Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Author: Dror Wahrman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300134599
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of Great Code, but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution - the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively - have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically constitutional or biblical, and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.

Author: Harriet Kirkley
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Contains an edition of unpublished notes that Johnson made as he prepared to write the text of his biographical preface to Pope, and examines how Johnson wrote what is arguably the most important preface in the larger collection.

Author: Kate Davies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000749312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Charlotte Turner Smith held a central position during the formative years of the British Romantic period. Smith's work includes eleven novels and two fictional adaptations from the French. This edition reveals the extent to which Smith's work in this form constitutes as significant an achievement as her poetry.

Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809320608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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In the fall semester of 1772/73 at the Albertus University of Königsberg, Immanuel Kant, metaphysician and professor of logic and metaphysics, began lectures on anthropology, which he continued until 1776, shortly before his retirement from public life. His lecture notes and papers were first published in 1798, eight years after the publication of the Critique of Judgment, the third of his famous Critiques. The present edition of the Anthropology is a translation of the text found in volume 7 of Kants gesammelte Schriften, edited by Oswald Külpe. Kant describes the Anthropology as a systematic doctrine of the knowledge of humankind. (He does not yet distinguish between the academic discipline of anthropology as we understand it today and the philosophical.) Kant’s lectures stressed the "pragmatic" approach to the subject because he intended to establish pragmatic anthropology as a regular academic discipline. He differentiates the physiological knowledge of the human race—the investigation of "what Nature makes of man"—from the pragmatic—"what man as a free being makes of himself, what he can make of himself, and what he ought to make of himself." Kant believed that anthropology teaches the knowledge of humankind and makes us familiar with what is pragmatic, not speculative, in relation to humanity. He shows us as world citizens within the context of the cosmos. Summarizing the cloth edition of the Anthropology, Library Journal concludes: "Kant’s allusions to such issues as sensation, imagination, judgment, (aesthetic) taste, emotion, passion, moral character, and the character of the human species in regard to the ideal of a cosmopolitan society make this work an important resource for English readers who seek to grasp the connections among Kant’s metaphysics of nature, metaphysics of morals, and political theory. The notes of the editor and translator, which incorporate material from Ernst Cassirer’s edition and from Kant’s marginalia in the original manuscript, shed considerable light on the text."

Author: Jan Fergus
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349216658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Previous biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context. This biography places her firmly within her professional context as one of an increasing number of women who published novels between 1790 and 1820. Being a professional writer was, apart from her family, more important to Austen than anything else in her life.

Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: William Cowper
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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Author: Howard Erskine-Hill
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1835532446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This critical biography places Pope’s life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688. It gives close readings of Pope’s major poems, including the less commonly discussed translations of Homer. Frequent resort is made to Pope’s letters, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope’s literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century.

Author: B. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230554806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.