Dead Wrong
Dead Wrong

Author: David Boonin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 019257938X

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It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person while they are alive even if the act has no effect on that person's conscious experiences. Second, that if this is so, then frustrating a person's desires is one way to wrongfully harm a person. And third, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person even if the act takes place after the person is dead. Over the course of the book, Boonin introduces the significance of posthumous harm, deals with each of his three main claims in turn, responds to the objections that might be raised against the book's thesis, and examines some of the ethical implications for issues such as posthumous organ and gamete removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves and corpses, and posthumous punishment and restitution.

No Longer a Stranger
No Longer a Stranger

Author: Joan Johnston

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-02-15

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1416516603

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Get swept back to the untamed American West in this thrilling romance filled with powerful passion and breathtaking action in the days after the Civil War—from the New York Times bestselling author of the Bitter Creek series. The Civil War was over, but new dangers lay in wait across the open frontier. Disguised as a boy in buckskins, pretty Rebecca Hunter wasn’t afraid of any enemy who might cross her path in the Rocky Mountains. She vowed never to belong to any man...until she met city-bred Christopher Kincaid, the stranger she rescued from a fierce band of Sioux. All too quickly she learned how powerful an attraction can be between a man and a woman. No Indian ambush could scar Kincaid as deeply as the tragic loss and broken heart he suffered in the war. Now, being nursed back to health by Reb in an isolated mountain cabin, he found himself coming alive with a powerful desire for her. But how could he know that his mission for the government would jeopardize his chances of winning Reb’s heart, bring down the wrath of a renegade Sioux chief, and test the lengths he’d be willing to go to convince this passionate woman to stay beside him for all time?

Survival of the Weakest
Survival of the Weakest

Author: Stiller Whistman Pryce

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-07-03

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1105523381

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Engage in a young woman's tale in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland where zombies and cannibals compete for human flesh. An unlikely scavenger helps her discover she possesses the power to jumpstart humanity's faith in an immunity they consider myth. But as they race to escape danger, the young woman discovers an rag tag fleet of allies who help her defend mankind's only hope. The survival of the weakest is an all out war against the evils of the wasteland where earth's lowliest species prove only they can battle against an empire of flesh eaters.

David Hume
David Hume

Author: Christopher J. Berry

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-02-07

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1623569451

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In this compelling and accessible account of the life and thought of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), Professor Christopher J. Berry of the University of Glasgow argues that the belief in the uniformity of human nature was at the heart of Hume's thought. In this volume, Berry introduces classic 'Humean' themes including the evolution of social institutions as an unintended consequence of the pursuit of self-interest, the importance of custom and habit in establishing rules of just conduct, and the defence of commerce and luxury. The book reveals Hume as an original thinker, whose thought may be understood as a combination of various strands of conservatism, libertarianism and liberalism.

The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy
The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy

Author: August Strindberg

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy" by August Strindberg. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Translated Memories
Translated Memories

Author: Bettina Hofmann

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1793606072

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This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. By bringing together authors and scholars (often both) from different generations, countries, and languages, and focusing on transgenerational and translational issues, this book presents multiple perspectives on the subject of Holocaust memory, its impact, and its ongoing worldwide communication.

The Storyteller Essays
The Storyteller Essays

Author: Walter Benjamin

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1681370581

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A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work. “The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between narrative form, social life, and individual existence—and the product of at least a decade’s work. What might be called the story of The Storyteller Essays starts in 1926, with a piece Benjamin wrote about the German romantic Johann Peter Hebel. It continues in a series of short essays, book reviews, short stories, parables, and even radio shows for children. This collection brings them all together to give readers a new appreciation of how Benjamin’s thinking changed and ripened over time, while including several key readings of his own—texts by his contemporaries Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács; by Paul Valéry; and by Herodotus and Montaigne. Finally, to bring things around, there are three short stories by “the incomparable Hebel” with whom the whole intellectual adventure began.