Author: MacDonald Harris Publisher: Boiler House Press ISBN: 1915812119 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his life. Mortal Leap may remind some readers of the story of Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men. What does it mean to abandon one life completely and step into another in midstream? To step into a marriage, a house, a way of life, all of which are utterly new and unfamiliar? And what do you do when someone from your old life shows up? Decades before Mad Men, MacDonald Harris created a story that we all know but have never heard before. Out of print for decades, Mortal Leap has become a rare and coveted cult classic, the few remaining copies passed along from reader to reader. Now, Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series makes this remarkable book available again.
Author: MacDonald Harris Publisher: Boiler House Press ISBN: 9781915812100 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his life. Mortal Leap may remind some readers of the story of Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men. What does it mean to abandon one life completely and step into another in midstream? To step into a marriage, a house, a way of life, all of which are utterly new and unfamiliar? And what do you do when someone from your old life shows up? Decades before Mad Men, MacDonald Harris created a story that we all know but have never heard before. Out of print for decades, Mortal Leap has become a rare and coveted cult classic, the few remaining copies passed along from reader to reader. Now, Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series makes this remarkable book available again.
Author: Paul Muldoon Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374531005 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 418
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A collection of fifteen lectures in which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon explores a diverse group of poems and their literary merit.
Author: Octavio Paz Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292753462 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 317
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Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
Author: William James Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 411
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SELECTED WORK OF WILLIAM JAMES (SET OF 2 BOOKS) (PRAGMATISM: A NEW NAME FOR SOME OLD WAYS OF THINKING+ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISM) VOL 2 by William James: William James, a prominent American philosopher and psychologist, is renowned for his groundbreaking ideas in pragmatism and radical empiricism. In Pragmatism, James challenges traditional philosophical theories and proposes a practical approach to understanding truth and knowledge. Essays in Radical Empiricism delves into James's exploration of consciousness, experience, and the nature of reality, shaping the foundation of modern psychology and philosophy. Key Aspects of the Book "SELECTED WORK OF WILLIAM JAMES - VOL 2": Pragmatism: James's concept of pragmatism revolutionized philosophical thought, emphasizing the practical consequences of beliefs and ideas. Empirical Inquiry: The collection explores James's deep interest in the study of human experience and consciousness through the lens of radical empiricism. Intellectual Legacy: William James's works continue to shape the fields of philosophy and psychology, leaving a lasting impact on modern thought. William James (1842-1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist known as the father of American psychology. His ideas on pragmatism and radical empiricism have greatly influenced modern psychology, education, and philosophy.
Author: F. Tomasoni Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 940170113X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 278
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This book is intended for scholars and students in humanities, history, Jewish studies, philosophy, Christian theology, and for those concerned with the roots of anti-Semitism and with the need for toleration and intercultural pluralism. The book combines the development of German philosophy from the Enlightenment to Idealism, and from Idealism to the revolutionary turning-point of the mid-nineteenth century with the Jewish question.
Author: Jon Stewart Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351874578 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 321
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The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers the long period from the birth of Savonarola in 1452 through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard's own time. The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different traditions and time periods. Moreover, he also read a diverse range of genres. His interests concerned not just philosophy, theology and literature but also drama and music. The present volume consists of three tomes that are intended to cover Kierkegaard's sources in these different fields of thought. Tome I is dedicated to the philosophers of the early modern period and the Enlightenment who played a role in shaping Kierkegaard's intellectual development. He was widely read in German and French philosophy of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, making reference to the leading rationalist philosophers Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz in his journals and published works. Further, connections have also been pointed out between his thought and the writings of the French thinkers Montaigne, Pascal and Rousseau, who share with Kierkegaard a form of philosophy that is more interested in life and existence than purely conceptual analysis. Through the works of the authors explored here Kierkegaard became acquainted with some of the major philosophical discussions of the modern era such as the beginning of philosophy, the role of doubt, the status of autonomy in ethics and religion, human freedom, the problem of the theodicy found in thinkers such as Bayle and Leibniz, and the problem of the relation of philosophy to religion as it appears in the German writers Jacobi and Lessing.
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