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This is a collection of critical essays that integrate literature
and ideas. Daniel Fuchs presents the writer's individuality as
artist and thinker, focusing on the writer's interaction within a
wide range of cultural, political, and historical periods and
situations representative of the modern period. The essays reflect
a progression that goes beyond chronology or historical survey in
the consistency and interrelation of the literary and cultural
themes explored and the references within them. The book is built
around writers who are of central concern to the author. It does
not pretend to be a comprehensive framework for analysing
modernism. Fuchs first deals with high modernism, in discussions of
Hemingway and Stevens, who in different ways critique tradition and
collapsing values. The essays that follow deal with the
"contemporary,"and here the focus is mainly on American Jewish
writers and their cultural impact after modernism. The author's
stance is in relation not only to these traditions but to others
that might be thought antagonistic: the formalism of the New
Critics and the deconstructionism that reduces the author to a
replaceable variable in the dialects of cultural power relations.
Fuchs pays tribute to the former, illustrating wider points in
literary, socio-cultural, and political history. The overall
emphasis on these "extrinsic" matters underscores the book's appeal
to a wide audience.
This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content,
the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of
proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology
and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully
pursued.
Applies Dogen Kigen's religious philosophy and the philosophy of
Nishida Kitaro to the philosophical problem of personal identity,
probing the applicability of the concept of non-self to the
philosophical problems of selfhood, otherness, and temporality
which culminate in the conundrum of personal identity.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Dutch bestseller Nominated for Le Prix Nicolas Bouvier 'A
masterclass in storytelling, exploring who we are and where we came
from' Danielle Clode 'Gripping and brilliantly told, We Hominids
deftly blends personal experience with a journalist's eye for a
remarkable story' Mark McKenna WHO ARE WE? WHY ARE WE DIFFERENT
FROM ANIMALS? WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? In this charming,
thought-provoking book, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction
writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental
questions: Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With
an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe,
tracing the search for the first human being: the missing link
between humans and apes. Westerman introduces us to the world of
skull hunters – leading experts in our fossil ancestry – whose
lives are just as fascinating as those of their primeval
discoveries. He astutely reconsiders the work of illustrious
paleoanthropologists in the light of new DNA technology,
postcolonialism, and the rise of women in this male-dominated
field. Westerman discovers a plethora of origin hypotheses and
shows how any theory of who we are and where we come from is
coloured by the zeitgeist. We, Hominids is a compelling mixture of
reportage, travelogue and essay – reminiscent of Bruce Chatwin or
Ryszard Kapuscinski – written by a brilliant storyteller and
thinker.
One of first books on extremely topical and relevant newsworthy
subject Alt-Right in America and Generation Identity in Europe have
both in the news frequently Will appeal to general readers and
those interested in current affairs Books on right-wing social and
political movements are consistently popular and interest in the
area is growing
In the revised and updated second edition of The Tone of Teaching,
bestselling author Max van Manen defines sound pedagogy as the
ability to distinguish effectively between what is appropriate, and
what is less appropriate in our communications and dealings with
children and young people as parents and educators. The author:
-Shows how tactful educators develop a caring attentiveness to the
unique; to the uniqueness of children, and to the uniqueness of
their individual lives-Describes how this "tone" of teaching can be
sustained by the cultivation of a certain kind of seeing,
listening, and responding to each child in each particular
situation-Offers practical insights for both educators and parents
The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi—the most
important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before
Machiavelli—who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty
and equality in the service of good governance. At the heart of the
Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the wisdom and
virtue of Greece and Rome. But how could this be done? A new school
of social reformers concluded that the best way to revitalize
corrupt institutions was to promote an ambitious new form of
political meritocracy aimed at nurturing virtuous citizens and
political leaders. The greatest thinker in this tradition of virtue
politics was Francesco Patrizi of Siena, a humanist philosopher
whose writings were once as famous as Machiavelli’s. Patrizi
wrote two major works: On Founding Republics, addressing the
enduring question of how to reconcile republican liberty with the
principle of merit; and On Kingship and the Education of Kings,
which lays out a detailed program of education designed to instill
the qualities necessary for political leadership—above all,
practical wisdom and sound character. The first full-length study
of Patrizi’s life and thought in any language, Political
Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy argues that Patrizi is a thinker
with profound lessons for our time. A pioneering advocate of
universal literacy who believed urban planning could help shape
civic values, he concluded that limiting the political power of the
wealthy, protecting the poor from debt slavery, and reducing the
political independence of the clergy were essential to a
functioning society. These ideas were radical in his day. Far more
than an exemplar of his time, Patrizi deserves to rank alongside
the great political thinkers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli,
Thomas More, and Jean Bodin.
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to
everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the
questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century
Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In
response to these events, thinkers such as Gilbert Ryle, J. L.
Austin, Elizabeth Anscombe and Iris Murdoch aspired to a new level
of watchfulness and self-awareness about language. Being vigilant
about their words was their way to keep philosophy true to everyday
experience. A Terribly Serious Adventure traces the friendships and
the rivalries, the shared preoccupations and the passionate
disagreements of Oxford's most brilliant thinkers. Far from being
stuck in a world of tweed, pipes and public schools, the Oxford
philosophers drew on their wartime lives as soldiers and spies,
conscientious objectors and prisoners of war in creating their
greatest works, works that are original in both thought and style,
true masterpieces of British modernism. Nikhil Krishnan brings his
knowledge and understanding of philosophy to bear on the lives and
intellectual achievements of a large and lively cast of characters.
Together, they stood for a compelling moral vision of philosophy
that is still with us today.
The definitive guide to yoga in everyday life from B.K.S. Iyengar,
the world's most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted
his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar's
unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the
practice, as well as a mindset of 'yoga for all', which has made it
into a worldwide phenomenon. His seminal book, 'Light on Yoga', is
widely called 'the bible of yoga' and has served as the source book
for generations of yoga students around they world. In 'Tree of
Yoga', the collected wisdom of his many years of practical practice
and its application in real life are brought into a single-volume
work. A collected philosophy for life researched through decades of
practice by B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga
teacher. These are his core teachings and advice for living a long,
healthy, happy life. Using the tree as a structural metaphor for
both life and yoga practice, the essays cover many aspects of life
and practice which are vital to health and happiness and in need of
care. This includes: * Yoga and health * Yoga as part of daily life
* Childhood and parenthood * Love * Death * Faith - hope and
spirituality * Teachers and teaching
The Number One International bestseller 'We need books like this
one' - psychologist Steven Pinker At last, stupidity explained! And
by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman,
Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron
James and Ryan Holiday. Stupidity is all around us, from the
colleagues who won't stop hitting 'reply all' to the former school
friends posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. But in order to
battle idiocy, we must first understand it. In The Psychology of
Stupidity, some of the world's leading psychologists and thinkers -
including a Nobel Prize winner - will show you . . . * Why smart
people sometimes believe in utter nonsense * How our lazy brains
cause us to make the wrong decisions * Why trying to debate with
fools is a trap * How media manipulation and Internet
overstimulation makes us dumber * Why the stupidest people don't
think they're stupid As long as there have been humans there has
been human stupidity, but with wit and wisdom these great thinkers
can help us understand this persistent human affliction.
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