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Contributing Authors Include Igor Markovitch, Elena Croce, Corrado
Alvaro, And Many Others.
Contributing Authors Include Igor Markovitch, Elena Croce, Corrado
Alvaro, And Many Others.
Title: Arrowsmith's Dictionary of Bristol, edited by H. J. Spear
and J. W. Arrowsmith.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
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Spear, Henry J.; Arrowsmith, James Williams; 1884. 292 p.; 8 .
10352.bb.31.
Every significant antique fair or market in England is detailed in
this unique guidebook. Packed with details of great value to
antique collectors and dealers, the book provides complete
information for hunting down bargains across England. It is
arranged by region and offers comments and ratings on every fair,
together with information on opening hours, entry prices, and the
number of stalls offering goods in any given category.
At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and
witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version
reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and
thematic concentration of the Alcestis. The late William
Arrowsmith, who was an eminent classical scholar, translator, and
General Editor of this highly praised series, rejects the standard
view of the Alcestis as a psychological study of the egotist
Admetos and his naive but devoted wife. His translation, instead,
presents the play as a drama of human existence-in keeping with the
tradition of Greek tragedy-with recognizably human characters who
also represent masked embodiments of human conditions. The Alcestis
thus becomes a metaphysical tragicomedy in which Admetos, who has
heretofore led a life without limitations, learns to "think mortal
thoughts." He acquires the knowledge of limits-the acceptance of
death as well as the duty to live-which, according to Euripides,
makes people meaningfully human and capable of both courage and
compassion. This new interpretation compellingly argues that, for
Euripides, suffering humanizes, that exemption makes a man selfish
and childish, and that only the courage to accept both life and
death leads to the realization of one's humanity, and, in the case
of Alcestis, to heroism.
This translation of Nietzsche’s early Unzeitgemässe
Betrachtungen consists of four long essays and notes for a
fifth. Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely
ambitious critique of German culture. Although the project
was never completed, the essays thematically linked and should be
considered as a whole. This book, which presents these
important works together in English for the first time, unifies the
essays, provides introductions and annotations to each, and
translates them in a way that does justice to the brilliance and
versatility of Nietzsche’s style. The dominant idea of
Nietzsche’s project is the regeneration of culture through a
radical reshaping of modern educational institutions.
Nietzsche believed that philosophy, the arts, and the ennobling
study of antiquity had all been corrupted by systematic
miseducation, the work of so-called educators, who, as
culture-philistines, had disgraced the highest of vocations.
In response to this fragmented modern world, Nietasche argues for
the creation of a”manworthy” culture with a single uniftying
style—a style that integrated theology, philosophy, education,
classical scholarship, journalism, and art in a seamless, dynamic
whole. This style, Nietzsche contends, can best be realized
by heeding the great creative examples of the pre-Socratic
philosophers, Schopenhauer, and Wagner, and by reforming education,
above all the study of history and the archaic culture of Greece,
so that it serves, rather than obstructs, the needs of human
life. The essays include David Strauss: Writer and
Confessor, introduced and translated by Herbert Golder; History in
the Service and Disservice of Life, introduced by Werner Dannhauser
and translated by Gary Brown; Schopenhauer as Educator, introduced
by Richard Schacht and translated by William Arrowsmith; Richard
Wagner in Bayreuth, introduced and translated by Gary Brown; and We
Classicists, introduced and translated by William
Arrowsmith.
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