Author: George Robert Wynne
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Category : Learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Self-culture; an Essay for the Present Time
Author: George Robert Wynne
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Category : Learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Publisher:
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Category : Learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The Culture We Deserve
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.
Emerson and Self-Culture
Author: John T. Lysaker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025300022X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to others? John T. Lysaker suggests that those who take this question seriously need to reexamine the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In philosophical reflections on topics such as genius, divinity, friendship, and reform, Lysaker explores "self-culture" or the attempt to remain true to one's deepest commitments. He argues that being true to ourselves requires recognition of our thoroughly dependent and relational nature. Lysaker guides readers from simple self-absorption toward a more fulfilling and responsive engagement with the world.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025300022X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
How do I live a good life, one that is deeply personal and sensitive to others? John T. Lysaker suggests that those who take this question seriously need to reexamine the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In philosophical reflections on topics such as genius, divinity, friendship, and reform, Lysaker explores "self-culture" or the attempt to remain true to one's deepest commitments. He argues that being true to ourselves requires recognition of our thoroughly dependent and relational nature. Lysaker guides readers from simple self-absorption toward a more fulfilling and responsive engagement with the world.
Self Culture
Author: Olive Durfee
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Evangelical Christendom
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Category : Christian union
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Category : Christian union
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
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Evangelical Christendom:Its State and Prospects VOL.III-New Series
Author: Evangelical Christendom:Its State and Prospects VOL.III-New Series
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Self Culture
Author: Olive Durfee
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332689524
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Excerpt from Self Culture: An Essay on Individuality Each human soul, however humble, however unknown to the world, however small in present capabilities, is quite as necessary to the world - to God, if you please - as is the most brilliant of the sons of earth. All are really the sons of heaven. Remembering this, dear read er, act from the highest that is within you - it will be worth while. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332689524
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Excerpt from Self Culture: An Essay on Individuality Each human soul, however humble, however unknown to the world, however small in present capabilities, is quite as necessary to the world - to God, if you please - as is the most brilliant of the sons of earth. All are really the sons of heaven. Remembering this, dear read er, act from the highest that is within you - it will be worth while. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Notes on the Death of Culture
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation—penned by none other than Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot—whose essay "Notes Toward a Definition of Culture" is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished—Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa, here vividly translated by John King, provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation—penned by none other than Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot—whose essay "Notes Toward a Definition of Culture" is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished—Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa, here vividly translated by John King, provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture.
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: John Foster Kirk
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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