Enlightenment Crossings
Author | : George Sebastian Rousseau |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9780719030727 |
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Author | : George Sebastian Rousseau |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : 9780719030727 |
Author | : George Sebastian Rousseau |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780719033018 |
Author | : George Sebastian Rousseau |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780719035067 |
Author | : Richard B. Sher |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226752542 |
The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
Author | : Daehaeng |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0861715349 |
Known for her profound insight and compassion, Daehaeng Sunim has impeccable credentials as a Zen master, having spent long years of training in the mountains of Korea before she began to teach. Though steeped in the tradition, she has a refreshing approach: "No River to Cross" avoids the intellectual trappings of many Buddhist books, choosing instead to get personal. It's disarmingly simple, yet remarkably profound, pointing the reader again and again to his or her "True Nature"-- the enlightenment that is always within.
Author | : Arne Hessenbruch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 965 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134262949 |
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author | : Viktoria von Hoffmann |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252099087 |
Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrée to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and cooks rediscovered a vast array of ways to prepare and present foods. Far-sailing fleets returned to Europe bursting with new vegetables, exotic fruits, and pungent spices. Hosts refined notions of hospitality in the home while philosophers pondered the body and its perceptions. As von Hoffmann shows, these labors produced a sea change in perception and thought, one that moved taste from the base realm of the tongue to the ethereal heights of aesthetics.
Author | : Jed McKenna |
Publisher | : Wisefool Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2009-11-25 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0980184800 |
Guns and bombs are children’s toys. A true war wages, and you’re invited. IT’S AN INVITATION you may not be able to accept if you want to, or decline if you don’t. It’s an invitation to fight in a war like no other; a war where loss is counted as gain, surrender as victory, and where the enemy you must face, an enemy of unimaginable superiority, is you. Contains Bonus Material.
Author | : Fred Reinhard Dallmayr |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780739100431 |
Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of North America and Europe in the direction of genuine comparative investigation. Border Crossings presents an effort to remedy this situation, fully launching a new era in political theory. Thirteen scholars from around the world examine the various political traditions of West, South, and East Asia and engage in a reflective cross-cultural discussion that belies the assumptions of an Asian 'essence' and of an unbridgeable gulf between West and non-West. The denial of essential differences does not, however, amount to an endorsement of essential sameness. As viewed and as practiced by contributors to this ground-breaking volume, comparative political theorizing must steer a course between uniformity and radical separation--this is the path of 'border crossings.'
Author | : Jennifer Ford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521583160 |
This book is the first in-depth investigation of Coleridge's responses to his dreams and to contemporary debates on the nature of dreaming, a subject of perennial interest to poets, philosophers and scientists throughout the Romantic period. Coleridge wrote and read extensively on the subject, but his richly diverse and original ideas have hitherto received little attention, scattered as they are throughout his notebooks, letters and marginalia. Jennifer Ford's emphasis is on analysing the ways in which dreaming processes were construed, by Coleridge in his dream readings, and by his contemporaries in a range of poetic and medical works. This historical exploration of dreams and dreaming allows Ford to explore previously neglected contemporary debates on 'the medical imagination'. By avoiding purely biographical or psychoanalytic approaches, she reveals instead a rich historical context for the ways in which the most mysterious workings of the Romantic imagination were explored and understood.