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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos andsuffering which underlies all existence and...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a wide range of factors that shape our experience of sound, this lyrical exploration of music examines how we listen it and why we listen to it in the first place, challenging the very dichotomy between 'good' and 'bad' music and changing our relationship with the heard world."--
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Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En medio de la naturaleza descansaba una piedra. Y la piedra era muchas cosas, dependiendo de quién la miraba y visitaba. Podía ser un refugio o esconder mortales peligros. Podía ser un lugar de reunión o un trono para sentarse. Podía ser infranqueable o insignificante. Pero lo importante es que ahí donde descansaba, pasaba la vida."--
A stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is,...
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Publisher
Primary Information
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Reader is the first anthology to gather the diverse body of writing by influential downtown performance and multimedia artist Constance DeJong. Spanning from the 1970s to the present, the publication features 18 works by DeJong, including out-of-print and previously unpublished fiction, as well as texts emanating from her new media sculptures, sound works, video works, and public art commissions. Reader includes DeJong's I.T.I.L.O.E. (1982), the...
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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland, Richard Rankin Russell explores Longley's and Heaney's poetic fidelity to the imagination in the midst of the war in Northern Ireland and their creation, through poetry,...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of self-help movement. Allen insists upon the power of the individual to form his own character and to create his own happiness. Thought and character are one, he says, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be, found to be, harmoniously,...
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Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ranging from a few words to a few pages, the aphorisms in Human, All Too Human present Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts on a variety of subjects, including the nature of reality [metaphysics]; moral feelings, especially the concepts of good and evil; the argument that great art is the product of hard work as opposed to 'genius' and inspiration; free-thinking; the evolution of men, women, and children; and the limitations that people put on their own...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our...