The Pleasures Of Ignorance
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Author |
: Robert Lynd |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: CUB:P101112315012 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Ignorance by : Robert Lynd
Author |
: William Hazlitt |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 89 |
Release |
: 2005-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101651179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101651172 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Pleasure of Hating by : William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt's tough, combative writings on subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination, boxing matches to the monarchy, established him as one of the greatest radicals of his age and have inspired journalists and political satirists ever since.
Author |
: Stuart Firestein |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2012-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199828074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199828075 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ignorance by : Stuart Firestein
Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.
Author |
: Richard P. Feynman |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2005-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465013128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465013120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by : Richard P. Feynman
This collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world's understanding of quantum electrodynamics. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman-from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, this book will fascinate anyone interested in the world of ideas.
Author |
: James Warren |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2014-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107025448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107025443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists by : James Warren
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Author |
: Allan Bloom |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2008-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439126264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439126267 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Closing of the American Mind by : Allan Bloom
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Author |
: Sir John Lubbock |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433068175052 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis “The” Pleasures of Life by : Sir John Lubbock
Author |
: George Lamming |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472064665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472064663 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of Exile by : George Lamming
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
Author |
: Mark Akenside |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 1819 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433112065424 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasures of the Imagination by : Mark Akenside
Author |
: Lewis Hyde |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2019-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374710149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374710147 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Primer for Forgetting by : Lewis Hyde
“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory—how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear—be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness—but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author’s own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil. Drawing material from Hesiod to Jorge Luis Borges to Elizabeth Bishop to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from myths and legends to very real and recent traumas both personal and historical, A Primer for Forgetting is a unique and remarkable synthesis that only Lewis Hyde could have produced.