Download or read book Untimely Reflections written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by LP. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Untimely Reflections" (Original German manuscript: Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen) is a collection of four essays in which Nietzsche critiques various aspects of contemporary culture and society, including education, history, and nationalism. He calls for a break from the conventional attitudes and values, urging individuals to think independently and embrace a more "real" way of life. These essays were part of Nietzsche's critique of German culture at the time, targeting various figures and cultural perspectives prevalent during his era: 1. "David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer" (1873) - Nietzsche criticizes the German culture of his time, especially the writer David Strauss and his book "The Old and the New Faith: A Confession." This essay was Nietzsche's response to what he saw as the superficial and complacent nature of German intellectual culture after the Franco-Prussian War. 2. "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" (1874) - This essay discusses the problem of historical knowledge and its relationship to the health and vitality of human life. Nietzsche argues that an excessive historical consciousness, which he sees as prevalent among his contemporaries, paralyzes living culture and its creative power. 3. "Schopenhauer as Educator" (1874) - Nietzsche articulates his admiration for Arthur Schopenhauer and presents him as a model for revitalizing the German cultural landscape. This essay reflects Nietzsche's reflections on the role of great individuals in the cultivation of culture. 4. "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth" (1876) - This essay is an analysis and celebration of Richard Wagner, whom Nietzsche deeply admired at the time. It examines Wagner's cultural significance and his efforts to revive German culture through his Bayreuth Festival. These four essays, first published separately, were published by Nietzsche as "Untimely Reflections" together as a collection in 1876. This included all four essays that Nietzsche had written between 1873 and 1876, gathered under the series titled "Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen". This is a new translation from this original 1876 (first published in 1896) German manuscript containing a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works

Download or read book Making Sense of Nietzsche written by Richard Schacht and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays by an acclaimed Nietzsche scholar, Nietzsche emerges as no mere polemicist and iconoclast but rather as a ''genuine philosopher''--one of those rare thinkers whose thought opens the way to new understanding of things of great importance, particularly with respect to human life and its enhancement.''Clearly explains some of the debates in Nietzsche scholarship. Schacht does much to avoid professional tunnel-vision and invite nonprofessionals to think about Nietzsche.'' --Kathleen Higgins, author of Nietzsche's ''Zarathustra.''''An excellent summary and response to the current 'Nietzsche wars.' I like the way that Schacht personally attempts to expound and explain Nietzsche and take on various would-be experts and mistaken commentators.'' -- Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor, University of Texas

Download or read book Nietzsche Untimely Meditations written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R. J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays, these four early texts are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of the themes of his later writings. Nietzsche himself always cherished his Untimely Meditations and believed that they provide valuable evidence of his 'becoming and self-overcoming' and constitute a 'public pledge' concerning his own distinctive task as a philosopher.

Download or read book Postcolonial Governmentalities written by Terri-Anne Teo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume asks how governmentality and postcolonial approaches can be brought together to help us better understand specific sites and practices of contemporary postcolonial governance. The framework/approach was inspired by the recent use of governmentality approaches that emphasize how governance functions not solely through states but through multiple tactics and means that regulate the conduct of individuals and institutions through both freedom and constraint. A postcolonial approach to governance exposes the role of postcolonial sites and practices in shaping governance and the inequalities embedded within it, insofar as standards of conduct determine which subjects are privileged and excluded.Postcolonial perspectives show how governance can be both productive and repressive, functioning to impose a fixed code of conduct that objectifies (gendered, racialized, sexualized) ‘others’ as part of its project of improvement. In discussing governance, we must also consider how power is negotiated and challenged through forms of resistance and counter-conduct. This volume argues that we need to incorporate postcolonial theories and carefully examine postcolonial practices and sites, to understand how contemporary governance shapes various transnational inequalities and social divisions. The authors in this edited volume illustrate the value of postcolonial governance as a conceptual framework through empirical examples from Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe. These cases unpack practices of governance operating within complex political landscapes.

Download or read book From My Life written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal from his earliest years, this is a wistful, deeply nostalgic commentary on his earliest memories, his memories of going to church, encountering music (sometimes published as a separate work "On Music"), and his large family. It is openly theistic, romantic in style, and reminiscent of the Goethe-Schiller age in which the young Nietzsche grew up. In 1858, he wrote an addendum titled "looking back", which is included here. These journals were first published in the volume "Gesammelte Werke" edited by Peter Gast (a pseudonym for Heinrich Köselitz, a close associate of Nietzsche) and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (Nietzsche's sister). They were included in the second series of these collected works under the title "Philologica," which was published in 1897 and several editions after that. This was part of the effort to compile and publish Nietzsche's unpublished manuscripts and lecture notes after his death. This new 2024 translation from the original German manuscript contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A complete chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life journey Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, musician (briefly) and philologist whose work has had a profound impact on modern intellectual history. Known for his critiques of traditional European morality and religion, Nietzsche's ideas on the "will to power" and the "Übermensch" have influenced a wide range of philosophical, literary, and psychological thought including thinkers such as Michael Foucault and the entire Postmodern religion.

Download or read book Exhortation to the Germans written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by LP. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche wrote this short work translated either as "A Call to the Germans", "An Admonition to the Germans" or "An Exhortation to the Germans" (original German "Mahnruf an die Deutschen") at Richard Wagner's request to help raise funds for the construction of his Bayreuth Theater. This letter is sometimes called his "Admonition". Here we have a fascinating look at Wagner and Nietzsche's healthy relationship before Nietzsche turned on him and started a life-long crusade of condemning Wagner and his art. He penned this letter on October 25th, 1873, only a matter of months before his break with Wagner. The first time this work was printed was in 1873 in Basel by G. A. Bonfantini. This new translation from the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A complete chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life journey

Download or read book Reflections on Empire written by Antonio Negri and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book from Antonio Negri, one of the most influential political thinkers writing today, provides a concise and accessible introduction to the key ideas of his recent work. Giving the reader a sense of the wider context in which Negri has developed the ideas that have become so central to current debates, the book is made up of five lectures which address a series of topics that are dealt with in his world-famous books empire, globalization, multitude, sovereignty, democracy. Reflections on Empire will appeal to anyone interested in current debates about the ways in which the world is changing today, to the many people who are followers of Negri's work and to students and scholars in sociology, politics and cultural studies.

Download or read book The Idyll from Messina written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by LP. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Idyll from Messina" (German: Idyllen aus Messina) is a collection of poems that showcase Nietzsche's passion for poetry. In these verses, he explores various philosophical themes, including the nature of beauty, the experience of solitude, and the quest for meaning. This collection was composed during Nietzsche's stay in Messina, Italy, and reflects his attempt to express his philosophical ideas through the medium of lyrical poetry. An idyll is a short poem describing rustic life in a romanticized way, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Tolstoy and many other European writers at the time tried to resurrect these ancient styles of writing. This collection was published in Leipzig, Germany, in 1882 by the publishing house E.W. Fritzsch. This is a new translation from this original 1882 German manuscript containing a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works

Download or read book Childhood and Nation written by Zsuzsanna Millei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and political problems exploit children and tighten their regulation? How do representations of nations take advantage of ideals of childhood? Why do nations look to children and search for those characteristics of childhood that help them solve environmental and humanitarian issues? The book offers a fresh look at the theme of nation and childhood by offering multiple methodologies from fields including education, policy studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, literature, and psychology.

Download or read book The Happy Science written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by LP. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Happy Science", sometimes translated as "The Gay Science" or "The Joyful Science" is a pivotal work in which Nietzsche further develops his critique of traditional values and his vision of a life-affirming philosophy beyond the Pessimistic outlook on reality he inherited from Schopenhauer. The book is known for its proclamation of the "death of God" and the challenges it poses to the foundations of morality and religion. In this work, Nietzsche emphasizes the importance of embracing uncertainty and creating one's own values, advocating for a joyful and creative approach to life. The Happy Science is notable for its aphoristic style and its blend of poetic and philosophical elements, echoing Nietzsche's belief in the interconnectedness of art and philosophy, and is one of the most elegant books of Nietzsche. Written while he was living in Genoa, Italy, the text is notable for its aphoristic style (borrowed from Schopenhauer, who borrowed from Rabelais and Erasmus) and its exploration of themes such as the affirmation of life, the death of God, and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche's concept of the "happy science" refers to a joyful and liberated approach to philosophy, one that embraces the uncertainty and chaos of existence with a playful and creative spirit. The book includes famous passages such as "The Madman," which proclaims the death of God and examines the profound implications of this event for Western civilization. Camus would go on to create a watered-down version of this "positivist nihilism," all based on Schopenhauer's pessimism. The text marks a transition from Nietzsche's earlier, more skeptical and critical writings to a more affirmative and constructive phase of his philosophy. It foreshadows the themes he would develop in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, including the superman and the will to power. The work's cheerful and provocative tone reflects Nietzsche's call for a reassessment of values and a new way of thinking that transcends traditional moral and metaphysical constraints. "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft" was first published in Leipzig, Germany, in 1882 by the publishing house E. W. Fritzsch. This is a new translation from this original 1882 German manuscript (first manuscript published in 1901) and contains a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This extra material amplifies upon the text to give the reader a holistic view of this enigmatic philosopher. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works

Download or read book Leisure and Labor written by Anthony P. Coleman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Josef Pieper's Leisure as a point of departure, the contributors to this volume share a mutual concern for the diminishing role of the liberal arts in Catholic higher education. The overwhelming impression they share is that U.S. Catholic universities, with notable exceptions, have forgotten the very goal of university education, and especially Catholic university education: to aid in forming young men and women to pursue the truth and helping them to become freer persons.

Download or read book Ecce Homo written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is" is Nietzsche's greatest autobiographical work, in which he reflects on his life, his philosophical development, and the significance of his writings. In this work, Nietzsche presents himself as a figure of profound insight and radical challenge to conventional morality and belief. He provides an overview of his major works, explaining their themes and intentions, and asserts his role as a philosopher of the future who has transcended the limitations of his time, biology and history itself. "Ecce Homo" is Latin for "Behold the Man" and is used in the Vulgate in John 19:5. It's important to note that in some German translations of the Bible, this Latin phrase is often used, so Nietzsche's readers would have known exactly what the Latin meant. In the title alone, he is essentially calling himself Jesus, or the Anti-Christ. In this later period of his life, strong megalomania took hold of him, and Ecce Homo is a shining example of this. Nietzsche employs a variety of rhetorical strategies, from sardonic humor to grandiose declarations in mimicry of Voltaire, to articulate his sense of mission and his critique of contemporary society. Characterized by unapologetic self-adoration and critical reflections on his intellectual opponents, the work provides a clear window into Nietzsche's self-perception and his vision of his philosophical legacy. The manuscript was not published during Nietzsche's lifetime due to his mental collapse in early 1889. The first publication occurred in 1908, edited by Raoul Richter and published by C.G. Naumann in Leipzig. This new 2024 translation of the original 1888 German manuscript includes a new afterword by the translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his key concepts, and summaries of his complete works. This new 2024 translation from the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works

Download or read book Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man written by Thomas Mann and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. Thomas took it as an unforgivable stab in the back. The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain. Wild and ungainly though Mann’s reflections can be, they nonetheless constitute, as Mark Lilla demonstrates in a new introduction, a key meditation on the freedom of the artist and the distance between literature and politics. The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann: “Thoughts in Wartime” (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and “On the German Republic” (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey.

Download or read book Eschatology and Ethics written by Carl E. Braaten and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carl Braaten has written an interesting book applying the eschatological perspective to different dimensions of the Christian faith, of the life of the church, and of Christian ethics. His extremely readable style leads to profound insight. I particularly like the chapter on the ministry and the wisdom of his reflections on ethical questions." Wolfhart Pannenberg, University of Munich "More than any other theologian today, Braaten successfully relates biblical faith and ethics to the whole spectrum of urgent current concerns." Richard H. Hiers, Dept. of Religion, University of Florida "Braaten rightly insists that the church has lost its eschatological 'bite,' and he does much toward recovering that loss." Gerhard O. Forde, Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota "This book continues Braaten's persistent effort to interpret vital human concerns by the promise that the Lord lives." Robert W. Jenson, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities written by Suzel Ana Reily and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. It also tries to take account of the religious self-understandings of these groups, presenting Christian musical practice and exchange as encompassing and negotiating deeply felt and deeply rooted moral and cultural values. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.

Download or read book Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics Goethe Schiller and Jung Volume 2 written by Paul Bishop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics builds on the previous volume to show how German classicism, specifically the classical aesthetics associated with Goethe and Schiller known as Weimar classicism, was a major influence on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology alike. This volume examines such significant parallels between analytical psychology and Weimar classicism as the methodological similarities between Goethe’s morphological and Jung’s archetypal approaches, which both seek to use synthesis as well as analysis in their attempt to understand the world. It also focuses on the project of the construction of the self, which, it is argued, is not only a personal but also a cultural activity. This book, like its previous volume, aims to clarify the intellectual continuity between Weimar classicism and analytical psychology. It will be of interest to both students and scholars in the fields of analytical psychology, comparative literature, and the history of ideas.

Download or read book Engaging with Literature of Commitment Volume 1 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.