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Author : Sir Charles Hardinge
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Page : 344 pages
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Release : 1821
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Author : Sir Charles Hardinge
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 1821
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Author : Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton
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Page : 114 pages
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Release : 1834
Category : Prisoners
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Author : Sir Charles HARDINGE
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 1821
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Author : sir Charles Hardinge (2nd bart.)
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Page : 352 pages
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Release : 1823
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Page : 212 pages
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Author : Thomas Ewell
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1806
Category : Chemistry
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Author : John Brown
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : John S. Nelson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498549489
The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch’s Deadwood. Critics are apt to find in westerns the modern politics of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. They tap devices of individuality, rationality, contract, sovereign enforcement, and representation to overcome the chaotic violence of a wild zone. Cowboy Politics examines how westerns often find such measures insufficient to tame the West as a culture of honor and anger that deteriorates into feud-al vengeance. Instead westerns see the West as the sunset land that is already growing old and moving on. So westerns seek fresh starts informed by comparing civilizations more than demonizing savages. Westerns worry that modern politics devolve into exploitation, oppression, spectacle, and terror. So they pursue supplements in such postmodern politics as republicanism, perfectionism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. Especially westerns explore politics of persuasive speech-in-action-in-public, doing beauty, and self-reliance in the modes of Hannah Arendt and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first two chapters of Cowboy Politics explain how westerns do political theory for popular audiences by making many of our myths: the symbolic stories of individuals and communities which we live daily. The next three chapters trace the initially modern theories of government in many westerns. Then western turns to republican honor, rhetoric, response-ability, and character tracking occupy the following four chapters. And these set the stage for another four chapters on western attention to postmodern terror, mythmaking, celebrity, spectacle, and forgiveness. The final two chapters analyze how “late,” “satirical,” and “transformative” westerns develop realist defenses for their surprisingly postmodern politics.
Author : Chuck Chakrapani
Publisher : Stoic Gym Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2017-11
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ISBN : 9780920219287
Stoic Choices is the plain English version of Discourses Book II by the eminent Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. Here are some of the choices discussed in this book: What should you act upon: External things or internal things? When should you choose to be confident and when to be cautious in making decisions? What should you protect: Your inherent qualities or qualities that are not inherent to you? Is there a choice between knowledge and action? Is there a choice between knowledge and anxiety? Should you study logic? Why? Choose to be faithful. Choose habits that fight impressions. Show yourself to be worthy. Choose to be skillful.
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Page : 896 pages
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Release : 1914
Category : Biography
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