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Author: Jean Franco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521210631
Size: 36.56 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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This is the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (1892-1938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.

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Author: Sylvia Lehrer
Publisher: Longwood PressLtd
ISBN:
Size: 41.28 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Robert M. Doran
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802067777
Size: 62.11 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Doran draws extensively on the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and the work develops Lonergan's methodological insights.

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Author: Juliane Rebentisch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780745682129
Size: 12.18 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Ayon Maharaj
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441140840
Size: 18.67 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This study examines how key figures in the German aesthetic tradition -- Kant, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno -- attempted to think through the powers and limits of art in post-Enlightenment modernity. Ayon Maharaj argues that the aesthetic speculations of these thinkers provide the conceptual resources for a timely dialectical defense of "aesthetic agency"-- art's capacity to make available uniquely valuable modes of experience that escape the purview of Enlightenment scientific rationality. Blending careful philosophical analysis with an intellectual historian's attention to the broader cultural resonance of philosophical arguments, Maharaj has two interrelated aims. He provides challenging new interpretations of the aesthetic philosophies of Kant, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno by focusing on aspects of their thought that have been neglected or misunderstood in Anglo-American and German scholarship. He demonstrates that their subtle investigations into the nature and scope of aesthetic agency have far-reaching implications for contemporary discourse on the arts. The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency is an important and original contribution to scholarship on the German aesthetic tradition and to the broader field of aesthetics.

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Author: José David Saldívar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381702
Size: 62.43 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American culture, one more responsive to the geographical ties and political crosscurrents of the hemisphere than to narrow national ideologies. Saldívar pursues this goal through an array of oppositional critical and creative practices. He analyzes a range of North American writers of color (Rolando Hinojosa, Gloria Anzaldúa, Arturo Islas, Ntozake Shange, and others) and Latin American authors (José Martí, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Gabriel García Márquez, and others), whose work forms a radical critique of the dominant culture, its politics, and its restrictive modes of expression. By doing so, Saldívar opens the traditional American canon to a dialog with other voices, not just the voices of national minorities, but those of regional cultures different from the prevalent anglocentric model. The Dialectics of Our America, in its project to expand the “canon” and define a pan-American literary tradition, will make a critical difference in ongoing attempts to reconceptualize American literary history.

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Author: Helen Wing
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780901286581
Size: 57.32 MB
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Category : Christian poetry, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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A slightly revised version of a Ph. D. dissertation submitted to the University of Cambridge in September 1993.

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Author: David Kennedy
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791468265
Size: 76.67 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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Offers a sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood.

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Author: John Dadosky
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144266732X
Size: 59.24 MB
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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According to the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, a world that has lost sight of beauty is a world riddled with skepticism, moral and aesthetic relativism, conflicting religious worldviews, and escalating ecological crises. In The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty, John D. Dadosky uses Kierkegaard and Nietzsche’s negative aesthetics to outline the context of that loss, and presents an argument for reclaiming beauty as a metaphysical property of being. Inspired by Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy of consciousness, Dadosky presents a philosophy of beauty that is grounded in contemporary Thomistic thought. Responding to Balthasar, he argues for a concept of beauty that can be experienced, understood, judged, created, contemplated, and even loved. Deeply engaged with the work of Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kant, among others, The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty will be essential reading for those interested in contemporary philosophy and theology.

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Author: Jan Baars
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407094
Size: 50.55 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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In this deeply considered meditation on aging in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today’s world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better. He contends that there has been an overall loss of respect for aging, to the point that understanding and "dealing with" aging people has become a process focused on the decline of potential and the advance of disease rather than on the accumulation of wisdom and the creation of new skills. To make his case, Baars compares and contrasts the works of such modern-era thinkers as Foucault, Heidegger, and Husserl with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and other Ancient and Stoic philosophers. He shows how people in the classical period—less able to control health hazards—had a far better sense of the provisional nature of living, which led to a philosophical and religious emphasis on cultivating the art of living and the idea of wisdom. This is not to say that modern society’s assessments of aging are insignificant, but they do need to balance an emphasis on the measuring of age with the concept of "living in time." Gerontologists, philosophers, and students will find Baars' discussion to be a powerful, perceptive conversation starter.

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Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613752X
Size: 80.71 MB
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Systematic grouped passages of Leonardo's writings concerning painting, focusing on problems of interpretation. More than an anthology, it offers a reconstruction of the underlying meaning of Leonardo's words. Introductions, notes, bibliography, reference materials. Over 125 black-and-white illustrations.

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Author: James Martin Harding
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432693
Size: 72.73 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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Extends critical discussion of Adorno to works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka, arguing that Adorno's work can best be assessed in terms of its relevance in specific localized contexts.

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Author: Andrew Lewis Feenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 47.23 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Dialectical materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Author: Harris M. Berger
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566874
Size: 64.46 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.

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