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The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644.
Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love.
The book focuses on the virtues and limits of the intuitive intellect as they are explicated by Thomas Aquinas in relational intellect, and the 'Romantic' poet's dependence upon the intuitive and rational modes of intellectual action, two ...
Confusions
In this thorough critique of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, philosopher Paul Edwards continues a project that he began several years ago. As he once stated in the New York...
This seventeenth-century masterpiece is still considered to be one of the best books ever written on the stock exchange business.
This book brings together the chief elements of 3,000 years of philosophy as found mainly in Western thought in a highly readable form. The work concentrates on problems and issues much more than on names, dates and places.
This fascinating book neither proposes foolproof methods for avoiding confusion; nor does it suggest that disorientation is always a virtue.
With the help of Alfred Kerr, later to become Berlin's most famous critic, Musil succeeded in getting the novel accepted by a small publisher, the Wiener Verlag, which had already brought out innovative texts by such leading modern ...