Author: Jesse Glenn Gray
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.
The Warriors
Author: Jesse Glenn Gray
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.
The New Statesman
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Passions of the Sign
Author: Andreas Gailus
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882777
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882777
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Essays on Literature, History, Politics, Etc
Author: Leonard Woolf
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Creed of Buddha
Author: Edmond Holmes
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Category : Buddha and Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Buddha and Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Passion for Happiness
Author: Adam Potkay
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801437274
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Although widely perceived as inhabiting different, even opposed, literary worlds, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and David Hume (1711-1776) shared common ground as moralists. Adam Potkay traces their central concerns to Hellenistic philosophy, as conveyed by Cicero, and to earlier moderns such as Addison and Mandeville. Johnson's and Hume's large and diverse bodies of writings, Potkay says, are unified by several key questions: What is happiness? What is the role of virtue in the happy life? What is the proper relationship between passion and reflection in the happy or flourishing individual? In their writings, Johnson and Hume largely agree upon what flourishing means for both human beings and the communities they inhabit. They also tell a common story about the history that led up to the enlightened age of eighteenth-century Europe. On the divisive topic of religion, these two great men of letters wrote with a decorum that characterizes the Enlightenment in Britain as compared to its French counterpart. In The Passion for Happiness, Adam Potkay illuminates much that philosophers and historians do not ordinarily appreciate about Hume, and that literary scholars might not recognize about Johnson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801437274
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Although widely perceived as inhabiting different, even opposed, literary worlds, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and David Hume (1711-1776) shared common ground as moralists. Adam Potkay traces their central concerns to Hellenistic philosophy, as conveyed by Cicero, and to earlier moderns such as Addison and Mandeville. Johnson's and Hume's large and diverse bodies of writings, Potkay says, are unified by several key questions: What is happiness? What is the role of virtue in the happy life? What is the proper relationship between passion and reflection in the happy or flourishing individual? In their writings, Johnson and Hume largely agree upon what flourishing means for both human beings and the communities they inhabit. They also tell a common story about the history that led up to the enlightened age of eighteenth-century Europe. On the divisive topic of religion, these two great men of letters wrote with a decorum that characterizes the Enlightenment in Britain as compared to its French counterpart. In The Passion for Happiness, Adam Potkay illuminates much that philosophers and historians do not ordinarily appreciate about Hume, and that literary scholars might not recognize about Johnson.
The Limits of Ferocity
Author: Daniel Fuchs
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082235005X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082235005X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.
Best British Short Stories and the Yearbook of the British, Irish, and Colonial Short Story
Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The British Journal of Psychology
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The New Criterion
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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