Of course Banks already knew that the Resolution had safely arrived in England, and he had been receiving letters from Mr. Nelson along the way, but Henry was the first live person Banks had encountered straight off the ship, ...
Alma was certain her mother had already spoken her last words, but nearly two hours later, when Alma had fallen asleep in the ... and Hanneke worked together to clean and dress the body, wrap it in the shroud, and prepare it for burial.
Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, this is a profound text, deeply influential upon devotional writers such as William Law, visionaries such as William Blake (informing The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) and, more recently, upon ...
Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad.
And at each moment of the text, Agamben pays tribute to Michel Foucault whose methods he rethinks and effectively uses to reformulate the logic of the concepts he isolates.
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Signatura Rerum (The doctrine of signatures), written by the German mystic, Jacob Boehme. It has been reprinted and re-titled as The Signature of All Things.