Stanley: 2315 books
Disowning Knowledge
In Seven Plays of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
by Stanley Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.
20th-Century Theology
God & the World in a Transitional Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Christianity Today
The Journey of an African Child
The Inspirational Story of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Many people have lost their way, focus, or direction due to unbearable life circumstances. There have been times in my life when I gave up hope and contemplated committing suicide. Sometimes, I barely survived challenges and regained hope to continue with my life journey. Do not let any circumstance...
The Legacy of the Grand Tour
New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident in works of travel and literature. From its...
by Stanley N. Gundry, Steven B. Cowan, Zondervan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The goal of apologetics is to persuasively answer honest objections that keep people from faith in Jesus Christ. But of several apologetic approaches, which is most effective? Five Views on Apologetics examines the “how-to” of apologetics, putting five prominent views under the microscope: Classical,...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
Theodor W. Adorno
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. In light of two pivotal developments—the rise of fascism, which culminated in the Holocaust, and the standardization of popular culture as a commodity indispensable to contemporary capitalism—Adorno sought...
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome
The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism: The Carus Lectures, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another.
"Cavell's...
The Slave Catchers
Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this thoroughly researched documentation of a historically controversial issue, the author considers the background, passage, and constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law. The author's relation of public opinion and the executive policy regarding the much disputed law will help the reader reach...
by Professor Stanley Lane-Poole
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This is the tale of the last of the great Mughal Emperors of India, Aurangzib or the “world-seizer”, his life is traced by expert historian Professor Lane-Poole though the blood, battles and intrigue of his vast wars, rapid expansion, religious piety and fatal over-extension.
“The greatest of...
Dispatches from the War Room
In the Trenches with Five Extraordinary Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
The fascinating "war room" memoir of a political pollster and how he helped forge the agendas of five high-profile heads of state
As a hired gun strategist, Greenberg—a seasoned pollster and political consultant—has seen it all. In his memoir, he recounts his work with President...
by Noam Chomsky, Stanley Rogouski, Alex Fradkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
With urgency and clarity, Noam Chomsky speaks with the movement as it transitions from occupying tent camps to occupying the national conscience
Como funciona o fascismo
A política do "nós" e "eles"
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 10, 2018
A curiosidade quanto ao termo fascismo é um fenômeno sem precedentes no mundo contemporâneo. Mas por quê? Mesclando magistralmente reflexões históricas, filosóficas, sociológicas e de teoria crítica da raça, este livro revisita célebres exemplos de movimentos ultranacionalistas para mostrar...