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Between Past and Future (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt
epub |eng | 2006-09-26 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

5 THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION I The general crisis that has overtaken the modern world everywhere and in almost every sphere of life manifests itself differently in each country, involving ...
( Category: History & Theory February 29,2016 )
A Notable Woman by Jean Lucey Pratt
epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Jean Lucey Pratt

Saturday, 8 September Saw another hag this evening. She was much more precise. Told me more by what she didn’t say. The whole affair seems so sordid. She saw me ...
( Category: Letters February 29,2016 )
Serendipities by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco

Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Whereas newspapers once had to send their spies into the corridors of power in Rome to wrangle cautious admissions out of people in the know, today if anything they have ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 22,2016 )
Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco

1983 Culture as Show Business The years 1979 and 1980 were a time when, as some ripened novelties were already being theorized, the first puzzled questions were beginning to be ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )
Inventing the Enemy: Essays by Eco Umberto
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers . . . The scaffold is a vision . . . It seems as though it were a being, ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
On Literature by Umberto Eco
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Even without checking this against the original Greek, the spirit of this analysis is clear. Pseudo-Longinus is performing textual semiotics. And he is performing an act of criticism—at least according ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )
Russian Thinkers (Penguin Classics) by Isaiah Berlin
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Isaiah Berlin [Berlin, Isaiah]

Belinsky was not torn between incompatible ideals. He was an integrated personality in the sense that he believed in his own feelings, and was therefore free from the self-pity and ...
( Category: Essays February 18,2016 )
More Letters of Note by Shaun Usher
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Shaun Usher

Winchester Sunday My dearest Fanny—doubly dear to me now for her dear sake whom we have lost. She did love you most sincerely, and never shall I forget the proofs ...
( Category: Photo Essays February 15,2016 )
The Boy Who Could Change the World by Aaron Swartz
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Aaron Swartz

Toward a Larger Left http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/toward-a-larger-left/ August 4, 2009 Age 22 Stanford, like many universities, maintains full employment for humanities professors by requiring new students to take their seminars. My heart ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals February 15,2016 )
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Pollitt Katha
mobi |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Pollitt, Katha [Pollitt, Katha]

Looking back, I can see that I became depressed. It wasn’t baby blues, or, as we now medicalize it, postpartum depression. It was loneliness. In the way that we prepare ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 14,2016 )
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SIXTH WALK THERE are very few of our automatic reactions whose cause we cannot discover in our hearts, if we are really capable of looking for it. Yesterday, while walking ...
( Category: French February 8,2016 )
To the Letter by Simon Garfield
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Simon Garfield

For all her preoccupation with longing and loss, the loss of Emily Dickinson’s own letters didn’t concern her unduly; the fact that a small percentage of mail wouldn’t make it ...
( Category: Fiction February 2,2016 )
Eating Words by Sandra M. Gilbert
epub |eng | | Author:Sandra M. Gilbert

Cara de Silva (1953–) A FOOD JOURNALIST, historian of gastronomy, and regular author of a travel column called “A Fork in the Road,” de Silva edited the poignant cookbook In ...
( Category: Essays February 2,2016 )

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