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The English Humanists Use Of Ciceros De Officiis In Their Evaluation Of Active And Contemplative Life
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Book Synopsis The English Humanists' Use of Cicero's De Officiis in Their Evaluation of Active and Contemplative Life by : Catherine Anna Louise Jarrott
Download or read book The English Humanists' Use of Cicero's De Officiis in Their Evaluation of Active and Contemplative Life written by Catherine Anna Louise Jarrott and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Action Versus Contemplation by : Jennifer Summit
Download or read book Action Versus Contemplation written by Jennifer Summit and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman, in 1856: “Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.” It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make an impact, or to understand the world more deeply? Aristotle argued for contemplation as the highest state of human flourishing. But it was through action that his student Alexander the Great conquered the known world. Which should we aim at? Centuries later, this argument underlies a surprising number of the questions we face in contemporary life. Should students study the humanities, or train for a job? Should adults work for money or for meaning? And in tumultuous times, should any of us sit on the sidelines, pondering great books, or throw ourselves into protests and petition drives? With Action versus Contemplation, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides. Rather, they argue for a rethinking of the very opposition. The active and the contemplative can—and should—be vibrantly alive in each of us, fused rather than sundered. Writing in a personable, accessible style, Summit and Vermeule guide readers through the long history of this debate from Plato to Pixar, drawing compelling connections to the questions and problems of today. Rather than playing one against the other, they argue, we can discover how the two can nourish, invigorate, and give meaning to each other, as they have for the many writers, artists, and thinkers, past and present, whose examples give the book its rich, lively texture of interplay and reference. This is not a self-help book. It won’t give you instructions on how to live your life. Instead, it will do something better: it will remind you of the richness of a life that embraces action and contemplation, company and solitude, living in the moment and planning for the future. Which is better? Readers of this book will discover the answer: both.
Book Synopsis Cultural Reformations by : Brian Cummings
Download or read book Cultural Reformations written by Brian Cummings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the Medieval and the Early Modern, not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom; of individual liberties; of the history of education and scholarship; of reading or the history of the book; of the very possibility of persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of these narratives (and more) is motivated by positing a powerful break around 1500. None of the claims for a profound historical and cultural break at the turn of the fifteenth into the sixteenth centuries is negligible. The very habit of working within those periodic bounds (either Medieval or Early Modern) tends, however, simultaneously to affirm and to ignore the rupture. It affirms the rupture by staying within standard periodic bounds, but it ignores it by never examining the rupture itself. The moment of profound change is either, for medievalists, just over an unexplored horizon; or, for Early Modernists, a zero point behind which more penetrating examination is unnecessary. That situation is now rapidly changing. Scholars are building bridges that link previously insular areas. Both periods are starting to look different in dialogue with each other. The change underway has yet to find collected voices behind it. Cultural Reformations volume aims to provide those voices. It will give focus, authority, and drive to a new area.
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Book Synopsis Dissertations in English and American Literature by : Laurence F. McNamee
Download or read book Dissertations in English and American Literature written by Laurence F. McNamee and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century by : Brian Vickers
Download or read book Public and Private Life in the Seventeenth Century written by Brian Vickers and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Dee by : William Howard Sherman
Download or read book John Dee written by William Howard Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a major reassessment of the career and cultural background of John Dee (1527-1609), one of Elizabethan England's most interesting figures. Challenging the conventional image of the isolated, eccentric philosopher, Sherman situates Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly, and commercial circles of his day. The centerpiece of Dee's life is shown to be the massive library and museum at Mortlake, perhaps the first modern "think tank". There he lived, worked, and entertained some of the period's most influential intellectuals and politicians. Sherman discusses Dee's household arrangements, reading practices, and writings on subjects ranging from calendar reform to imperial policy. He also offers the first detailed account of the broad network of scholars and other experts who, along with Dee, operated behind the political scenes, providing textual and technological support during this time of unprecedented intellectual and global expansion.
Book Synopsis 'That Love and Honor Might Agree' by : John Wayne Carr
Download or read book 'That Love and Honor Might Agree' written by John Wayne Carr and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature by : Xerox University Microfilms
Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature written by Xerox University Microfilms and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Catalog by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Book Synopsis Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities by : Donald Bean Gilchrist
Download or read book Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities written by Donald Bean Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Catalog by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Catalogs by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 by :
Download or read book Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Commencement by : Stanford University
Download or read book Annual Commencement written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publications of the Modern Language Association of America by :
Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-03 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.
