Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel In Siberia And Bursts Into Tears

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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears

Author : Laszlo F. Foldenyi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252498
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears written by Laszlo F. Foldenyi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exemplary collection of work from one of the world’s leading scholars of intellectual history László F. Földényi is a writer who is learned in reference, taste, and judgment, and entertaining in style. Taking a place in the long tradition of public intellectual and cultural criticism, his work resonates with that of Montaigne, Rilke, and Mann in its deep insight into aspects of culture that have been suppressed, yet still remain in the depth of our conscious. In this new collection of essays, Földényi considers the fallout from the end of religion and how the traditions of the Enlightenment have failed to replace neither the metaphysical completeness nor the comforting purpose of the previously held mythologies. Combining beautiful writing with empathy, imagination, fascination, and a fierce sense of justice, Földényi covers a wide range of topics that include a meditation on the metaphysical unity of a sculpture group and an analysis of fear as a window into our relationship with time.

Melancholy

Author : László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220693
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Melancholy written by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.

Introduction to Metaphysics

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300186126
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Metaphysics written by Martin Heidegger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics is one of the most important works written by this towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. It includes a powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought, a sweeping vision of Western history, and a glimpse of the reasons behind Heidegger's support of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. Heidegger tries to reawaken the "question of Being" by challenging some of the most enduring prejudices embedded in Western philosophy and in our everyday practices and language. Furthermore, he relates this question to the insights of Greek tragedy into the human condition and to the political and cultural crises of modernity. This new translation makes this work more accessible to students than ever before. It combines smoothness with accuracy and provides conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally. There are also extensive notes, a German-English glossary, and an introduction that discusses the history of the text, its basic themes, and its place in Heidegger's oeuvre.

The Glance of the Medusa

Author : László F. Földényi
Publisher : Hungarian List
ISBN 13 : 9780857426086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Glance of the Medusa written by László F. Földényi and published by Hungarian List. This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Glance of the Medusa, Lászó F. Földényi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich history of European culture through the lens of mythology and philosophy. Embracing the best traditions of essay writing, this volume invites readers on a spiritual and intellectual adventure. The seven essays bear testimony to Földényi's encyclopedic knowledge and ask whether it is possible to overcome our fear of passing away. In doing so, they illuminate moments of mystical experience viewed in a historical perspective while inviting readers to engage with such moments in the present by immersing themselves into the process of reading and thinking. Rather than providing firm answers to burning questions, The Glance of the Medusa highlights the limits of definition, conjuring up situations in which Man partakes of unutterable experiences--such as passion, pleasure, fear, poetry, or disgust--suggesting that moments of ecstasy cannot be pinned down or captured, only drawn a little closer.

The New Theory of Time

Author : Professor L Nathan Oaklander
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057966
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The New Theory of Time written by Professor L Nathan Oaklander and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most important debate among twentieth-century philosophers of time has been whether events that have happened, are happening, or will happen are equally real (the tenseless theory of time) or whether there is a fundamental distinction between past, present, and future, with only present events possessing full existence (the tensed theory). In the 1980s a new version of the tenseless theory of time emerged. While advocates still posit that all events are equally real, they depart from the old tenseless theory by conceding that tensed expressions cannot be translated into tenseless ones, and support their view of time using other arguments." "This anthology offers the latest turns in the debate over the new theory of time, with essays written by many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers in the philosophy of time. There are discussions on the role - or nonrole - of language in determining which theory is true; McTaggart's paradox and the logical difficulties that defenders of the tenseless theory say are inherent in tensed theory; and the nature of our experience of time, which proponents of both theories claim can now be explained. The Preface and the General Introduction to the book set the debate within the wider philosophical context and show why the subject of temporal becoming is a perennial concern of science, religion, language, logic, and the philosophy of mind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

Author : Karen Havelin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911585541
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Please Read This Leaflet Carefully written by Karen Havelin and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Havelin's Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a life told in reverse and a subversion of what we expect from stories of illness. Having been diagnosed with endometriosis in her twenties, we follow Laura Fjellstad in her struggle to live a normal life across New York, Paris and Oslo, fuelled by her belief that to survive her chronic illness ......

Friendship

Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198574
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Friendship written by A. C. Grayling and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition? In this fascinating exploration of friendship through the ages, one of the most thought-provoking philosophers of our time tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals of myth and literature, and provides unexpected insights into our friends, ourselves, and the role of friendships in an ethical life. A. C. Grayling roves the rich traditions of friendship in literature, culture, art, and philosophy, bringing into his discussion familiar pairs as well as unfamiliar-Achilles and Patroclus, David and Jonathan, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Huck Finn and Jim. Grayling lays out major philosophical interpretations of friendship, then offers his own take, drawing on personal experiences and an acute awareness of vast cultural shifts that have occurred. With penetrating insight he addresses internet-based friendship, contemporary mixed gender friendships, how friendships may supersede family relationships, one's duty within friendship, the idea of friendship to humanity, and many other topics of universal interest. "

Metaphysics in Ordinary Language

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300150469
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics in Ordinary Language written by Stanley Rosen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topics-from eros, poetry, and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen’s essays share two unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines. Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.Philosophical problems are not so deeply embedded in a specific historical context that they cannot be restated in terms as valid for us today as they were for those who formulated them, the author maintains. Rosen shows that the history of philosophy-a story of conflicting interpretations of human life and the structure of intelligibility-is a story that comes to life only when it is rethought in terms of the philosophical problems of our own personal and historical situation.

The Bone Fire

Author : György Dragomán
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0544527208
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Bone Fire written by György Dragomán and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for Le prix du Meilleur livre tranger (France) * A Finalist for the Premio von Rezzori (Italy) * Longlisted for the Prix Femina (France) From an award-winning and internationally acclaimed European writer, and for fans of The Tiger's Wife A chilling and suspenseful novel set in the wake of a violent revolution about a young girl rescued from an orphanage by an otherworldly grandmother she's never met

The World Goes On (Third Edition)

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224201
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The World Goes On (Third Edition) written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”

Spill Ink on It

Author : Jennifer Jazz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949966725
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Spill Ink on It written by Jennifer Jazz and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York City is a whirl...a rush of sensation, an elusive geode of togetherness,..portals that open at someone's apartment on the Lower East Side and end in the glare of a street lamp. Jazz's memoir is one black woman's journey through the streets and its private shimmers. All at once a subway ride, punk rock song, and late night wandering. Spill Ink on It reveals a city long trying to kill its own multiplicity, its own invited and disavowed "huddles," while holding those revelations close to the orbit of where pen doesn't travel....Sarah Jane Cervenak"--

A Social Ontology

Author : David Weissman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079036
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Social Ontology written by David Weissman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral and social philosophers often assume that humans beings are and ought to be autonomous. This tradition of individualism, or atomism, underlies many of our assumptions about ethics and law; it provides a legitimating framework for liberal democracy and free market capitalism. In this powerful book, David Weissman argues against atomistic ontologies, affirming instead that all of reality is social. Every particular is a system created by the reciprocal causal relations of its parts, he explains. Weissman formulates an original metaphysics of nature that remains true to what is known through the empirical sciences, and he applies his hypothesis to a range of topics in psychology, morals, sociology, and politics. The author contends that systems are sometimes mutually independent, but many systems, and human ones especially, are joined in higher order systems, such as families, friendships, businesses, and states, that are overlapping or nested. Weissman tests this schematic claim with empirical examples in chapters on persons, sociality, and value. He also considers how the scheme applies to particular issues related to deliberation, free speech, conflict, and ecology.

A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics

Author : Richard F. H. Polt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300085242
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics written by Richard F. H. Polt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics, first published in 1953, is a highly significant work by a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. The volume is known for its incisive analysis of the Western understanding of Being, its original interpretations of Greek philosophy and poetry, and its vehement political statements. This new companion to the Introduction to Metaphysics presents an overview of Heidegger's text and a variety of perspectives on its interpretation from more than a dozen highly respected contributors. In the editors' introduction to the book, Richard Polt and Gregory Fried alert readers to the important themes and problems of Introduction to Metaphysics. The contributors then offer original essays on three broad topics: the question of Being, Heidegger and the Greeks, and politics and ethics. Both for readers who are approaching Heidegger for the first time and for those who are studying Heidegger on an advanced level, this Companion offers a clear guide to one of the philosopher's most difficult yet most influential writings.

Ethics, Origin and Development

Author : Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethics, Origin and Development written by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mandaean Book of John

Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110487861
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaean Book of John written by Charles G. Häberl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

True Stories

Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230052
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book True Stories written by Francis Spufford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.

Race, Nation, Translation

Author : Zoë Wicomb
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226179
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Race, Nation, Translation written by Zoë Wicomb and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as on a wide range of cultural and political topics, including gender politics, sexuality, race, identity, nationalism, and visual art. Also presented here are a reflection on Nelson Mandela and a revealing interview with Wicomb. In these essays, written between 1990 and 2013, Wicomb offers insights into her nation's history, politics, and people. In a world in which nationalist rhetoric is on the rise and right-wing populist movements are the declared enemies of diversity and pluralism, her essays speak powerfully to a host of current international issues.