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After turning over tens of thousands of leaves in Latin, French,
Italian, German, English, Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with
an accumulation of observed phenomena - religious, cultural,
literary, psychological - which the mind is forced to coordinate
into some sort of general conclusions. As the author has stated in
some of the pages which follow this preface, The author was
profoundly averse to formulating 'philosophies of history', and
though he felt impelled to put in order the impression whihc much
reading and pondering have left with him, the author did not
pretend to link these impressions into any theory of evolution.
There are as many 'ifs' in history as 'therefores'. The phenomena
are always interesting, often contradictory, like the strands of
thought and behaviour in an individual human being. The author sets
down his conclusions for what they are worth - though perhaps, as
the Preacher remarks, 'of making many books there is no end, and
much study is a weariness of the flesh'. But the sixteenth century
was a wonderful time.
In England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristics of
the last fifty years, from the point of view of the student of
history, has been that new material has been accumulating much
faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. When the first
edition of this volume was sent to the press in 1910, I had the
privilege of finding three good friends, who each revised one
section of its content. The first was T. Rice Holmes, who looked
over the prehistoric and early Celtic chapters. The second is
Francis Haverfield, the greatest specialist in his day for all that
concerned Roman Britain. The third, H. Carless Davis, then a fellow
of All Souls and afterwards Regius Professor of Modern History.
Originally published in 1920, Children's Dreams offers a rough
classification of the type of dream peculiar to children of
different ages, showing the variation from year to year and the
influence of the environment. Considering children's dreams
according to different age brackets ranging from five to eighteen
years of age, and also considering the dreams of deaf and blind
children, this book understands the important part played by the
unconscious in the child's normal behaviour and recognises its
educational value.
In England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristics of
the last fifty years, from the point of view of the student of
history, has been that new material has been accumulating much
faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. When the first
edition of this volume was sent to the press in 1910, I had the
privilege of finding three good friends, who each revised one
section of its content. The first was T. Rice Holmes, who looked
over the prehistoric and early Celtic chapters. The second is
Francis Haverfield, the greatest specialist in his day for all that
concerned Roman Britain. The third, H. Carless Davis, then a fellow
of All Souls and afterwards Regius Professor of Modern History.
This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational
dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges
common representations of urban development successes and failures.
Gathering leading international scholars from Europe, Australia and
North America, it explores the secondary city concept in urban
development theory and practice and advances a research agenda that
highlights uneven development concerns. By emphasising the
subordinate status of secondary cities relative to their dominant
neighbours the book raises new questions about regional development
in the Global North. It considers alternative relations and
development strategies that innovatively reimagine the subordinate
status of secondary cities and showcase their full potential.
Hegel and Speculative Realism has two main objectives. Firstly, to
assess the speculative realist formulations of the real regarding
the ‘withdrawn’ object, radical contingency, the absolute
register of extinction, and the current interest in ‘powers
philosophy’, with special attention to their possible relation to
the absolute scope of Hegelian philosophy. Secondly, to invite the
reader to reconsider Hegel in a new way; uncovering rare insights
into his thoughts on astronomy, actuality, the concrete and
non-being. Johns’ inclination is to not mistake the necessary
path to the absolute as the only path. Johns argues that Hegel
describes the unique trajectory of the dialectical relationship
between Nature and Idea as a Spirit oriented by both logical and
physical (spatio-temporal) dimensions. Johns reads this as a theory
of singularity and makes the bold claim that there may be other
paths not taken by the Hegelian spatio-temporal path synonymous
with the dialectic; synthesis, sublation and unfolding. In-fact,
speculative philosophy should not be satisfied to study onlyÂ
“what exists†but also what “could exist†or what it means
to “inexist†and should entertain multiple modes of potential
becoming between Hegel’s initial triad of logical categories;
Being, Non-Being and Becoming.   Â
Originally published in 1920, Children's Dreams offers a rough
classification of the type of dream peculiar to children of
different ages, showing the variation from year to year and the
influence of the environment. Considering children's dreams
according to different age brackets ranging from five to eighteen
years of age, and also considering the dreams of deaf and blind
children, this book understands the important part played by the
unconscious in the child's normal behaviour and recognises its
educational value.
Often some one precious detail of war lurks in the middle of a book
of the most unlikely description. After turning over tens of
thousands of leaves in Latin, French, Italian, German, English,
Spanish and Dutch print, one is left with an accumulation of
observed phenomena - religious, cultural, literary, psychological -
which the mind is forced to coordinate into some sort of general
conclusions. As the author has stated in some of the pages which
follow this preface, the author is profoundly averse to formulating
'philosophies of history', and though the author feels impelled to
put in order the impression which much reading and pondering have
left with me, the author does not pretend to link these impressions
into any theory of evolution. There are as many 'ifs' in history as
'therefores'.
When Lothair Coningsby is bequeathed an antique pack of Tarot
cards, he doesn't bargain for the trouble they will cause. The
terms of his inheritance mean that Lothair cannot part with the
cards in life, and they are to go to the British Museum after his
death. But his daughter's fiance, Henry Lee, a descendant of the
Romany people, realises that Coningsby has inherited the original
Greater Trumps, or Major Arcana, the most important cards in the
Tarot. These cards - including the Juggler, the Hanged Man, the
Falling Tower and the mysterious, unmoving Fool - were designed to
represent the dance of life itself, along with a set of golden
images in Henry's possession. If the two are brought together they
will unleash an unknown power upon the world - and Henry is
determined to gain possession of the pack. First published in 1932,
The Greater Trumps is the fifth of Charles Williams's supernatural
novels.
Those who have read Williams's earlier novels will not want to be
told anything about Descent into Hell except that it is one of his
best. Those who do not know the author's work will find that when
they have read this novel, they will want to read all the others.
Highly acclaimed writer of the thriller with a supernatural
element, Williams's novels can be read for pure excitement.
However, there is also a comedy of manners and acute analysis of
human relationships, and finally, exploration of abysses of beauty
and horror beyond the borders of the material world. This book, as
the title may suggest, is not recommended reading for
hyper-sensitive people alone at night in an empty house.
If ideas are more dangerous than material things, what happens
when ideas become matter?
Near a crossroad in the country town of Smetham, a retired
philosopher is felled by what appears to be a huge lion. The lion
vanishes, leaving the seemingly untouched man in a coma. But over
the next few days, more creatures start to appear - Platonic
archetypes stalk the English countryside, and the inhabitants of
Smetham begin to display unsettlingly animalistic traits. The
worlds of matter and ideas are colliding. It is down to two
unlikely heroes to banish the ideas back to the spiritual realm and
save the world.
First published in 1933, "The Place of the Lion" is the third
supernatural thriller by Charles Williams, a member of the Inklings
whose theological interests embraced Rosicrucianism as well as
mainstream Christianity.
First published in 1931, this fascinating story is one of Charles
Williams' early 'metaphysical' novels. Set in London, Sir Giles,
the nefarious cousin of The Chief Justice of England, Lord Arglay,
has obtained by not entirely fair means the ancient gold Crown of
King Solomon the Wise. The White Stone of the Tetragrammaton,
embedded in the crown, was the key to his wisdom and riches and
fame. Sir Giles means to research it and unlock its powers, but
lacking the courage to take all the risks himself, he must include
others in his plans. Made of the First Matter from the Garden of
Eden, the Stone's power grows with the experience of the user and
can heal all sicknesses, allow the user to travel in time, in
addition to seeing the minds of others. This provoking supernatural
thriller shows Williams at his very best.
'There are no novels anywhere quite like them . . . He really
believes in what he is talking about.' That was T. S. Eliot writing
about the seven novels of Charles Williams. How to describe them?
Again, probably in T. S. Eliot's words, 'They may be described as
supernatural thrillers; ''popular'' novels in the best sense, by a
man who had something important and quite individual to say. When
we say ''thrillers'' we mean that their plots are adventurous and
breathless, their scenes sometimes entrancing and sometime
horrifying; and when we say ''supernatural'' we mean that Williams
had a real experience of the supernatural world to communicate. He
had a kind of extended spiritual sense: he was like a man who can
perceive shades of colour, or hear tones beyond the ordinary range.
The theme of all his novels is the struggle between good and evil;
and as an interpreter of the mystical experience he was unique in
his generation. He excels in descriptions of strange experiences
such as many people have had once or twice in their lives and have
been unable to put into words. There are pages also which describe,
with a frightful clarity, the deterioration and damnation of a
human soul; and pages which describe the triumphant struggle
towards salvation. War in Heaven was the first in the sequence,
published in 1930, and the most conventional of them. It relates
the discovery of The Holy Grail in a country church and of the
struggle between good and evil forces to possess it. There are
detailed and convincing accounts of black magic. The author
belonged to A. E. Waite's Christian Rosicrucian order, The
Fellowship of the Rosy Cross and was therefore conversant with
esoteric rites. All seven novels are being reissued in Faber Finds:
War in Heaven, Many Dimensions, The Place of the Lion, The Greater
Trumps, Shadows of Ecstasy, Descent into Hell and All Hallows' Eve.
Critical acclaim for The Last Great Frenchman "This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verve and anecdotal warmth, along with fresh appraisals of de Gaulle's career as soldier, politician, and head of state." —Publishers Weekly. "Highly readable. . . . It is to Williams' credit that he is able to get so close to such a prickly personality." —San Francisco Chronicle "Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book." —Daily Telegraph (London) "Marvelous vignettes. . . . Williams tells his story with pace and skill." —Martin Gilbert
This book deals with the possibility of an ontological and
epistemological account of the psychological category 'neurosis'.
Intertwining thoughts from German idealism, Continental philosophy
and psychology, the book shows how neurosis precedes and exists
independently from human experience and lays the foundations for a
non-essentialist, non-rational theory of neurosis; in cognition, in
perception, in linguistics and in theories of object-relations and
vitalism. The personal essays collected in this volume examine such
issues as assimilation, the philosophy of neurosis, aneurysmal
philosophy, and the connection between Hegel and Neurosis, among
others. The volume establishes the connection between a now
redundant psycho-analytic term and an extremely progressive
discipline of Continental philosophy and Speculative realism.
Developments in numerical initial value ode methods were the focal
topic of the meeting at L'Aquila which explord the connections
between the classical background and new research areas such as
differental-algebraic equations, delay integral and
integro-differential equations, stability properties, continuous
extensions (interpolants for Runge-Kutta methods and their
applications, effective stepsize control, parallel algorithms for
small- and large-scale parallel architectures). The resulting
proceedings address many of these topics in both research and
survey papers.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... showing the interplay of
life, there were increased demands for drama and more need of the
poet or dramatist, even in embryo. Masques and pageants, the joy of
her father's courtt though not at once discarded, rapidly
diminished. During the first two years, masques were predominant.1
Thereafter, interludes and plays were requisitioned in increasing
number. Herein, too, consonant with her love for dialogue, her
well-known parsimony figured not a little, tending to eliminate
expensive shows and to cultivate instead the less expensive and
more delectable entertainment of dramatic performances. Her passion
for drama was supplied at first by laureating Edwards, Farrant, and
Hunnis with special privileges of presenting plays before her by
the Court children, and by drawing upon the dramatic resources of
Sebastian Westcott with the children of Paul's. Year by year these
companies appeared before her. Still not even their increased
numbers fully supplied the demands. Occasionally, even in her early
years, she invited a company of men actors under patronage of some
favorite lord. In 1564 were added the children of Westminster who
appeared 1 See Table, infra, 199--200. occasionally thereafter,
then in 1572--73 the Merchant Taylor's and the boys of Eton.1 The
children of the Court were still the centre of dramatic activity
and set the fashion on the basis of Court taste which all the other
companies consequently followed. During the first fifteen years, up
to 1573, the plays at Court were almost wholly by them and the
other children companies who bent their old school drama out of
recognition in deference to the demands of the royal audience for
mere entertainment. Only eight times in that period did companies
of men appear.2 Then, simultaneously...
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