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Book The History of England

Download or read book The History of England written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Habit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Sparrow
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2013-06-10
  • ISBN : 0739181998
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book A History of Habit written by Tom Sparrow and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low. Discussion of habit, however, tends to neglect the most fundamental questions: What is habit? Habits, we say, are hard to break. But what does it mean to break a habit? Where and how do habits take root in us? Do only humans acquire habits? What accounts for the strength or weakness of a habit? Are habits something possessed or something that possesses? We spend a lot of time thinking about our habits, but rarely do we think deeply about the nature of habit itself. Aristotle and the ancient Greeks recognized the importance of habit for the constitution of character, while readers of David Hume or American pragmatists like C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey know that habit is a central component in the conceptual framework of many key figures in the history of philosophy. Less familiar are the disparate discussions of habit found in the Roman Stoics, Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, René Descartes, Gilles Deleuze, French phenomenology, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophies of embodiment, race, and gender, among many others. The essays gathered in this book demonstrate that the philosophy of habit is not confined to the work of just a handful of thinkers, but traverses the entire history of Western philosophy and continues to thrive in contemporary theory. A History of Habit: From Aristotle to Bourdieu is the first of its kind to document the richness and diversity of this history. It demonstrates the breadth, flexibility, and explanatory power of the concept of habit as well as its enduring significance. It makes the case for habit’s perennial attraction for philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists.

Book A Distant Sovereignty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sudipta Sen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-22
  • ISBN : 113490309X
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book A Distant Sovereignty written by Sudipta Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sudipta Sen takes up this dual agenda, sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism, imperialism, and identity formation as they played out in both England and South Asia.

Book The Prince and the Pauper

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Twain
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-02-05
  • ISBN : 0520270010
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Prince and the Pauper written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unquestionably the best book he has ever written."—Susy Clemens, aged thirteen

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England

Download or read book The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England written by Thomas N. Ingersoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of Loyalism using revolutionary New England as a case study.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic

Download or read book The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic written by Monique Roelofs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic desire and distaste prime everyday life in surprising ways. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic casts much-needed light on the complex mix of meanings our aesthetic activities weave into cultural existence. Anchoring aesthetic experience in our relationships with persons, places, and things, Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic life as a multimodal, socially embedded, corporeal endeavor. Highlighting notions of relationality, address, and promising, this compelling study shows these concepts at work in visions of beauty, ugliness, detail, nation, ignorance, and cultural boundary. Unexpected aesthetic pleasures and pains crop up in sites where passion, perception, rationality, and imagination go together but also are in conflict. Bonds between aesthetics and politics are forged and reforged. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, and engaging the work of theorists and artists ranging from David Hume to Theodor W. Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Clarice Lispector, and Barbara Johnson, The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic lays open the interpretive web that gives aesthetic agency its vast reach.