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Author | : Jonathan Haynes |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780838632406 |
The first full-length study of George Sandy's Relation, one of the most interesting and important travel books of the English Renaissance.
Author | : Randy Malamud |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781783208760 |
Author | : Alexander Mathäs |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1789205638 |
Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.
Author | : Emily Thomas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019883540X |
How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas' journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. On our travels with Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound issues, such as the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to 'doomed' glaciers and coral reefs), and the effect of space travel on human significance in a leviathan universe. The first ever exploration of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.
Author | : Joan-Pau Rubiés |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2002-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521526135 |
A detailed study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans during the early modern period, first published in 2000.
Author | : Tim Hannigan |
Publisher | : Hurst Publishers |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1787386791 |
Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing’s queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? The Travel Writing Tribe tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.
Author | : Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374717788 |
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”
Author | : Kate O'Neill |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781719881562 |
Technology drives the future we create. But are we steering that technology in directions that create that future in the best way, for the most people? In her new book
Author | : Elisabeth Feist Hirsch |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401034885 |
Scholars have given relatively little attention to sixteenth-century Portuguese humanism, although Portugal's vital influence on the humanistic thirst for learning has been readily acknowledged. Through her heroic explorations of distant lands and dangerous sea routes, Portugal infected many humanists with the excitement of discovery, none more than Damiao de Gois, Portuguese student of history. Gois, although generally little known, was - in his life and finally as a victim of the Inquisition in Portugal - thoroughly representative of the course of sixteenth-century Erasmian humanism in Portugal; in addition he deserves recognition in his own right as a contributor to modern historiography. Portugal's explorations and the atmosphere of passion for discovery that prevailed in Lisbon had as strong an influence on Gois during his early years as that of the school of Erasmus, the "prince of humanists" who was eventually to become his personal friend and guide. Gois's two great chronicles of the Portuguese kings John II and Ma nuel I culminated a life spent as diplomat, composer, art collector, articulate pleader for religious tolerance, and scrupulous student of history. A factual report of Gois's life - in the main outlines accurate but not complete - exists in Portuguese, and a short resume of his life has been published in English, but so far no full study has been available in any language.
Author | : Richard C. S. Trahair |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351298704 |
The definitive biography of the life and work of Elton Mayo (1880-1949) is the first full, accurate account of the activities and intimate life of one of Australia and America's pioneering social scientists. Mayo, who established the scientifi c study of organizational behavior, was highly infl uential in American social science and business management theory, following his work at the Harvard Business School and the Western Electric Company.