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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
St. Augustine's Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western
culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in
translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as
platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started
to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and
depth of Augustine's work. In Let in the Light, White invites
readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the
Confessions in which they will come to share his experience of the
book's power and profundity by reading at least some of it in
Augustine's own language. He offers an accessible guide to reading
the text in Latin, line by line-even for those who have never
studied the language. Equally attuned to the resonances of
individual words and the deeper currents of Augustine's culture,
Let in the Light considers how the form and nuances of the Latin
text allow greater insight into the work and its author. White
shows how to read Augustine's prose with care and imagination,
rewarding sustained attention and broader reflection. Let in the
Light brings new life to a classic work, guiding readers to
experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine's
Confessions.
This elegant monograph presents the story of the designer s
boutique firm, James Boyd Niven Design. With five chapters divided
by theme and geographical location (Urban/Buenos Aires,
Rural/Campo, Austral/Patagonia, Hospitality/Montevideo, and Beach
Horseback riding/Jose Ignacio, Uruguay), the book features multiple
homes illustrating each style through a coherent and amicable
aesthetic. The aromas and flavours of these regions are compounded
in this book to illustrate the varied South American lifestyles and
cultures. A section highlights table settings designed to
complement the projects and to tell a story through the five
senses. Classic and timeless photographs showcase standout
properties, including Boyd Niven s own 12-room house in the Palermo
Hollywood area of Buenos Aires, the farmhouses he has completed in
Argentina and Uruguay, and the 100-room luxury hotel he recently
designed in Montevideo. Boyd Niven s projects embody a chic,
contemporary sensibility through the creative reuse of traditional
design elements. Lastly, to complement the interiors illustrated
throughout the book and position them within a historical and
cultural framework, the projects are interwoven with artistic
vistas of well-known city blocks, buildings, and landscapes.
Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine
the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the
constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we
use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape
future ones. These are the questions James Boyd White addresses in
"The Edge of Meaning", exploring each through its application to
great works of Western culture - "Huckleberry Finn", the "Odyssey",
and the paintings of Vermeer among them. In doing so, White creates
a deeply moving and insightful book and presents an inspiring
conception of mind, language and the essence of living.
St. Augustine's Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western
culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in
translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as
platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started
to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and
depth of Augustine's work. In Let in the Light, White invites
readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the
Confessions in which they will come to share his experience of the
book's power and profundity by reading at least some of it in
Augustine's own language. He offers an accessible guide to reading
the text in Latin, line by line-even for those who have never
studied the language. Equally attuned to the resonances of
individual words and the deeper currents of Augustine's culture,
Let in the Light considers how the form and nuances of the Latin
text allow greater insight into the work and its author. White
shows how to read Augustine's prose with care and imagination,
rewarding sustained attention and broader reflection. Let in the
Light brings new life to a classic work, guiding readers to
experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine's
Confessions.
To which institutions or social practices should we grant
authority? When should we instead assert our own sense of what is
right or good or necessary?
In this book, James Boyd White shows how texts by some of our most
important thinkers and writers--including Plato, Shakespeare,
Dickinson, Mandela, and Lincoln--answer these questions, not in the
abstract, but in the way they wrestle with the claims of the world
and self in particular historical and cultural contexts. As they
define afresh the institutions or practices for which they claim
(or resist) authority, they create authorities of their own, in the
very modes of thought and expression they employ. They imagine
their world anew and transform the languages that give it meaning.
In so doing, White maintains, these works teach us about how to
read and judge claims of authority made by others upon us; how to
decide to which institutions and practices we should grant
authority; and how to create authorities of our own through our
thoughts and arguments. Elegant and accessible, this book will
appeal to anyone wanting to better understand one of the primary
processes of our social and political lives.
White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking
how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it.
"A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is
to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to
read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight
into their role."--"New Law Journal"
Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and
ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and
trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as
enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it
touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us
to consumers, and cliches destroy the life of the imagination.
How are we to assert our humanity and that of others against the
forces in the culture and in our own minds that would deny it? What
kind of speech should the First Amendment protect? How should
judges and justices themselves speak? These questions animate James
Boyd White's "Living Speech," a profound examination of the ethics
of human expression--in the law and in the rest of life.
Drawing on examples from an unusual range of sources--judicial
opinions, children's essays, literature, politics, and the
speech-out-of-silence of Quaker worship--White offers a fascinating
analysis of the force of our languages. Reminding us that every
moment of speech is an occasion for gaining control of what we say
and who we are, he shows us that we must practice the art of
resisting the forces of inhumanity built into our habits of speech
and thought if we are to become more capable of love and
justice--in both law and life."
White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive
rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When
Words Lose Their Meaning, and asks how Americans can and should
criticize this culture and the texts it creates. In determining if
a judicial opinion is good or bad, he explores the possibility of
cultural criticism, the nature of conceptual language, the
character of economic and legal discourse, and the appropriate
expectations for critical and analytic writing. White employs his
unique approach by analyzing individual cases involving the Fourth
Amendment of the United States constitution and demonstrates how a
judge translates the facts and the legal tradition, creating a text
that constructs a political and ethical community with its readers.
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