The Death of Socrates

The Death of Socrates

Author: Emily R. Wilson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780674026834

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Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.


1 Samuel as Christian Scripture

1 Samuel as Christian Scripture

Author: Stephen B Chapman

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 080283745X

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In this theological commentary on 1 Samuel, Stephen Chapman probes the tension between religious conviction and political power through the characters of Saul and David. Saul, Chapman argues, embodies civil religion, a form of belief that is ultimately captive to the needs of the state. David, on the other hand, stands for a vital religious faith that can support the state while still maintaining a theocentric freedom. Chapman offers a robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel, carefully studying the received Hebrew text to reveal its internal logic. He shows how the book's artful narrative explores the theological challenge presented by the emergence of the monarchy in ancient Israel. Chapman also illuminates the reception of the David tradition, both in the Bible and in later history: even while David as king becomes a potent symbol for state power, his biblical portrait continues to destabilize civil religion.


Death Be Not Proud

Death Be Not Proud

Author: David Marno

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-12-21

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 022641597X

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What might contemporary thinkers learn from prayer? The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche suggested a possibility: that prayer teaches us how to attend. This book explores the precedents of Malebranche s advice by reading John Donne s poetic prayers in the context of what David Marno calls the art of holy attention. This requires an understanding of attention s role in Christian devotion, which he provides by uncovering a tradition of holy attention that spans from ascetic thinkers and Church Fathers to Catholic spiritual exercises and Protestant prayer manuals. Donne s devotional poems occupy a unique position in this tradition. Marno identifies in them a devotional model of thinking whose aim is to experience an affect of attention. Marno s argument is framed by compelling close readings of Death, be not proud, Donne s most triumphant poem about the resurrection. Elsewhere, Marno takes up Claudius s prayer in "Hamlet" and Saint Augustine s account of attention in the "Soliloquies" and the "Confessions." The book ends with a Coda on the aftermath of holy attention in the philosophies of Descartes and Malebranche."


Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

Author: Kaara L. Peterson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1317078225

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Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases in particular, among other hysterical maladies. An important aspect of the author's approach is to restore, with all its nuances, the debates created by early modern medical writers over attempts to define the boundaries and resonances of hysterical ailments, which Peterson argues have been largely erased or elided by historicist criticism, including scholarship overly focused on melancholy. One of the main goals of the book is to stress the centrality of gendered concepts of disease for the period and to reveal a whole catalog of early modern literary strategies for representing women's illnesses. Among the medical works discussed are Edward Jorden's central text A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) and contemporary plays, including Shakespeare's Pericles, Othello, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale; Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; and Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois.


Betrayer

Betrayer

Author: Leslie D Soule

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1680464345

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Ash Kensington has found her way back to the fantastical realm of Fallenwood, a land across the portals, where dragons, unicorns, and other strange creatures roam. But she has little time for whimsy, and there is much to be done. With five crystals to destroy, in order to rob the dark lord Malegaunt of his power, her path is set. Fortunately, she has friends, like the sorcerer Will Everett, and the court jester Terces Solario. But one morning, they set out, leaving Ash to herself. She begins a quest with the talking cat, Greymalkin, and her wyvern, Slick. But attempting to take Slick home, she meets up with the handsome dragon-slayer, Draeon. Draeon ushers Ash from the cold confines of the house in the deep woods, into the camp of his fire performer friends, a land of eternal summer, as he promises to help her find her lost friends. Ash becomes unsure about Draeon, as they go along - is he all that he seems? And will she find her friends, and destroy the crystals, so that she can challenge the dark lord Malegaunt?


Why Shakespeare

Why Shakespeare

Author: Gerald M. Pinciss

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-06-02

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780826418265

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By concentrating on a dozen of his best-known plays, and analysing their structural and theatrical elements as well as their distinctive language, inventive plotting and unique characters, this book demystifies Shakespeare for theatre lovers. It enables us to step behind the curtain to learn why Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist.


Holzmenge: Book One

Holzmenge: Book One

Author: Walter Max Poitzsch

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1669827410

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