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Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil
Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1498239196
Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil
Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135649235
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a defining figure of the twentieth century; a philosopher, Christian, resistance fighter, anarchist, feminist, Labour activist and teacher. She was described by T. S. Eliot as 'a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints', and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time'. Originally published posthumously in two volumes, these newly reissued notebooks, are among the very few unedited personal writings of Weil's that still survive today. Containing her thoughts on art, love, science, God and the meaning of life, they give context and meaning to Weil's famous works, revealing an unique philosophy in development and offering a rare private glimpse of her singular personality.
Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1640093540
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Author : Simone Weil
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File Size : 33,51 MB
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Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 149823920X
Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil
Author : B. B. Wurge
Publisher : Leapkids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781935248149
A giant orangutan, Leonardo Da Vinci, and a homemade spaceship? Jem and his father set out on the ultimate quest.
Author : Albert Camus
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1963
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Camus's 1st vol. of Notebooks (1935-1942) ; translated from the French, and with a pref. and notes, by P. Thody. (His 2nd vol. included 1942-1951, translated from the French and annotated by J. O'Brien).
Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521008877
This volume offers new and accurate translations of a selection of Nietzsche's late writings.
Author : Andrzej Bobkowski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0300190042
A Polish writer’s experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider’s perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider’s perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation—in a daringly untragic mode—of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man’s pleasure in physical movement—miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike—and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.
Author : Ben Dolnick
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101871091
"A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum"--