The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays, Paperback - Hans-Georg Gadamer

Reducere. This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'T...

Reducere. DescriptionGadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Ga...

Reducere. The German volume Gadamer Lesebuch [A Gadamer Reader] (1997), selected and edited by Jean Grondin in consultation with Hans-Georg Gadamer himself, ...

aeo Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers of the 20th Century. aeo This book brings together his reflections on health, illness and the art of...

Reducere. Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.

Reducere. A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How ...

Reducere. This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier, discusses mannerism an...

Reducere. Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the ...

Reducere. New edition with an introduction by Roger Garrison and an index. Booms and busts are not endemic to the free market, argues the Austrian theory of ...

Reducere. If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this bo...

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Reducere. A selection of twenty-nine essays. " Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everyth...

Reducere. Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other ne...

Reducere. Anarchism and Other Essays, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extrem...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of...

Reducere. Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anth...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as ...

Reducere. The six essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later scepticism that ...

DescriptionAn irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spuff...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Monique WittigNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 142 x 216 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generat...

Author of How Fiction Works James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff, he confirms his pr...

The Chinese philosophical text the "Daodejing" offers insights concerning the cultivation of one's body. This book presents a description and analy...

Reducere. Jack London's most inspired political texts, collected in one volume. Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of America's most ico...

Reducere. A repackaged edition of the revered author's anthology of satirical yet serious essays on evil.In these spirited essays, C. S. Lewis--the great Bri...

Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only...

Reducere. "Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to l...

Reducere. Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau's popular essays included here: Civil Disobed...

Reducere. As a remedy to sleeplessness, Charles Dickens used to take to wandering the streets of London at night for long stretches of time. On those walks, ...

Reducere. In Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays, Steve Fellner traces the seriocomic absurdities of his own mind and its obsessions with family, mental illne...

Reducere. The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo -- contemporary Ame...

DescriptionOne of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an act...

Reducere. Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their...

Reducere. With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-...

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate p...

Reducere. Among the men and women prominent in the public life of America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet t...

Reducere. A beautiful new edition of the most important writings of America's greatest philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Includes "The American Scholar, " "D...

Our journey into the neighbourhood is about those people over there and about you living right here. What if there was so much more happening betwe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Jennifer S. Blumenthal-BarbyNumber of pages: 264Collection: Basic BioethicsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153...

Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves...