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Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415340496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling read, Very Little ... Almost Nothing opens up new ways of understanding finitude, modernity and the nature of imagination. Revised edition with a new preface by the author.
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-31
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1134297742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVery Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse to anything that transcends that finitude. A profound but secular meditation on the theme of death, Critchley traces the idea of nihilism through Blanchot, Levinas, Jena Romanticism and Cavell, culminating in a reading of Beckett, in many ways the hero of the book. In this second edition, Simon Critchley has added a revealing and extended new preface, and a new chapter on Wallace Stevens which reflects on the idea of poetry as philosophy.
Author: Manya Lempert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1108496024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.
Author: Eric Karpeles
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1681372843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-11-26
Total Pages: 2952
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D." (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics, but some of the modern critics believe that the work cannot be considered a proper biography. James Boswell (1740–1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.
Author: James Boswell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 373409111X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 390
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 1262
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Leech
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-14
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1317869680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition provides up-to-date and accessible help to teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Part One looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, such as ‘formal’ and ‘informal’, ‘spoken’ and ‘written’; Part Two focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure and Part Three provides a handy alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar. A new workbook, The Communicative Grammar of English Workbook also accompanies this edition.
