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Author : Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Eros written by Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ioan P. Culianu
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226123162
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Eros and Magic in the Renaissance written by Ioan P. Culianu and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic continues to exist in an altered form even today. Renaissance magic, according to Ioan Couliano, was a scientifically plausible attempt to manipulate individuals and groups based on a knowledge of motivations, particularly erotic motivations. Its key principle was that everyone (and in a sense everything) could be influenced by appeal to sexual desire. In addition, the magician relied on a profound knowledge of the art of memory to manipulate the imaginations of his subjects. In these respects, Couliano suggests, magic is the precursor of the modern psychological and sociological sciences, and the magician is the distant ancestor of the psychoanalyst and the advertising and publicity agent. In the course of his study, Couliano examines in detail the ideas of such writers as Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola and illuminates many aspects of Renaissance culture, including heresy, medicine, astrology, alchemy, courtly love, the influence of classical mythology, and even the role of fashion in clothing. Just as science gives the present age its ruling myth, so magic gave a ruling myth to the Renaissance. Because magic relied upon the use of images, and images were repressed and banned in the Reformation and subsequent history, magic was replaced by exact science and modern technology and eventually forgotten. Couliano's remarkable scholarship helps us to recover much of its original significance and will interest a wide audience in the humanities and social sciences.
Author : Paul W. Ludwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434179
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Eros and Polis written by Paul W. Ludwig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities, contemporary theory and ideology could conceive of entire communities based on desire. A recurrent aspiration was to transform the polity into one great household that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love and civic friendship as sources of political attachment and as bonds of political association. Studying the ancient view of eros recovers a way of looking at political phenomena that provides a bridge, missing in modern thought, between the private and public spheres, between erotic love and civic commitment. Ludwig's study thus has important implications for the theoretical foundations of community.
Author : Indrani Chaudhuri
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1649519605
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)
Download or read book “And I Too Am My Own Forerunner” written by Indrani Chaudhuri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predicated upon the towers of collapse, while T.S. Eliot, the representative modernist, in order to re-construct his culture out of the debris of its imperialist past, concluded his Waste Land (1922) by looking Eastward, into the all-pervading “shantih” of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American, authored The Prophet (1923) to deconstruct such enterprise and retrieve a culture that was swirling in-between Darwinian metaphors and Nietzschean Nihilism. He who was exterior to the ‘omnipotent definitions’ of the West, saw in “Beauty” the “eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” So, to him, “you are eternity and you are the mirror.” This book is a reading of Kahlil Gibran's life and works: his life as a text and his works as the terrains of a never-ending journey. It opens up those fissures and ruptures that make Gibran and his writings relevant vis-á-vis the socio-political, cultural and religious urgencies that the world is grappling with today. Often misconstrued as a mystic or an Oriental Wise Man, Gibran dwells in an amorphous placeless-ness within the academic space and outside of it. “Forerunner” in its own way, this book, by unfolding the process of 'reading' as a mode of travelling, subverts such stereotypes and tries to reveal to the readers that 'outlandish' lonely intellectual who, through his works, fashioned a self and a land ‘out of place’, rather in a ‘non-place’, for dismantling and up-setting monolithic cultures and their decadent notions.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199229759
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Beauty: A Very Short Introduction written by Roger Scruton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description.
Author : Denton Jaques Snider
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Delphic Days written by Denton Jaques Snider and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872862227
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Tears of Eros written by Georges Bataille and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1989-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo practitioners, and Chinese torture victims, Bataille reveals their common obsession: death. This essay, illustrated with artwork from every era, was developed out of ideas explored in Erotism: Death and Sexuality and Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art. In it Bataille examines death--the ""little death"" that follows sexual climax, the proximate death in sadomasochistic practices, and death as part of religious ritual and sacrifice. Georges Bataille was born in Billom, France, in 1897. He was a librarian by profession. Also a philosopher, novelist, and critic he was founder of the College of Sociology. In 1959, Bataille began The Tears of Eros, and it was completed in 1961, his final work. Bataille died in 1962.
Author : William Shakespeare
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. 1907 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [V.23] The second part of Henry the Fourth. 1940.--[v.24-25] The sonnets. 1924.--[v.26] Troilus and Cressida. 1953.--[v.27] The life and death of King Richard the Second. 1955.
Author : Michael Balint
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429917511
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique written by Michael Balint and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the eternal problems of mankind is that of love and hate. Why and how does it happen that we love this one of our fellow-men, feel safe in his affection, expect satisfactions of our needs from him and are attracted to him, while we hate and avoid other? Ever since the publication of Freud's first works one of the main objects of psycho-analytic research has been the study of these powerful currents of the human mind. The author contributed several important papers on this subject, and Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique is a collection of his material from 1930 to 1952. The first half of this volume is a collection of all his papers on this topic. The first, "Psycho-Sexual Parallels to the Fundamental Law of Biogenetics", is an attempt to trace the development of the erotic instincts from their earliest biological beginnings in unicellular organisms to their highest manifestations in human beings. Other papers deal with the problems of "Genital Love". "Transference of Emotions", of "Love and Hate" and so on.
Author : Walter Savage Landor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Poems written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Savage Landor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Poems: Dramatic scenes written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Savage Landor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Landor's Imaginary Conversations ; Landor's Poems, Dialogues in Verse, and Epigrams ; Landor's Longer Prose Works written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Savage Landor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Dramatic scenes written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Naiman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691194513
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Sex in Public written by Eric Naiman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex in Public examines the ideological poetics and the rhetoric of power in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, a period of anxiety over the historical legitimacy of Soviet ideology and Bolshevik power. Drawing on a wide range of soruces—Party Congress transcripts, the classics of early Soviet literature, sex education pamphlets, the cinema, crime reports, and early Soviet ventures into popular science—the author seeks to explain the period's preoccupation with crime, disease, and, especially, sex. Using strategies of reading developed by literary scholars, he devotes special care to exploring the role of narrative in authoritative political texts. The book breaks new ground in its attention to the ideological importance of the female body during this important formative stage of Bolshevik rule. Sex in Public provides a fundamentally new history of the New Economic Policy and offers important revisionist readings of many of the fundamental cultural products of the early Soviet period. Perhaps most important, it serves as a model for the sort of interdisciplinary work that is possible when historians take literary and ideology theory seriously and when ideology theorists seek to conform to the standards of documentary rigor traditionally demanded by historians. It thus becomes a study that can be read as both positivistic and postmodern. Eric Naiman is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Hugh Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044144
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Shelley and the Chaos of History written by Hugh Roberts and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare written by Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
