Download or read book Letters from Lake Como written by Romano Guardini and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994-06-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by the machine. With prophetic clarity and unsettling farsightedness, Guardini's letters poignantly capture the personal implications and social challenges of living in the technological age — concerns that have now come to fruition seventy years after they were first raised.
Download or read book Letters written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Owen Barfield written by Michael V. Di Fuccia and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield's poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in the false shuttling between modernity's active construal and postmodernity's passive construal of subjectivity. In both extremes subjectivity actually dissolves, divesting one of any creative integrity. Di Fuccia shows how in Barfield's scheme the creative subject appears instead to inhabit a middle or medial realm, which upholds one's creative integrity. It is in this way that Barfield's poetic philosophy gestures toward a theological vision of poiēsis proper, wherein creativity is envisaged as neither purely passive nor purely active, but middle. Creativity, thus, is not immanent but mediated, a participation in being's primordial poiēsis.
Download or read book Mies at Home written by Xiangnan Xiong and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mies at Home is a radical rereading of one of the most significant periods in Mies van der Rohe’s career, from the mid- to late 1920s when he was developing his seminal spatial ideas— ideas that would culminate in his celebrated design of the Tugendhat House. The book examines how Mies’s experience of residing in his apartment, doubling as a studio, in central Berlin had an impact on his spatial concepts. It uncovers one of the most profound but virtually untold aspects of Mies’s development: how his visions of an ideal lifestyle came out of his own living experience and how they, in turn, informed his domestic architecture. Mies’s quest featured two breakthroughs. In the Weissenhof apartment building, he conveyed a flexible and manifold lifestyle that many of the avant-garde artists, including himself, were practicing. Later, in the Tugendhat House, he put forward an alternative way of living that centered on contemplation. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Mies at Home offers a fresh investigation of the diverse intentions and strategies the architect used in creating his iconic open spaces. It will be an insightful read for researchers, academics, and students in architectural history and theory.
Download or read book Letters from Europe written by Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters and Letter Fragments written by Jean de Pins and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Réunissant plus de cent trente lettres et fragments de lettres de la correspondance privée et diplomatique de l'humaniste toulousain Jean de Pins, Jan Pendergrass ouvre une perspective unique sur quelque quarante ans d'histoire française et européenne. Humaniste, juriste, diplomate et homme d'Eglise sous les règnes de Louis XII et François Ier, de Pins fit de longues études en France et en Italie du nord avant de devenir, tour à tour, sénateur aux Parlements de Toulouse et Milan, puis ambassadeur français à Venise et à Rome. Consacré évêque de Rieux en 1524, il se démit de ses fonctions parlementaires et finit ses jours à Toulouse, entouré d'étudiants et de gens de lettres épris de littérature classique. Cette édition de sa correspondance révèle l'étendue considérable de ses rapports, non seulement avec les représentants de l'humanisme européen, mais aussi avec les chefs de la diplomatie française, avec des parlementaires, des gens de loi et d'Eglise exceptionnels.
Download or read book The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement written by Paschal M. Corby and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement is a virtual dialogue between Transhumanists of the “Oxford School” and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. Set in the key of hope and despair, it considers whether or not the transhumanist interpretation of human limitations is correct, and whether their confidence in the methods of human enhancement, especially through biotechnology, corresponds to genuine hope. To this end, it investigates the philosophical foundations of transhumanism in modernity’s rejection of metaphysics, the triumph of positivism, and the universalism of the theory of evolution, which when applied to anthropology becomes the materialist reduction of the human person. Ratzinger calls into question this absolutization of positive reason and its limitation of hope to what human beings can produce, naming it a pathology of reason, a mutilation of human dignity, and a façade of a world without hope. In its place, he offers a richer concept of hope that acknowledges our contingence and limitations.
Download or read book Letters from Lake Como written by Romano Guardini and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays and Letters written by Hiram David Peck and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women of Pliny s Letters written by Jo-Ann Shelton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny also gives us plentiful information about many women of his acquaintance. This book brings together this material to build up a portrait of a peer-group of women in their social setting.
Download or read book Letters of Travel written by Mrs. L. C. Lane and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author toured Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Egypt in 1874-1876.
Download or read book Letters from Europe Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland England Scotland France Italy and Switzerland in the Years 1825 26 and 27 written by Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Percy Bysse Shelley written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855 written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home written by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855 1812 1832 written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artists Letters written by Michael Bird and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists’ Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Arranged thematically, it includes writings and musings on love, work, daily life, money, travel and the creative process. On the theme of friendship, for example, letters provide evidence of a creative community between peers, with support and mutual appreciation that helps to dispel the myth of the artist as solitary genius. Letters between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin show an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas. We see mutual admiration between Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot, and Picasso’s quick notes to Jean Cocteau illustrate their closeness. Correspondence, some of which includes sketches and drawings, is reproduced with the transcript and some background and contextual information alongside. The book brings together a collection of treasures found in letters, which in our digital age are an increasingly lost art.
