Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Nietzsche in the Early Work of Thomas Mann
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Into the Abyss
Author: Carol ShabenPublisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0307360245
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
On an icy night in October 1984, a Piper Navajo commuter plane carrying 9 passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing 6 people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. Despite the poor weather, Erik Vogel, the 24-year-old pilot, was under intense pressure to fly--a situation not uncommon to pilots working for small airlines. Overworked and exhausted, he feared losing his job if he refused to fly. Larry Shaben, the author's father and Canada's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, was commuting home after a busy week at the Alberta Legislature. After Paul Archambault, a drifter wanted on an outstanding warrant, boarded the plane, rookie Constable Scott Deschamps decided, against RCMP regulations, to remove his handcuffs--a decision that profoundly impacted the men's survival. As they fought through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth and status were erased and each man was forced to confront the precious and limited nature of his existence. The survivors forged unlikely friendships and through them found strength and courage to rebuild their lives. Into the Abyss is a powerful narrative that combines in-depth reporting with sympathy and grace to explore how a single, tragic event can upset our assumptions and become a catalyst for transformation.
A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures
Author: Johann Peter LangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era
Author: Robert MitchellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135983658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. Through readings of authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith, William Wordsworth, and P.B. Shelley, this volume establishes the ways in which crises of state finance encouraged the development of theories of sympathy capable of accounting for both the fact of "social systems" as well as the modes of emotional communication by means of which such systems bound citizens to one another. Employing a methodology that draws on the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann, Michel Serres, and Giovanni Arrighi, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s theories of time and affect, this book argues that eighteenth and early nineteenth century philosophies of sympathy emerged as responses to financial crises. Individual chapters focus on specific texts by David Hume, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ann Yearsley, William Wordsworth, and P.B. Shelley, but Mitchell also draws on periodicals, pamphlets, and parliamentary hearings to make the argument that Romantic era theories of sympathy developed new discourses about social systems intended both to explain, as well as contain, the often disruptive effects of state finance and speculation.
A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical
Author: Johann Peter LangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Sympathy for the Devil
Author: Kent AndersonPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553580876
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Army issue to the core, Sergeant Hanson and his buddies Quinn and Silver are superb soldiers, but their lust for war leads to catastrophe in Vietnam.
The Empathy Exams
Author: Leslie JamisonPublisher:
ISBN: 1555976719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others.
The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy
Author: Michael CameronPublisher:
ISBN: 1009357522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges the anthropocentric bias of traditional notions of sympathetic concern, premising compassionate relations with other beings - animal, vegetal, etc. - beyond the standard measure of the liberal-humanist subject, and at the same time acknowledges the horror that is the ineluctable and untranslatable otherness accompanying, interrupting, and shaping such a sympathetic connection. Many examples of 'Last Man' fiction explore the dialectical impasse of Gothic sympathy by dramatizing complicated relationships between a lone liberal-humanist subject and other-than-human or posthuman subjects that will persist beyond humanity's extinction. Such confrontations as they appear in Mary Shelley's The Last Man, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend will be explored.
U.L.T
Author: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures
Author: Philip SchaffPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336884895X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.