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ISBN:
Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
University Library of Autobiography, Including All the Great Autobiograpbhies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World's Famous Men and Women: Autobiography in the days of Frederick the Great
Author: The Autobiography of Philosophy
Author: Michael DavisPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0585080925
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This is the most important book about the nature of philosophy and of the human soul published this year. In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself_it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy interprets Heidegger's Being and Time, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Aristotle's Metaphysics, and Plato's Lysis as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. The second part is a reading of Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Although Rousseau's explicitly autobiographical writings are more often read for the tantalizing details of his rather eccentric life than for their philosophical import, this work is an artful use of Rousseau's exile and isolation_'the strangest position in which a mortal could ever find himself'_as a paradigm for the human soul in its relation to the world. In powerfully articulating the activity that is at the core of all philosophy, The Reveries articulates the nature of the human soul for which this activity is the defining possibility.
The Autobiography and Journal of Rev. Heman Bangs
Author: Heman BangsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circuit riders
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
University Library of Autobiography, Including All the Great Autobiograpbhies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World's Famous Men and Women
Author: The Art of Making Money
Author: Jason KerstenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101060166
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Read Jason Kersten's posts on the Penguin Blog. The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy him: family. Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed "DaVinci" taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing. In The Art of Making Money, journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down. A compulsively readable story of how having it all is never enough, The Art of Making Money is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind. Watch a Video
The Autobiography of Venerable Acariya Thoon Khippapañño
Author: Acariya Thoon KhippapaññoPublisher: San Fran Dhammaram Temple
ISBN: 1958426032
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Volume Two of Venerable Acariya Thoon Khippapañño's illustrated autobiography cracks open the universe that we cannot see with our own eyes. Luang Por Thoon takes us on a fascinating journey through past lives, hell and heaven realms, and the highs and lows of human life expectancies, and also provides rare access to eye-opening conversations between modern day arahants.
The Story of Cole Younger: An Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw
Author: Thomas Coleman YoungerPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "In this account I propose to set out the little good that was in my life, at the same time not withholding in any way the bad, with the hope of setting right before the world a family name once honored, but which has suffered disgrace by being charged with more evil deeds than were ever its rightful share."
Autobiographies
Author: Historical and Biographical
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385318602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Derrida and Autobiography
Author: Robert SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521465816
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as relation to the other, not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing - what Derrida calls the 'autobiography of the writing' - which mocks any self-centred finitude of living and dying. In this context, and using literary-critical, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new, but distinctly Derridean, way, and finds new perspectives to analyse the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and de Man.