban design, contemporary art history, music studies, sound studies, film, radio, art criticism and performance studies.
Author : Heinrich von Kleist
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0872207439
Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.
Author : Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004045908
Re-catalogued Oct04. Table of contents: Part I Studies & travel; Part II Early political writings; Part III On nationalism; Part IV On the constitution; Part V From 1968 to 1984; Part VI Einstein and Ralston prize lectures.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101908075
A new hardcover selection of the best writings of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world. Selected and introduced by Andrea Wulf. Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing volcanoes in the Andes, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone else that humankind was on a path to destroy it. His visits to the Americas led him to argue that the indigenous peoples possessed ancient cultures with sophisticated languages, architecture, and art, and his expedition to Cuba prompted him to denounce slavery as “the greatest evil ever to have afflicted humanity.” To Humboldt, the melody of his prose was as important as its empirical content, and this selection from his most famous works—including Cosmos, Views of Nature, and Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, among others—allows us the pleasure of reading his own accounts of his daring explorations. Humboldt’s writings profoundly influenced naturalists and poets including Darwin, Thoreau, Muir, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Whitman. The Selected Writings is not only a tribute to Humboldt’s important role in environmental history and science, but also to his ability to fashion powerfully poetic narratives out of scientific observations.
Author : Jeremy Bentham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000127718736
"This stimulating reader invites a fresh look at Bentham. Drawing on recent scholarship, it presents newly edited texts and unexpected perspectives on familiar works about sex, law, publicity, colonies, place and time, and much else besides."---William Twining, University College London --Book Jacket.