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Book Doubt s Boundless Sea

Download or read book Doubt s Boundless Sea written by Don Cameron Allen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passion s Triumph Over Reason

Download or read book Passion s Triumph Over Reason written by Christopher Tilmouth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Tilmouth presents an accomplished study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control in the literature and moral thought of the late 16th and 17th centuries (1580 to 1680).

Book The Skeptical Sublime

Download or read book The Skeptical Sublime written by James Noggle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially the poetry of Alexander Pope. Skeptical doubt appears in the period as an astonishing force in discourse that cannot be controlled--"doubt's boundless Sea," in Rochester's words--and as such is consistently seen as affiliated with the sublime, itself emerging as an important way to conceive of excessive power in rhetoric, nature, psychology, religion, and politics. This view of skepticism as a force affecting discourse beyond its practitioners' control links Noggle's discussion to other theoretical accounts of sublimity, especially psychoanalytic and ideological ones, that emphasize the sublime's activation of unconscious personal and cultural anxieties and contradictions. But because The Skeptical Sublime demonstrates the sublime's roots in the epistemological obsessions of Pope and his age, it also grounds such theories in what is historically evident in the period's writing. The skeptical sublime is a concrete, primary instance of the transformation of modernity's main epistemological liability, its loss of certainty, into an aesthetic asset--retaining, however, much of the unsettling irony of its origins in radical doubt. By examining the cultural function of such persistent instability, this book seeks to clarify the aesthetic ideology of major writers like Pope, Swift, Dryden, and Rochester, among others, who have been seen, sometimes confusingly, as both reactionary and supportive of the liberal-Whig model of taste and civil society increasingly dominant in the period. While they participate in the construction of proto-aesthetic categories like the sublime to stabilize British culture after decades of civil war and revolution, their appreciation of the skepticism maintained by these means of stabilization helps them express ambivalence about the emerging social order and distinguishes their views from the more providentially assured appeals to the sublime of their ideological opponents.

Book Devouring sword

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hu Liqun
  • Publisher : Sellene Chardou
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1304483320
  • Pages : 2264 pages

Download or read book Devouring sword written by Hu Liqun and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a sea of people on the Qianshan Square of Shuijianzong, and the crowds are surging. Not only the three generations of disciples from the outer court of Jianzong come here to watch the triennial advanced conference, but also the children under the age of ten who have just started their studies in Lian Gang

Book The Human Satan in Seventeenth Century English Literature

Download or read book The Human Satan in Seventeenth Century English Literature written by Nancy Rosenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Diabolus in Bunyan's The Holy War, the poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode. The initial understanding of this development is through a sequential reading of Milton and Bunyan which examines the Satan character as an archetype-in-the-making, building upon each to work so that the character metamorphoses from a groveling serpent and fallen archangel to a humanized form embodying the human impulses necessary to commit evil. Rosenfeld then argues that this development continues in Restoration literature, showing that both Rochester and Etherege build upon their literary predecessors to develop the satanic figure towards greater humanity. Ultimately she demonstrates that these writers, taken collectively, have imbued Satan with the characteristics that define the human. This book includes as an epilogue a discussion of Samson in Milton's Samson Agonistes as a later seventeenth-century avatar of the humanized satanic form, providing an example for understanding a stock literary character in the light of early modern texts.

Book Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking

Download or read book Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking written by Rohan Roberts and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning educator, innovation expert, and Global Teacher Prize finalist, Rohan Roberts, comes a provocative look at why our current education system is not fit for purpose and why we need to overhaul it. Cosmic Citizens and Moonshot Thinking: Education in an Age of Exponential Technologies takes a fresh approach to what we need to do differently to prepare our children for a world of exponential technologies, disruptive innovations, and ubiquitous A.I. In this groundbreaking book, Roberts outlines the purpose of education in a world of increased outsourcing and automation and explains how we can future-proof our youth to survive and thrive in a world of accelerating change. Through interactions with corporate leaders, interviews with principals, meetings with parents, and surveys of students, this book considers how the best and brightest students would overhaul their education system. The book highlights the role of neuroscience in education and explores several fascinating concepts such as radical openness, abundance mindsets, the gig economy, the technological singularity, intelligent optimism, the age of imagination, humanics, transhumanism, and the importance of Enlightenment values as we advance into the 21st Century. Underpinning this book is a constant focus on the importance of bringing a sense of awe into education and fostering a sense of cosmic wonder when contemplating human purpose and human existence. Written in a style that is discursive, contemplative, and with a sense of urgency, this book will appeal to students, parents, teachers, school principals, and to anyone who recognises that the only real and long-lasting way to create a better society is to first fix our education system.

Book Littell s Living Age

Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Christian Century

Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antediluviana  or  an Answer to Dr  Colenso s doubts respecting the flood  and the world before it   A criticism of pt  4  of John W  Colenso s    The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined

Download or read book Antediluviana or an Answer to Dr Colenso s doubts respecting the flood and the world before it A criticism of pt 4 of John W Colenso s The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined written by Thomas Henry CANDY and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Littell s Living Age

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  • Author : Eliakim Littell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 850 pages

Download or read book Littell s Living Age written by Eliakim Littell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Mirror

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1838
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book New York Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science  the Singular  and the Question of Theology

Download or read book Science the Singular and the Question of Theology written by Richard A. Lee Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d'Ailly. It pursues the question specifically in relation to the question of whether theology is a science. The work argues that the main issue in debates concerns whether theology is a science and how to provide a 'rational ground' for existing singulars. Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology exposes how, on the eve of modernity, existing singulars were freed from the constraints of rational ground.

Book Leaving The Fold

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  • Author : Edward T. Babinski
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2003-06-30
  • ISBN : 1615921672
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Leaving The Fold written by Edward T. Babinski and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting new collection offers testimonies of former fundamentalists who became disillusioned with their churches and left. Presenting more than two dozen personal journeys, this book gives a clear picture of what attracts a person to the fundamentalist faith and what can drive believers away from their religion. Photos throughout.

Book Historical and Critical Dictionary

Download or read book Historical and Critical Dictionary written by Pierre Bayle and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans, Paulicians, Pyrrho, Rorarius, Simonides, Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.

Book Schiller as Philosopher

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick Beiser
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-10-20
  • ISBN : 019928282X
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Schiller as Philosopher written by Frederick Beiser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: to follow

Book A Week at the Lizard

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  • Author : Charles Alexander Johns
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1874
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book A Week at the Lizard written by Charles Alexander Johns and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A week at the Lizard  by the author of  Botanical rambles   By C A  Johns

Download or read book A week at the Lizard by the author of Botanical rambles By C A Johns written by Charles Alexander Johns and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: