Author: Calvert Watkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Selected Writings. 2, Culture and Poetics
Author: Calvert Watkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Selected Writings of Richard McKeon, Volume Two
Author: Richard P. McKeon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226560384
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear on more standard ways of thinking and learning. A classicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This second volume of McKeon's selected works demonstrates his approach to inquiry and practice in culture, education, and the arts. Together, the writings in this book show how McKeon reinvented the ancient arts of rhetoric, grammar, logic, and dialectic for the new circumstances of a global culture. In essays on creation and criticism, for instance, rhetoric is distinguished from grammar and shown to be the master art of invention, judgment, and pluralistic interpretation. Writings on themes of culture, meanwhile, explore the self-invention of mankind as justification for the arts, the development of the humanities, and the organization of the sciences. In the closing essays on education and philosophy, McKeon considers the implications of his ideas for the future of the liberal arts and higher learning.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226560384
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear on more standard ways of thinking and learning. A classicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This second volume of McKeon's selected works demonstrates his approach to inquiry and practice in culture, education, and the arts. Together, the writings in this book show how McKeon reinvented the ancient arts of rhetoric, grammar, logic, and dialectic for the new circumstances of a global culture. In essays on creation and criticism, for instance, rhetoric is distinguished from grammar and shown to be the master art of invention, judgment, and pluralistic interpretation. Writings on themes of culture, meanwhile, explore the self-invention of mankind as justification for the arts, the development of the humanities, and the organization of the sciences. In the closing essays on education and philosophy, McKeon considers the implications of his ideas for the future of the liberal arts and higher learning.
Selected Writings: 1927-1934
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945869
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674945869
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.
Selected Writings: Culture and poetics
Author: Calvert Watkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indo-European languages
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
George Washington: Selected Writings
Author: George Washington
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598531107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Simultaneously with the release of a paperback edition of his acclaimed biography Washington: A Life (Penguin), Ron Chernow presents a revealing portrait of Washington through his own words. A young officer leading an attack that triggered a global struggle for empire. Commander of the ill-equipped and undermanned Continental Army in the War of Independence. Presiding delegate to the Constitutional Convention. First President of the United States. George Washington, the indispensable founder of the American republic, was at the heart of events of worldwide importance. He was also, as revealed in this selection introduced by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, a writer of remarkable clarity, energy, force, and eloquence. This career- spanning selection includes detailed notes, an essay on the selection of texts, and a chronology of Washington's life.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598531107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Simultaneously with the release of a paperback edition of his acclaimed biography Washington: A Life (Penguin), Ron Chernow presents a revealing portrait of Washington through his own words. A young officer leading an attack that triggered a global struggle for empire. Commander of the ill-equipped and undermanned Continental Army in the War of Independence. Presiding delegate to the Constitutional Convention. First President of the United States. George Washington, the indispensable founder of the American republic, was at the heart of events of worldwide importance. He was also, as revealed in this selection introduced by his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, a writer of remarkable clarity, energy, force, and eloquence. This career- spanning selection includes detailed notes, an essay on the selection of texts, and a chronology of Washington's life.
Pre-faces & Other Writings
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207867
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Essays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207867
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Essays document the author's theories of poetry, discuss the goals of oral poetry, and analyze brief poems and poetic concepts.
Selected Writings
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1207
Book Description
In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomas's writings, which contain highly influential statements of fundamental Christian doctrine, as well as observations on topics as diverse as political science, anti-Semitism and heresy, demonstrate the great range of his intellect and place him firmly among the greatest medieval philosophers.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141908181
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1207
Book Description
In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomas's writings, which contain highly influential statements of fundamental Christian doctrine, as well as observations on topics as diverse as political science, anti-Semitism and heresy, demonstrate the great range of his intellect and place him firmly among the greatest medieval philosophers.
Selected Writings: 1927-1934
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Selected Writings of Charles Olson
Author: Charles Olson
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811203357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Covering the fundamentals of stochastic processes, this title includes the basics of Poisson processes, Markov chains, branching processes, martingales, and diffusion processes. It presents a unique blend of theory and applications, with special emphasis on mathematical modelling, computational techniques and examples from the biological sciences. It is appropriate for students in applied mathematics, biostatistics, computational biology, computer science, physics, and statistics.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811203357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Covering the fundamentals of stochastic processes, this title includes the basics of Poisson processes, Markov chains, branching processes, martingales, and diffusion processes. It presents a unique blend of theory and applications, with special emphasis on mathematical modelling, computational techniques and examples from the biological sciences. It is appropriate for students in applied mathematics, biostatistics, computational biology, computer science, physics, and statistics.
How Poems Think
Author: Reginald Gibbons
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022627814X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry’s stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry’s ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets—Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022627814X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry’s stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry’s ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets—Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.