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Author : Herman Garner
Release : 2011-02-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 608/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wavering Between Extremes by : Herman Garner
Download or read book Wavering Between Extremes written by Herman Garner. This book was released on 2011-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: no description available
Author : Dieter Henrich
Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Between Kant and Hegel by : Dieter Henrich
Download or read book Between Kant and Hegel written by Dieter Henrich. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of the most eloquent explanations and interpretations of classical German philosophy and of the way it relates to the concerns of contemporary philosophy. Thanks to the editorial work of David Pacini, the lectures appear here with annotations linking them to editions of the masterworks of German philosophy as they are now available. Henrich describes the movement that led from Kant to Hegel, beginning with an interpretation of the structure and tensions of Kant's system. He locates the Kantian movement and revival of Spinoza, as sketched by F. H. Jacobi, in the intellectual conditions of the time and in the philosophical motivations of modern thought. Providing extensive analysis of the various versions of Fichte's Science of Knowledge, Henrich brings into view a constellation of problems that illuminate the accomplishments of the founders of Romanticism, Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel, and of the poet Hölderlin's original philosophy. He concludes with an interpretation of the basic design of Hegel's system.
Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
Release : 2019-09-20
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 725/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Extreme Exoticism by : W. Anthony Sheppard
Download or read book Extreme Exoticism written by W. Anthony Sheppard. This book was released on 2019-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.
Author : Werner Hamacher
Release : 1998
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 851/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pleroma by : Werner Hamacher
Download or read book Pleroma written by Werner Hamacher. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the genealogy and unfolding of Hegel's thought into his mature works, the author analyzes the violent transformations which Hegel's philosophy has uncovered and caused in the structure of philosophical terms and in the terms under which philosophy is possible.
Author : Judith Viorst
Release : 2014-10-21
Genre : Self-Help
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Book Rating : 892/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imperfect Control by : Judith Viorst
Download or read book Imperfect Control written by Judith Viorst. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her remarkable national bestseller, Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst explored how we are shaped by the various losses we experience throughout our lives. Now, in her wise and perceptive new book, Imperfect Control, she shows us how our sense of self and all our important relationships are colored by our struggles over control: over wanting it and taking it, loving it and fearing it, and figuring out when the time has come to surrender it. Writing with compassion, acute psychological insight, and a touch of her trademark humor, Viorst invites us to contemplate the limits and possibilities of our control. She shows us how our lives can be shaped by our actions and our choices. She reminds us, too, that we sometimes should choose to let go. And she encourages us to find our own best balance between power and surrender.
