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The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
Henry James; Edited by David Bromwich; Introduction by David Bromwich
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'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde The
Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere
and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a
country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora.
Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon
comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking
the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really
a malign and ghostly presence, or a manifestation of something else
entirely? Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by David
Bromwich Series Editor: Philip Horne
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
Spanning many historical and literary contexts, "Moral
Imagination" brings together a dozen recent essays by one of
America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the
importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these
faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the
reality of justice. These wide-ranging essays address thinkers and
topics from Gandhi and Martin Luther King on nonviolent resistance,
to the dangers of identity politics, to the psychology of the
heroes of classic American literature.
Bromwich demonstrates that moral imagination allows us to judge
the right and wrong of actions apart from any benefit to ourselves,
and he argues that this ability is an innate individual strength,
rather than a socially conditioned habit. Political topics
addressed here include Edmund Burke and Richard Price's efforts to
define patriotism in the first year of the French Revolution,
Abraham Lincoln's principled work of persuasion against slavery in
the 1850s, the erosion of privacy in America under the influence of
social media, and the use of euphemism to shade and anesthetize
reactions to the global war on terror. Throughout, Bromwich
considers the relationship between language and power, and the
insights language may offer into the corruptions of power.
"Moral Imagination" captures the singular voice of one of the
most forceful thinkers working in America today.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished
of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic
period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in
complete form.
American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of
America's leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn
wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate
prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co-presidency, in
which foreign policy was reduced to permanent war, and Barack
Obama's practice of reconciliation without truth, Bromwich
chronicles the emergence of Donald Trump-the demagogue of a culture
of corruption from which all traces of political interest and
candour have dropped away. An unsparing account of the degradation
of American democracy, the book leads off with a new introduction
on the prospects for change during the new Democratic Congress.
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty
argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers
developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation:
comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book
is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought
that it spawned. Today, the book remains a must-read and stands as
a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. Its influence on the
academy, both within philosophy and across a wide array of
disciplines, continues unabated. This edition includes new essays
by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David
Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The
Philosopher as Expert."
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Nature and Value (Paperback)
Akeel Bilgrami; Contributions by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, …
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Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our
own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of
nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays
that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous
multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its
wider ethical and political implications. A distinguished list of
scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations
between the human subject and its natural environment: when and how
the concept of nature gave way to the concept of natural resources;
the genealogy of the concept of nature through political economy,
theology, and modern science; the idea of the Anthropocene; the
prospects for green growth; and the deep alienation of human beings
in the modern period from both nature and each other. By engaging
with a wide range of scholarship, they ultimately converge on a
common outlook that is both capacious and original. The essays
together present a revaluation of the natural world that seeks to
reshape political and ethical ideals and practice with a view to
addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time. Nature and
Value features widely known scholars in a broad swath of
disciplines, ranging from philosophy, politics, and political
economy to geology, law, literature, and psychology. They include
Jonathan Schell, David Bromwich, James Tully, Jedediah Purdy,
Robert Pollin, Jan Zalasiewicz, Carol Rovane, Sanjay Reddy, Joanna
Picciotto, Anthony Laden, Nikolas Kompridis, Bina Gogineni, Kyle
Nichols, and the editor, Akeel Bilgrami.
David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is
the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought
as it emerges in both the major writings and private
correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily
dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke-a thinker, writer, and
politician-the principles of politics were merely those of morality
enlarged. Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to
organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to
be. This intellectual biography examines the first three decades of
Burke's professional life. His protest against the cruelties of
English society and his criticism of all unchecked power laid the
groundwork for his later attacks on abuses of government in India,
Ireland, and France. Bromwich allows us to see the youthful
skeptic, wary of a social contract based on "nature"; the theorist
of love and fear in relation to "the sublime and beautiful"; the
advocate of civil liberty, even in the face of civil disorder; the
architect of economic reform; and the agitator for peace with
America. However multiple and various Burke's campaigns, a
single-mindedness of commitment always drove him. Burke is commonly
seen as the father of modern conservatism. Bromwich reveals the
matter to be far more subtle and interesting. Burke was a defender
of the rights of disfranchised minorities and an opponent of
militarism. His politics diverge from those of any modern party,
but all parties would be wiser for acquaintance with his writing
and thoughts.
Although we know him as one of the greatest English poets, William
Wordsworth might not have become a poet at all without the
experience of personal and historical catastrophe in his youth. In
"Disowned by Memory," David Bromwich connects the accidents of
Wordsworth's life with the originality of his writing, showing how
the poet's strong sympathy with the political idealism of the age
and with the lives of the outcast and the dispossessed formed the
deepest motive of his writings of the 1790s.
"This very Wordsworthian combination of apparently low subjects
with extraordinary 'high argument' makes for very rewarding, though
often challenging reading."--Kenneth R. Johnston, "Washington
Times"
"Wordsworth emerges from this short and finely written book as even
stranger than we had thought, and even more urgently our
contemporary."--Grevel Lindop, "Times Literary Supplement"
"[Bromwich's] critical interpretations of the poetry itself offer
readers unusual insights into Wordworth's life and work."--"Library
Journal"
"An added benefit of this book is that it restores our faith that
criticism can actually speak to our needs. Bromwich is a rigorous
critic, but he is a general one whose insights are broadly
applicable. It's an intellectual pleasure to rise to his
complexities."--Vijay Seshadri, "New York Times Book Review"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and
government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His
works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume
brings together three of Rousseau's most important political
writings-The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on
the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the
Origin and Foundations of Inequality)-and presents essays by major
scholars that shed light on the dimensions and implications of
these texts. Susan Dunn's introductory essay underlines the unity
of Rousseau's political thought and explains why his ideas
influenced Jacobin revolutionaries in France but repelled American
revolutionaries across the ocean. Gita May's essay discusses
Rousseau as cultural critic. Robert N. Bellah explores Rousseau's
attempt to resolve the tension between the individual's desire for
freedom and the obligations that society imposes. David Bromwich
analyzes Rousseau as a psychologist of the human self. And Conor
Cruise O'Brien takes on the "noxious," "deranged" Rousseau,
excoriated by Edmund Burke but admired by Robespierre and Thomas
Jefferson. Written from different, even opposing perspectives,
these lucid essays convey a sense of the vital and contentious
debate surrounding Rousseau and his legacy. For this edition Susan
Dunn has provided a new translation of the Discourse on the
Sciences and Arts and has revised a previously published
translation of The Social Contract.
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Nature and Value (Hardcover)
Akeel Bilgrami; Contributions by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, …
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Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our
own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of
nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays
that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous
multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its
wider ethical and political implications. A distinguished list of
scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations
between the human subject and its natural environment: when and how
the concept of nature gave way to the concept of natural resources;
the genealogy of the concept of nature through political economy,
theology, and modern science; the idea of the Anthropocene; the
prospects for green growth; and the deep alienation of human beings
in the modern period from both nature and each other. By engaging
with a wide range of scholarship, they ultimately converge on a
common outlook that is both capacious and original. The essays
together present a revaluation of the natural world that seeks to
reshape political and ethical ideals and practice with a view to
addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time. Nature and
Value features widely known scholars in a broad swath of
disciplines, ranging from philosophy, politics, and political
economy to geology, law, literature, and psychology. They include
Jonathan Schell, David Bromwich, James Tully, Jedediah Purdy,
Robert Pollin, Jan Zalasiewicz, Carol Rovane, Sanjay Reddy, Joanna
Picciotto, Anthony Laden, Nikolas Kompridis, Bina Gogineni, Kyle
Nichols, and the editor, Akeel Bilgrami.
Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination
brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier
cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of
imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may
illuminate the motives of human action and the reality of justice.
These wide-ranging essays address thinkers and topics from Gandhi
and Martin Luther King on nonviolent resistance, to the dangers of
identity politics, to the psychology of the heroes of classic
American literature. Bromwich demonstrates that moral imagination
allows us to judge the right and wrong of actions apart from any
benefit to ourselves, and he argues that this ability is an innate
individual strength, rather than a socially conditioned habit.
Political topics addressed here include Edmund Burke and Richard
Price's efforts to define patriotism in the first year of the
French Revolution, Abraham Lincoln's principled work of persuasion
against slavery in the 1850s, the erosion of privacy in America
under the influence of social media, and the use of euphemism to
shade and anesthetize reactions to the global war on terror.
Throughout, Bromwich considers the relationship between language
and power, and the insights language may offer into the corruptions
of power. Moral Imagination captures the singular voice of one of
the most forceful thinkers working in America today.
"Skeptical Music" collects the essays on poetry that have made
David Bromwich one of the most widely admired critics now writing.
Both readers familiar with modern poetry and newcomers to poets
like Marianne Moore and Hart Crane will relish this collection for
its elegance and power of discernment. Each essay stakes a
definitive claim for the modernist style and its intent to capture
an audience beyond the present moment.
The two general essays that frame "Skeptical Music" make Bromwich's
aesthetic commitments clear. In "An Art without Importance,"
published here for the first time, Bromwich underscores the trust
between author and reader that gives language its subtlety and
depth, and makes the written word adequate to the reality that
poetry captures. For Bromwich, understanding the work of a poet is
like getting to know a person; it is a kind of reading that
involves a mutual attraction of temperaments. The controversial
final essay, "How Moral Is Taste?," explores the points at which
aesthetic and moral considerations uneasily converge. In this
timely essay, Bromwich argues that the wish for excitement that
poetry draws upon is at once primitive and irreducible.
"Skeptical Music" most notably offers incomparable readings of
individual poets. An essay on the complex relationship between Hart
Crane and T. S. Eliot shows how the delicate shifts of tone and
shading in their work register both affinity and resistance. A
revealing look at W. H. Auden traces the process by which the voice
of a generation changed from prophet to domestic ironist. Whether
discussing heroism in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, considering
self-reflection in the poems of Elizabeth Bishop, or exploring the
battle between the self and its images in the work of John Ashbery,
"Skeptical Music" will make readers think again about what poetry
is, and even more important, why it still matters.
Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt
(1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the
art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his
works, at once a revaluation of the aesthetics of Romanticism and a
sustained intellectual portrait. Nominated for the National Book
Critics Circle Award in criticism when it was first published in
1983, it is now reissued with a new preface and bibliography by the
author. "Few literary figures in recent decades have seen their
reputations rise as securely as Hazlitt's. Now it will soar. David
Bromwich's book is the most persuasive and ambitious exploration of
Hazlitt's genius hitherto attempted."-Michael Foot, New Republic
"Hazlitt: the Mind of a Critic is an intellectual biography in the
best sense of the word, and intellectual biography is the type of
writing that shows Hazlitt in his truest light."-Kenneth R.
Johnston, Indiana University "Bromwich's volume was first published
in 1983, and its achievement has never been questioned. All
Romanticists recognize that this is one of the great critical works
in our field to appear in the post-war era. It aspires to (and
achieves) a classical simplicity and elegance."-Duncan Wu,
University of Glasgow
Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right
ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform
curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture.
Partisans of the academic left, who hold our culture responsible
for the evils of society, have attempted to redress imbalances by
fostering multiculturalism in education. In this eloquent and
passionate book a distinguished scholar criticizes these positions
and calls for a return to the tradition of independent thinking
that he contends has been betrayed by both right and left. Under
the guise of educational reform, says David Bromwich, these groups
are in fact engaging in politics by other means. Bromwich argues
that rivals in the debate over education have one thing in common:
they believe in the all-importance of culture. Each assumes that
culture confers identity, decides the terms of every moral choice,
and gives a meaning to life. Both sides therefore see education as
a means to indoctrinate students in specific cultural and political
dogmas. By contrast, Bromwich contends that genuine education is
concerned less with culture than with critical thinking and
independence of mind. This view of education is not a middle way
among the political demands of the moment, says Bromwich. Its
earlier advocates include Mill and Wollstonecraft, and its roots
can be traced to such secular moralists as Burke and Hume. Bromwich
attacks the anti-democratic and intolerant premises of both right
and left-premises that often appear in the conservative guise of
"preserving the tradition" on the one hand, or the radical guise of
"opening up the tradition" on the other. He discusses the new
academic "fundamentalists" and the politically correct speech codes
they have devised to enforce a doctrine of intellectual conformity;
educational policy as articulated by conservative apologists George
Will and William Bennett; the narrow logic of institutional
radicalism; the association between personal reflection and social
morality; and the discipline of literary study, where the symptoms
of cultural conflict have appeared most visibly. Written with the
wisdom and conviction of a dedicated teacher, this book is a
persuasive plea to recover a true liberal tradition in academia and
government-through independent thinking, self-knowledge, and
tolerance of other points of view.
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