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Divine Fury

Author : Darrin M. McMahon
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465069916
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Divine Fury written by Darrin M. McMahon and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today, rock stars, football coaches, and entrepreneurs are labeled 'geniuses,' and the word is applied so widely that it has obscured the sense of special election and superhuman authority that long accompanied it. As acclaimed historian Darrin M. McMahon explains, the concept of genius has roots in antiquity, when men of prodigious insight were thought to possess -- or to be possessed by -- demons and gods. Adapted in the centuries that followed and applied to a variety of religious figures, including prophets, apostles, sorcerers, and saints, abiding notions of transcendent human power were invoked at the time of the Renaissance to explain the miraculous creativity of men like Leonardo and Michelangelo. Yet it was only in the eighteenth century that the genius was truly born, idolized as a new model of the highest human type. Assuming prominence in figures as varied as Newton and Napoleon, the modern genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality. Contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses served to dramatize the exception of extraordinary individuals not governed by ordinary laws. The phenomenon of genius drew scientific scrutiny and extensive public commentary into the 20th century, but it also drew religious and political longings that could be abused. In the genius cult of the Nazis and the outpouring of reverence for the redemptive figure of Einstein, genius achieved both its apotheosis and its Armageddon. The first comprehensive history of this elusive concept, Divine Fury follows the fortunes of genius and geniuses through the ages down to the present day, showing how -- despite its many permutations and recent democratization -- genius remains a potent force in our lives, reflecting modern needs, hopes, and fears.

A Handbook of Latin Literature

Author : Herbert Jennings Rose
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865163171
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Latin Literature written by Herbert Jennings Rose and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a study of Latin literature, including not only the classical and post-classical pagan authors, but also a representative selection of the Christian writers down to the death of St. Augustine.

Introductory Lessons in Latin and English for the Junior High School

Author : Mason DeWitt Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Introductory Lessons in Latin and English for the Junior High School written by Mason DeWitt Gray and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin Literature

Author : John William Mackail
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Latin Literature written by John William Mackail and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1895 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetic forms, on the other hand, used by Virgil were so much more on the main line of tendency that he stands among a large number of others, some of whom might have had a high reputation but for his overwhelming superiority. Of the other essays made in this period in bucolic poetry we know too little to speak with any confidence. But both didactic poetry and the little epic were largely cultivated, and the greater epic itself was not without followers. The extant poems of the Culex and Ciris have already been noted as showing with what skill and grace unknown poets, almost if not absolutely contemporary with Virgil, could use the slighter epic forms.

Race Prejudice

Author : Jean Finot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Race Prejudice written by Jean Finot and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin Historical Inscriptions Illustrating the History of the Early Empire

Author : Gordon McNeil Rushforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Latin Historical Inscriptions Illustrating the History of the Early Empire written by Gordon McNeil Rushforth and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catholic World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Public School Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Public School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School and Home Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book School and Home Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Profanations

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130562
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Profanations written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben’s singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering — the talking cricket in Pinocchio; “helpers” in Kafka’s novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud. “In Praise of Profanity,” the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.

Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136774696
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry written by Diane J. Rayor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Latin Historical Inscriptions

Author : Gordon McNeil Rushforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Latin Historical Inscriptions written by Gordon McNeil Rushforth and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortnightly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortnightly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Classical Museum a Journal of Philology, Ancient History and Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Museum a Journal of Philology, Ancient History and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The history and records of the conference, together with addresses delivered at the evening meetings

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The history and records of the conference, together with addresses delivered at the evening meetings written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quarterly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: