Author: William Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Innocence and Experience
Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780674454484
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Human beings have lived by very different conceptions of the good life. In this book, Stuart Hampshire argues that no individual and no modern society can avoid conflicts between incompatible moral interests. Philosophers have tried in the past to find some underlying moral idea of justice which could resolve these conflicts and would be valid for any society. Hampshire claims that there can be no such thing. States can be held together, and war between them avoided, only by respect for the political process itself, and it is in these terms that justice must be defined. The book closely examines the critical relationship between morality and justice, paying particular attention to Hume's moral subjectivism (which Hampshire disputes) and proposing a reply to Machiavelli's claim that the realities of politics inevitably oblige leaders to choose between unavoidable evils. Most academic and moral philosophy, Hampshire argues, has been a fairy tale, representing ideals of private innocence rather than the realities of public experience. Conflicts between incompatible moral interests are as unavoidable in social and international arenas as they are in the lives of individuals. Philosophers, politicians, and theologians have all looked for an underlying moral consensus that will be valid for any just society. But the diversity of the human species and important differences in how various cultures define the good life militate against the formation of any such consensus. Ultimately, conflicts can be mediated only by respect for procedural justice. Hampshire believes that themes of moral philosophy come from the writer's own experience, and he has given a brief but compelling account of his own life to help the reader understand the sources of his philosophy. Combining intellectual rigor with imaginative power, in Innocence and Experience Stuart Hampshire vividly illuminates the tensions between justice and other sources of value in society and in the life of the individual.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780674454484
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Human beings have lived by very different conceptions of the good life. In this book, Stuart Hampshire argues that no individual and no modern society can avoid conflicts between incompatible moral interests. Philosophers have tried in the past to find some underlying moral idea of justice which could resolve these conflicts and would be valid for any society. Hampshire claims that there can be no such thing. States can be held together, and war between them avoided, only by respect for the political process itself, and it is in these terms that justice must be defined. The book closely examines the critical relationship between morality and justice, paying particular attention to Hume's moral subjectivism (which Hampshire disputes) and proposing a reply to Machiavelli's claim that the realities of politics inevitably oblige leaders to choose between unavoidable evils. Most academic and moral philosophy, Hampshire argues, has been a fairy tale, representing ideals of private innocence rather than the realities of public experience. Conflicts between incompatible moral interests are as unavoidable in social and international arenas as they are in the lives of individuals. Philosophers, politicians, and theologians have all looked for an underlying moral consensus that will be valid for any just society. But the diversity of the human species and important differences in how various cultures define the good life militate against the formation of any such consensus. Ultimately, conflicts can be mediated only by respect for procedural justice. Hampshire believes that themes of moral philosophy come from the writer's own experience, and he has given a brief but compelling account of his own life to help the reader understand the sources of his philosophy. Combining intellectual rigor with imaginative power, in Innocence and Experience Stuart Hampshire vividly illuminates the tensions between justice and other sources of value in society and in the life of the individual.
Tales of Innocence and Experience
Author: Eva Figes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1582342598
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The novelist offers a memoir of her childhood, discussing her grandmother, her special relationship with fairy tales, and her flight from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1582342598
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The novelist offers a memoir of her childhood, discussing her grandmother, her special relationship with fairy tales, and her flight from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Innocence & Experience
Author: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.). Center for the Study of Children's Literature
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Last Season of Innocence
Author: Victor Brooks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442209178
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442209178
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people.
On the Road with U2
Author: Deena Dietrich
Publisher: Deenasdays
ISBN: 9780692422991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Join me on my musical journey on the road with U2 to the 75 shows I have seen since the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Meeting Bono in Jersey, hugging Larry in Baltimore, having a drink with Larry in Providence, talking with Bono in Seattle, hugging Larry again in Pittsburgh - just to name a few.
Publisher: Deenasdays
ISBN: 9780692422991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Join me on my musical journey on the road with U2 to the 75 shows I have seen since the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Meeting Bono in Jersey, hugging Larry in Baltimore, having a drink with Larry in Providence, talking with Bono in Seattle, hugging Larry again in Pittsburgh - just to name a few.
Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486227641
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Blake's original color plates are faithfully reproduced in this illuminated edition of his early poems
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486227641
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Blake's original color plates are faithfully reproduced in this illuminated edition of his early poems
Songs of Innocence
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122239
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This hardcover gift edition comprises the complete contents of Songs of Innocence, in addition to nine poems from Songs of Experience. Seven color and numerous black-and-white line illustrations grace the text.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122239
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This hardcover gift edition comprises the complete contents of Songs of Innocence, in addition to nine poems from Songs of Experience. Seven color and numerous black-and-white line illustrations grace the text.
Poems 1955-2005
Author: Anne Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Anne Stevenson is a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of serious humour. Poems 1955-2005 is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Collected Poems, drawing on over a dozen previous collections as well as new poems, with this book's new thematic arrangements emphasising the craft, coherence and architecture of her life's work. major poets of our period, it has never been by virtue of this or that much anthologised poem, but by the work or mind as a whole. It is not so much a matter of the odd lightning-struck tree as of an entire landscape, and that landscape is always humane, intelligent and sane, composed of both natural and rational elements, and amply furnished with patches of wit and fury, which only serve to bring out the humanity' - george szirtes, London Magazine with a complex reality where an intently sensory world inhabited by wilful resistant people is overlaid by ghosts, ideas, and spectral emissions: the historical, philosophical, and scientific - all dimensions of what obviously isn't there and yet can't be denied' - emily grosholz, Michigan Quarterly impressive, but her talent is for fusing the disciplines into an honest and humane account of our world, and expressing this through rhythm and form...She is wise without portentousness, her technique faultless and her imagination fiery, political and fresh' - carol rumens, Independent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Anne Stevenson is a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of serious humour. Poems 1955-2005 is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Collected Poems, drawing on over a dozen previous collections as well as new poems, with this book's new thematic arrangements emphasising the craft, coherence and architecture of her life's work. major poets of our period, it has never been by virtue of this or that much anthologised poem, but by the work or mind as a whole. It is not so much a matter of the odd lightning-struck tree as of an entire landscape, and that landscape is always humane, intelligent and sane, composed of both natural and rational elements, and amply furnished with patches of wit and fury, which only serve to bring out the humanity' - george szirtes, London Magazine with a complex reality where an intently sensory world inhabited by wilful resistant people is overlaid by ghosts, ideas, and spectral emissions: the historical, philosophical, and scientific - all dimensions of what obviously isn't there and yet can't be denied' - emily grosholz, Michigan Quarterly impressive, but her talent is for fusing the disciplines into an honest and humane account of our world, and expressing this through rhythm and form...She is wise without portentousness, her technique faultless and her imagination fiery, political and fresh' - carol rumens, Independent
U2 by U2
Author: U2 (Musical group)
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007196687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." - Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007196687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." - Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures.