Past Master
Past Master

Author: R. A. Lafferty

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 159853646X

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Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty “a genius, an oddball, a madman”; Gene Wolfe calls him “our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.

Old Masters
Old Masters

Author: Thomas Bernhard

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 022607434X

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In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger's plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."—Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction."—George Steiner

Adam Smith
Adam Smith

Author: David Daiches Raphael

Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Biografie van de Schotse econoom en moraalfilosoof (1723-1790)

Montesquieu
Montesquieu

Author: Judith N. Shklar

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Studie over leven en werk van de Franse jurist en filosoof (1689-1755)

Confucius
Confucius

Author: Raymond Stanley Dawson

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Has any individual ever shaped his own civilization more thoroughly than Confucius? Certainly no other world figure has ever been presented as more of an exemplar to his countrymen. Yet what we know about the man himself is vague and shadowy, and the sayings attributed to him may seem obscure to the Westerner. Raymond Dawson addresses these paradoxes. Taking as a model the Chinese tradition of commentary on classical texts--in this case the Analects, the oldest and most reliable Confucian text--he finds a body of thought whose expression does seem to reflect the views and aspirations of a recognizable person. He shows how the separate components of the Master's thought cohere into a distinct social, ethical, and intellectual system. Dawson elucidates the contemporary applicability of the sayings as well as the strength of their influence throughout the two and a half millennia of their currency, even in a China that has formally rejected them.

Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty

Author: Melissa E. Buron

Publisher: Prestel

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791357287

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This catalog was "published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and DelMonico Books (Prestel) on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, from June 30 to September 30, 2018."

Leibniz
Leibniz

Author: George MacDonald Ross

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Though best known as a philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a polymath with many facets to his genius. Besides providing the most detailed account of his life availale in English, George MacDonald Ross puts Leibniz's philosophical ideas into perspective by examining them in the light of his work as an alchemist, librarian, diplomat, mining engineer, and historian.

James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces
James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces

Author: Angelle M Vinet

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1483471233

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The discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.

Erasmus
Erasmus

Author: James McConica

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Translator of the Bible, the Fathers, and the classics, and corrosive critic of official belief and popular devotion, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1467-1536) was the leading humanist of the Reformation and the first bestselling author in printing history. Eclipsed by the aggressive tenets of Lutheranism, Erasmus's witty and original ideas on religion were subsequently dismissed for lacking gravity and depth, although they continued to have a vast influence on European literature and thought. However, as James McConica shows, his views on the sources of Christian faith, the theory and practice of education, the uses of language, the need for social harmony, and the responsibilities shared by governors and governed are enjoying a revival in these ecumenical times.

Durkheim
Durkheim

Author: Frank Parkin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 122

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Emile Durkheim is the sociologist who raised to pre-eminence the question of what makes society possible. While he placed great stress on the necessity of normative consensus in maintaining order and stability, he did not see the solution to the problem as an exclusively moral one.