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Stranded
Author | : Joris-Karl Huysmans |
Publisher | : Dedalus European Classics |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."
The Pope's Body
Author | : Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2000-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226034379 |
In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
A History of Turin
Author | : Anthony L. Cardoza |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788806181246 |
Queenship in Europe 1660-1815
Author | : Clarissa Campbell Orr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2004-08-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521814225 |
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The Vatard Sisters
Author | : Joris-Karl Huysmans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : 9781907650536 |
"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and caf (c)-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work..." ]Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future
The Mark of the Sacred
Author | : Jean-Pierre Dupuy |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0804788456 |
This study of religion and violence “forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies” (Charles Taylor). Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes that loom on our horizon. Reviving the religious anthropology of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Marcel Mauss and in dialogue with the work of René Girard, Dupuy shows that we must remember the world’s sacredness in order to keep human violence in check. A metaphysical and theological detective, he tracks the sacred in the very fields where human reason considers itself most free from everything it judges irrational: science, technology, economics, political and strategic thought. In making such claims, The Mark of the Sacred takes on religion bashers, secularists, and fundamentalists at once. Written by one of the deepest and most versatile thinkers of our time, it militates for a world where reason is no longer an enemy of faith. “The Mark of the Sacred is one of those rare books . . . which, in an enlightened well-organized state, should be printed and freely distributed in all schools!” —Slavoj Žižek