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Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher.
In...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XI, Volume 11
Stages on Life's Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Stages on Life's Way, the sequel to Either/Or, is an intensely poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. With characteristic love for mystification, he presents the work as a bundle of documents fallen by chance...
The Flame of Eternity
An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on human life are inextricably linked to time,...
by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Søren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian Andersen...
Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy
The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its...
by Vincent Azoulay
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. “Periclean” Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama,...
by Don Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Want to be cunning? You might wish you were more clever, more flexible, able to cut a few corners without getting caught, to dive now and again into iniquity and surface clutching a prize. You might want to roll your eyes at those slaves of duty who play by the rules. Or you might think there's something...
Reluctant Accomplice
A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His...
Broken Lives
How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation
Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under...
by Robert Audi
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
We can see a theft, hear a lie, and feel a stabbing. These are morally important perceptions. But are they also moral perceptions--distinctively moral responses? In this book, Robert Audi develops an original account of moral perceptions, shows how they figure in human experience, and argues that...
by Hilary Gatti
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and appear here in English for the first time. Bruno (1548-1600) is principally...
Impossible Subjects
Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
From Wealth to Power
The Unusual Origins of America's World Role
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1999
What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria seeks...
Philanthropy in America
A History - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society? Philanthropy in America is the first book to explore...