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Author : H. G. Koenigsberger
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780907628651
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Politicians and Virtuosi written by H. G. Koenigsberger and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. S. Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Curiosi and Virtuosi written by K. S. Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Mitchell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025302854X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Virtuosi written by Mark Mitchell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtuosi A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists Mark Mitchell A bravura performance! "Vigorous, opinionated, and always entertaining, here is a personal essayist of great charm and sincerity. Mitchell's erudition—his collection of odd and illuminating bits of knowledge—is always a delight and adds a sauce piquanteto the whole dish!" —Edmund White "...a literary work of real élan, vibrancy, and grace—the very qualities that in his view define the virtuoso. [Mr. Mitchell explores] the traditional linking of musical and sexual virtuosity, the ethical implications of the original instruments' movement, the near deification of Mozart in Anglo-Saxon culture, and, in a particularly witty section, the relationship of the virtuoso to his stool. Throughout, Mr. Mitchell's prose is humorous, intimate, and unapologeticaly polemical." —Cynthia Ozick The artistic merit of performers with superior technique has long been almost ipso facto denied. At last, Mark Mitchell launches a counterattack. In essays crackling with pianistic lore, Mitchell takes on topics such as encores, prodigies, competitions, virtuosi in film and literature, and the erotics of musical performance. Liszt, Horowitz, and Argerich share these pages with the eccentric Pachmann, Ervin Nyiregyh ("the skid-row pianist"), and Liberace. The illustrations include rare portraits of long-forgotten girl prodigies, historic concert programs, and stills from a lost 1927 film on Beethoven. Punctuating this celebration of personal voice are vignettes, running from the beginnings of the author's obsession with the piano to the particularities of concert-going in Italy (where he now lives). Mark Mitchell's piano studies led to a friendship with Vladimir Horowitz and other pianistic luminaries. With David Leavitt he co-authored Italian Pleasures and co-edited Pages Passed from Hand to Hand. He also edited The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing.
Author : Marion Goldman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474292429
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual Virtuoso written by Marion Goldman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff define a spiritual virtuoso as someone who works toward personal purification and a sense of holiness with the same perseverance and intensity that virtuosi strive to excel in the arts or athletics. Since the Protestant Reformation, activist virtuosi have come together in large and small social movements to redefine the meanings of spiritual practice, support religious equality, and transform a wide range of social institutions. Tracing the impact of spiritual virtuosi from the sixteenth century Reformation through the nineteenth-century Anti-Slavery Movement to the twentieth-century Human Potential Movement and beyond, Marion Goldman and Steven Pfaff explore how personal virtuosity can become a social force. Martin Luther began to expand spiritual possibilities in the West when he charted paths that did not require the Church's intercession between the individual and God. He believed that everyone could and should reach toward sacred truths and transcendent moments. Over the centuries, millions of people have built on his innovations and embarked on spiritual quests that offer new possibilities for sacred relationships and social change.
Author : Richard Yeo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022610673X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science written by Richard Yeo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London, including Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and others, who drew on Renaissance humanist techniques of excerpting from texts to build storehouses of proverbs, maxims, quotations, and other material in personal notebooks, or commonplace books. Yeo shows that these men appreciated the value of their own notes both as powerful tools for personal recollection, and, following Francis Bacon, as a system of precise record keeping from which they could retrieve large quantities of detailed information for collaboration. The virtuosi of the seventeenth century were also able to reach beyond Bacon and the humanists, drawing inspiration from the ancient Hippocratic medical tradition and its emphasis on the gradual accumulation of information over time. By reflecting on the interaction of memory, notebooks, and other records, Yeo argues, the English virtuosi shaped an ethos of long-term empirical scientific inquiry.
Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589260
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Visions of Politics written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of philosophical and methodological statements, written between the 1960s and 2000, considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation.
Author : Eugene Bardach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Politico as Virtuoso written by Eugene Bardach and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Benedict
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139068
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Early Modern Europe written by Philip Benedict and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the beginning of the debate about the "general crisis of the seventeenth century," and thirty years after theodore K. Rabb's reformulation of it as the "European struggle for stability." this volume returns to the fundamental questions raised by the long-running discussion: What continent-wide patterns of change can be discerned in European history across the centuries from the Renaissance to the French Revolution? What were the causes of the revolts that rocked so many countries between 1640 and 1660? Did fundamental changes occur in the relationship between politics and religion? Politics and military technology? Politics and the structures of intellectual authority?
Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423342
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)
Download or read book England's Troubles written by Jonathan Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking study, first published in 2000, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive: that experience of political instability which contemporaries called 'our troubles'. The second was creative: its spectacular intellectual consequence in the English revolution. The third was reconstructive: the long restoration voyage toward safe haven from these terrifying storms. Driving the troubles were fears and passions animated by European religious and political developments. The result registered the impact upon fragile institutions of powerful beliefs. One feature of this analysis is its relationship of the history of events to that of ideas. Another is its consideration of these processes across the century as a whole. The most important is its restoration of this extraordinary English experience to its European context.
Author : Arthur P. Monahan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773510173
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights written by Arthur P. Monahan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the concepts of popular consent, representation, limit, and resistance to tyranny as essential features of modern theories of parliamentary democracy, Monahan shows a continuity in use of these concepts across the alleged divide between the Mi
Author : Thomas Alan King
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299226206
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 written by Thomas Alan King and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King develops a history of the political and performative struggles that produced both normative and queer masculinities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The result is a major contribution to gender studies, gay studies, and theater and performance history. The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 traces the transition from a society based on alliance, which had subordinated all men, women, and boys to higher ranked males, to one founded in sexuality, through which men have embodied their claims to personal and political privacy. King proposes that the male body is a performative production marking men's resistance to their subjection within patriarchy and sovereignty. Emphasizing that categories of gender must come under historical analysis, The Gendering of Men explores men's particpation in an ongoing struggle for access to a universal manliness transcending other biological and social differentials."--Pub. desc. v.1.
Author : Peer Vries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472526406
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book State, Economy and the Great Divergence written by Peer Vries and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of detail on comparative state formation that has wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global history. Beginning with an overview of the historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature published on the topic to date. Incorporating recent insights, he offers a compelling alternative to the claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority, which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue. This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.
Author : Terry Maley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695951
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Democracy & the Political in Max Weber's Thought written by Terry Maley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through a detailed analysis of Weber's writings, the intersection of recent work on Weber and on democratic theory, bridging the gap between these two rapidly expanding areas of scholarship. Maley critically examines how Weber's realist 'model' of democracy defines and constrains the possibilities for democratic agency in modern liberal-democracies. Maley also looks at how ideas of historical time and memory are constructed in his writings on religion, bureaucracy, and the social sciences. Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought is both an accessible introduction to Weber's political thought and a spirited defense of its continued relevance to debates on democracy.
Author : Stephen Kalberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470775165
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Max Weber written by Stephen Kalberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume gathers Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family and race relations, to the role of science and the fate of ethical action in the modern world. Gathers Weber’s writings in a comprehensive collection, organized by topic. Rejuvenates a central, pivotal theme of Weberian thought: "How do we live?" and "How can we live in the industrial society?” Connects Weber’s writings to contemporary issues through modern essays and editorial introductions.
Author : Francis Thomas Luongo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443954
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena written by Francis Thomas Luongo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luongo investigates how Catherine's spiritual authority and sanctity were linked with contemporary political and cultural developments.
Author : Galen Amstutz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791433102
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Amida written by Galen Amstutz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-04-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and how orientalist assumptions have caused the West to ignore this important tradition.
Author : Moe Meyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415082488
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Camp written by Moe Meyer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century to its present manifestations in queer theatre and literature. They also take a fascinating look at the complex relationship between queer discourse and decidedly un-queer pop culture appropriations on film and on the stage. The Politics and Poetics of Camp is an incisive, uncontainable and entertaining collection of essays by some of the foremost critics working in queer theory, from a number of disciplinary perspectives. This book makes a well-timed intervention into an emerging debate.
