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Crucial to an understanding of Montesquieu's work is the contrast
he drew between ancient and modern mentalites. 'Les politiques
grecs,' he wrote in his classic work De l'esprit des lois (1748),
'qui vivaient dans le gouvernement populaire, ne reconnaissaient
d'autre force qui put les soutenir que celle de la vertu. Ceux
d'aujourd'hui ne nous parlent que de manufactures, de commerce, de
finances, de richesses et de luxe meme.' Ancient philosophers had
conceptualised model regimes where human beings would flourish in
accordance with their natural purposes and potentialities shaped by
good laws well obeyed. Such moderns as Montesquieu, on the other
hand, ceased to regard the state as a school for morality. No
longer concerned with improving man's soul, politics focused
instead on the achievement of liberty, security and material
prosperity. Clearly something novel and distinctive, something
recognisably 'modern', arose during the period from Machiavelli to
Montesquieu. A teleological universe suffused with transcendent
meaning and purposeful ends was supplanted by a more secular,
'disenchanted' world-view. Both the Christian conception of a life
lived in humble devotion to the moral commandments of revealed
religion and the classical conception of a virtuous life devoted to
ethical perfection were challenged by a new political realism
stressing the dominance of the passions over reason and the
constructive potential of self-interest. The authors of the eleven
essays comprising this volume explore the complex relations between
Montesquieu and modernity and between Montesquieu and antiquity.
Assessing the content of his three major works, they conclude that
whereas the label 'modern' suits Montesquieu, he nonetheless
retained certain philosophical approaches characteristic of
antiquity as well as a high regard for the primacy accorded to
politics and philosophy in the classical era.
The Center for Theoretical Studies of the University of Miami has
been the host of annual winter conferences whose content has
expanded from the particular topic of symmetry principles in high
energy physics to encompass the bases and relationships of many
branches of know ledge. The scope of the Tenth Coral Gables
Conference on Fundamental Interactions included astrophysics,
atomic and molecular physics, fundamental theories of gravi tation,
of electromagnetism, and of hadrons, gauge theories of weak and
electromagnetic interactions, high energy physics, liquid helium
physics, and theoretical biology. The range of topics is partially
represented by the scientific talks which form this book. The
tangible fruits of the conference are these papers; the intangible
ones are the changes of outlook which the participants experienced
and the new appreciation they gained of the basic unity of all
knowledge. Historically, the early Coral Gables Conferences
witnessed the introduction of the concept of the quark and the
attempts to formulate a unification of the in ternal and space-time
symmetries of the elementary particles, while later ones were the
initial forums for new unified theories of interactions and for the
ideas of scaling, light-cone dominance, and partons."
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Confessions (Paperback)
Jean Jacques Rousseau; Edited by Patrick Coleman; Translated by Angela Scholar
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'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the
formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the
achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in
Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and
alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to
explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others'
admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the
relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the
variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The book vividly
illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the
writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability,
self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment.
Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource
of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the
personal quality of one's own existence. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over
100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest
range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
Soon to be a an FX series starring and produced by Matthew
McConaughey A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer The Churchgoer
is a wonderful debut novel from a writer with more than a few
tricks up his sleeve."--Los Angeles Times A haunting debut literary
noir about a former pastor's search to find a missing woman in the
toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California. "He was
finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the
girl, he has to go back." In Mark Haines's former life, he was an
evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man--until he
abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking
time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at
an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a
charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the
Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to
crash--two cynical kindred spirits. Then his co-worker is murdered
in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night.
Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of
solitude. Instead, he's driven to find out where Cindy went, under
stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads,
each one taking him back into a world where his old life came
crashing down--into the seedier side of southern California's drug
trade and ultimately into the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch
where his past and his future are about to converge. What begins as
an investigation becomes a haunting mystery and a psychological
journey both for Mark, and for the elusive young stranger he won't
let get away. Set in the early 2000s, The Churchgoer is a gripping
noir, a quiet subversion of the genre, and a powerful meditation on
belief, morality, and the nature of evil in contemporary life.
In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of
rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing
process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with
unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but
also of our psychological independence - then how can we recover
the peaceful self-sufficiency of life in the state of nature? We
cannot return to a simpler time, but measuring the costs of
progress may help us to imagine alternatives to the corruption and
oppressive conformity of modern society. Rousseau's sweeping
account of humanity's social and political development epitomizes
the innovative boldness of the Englightment, and it is one of the
most provocative and influential works of the eighteenth century.
This new translation includes all Rousseau's own notes, and Patrick
Coleman's introduction builds on recent key scholarship,
considering particularly the relationship between political and
aesthetic thought. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or
feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight,
and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant
theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In
Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of
the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the
reality behind the seductiveness of the singer's voice. The ageing
artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of
the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the
jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. And in
The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose
attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin.
These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness,
sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as
profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the
seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the
nineteenth-century's richest explorations of art and desire. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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The Wild Ass's Skin (Paperback)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Helen Constantine; Introduction by Patrick Coleman; Notes by Patrick Coleman
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R398
R322
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'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong
to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his
money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and
contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He
is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in a chaotic antique
shop, among them a strange animal skin, a piece of shagreen with
magical properties. It will grant its possessor his every wish, but
each time a wish is bestowed the skin shrinks, hastening its
owner's death. Around this fantastic premise Balzac weaves a
compelling psychological portrait of his hero, a prisoner of his
own Promethean imagination, and explores profound ideas about the
human will, vice and virtue, love and death. Helen Constantine's
new translation captures the energy and exuberance of Balzac's
novel, one of the most engaging of his 'Etudes philosophiques' from
the Comedie humaine. The accompanying introduction and notes offer
fresh insights into this remarkable work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
In April of 2013, Author Eric Durchholz had a near-death experience
followed by a soul transfer. As a result, he died and was replaced
by a new consciousness named Patrick John Coleman. A new soul in a
full-grown body...much to the confusion of his friends and family.
As the new age concept of a walk-in soul is relatively unknown to
the mainstream, a growing army of walkins are coming to this planet
in a "Divine Invasion" to set this polluted and hateful world back
on a course towards peace. As Coleman struggled to find out where
he came from and what happened to Eric, he turned to the great
psychic researchers Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts and Esther Hicks for
answers. In doing so he found he had uncanny connections to them
while also uncovering a plot by his family to keep him silent. The
book also includes several hours of specially produced video
footage including reenactments of key events linked via QR Codes so
keep your smartphone handy and get ready for a mindbending,
soul-expanding thrill ride.
Preface By W. Lloyd Warner. Introduction By Burleigh B. Gardner.
Preface By W. Lloyd Warner. Introduction By Burleigh B. Gardner.
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Sentimental Education (Paperback)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Helen Constantine; Edited by Patrick Coleman
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R495
R414
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'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they
are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic
Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he
pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his
passion into decisive action. He also finds himself distracted by
the equally romantic appeal of political action in the turbulent
years leading up to the revolution of 1848, and by the attractions
of three other women, each of whom seeks to make him her own: a
haughty society lady, a capricious courtesan, and an artless
country girl. Flaubert offers a vivid and unsparing portrait of the
young men of his generation, struggling to salvage something of
their ideals in a city where corruption, consumerism, and a
pervasive sense of disenchantment undermine all but the most
compromised erotic, aesthetic, and social initiatives. Sentimental
Education combines thoroughgoing irony with an impartial but
unexpectedly intense sympathy in a novel whose realism competes
with that of Balzac and whose innovations in narrative plot and
perspective mark a turning-point in the development of literary
modernism. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The cultural forms often referred to as ‘baroque’ are the most
spectacular expressions of early modern Europe’s effort to
mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political
authority was being centralized, the authority of religion
undermined by the division of Christianity, and science and poetry
were seen increasingly as rival forms of intellectual authority.
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a
wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals
of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.The essays in this
collection span what has been called the ‘baroque crescent’
stretching from Spain through Italy to Russia, but they also bring
Shakespeare and English cosmological poetry into productive
dialogue with continental Europe in the reinterpretation of baroque
world-views. The editors, Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman,
along with a group of eminent scholars from across the disciplinary
and geographic spectrum, investigate baroque modes of persuasion
with careful attention to the complexity of particular cultural
phenomena and their political and aesthetic implications. This
collection redefines the way the baroque will be understood.
The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English
writings has long been subordinated to the demands of
linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about
national development. In this cross-linguistic study, Patrick
Coleman models an inclusive and post-national literary history of
the city itself. Tracing a sequence of moments in the emergence of
the Montreal novel from World War II to the turbulent 1960s,
Equivocal City offers close readings of fourteen key works of
fiction, focusing on the inner dynamic of their construction as
well as the unexpected convergences and contrasts in the narrative
structures they adopt and the aesthetic perspective they seek to
achieve. Critically sophisticated but accessibly written, this book
gives a sympathetic account of how writers in both languages
struggled to give integrated artistic expression to their
experience of a city that was still linguistically
compartmentalized and culturally insecure. By analyzing the
interplay between story and narrative form, the book explores what
French and English novelists could - and could not - imagine about
the Montreal they sought to portray. From the responsible realism
of Hugh MacLennan and Gabrielle Roy to the fractious
phantasmagorias of Jacques Ferron and Leonard Cohen, Equivocal City
traces the evolution of the Montreal novel with the aim of
retrieving a shareable literary past.
In this volume a team of international contributors explore the way
modern conceptions of what constitutes an individual's life-story
emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The
Enlightenment idea of the self - an autonomous individual, testing
rules imposed from without against a personal sensibility nourished
from within - is today vigourously contested. By analysing early
modern 'life writing' in all its variety, from private diaries and
correspondence to public confessions and philosophical portraits,
this volume shows that the relation between self and community is
more complex and more intimate than supposed. Spanning the period
from the end of the Renaissance to the eve of Romanticism in
western Europe, a period in which the explosion of print culture
afforded unprecedented opportunities for the circulation of
life-stories from all classes, this book examines the public
assertion of self by men and women in England, France and Germany
from the Renaissance to Romanticism.
A team of international contributors explores the way modern conceptions of what constitutes an individual's life story emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Enlightenment idea of the self--an autonomous individual, testing rules imposed from without against a personal sensibility nourished from within--is today vigorously contested. By analyzing early-modern "life writing" in all its variety, from private diaries and correspondences to public confessions and philosophical portraits, this volume shows that the relation between self and community is more complex and more intimate than supposed.
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