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Download or read book On Tyranny written by Timothy Snyder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
Book Synopsis Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by : Stephen Greenblatt
Download or read book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." —Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge their appetites.
Book Synopsis Beside the Bard by : George S. Christian
Download or read book Beside the Bard written by George S. Christian and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, urban or rural, literati or autodidacts, Scottish Lowland poets in the age of Burns adamantly refuse to imagine a single British nation. Instead, they pose the question of "Scotland" as a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation.
Book Synopsis The Dreamer and the Oracle by : Ce, Chin
Download or read book The Dreamer and the Oracle written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Oracle the author explores individual flagellations within a far wider dimension of cosmic interdependency. It also evokes Gamji motifs as the religious and political mindlessness which impoverish the African landscape. Dedicated to Chinua Achebe The Oracle honours a shamanistic teacher and story teller who, with his spiritual double helps to liberate the protagonist from an insidious mind control programme by and evil intelligence that bestrides humanity through several ages of chaos
Book Synopsis On Love and Tyranny by : Ann Heberlein
Download or read book On Love and Tyranny written by Ann Heberlein and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world. What can we learn from the iconic political thinker Hannah Arendt? Well, the short answer may be: to love the world so much that we think change is possible. The life of Hannah Arendt spans a crucial chapter in the history of the Western world, a period that witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime and the crises of the Cold War, a time when our ideas about humanity and its value, its guilt and responsibility, were formulated. Arendt’s thinking is intimately entwined with her life and the concrete experiences she drew from her encounters with evil, but also from love, exile, statelessness, and longing. This strikingly original work moves from political themes that wholly consume us today, such as the ways in which democracies can so easily become totalitarian states; to the deeply personal, in intimate recollections of Arendt’s famous lovers and friends, including Heidegger, Benjamin, de Beauvoir, and Sartre; and to wider moral deconstructions of what it means to be human and what it means to be humane. On Love and Tyranny brings to life a Hannah Arendt for our days, a timeless intellectual whose investigations into the nature of evil and of love are eerily and urgently relevant half a century later.
Download or read book A Time to Build written by Yuval Levin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutions Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence but by a debilitating absence of the forces that unite us and militate against alienation. As Levin argues, now is not a time to tear down, but rather to build and rebuild by committing ourselves to the institutions around us. From the military to churches, from families to schools, these institutions provide the forms and structures we need to be free. By taking concrete steps to help them be more trustworthy, we can renew the ties that bind Americans to one another.
Download or read book The Village Bard written by John Jubb and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham and the Vicinage by : George Markham Tweddell
Download or read book The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham and the Vicinage written by George Markham Tweddell and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Acts of the Renowned, Chivalrous Edmund of Erin, Commonly Called Emun Ac Knuck, Or Ned of the Hills by : Frances Peck
Download or read book The Life and Acts of the Renowned, Chivalrous Edmund of Erin, Commonly Called Emun Ac Knuck, Or Ned of the Hills written by Frances Peck and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bards and Tyrants written by Chinenye Ce and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bards and Tyrants is a collection of essays and book review presentations in literary journals and publisher forums within and outside Nigeria in the last decade by Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, Chin Ce. In his preface to the volume Ce admits of the inscription of Africa "in two opposing and irremediable directions by her bards and petty tyrants." While one involves "a visionary literati that seek to elevate the potentials of their educational and cultural inheritance" the other embraces "the politics of tyrannosaurs" who hasten to drag the continent to "a state of complete and total degeneracy." For him it is the frightening prospect of this latter possibility that all partakers in contemporary African writing should and must confront. Thus from the journalistic criticism of the Nigerian state to more scholarly essays which evaluate some critical aspects and visions of African writers and critics like Achebe, Ngugi, Soyinka, Nwoga, Chinweizu, Emenyonu, Nnolim and several new poetry, prose and critical voices from around the continent, Chin Ce's arguments for new critical directions in modern African writing reveal some bold, and often sardonic, insights which press us to discern the truth of the argument and the familiarity of his proposition.
Book Synopsis Selections from the Gaelic Bards, metrically translated, with biographical prefaces and explanatory notes. Also, original poems by : Thomas PATTISON (of Islay.)
Download or read book Selections from the Gaelic Bards, metrically translated, with biographical prefaces and explanatory notes. Also, original poems written by Thomas PATTISON (of Islay.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tyranny of Heaven by : Michael Bryson
Download or read book The Tyranny of Heaven written by Michael Bryson and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tyranny of Heaven argues for a new way of reading the figure of Milton's God, contending that Milton rejects kings on earth and in heaven. Though Milton portrays God as a king in Paradise Lost, he does this neither to endorse kingship nor to recommend a monarchical model of deity. Instead, he recommends the Son, who in Paradise Regained rejects external rule as the model of politics and theology for Milton's fit audience though few. The portrait of God in Paradise Lost serves as a scathing critique of the English people and its slow but steady backsliding into the political habits of a nation long used to living under the yoke of kingship, a nation that maintained throughout its brief period of liberty the image of God as a heavenly king, and finally welcomed with open arms the return of a human king. Michael Bryson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Book Synopsis The Bards of Angus and the Mearns by : Alan Reid
Download or read book The Bards of Angus and the Mearns written by Alan Reid and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cyclopaedia written by Abraham Rees and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Acts of the Renowned, Chivalrous Edmund of Erin, Commonly Called Emun Ac Knuck, Or Nedof the Hills by : Mrs. Peck
Download or read book The Life and Acts of the Renowned, Chivalrous Edmund of Erin, Commonly Called Emun Ac Knuck, Or Nedof the Hills written by Mrs. Peck and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bard of the North: a Series of Poetical Tales Illustrative of Highland Scenery and Character by : Dugald MOORE (Scottish Poet.)
Download or read book The Bard of the North: a Series of Poetical Tales Illustrative of Highland Scenery and Character written by Dugald MOORE (Scottish Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 by : William Walker
Download or read book The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 written by William Walker and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
