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The Company of Critics The Company of Critics brings back into print, with a new preface, Michael Walzer's seminal survey of social critics and criticism of the twentieth century. By examining the life and work of eleven leading social critics; Julien Benda, Randolph Bourne, Martin Buber, Antonio Gramsci, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault and Breyten Breytenbach; Walzer explains the role of the public intellectual in the context of "the triumphs and catastrophes of our time: the two world wars, the struggles of the working class, national liberation, feminism and totalitarian politics."
Breaking News Anchorman Grant Munro is at the pinnacle of a brilliant career, having covered every important news story from the Kennedy assassination to the Clinton scandals, and has won the trust of millions of television viewers. But suddenly his job is threatened when a young and handsome colleague with little experience makes his move for Munro's anchor post. To stay on top, Munro must negotiate a minefield of scheming, betrayal and greed, all while maintaining his integrity. An up-to-the-minute behind-the-scenes take on the jungle of television broadcasting.
Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger's Challenge to Western Philosophy In this compelling work, John McCumber unfolds a history of Western metaphysics that is also a history of the legitimization of oppression; that is, until Heidegger's thought opened doors to challenge domination encoded in structures and institutions (such as slavery, colonialism, and marriage) that in the past have given order to the Western world. But Heidegger himself did not recognize the destabilizing implications of his philosophy. McCumber brings this challenge to light by contrasting Heidegger's thought with the inscription of domination present in the very nature of Being as it is conceived by Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke. The result is a unique and creative explication of Western philosophy that confronts the difficult and important task of decoding Heidegger's political alignment and indicates possibilities for breaking Western traditions of domination, exploitation, and oppression.
The Hauerwas Reader The editors of The Hauerwas Reader have compiled and edited a volume that represents all the different periods and phases of Hauerwas's work. Highlighting both his constructive goals and penchant for polemic, the collection reflects the enormous variety of subjects he has engaged, the different genres in which he has written, and the diverse audiences he has addressed. It offers Hauerwas on ethics, virtue, medicine, and suffering; on euthanasia, abortion, and sexuality; and on war in relation to Catholic and Protestant thought. His essays on the role of religion in liberal democracies, the place of the family in capitalist societies, the inseparability of Christianity and Judaism, and on many other topics are included as well.
Forms of Devotion In Forms of Devotion, her new collection of illustrated stories, Diane Schoemperlen again tests the bounds of her craft, creating an arresting and wonderfully readable work that is also a treat for the eye. The illustrations, selected by the author, are wood engravings and line drawings from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The subtle interplay of words and images creates a backdrop for Schoemperlen's witty and intelligent exploration of devotion in its many forms: devotion to material objects and daily rituals, to the pleasures of the body and the pains of romantic love, and even to the delicious stability of the status quo. The result is a playful, sometimes surreal, and often mysterious juxtaposition of a historical fascination with anatomy and classical themes and Schoemperlen's contemporary fascination with everyday people, places, and things.
The Parrot's Lament What exactly is going on in the mind of a cat while she's saving her kittens from a burning building, or a pig who's running to his job at the hospital? Can animals think? Scientists have tried to get at the answer to this absorbing question through experiment and observation for decades, coaching and conditioning and setting up controls, and Eugene Linden has been covering their efforts as a writer and a journalist for twenty-five years. Now Linden turns the question on its head and looks at what animals reveal about their intelligence and their emotions through their natural reactions to the people and creatures around them. |
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Passing By Jerzy Kosinski is one of the most important and original writers of this era. Passing By serves as his legacy, a collection of writings that answers many questions about his work and offers a revealing and provocative self-portrait by an author whose life was shrouded in enigma. The man who emerges here has a passion for sport, a quirky sense of fun, an idiosyncratic range of acquaintances stretching form Pope John Paul II to Warren Beatty, and an abiding love of secrets, conundrums, and fantasies. But first and foremost, as he demonstrates in major essays on his novels The Painted Bird and Steps, Kosinski is a powerful, incomparable literary artist.
Selected Poems John F. Kennedy said of Robert Frost: "He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." A four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Frost created a new poetic language that has a deep and timeless resonance. In addition to Robert Frost's first three books, this collection includes eighteen early poems that did not appear in his eleven books of poetry and have rarely been reprinted. Some of these express the idealism of youth inspired by heroic figures of the past. Others are love poems to Elinor White, whom he married in 1895.
Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945 In the years following World War I, a small group of writers, painters, and filmmakers called the Surrealists set out to change the way we perceive the world. In surreal Lives Ruth Brandon follows the lives and interactions of such firecracker minds as the movement's didactic "Pope," Andre Breton, and the ambitious and manic Salvador Dali, as well as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and filmmaker Luis Bunuel. It charts the shifting allegiances of such muses and patrons as Gala Dali and Peggy Guggenheim. Ruth Brandon spins the many stories of Surrealism with wit, energy, and insight, bringing sharp analysis to an eccentric cast of characters whose struggles and achievements came to mirror and define the way the world changed between the wars.
Gardener to the King August 1674, Louis XIV, one of Europe's greatest sovereigns, celebrates his armies' victory over Holland. At Versailles everything must reflect the glory of the Sun King. As gardener to His Majesty, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie is master of his own domain, the royal fruit and vegetable garden. Once a lawyer who turned his back on a brilliant career to pursue his love of horticulture, La Quintinie became, in the process, an artist. His skill is admired by the King and revered by savants, his freedom is envied by all; the rhythms he observes are not those of the courtly dance but of the seasons. As the autocratic might of the King fuels the rising hysteria around him, La Quintinie's wide humanitarian sympathies are with the soil and those who live by it. For the kitchen garden at Versailles harbors not only a great courtier, gardener, and provider, but also a secret radical.
Home In Home Witold Rybczynski takes a close and entertaining look at the place we all know, and which is such an elusive mixture of house and household, dwelling and refuge. Using vivid historical examples to conjure lifestyles as distant as the Dutch domesticity of Vermeer and the aristocratic excess of Versailles, Home takes us on a journey, inviting us to visit the houses of people throughout time and across the world. Modernity is here too, in all its electrical, gas-heated, vacuum-cleaning glory, but there is also recognition of the desire for personal touches and individual comfort that resists the logical progression towards efficient minimalism. You'll see how social and cultural changes influenced style of decoration and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries and wall-to-wall carpeting, discover how some of our most welcome luxuries were born of architectural necessity and much more.
The Man Who Counted The Man Who Counted is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician who was looking for a way to bring some of the mysteries and delights of mathematics to a wider public. He turned out to be a born storyteller. The adventures of Beremiz Samir (the man who counted) take the reader on an exotic journey in which, time and again, he summons his extraordinary powers to settle disputes, give wise advice, overcome dangerous enemies, and win for himself fame, fortune and other rich rewards. As we accompany him, we learn much of the history of famous mathematicians who preceded him; we undergo a series of trials at the hands of the wise men of the day; and we come to admire the wisdom and patience that earn him the respect and affection of those whose problems he resolves so astutely. In the grace of their telling, these stories hold unusual delights for the reader. |
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