Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Philaubooks. This book was released on 2024-07-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Texte révisé suivi d'une chronologie de la vie de l'auteur (Repères chronologiques). Walden de Henry David Thoreau est un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature américaine qui relate son expérience de vie en harmonie avec la nature au bord de l'étang de Walden. À travers une prose élégante et réfléchie, Thoreau explore les thèmes de la simplicité, de l'autosuffisance et de la réflexion personnelle. Ce livre intemporel invite les lecteurs à repenser leur relation avec la nature et la société moderne. Une œuvre incontournable pour tous ceux qui cherchent à redécouvrir les plaisirs de la vie simple et authentique.

Download or read book On the Duty of Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849) is an essay by American poet, essayist, and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, who is best known for his book ‘Walden’ (1854). In this classic essay, Thoreau famously argues that citizens should not allow their government to overrule their consciences, arguing that their compliance enables governments to make them the agents of injustice. A lifelong abolitionist, Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his contempt for slavery and the plight of John Brown. His work went on to influence the political thoughts and actions of both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This pioneering, thought-provoking classic, remains as relevant today as when it was first written. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American naturalist, poet, essayist and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ‘Walden’ (1854), a deliberation on simple living in natural surroundings, and his advocation of civil liberties in the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849). A lifelong abolitionist he praised the writings of Wendell Phillips and defended the abolitionist John Brown, most notably with his works, ‘A Plea for Captain John Brown’ (1859), ‘Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown’ (1859), and ‘The Last Days of John Brown (1860)’. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience went on to influence writers and leading political figures across the world, including Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. His pioneering works continue to resonate with people to this day.

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Download or read book A Voyage to Arcturus written by David Lindsay and published by Positronic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by the critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the ""greatest novel of the twentieth century"" and was a central influence on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy.

Download or read book Le livre du th written by Kakuzō Okakura and published by Editions Philippe Picquier. This book was released on 1996 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis près d'un siècle, Le Livre du thé qui offre une introduction des plus subtiles à la vie et à la pensée asiatiques s'adresse à toutes les générations. Et ce grand classique, qui a permis naguère de jeter un pont entre l'Orient et l'Occident, n'a rien perdu de sa force et peut encore éclairer notre modernité. Le trait de génie d'Okakura fut de choisir le thé comme symbole de la vie et de la culture en Asie : le thé comme art de vivre, art de penser, art d'être au monde. Il nous parle d'harmonie, de respect, de pureté, de sérénité. Et de sagesse. Que nous contemplions l'évolution de la voie du thé à travers l'histoire, ou que nous nous projetions dans le siècle qui s'annonce, il convient encore et toujours de nous tourner vers Le Livre du thé.

Download or read book Cassell s Encyclopaedia of World Literature Histories and general articles written by John Buchanan-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Trouble with Being Born written by E. M. Cioran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. “A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone’s hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison.”—The New Yorker “In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Boston Phoenix

Download or read book A Life in Linguistics written by Gabriela Alboiu and published by Editura Universității din București - Bucharest University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Cornilescu is an internationally renowned linguist, whose pioneering ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Romania, Europe and beyond. The weightiness of her contributions to the field is matched only by her talent for disseminating them. Ever since 1970, when she started teaching at the University of Bucharest, she has continuously played a tireless and inspirational role in the creation of several generations of linguists, which the academic world has come to admiringly refer to as The Bucharest School. As the initiator of the AICED conference, held annually in the English Department at the University of Bucharest, she has turned it into one of the leading platforms of generative linguistics in Europe. She has published extensively on Romanian and English linguistics and is also the founder and past editor of the journal Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her friends, students and colleagues celebrate Alexandra Cornilescu’s work with this collection of essays on various topics of current theoretical interest.

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Download or read book In the Presence of Schopenhauer written by Michel Houellebecq and published by Polity. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Michel Houellebecq – one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time – is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation. Houellebecq found in Schopenhauer – the radical pessimist, the chronicler of human suffering, the lonely misanthrope – a powerful conception of the human condition and of the future that awaits us, and when Houellebecq’s first writings appeared in the early 1990s, the influence of Schopenhauer was everywhere apparent. But it was only much later, in 2005, that Houellebecq began to translate and write a commentary on Schopenhauer’s work. He thought of turning it into a book but soon abandoned the idea and the text remained unpublished until 2017. Now available in English for the first time, In the Presence of Schopenhauer is the story of a remarkable encounter between a novelist and a philosopher and a testimony to the deep and enduring impact of Schopenhauer’s philosophy on one of France’s greatest living writers.

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Download or read book The Art and Logic of Ramon Llull written by Anthony Bonner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramon Llull (ca. 1232–1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher, lay theologian, and one of the founding fathers of Catalan literature, was chiefly known in his own time and in subsequent generations as the inventor of a combinatorial, semi-mechanical method of demonstration, which he called his ‘Art’ and which he had developed to free interreligious debate from its fruitless textual base. Most of the extensive modern literature has been dedicated to mapping the foundations of Llull’s system, with little attempt to see how he used and combined these foundations to produce actual demonstrations. This book, in a series of explications de textes, tries to explain what kind of demonstrative systems he developed during the two main stages of the ‘Art’, how they finally evolved into an adaptation of key aspects of medieval Aristotelian logic, and why the ‘Art’ was central to all Llull’s endeavors.