Philosophy as world literature

Philosophy as World Literature

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Turkish Literature as World Literature

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Mexican Literature as World Literature

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Bulgarian Literature as World Literature

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World Literature as Discovery

World Literature as Discovery argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from n

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Elena Ferrante as World Literature

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What Is World Literature?

Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global cont

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Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

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Oxford World´s Classics - Classical Literature The Consolation of Philosophy Oxford University Press

nové vydání klasické anglické četby ...

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Humour in British First World War Literature

Humour in British First World War Literature is based on little-known primary material uncovered from detailed archival research, as well as works tha

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Boundaries of Realism in World Literature

This study provides a broad examination of the use of realism in literature. In particular, the author analyzes the such writers as Thackeray, Dostoev

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Interpreting Modern Political Philosophy

The interpretive literature in the history of political thought is now vast, complex and esoteric, posing as much a barrier to the understanding of th

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Nature and Medieval Literature

This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world – both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as

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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)

Kniha - autor Julian Baggini, 432 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or le...

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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature(Revised Edn) - Randová Ayn

Anotace: In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhea...

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Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature

This book explores the debates surrounding postcolonial studies a world literature. It asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world liter

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Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, ...

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Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi

This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world

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The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan

<p>The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen F...

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Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation: Volume 2

The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy. Volume 2 clarifies his metaphysics of the will and contains important

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Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Taylor & Francis Ltd

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars. The book´s chapters address topics and themes extending from the formation of philosophy from its first stirrings in archaic Greek as well as Egyptian, Persian,...

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Introduction To Nanoscience And Nanomaterials

This textbook is aimed primarily at the senior undergraduate and first year graduate students from the various engineering and sciences departments including physics, chemistry, materials engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, and biology. Researchers in the areas of nanomaterials and nanoscience will also find t...

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The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy (1626868026)

Kniha - autor Tzu Sun, 592 stran, anglicky, pevná, kůže The words of the ancient Chinese sages are as timeless as they are wise. IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner 2017! The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years, and continue to shape our ideas today. The Art of War & Other Classics of East...

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Trickster Makes This World

This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a 'masterpiece'

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Bytí – Existence – A Philosophy for Life - Josef Zezulka

Josef Zezulka was born on 30th March, 1912 in Brno; he lived and worked in Prague, Czech Republic. At Easter 1945, at his 33, his life was unusually and mysteriously changed. He experienced an extraordinary state of open consciousness. He said: "It was as if I recalled something I had known before and forgotten". He received two gifts. The gift of spirit - to kn...

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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nationÂ’s demise as a world power, this study

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Feline Philosophy : Cats and the Meaning of Life - John Gray

<p>'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' M...

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Sophie’s World Vol I

The worldwide philosophy bestseller reimagined as a graphic novel

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Avatar - The Last Airbender and Philosophy - Wisdom from Aang to Zuko

Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders?Can Katara repair the world through care?Is Toph a disability pride icon?What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good?Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage?The world is out of sorts. The four nations, Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, are imbalanced because of the unrelenting conquest of the Fire N...

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Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC

Considering developments in literature, religion, philosophy, and science, The Greek World After Alexander examines social changes in the old and new

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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way - Kieran Setiya

<p>Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striv...

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Love in the Western World

In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the inescapable conflict in the West between marriage and passion - the first associated with social and religious respo...

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Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy

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Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. Written in clear and accessible prose, the book will interest those studying modern Europ...

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Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867-1918 Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book takes as its starting point Stevenson’s catalog of homosexual boy books and offers a critical examination of these works, along with others by gay writers who wrote for children from the1850s through the end of World War I. Stevenson’s list includes Eduard Bertz, Howard Sturgis, Horace Vachell, and Stevenson himself—to which I add Horatio Alger, John Gambril Nic...

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Dottie : By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 - Abdulrazak Gurnah

<p>By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural pastDottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history - or the ab...

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The Ring Legends of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Rings in Tolkien´s World, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History - David Day

<p>An in-depth guide to the rich history of the symbol of the ring, its origin in ancient storytelling tradition, and its influence on Tolkien's work.</p> <p>Tolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature.</p> <p>Tracing centuries of ancient folklore,...

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Anne Geddes: Small World - Anne Geddes

An infant curled within a seashell, on a bed of flowers, or on its mother’s body. With her distinct style and sensitive compositions, Anne Geddes has become one of the world’s most widely known and loved photographers, celebrated for her unique take on infancy and parenthood in soft, characterful, vibrant portraits. Like no photographer before, Geddes strives to capture t...

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen t

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Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book looks at the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy, including Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’, Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms and the ‘dead of world history’, exploring the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality across five broad themes. Building on the author’s previous work on the sociology of haunted h...

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Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages Taylor & Francis Ltd

Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that present rhetorical analysis of the discoursal practice in different cultural settings. This handbook will be crucial for students and researchers in areas such as literature and linguistics, communication studies, political science, and arts and humanities i...

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The Good Soldier Svejk : And His Fortunes in the World War - Jaroslav Hašek

<p>About The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War Jaroslav Hašek’s black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War – although his bumbling attempts to get to the front ser...

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The Good Soldier Svejk : And His Fortunes in the World War - Jaroslav Hašek

<p>About The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War Jaroslav Hašek’s black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War – although his bumbling attempts to get to the front ser...

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana

Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...

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Subject of Experience

Does the self exist? If so, what is its nature? How long do selves last? Galen Strawson draws on literature and psychology as well as philosophy to di

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Lucifer

Drawing on an impressive array of sources from popular religion, art, literature, and drama, as well as from scholastic philosophy, mystical theology,

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Oil Fictions

Explores literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, focusing on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petro

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Oil Fictions

Explores literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, focusing on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petro

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Strangers to Ourselves

Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the

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Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction

Highlights the fact that Sade is studied not just as a pornographer, but for his important contributions to literature, philosophy and the arts.

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Uncountable

Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of human

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Kama Sutra

The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation of the "Kama Sutra" was celebrated as a literary event of the highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilisation as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the "Kama Sutra" has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature. Written with frankness and un...

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Little Book of Zen

Zen is a philosophy for living in a state of kindness, gratitude and awareness, teaching us to be present and to experience the world as it truly is.

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Aristotle's Ethics

Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-be

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Medallions

Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style. More than mere historica

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Parsifal

Recommended for Steiner-Waldorf teachers of Class 11 (ages 16-17) as a way of introducing world literature.

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Theophrastus: Characters

Theophrastus: Characters is a work of supreme importance and interest both as a pioneering text of world literature and as a document illustrating man

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Revolt Against the Sun

A key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative of

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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. It analyzes the

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Behold an Animal

As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature's creatures? Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is sim

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