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Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question 'how should I live?', and for Thoreau, no element of day-to-day existence is left untouched by moral and political issues. This 1996 edition of Thoreau's political essays includes 'Civil Disobedience', selections from Walden, 'Life Without Principle', and the anti-slavery ...
Political Writings is an invaluable contribution to understanding Lyotard's work and both his status and significance as a thinker on the non-Marxist left. For serious students and scholars in the English-speaking world interested in Lyotard's writings, the publication of Political Writings is something of an 'event'; it provides a political 'supplement' to his other works and an account of ...
30 de ene. de 2020 · This volume aims to help remedy this by bringing to English-language audiences the first collection of his moral and political writings in translation. By so doing it hopes to make more widely available the riches of one of the leading voices of resistance to the absolutism of Louis XIV. Fénelon’s political thought will thus be of particular ...
Constant: Political Writings. Benjamin Constant. Cambridge University Press, Nov 10, 1988 - History - 350 pages. Acknowledgements Introduction Bibliographical note Preface to the first edition Preface to the third edition Foreword to the fourth edition Part I. The Spirit of Conquest: 1.
25 de ene. de 1991 · The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history are included for the first time: his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of The History of Mankind ...
25 de ene. de 1991 · The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history are included for the first time: his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of The History of Mankind and Conjectures ...
24 de jun. de 2020 · George Orwell’s ambition was “to make political writing into an art”. This is the guiding principle behind the Orwell Prize. Here, to mark Orwell’s birthday on 25 June, the 13 authors shortlisted for this year’s prizes – for political writing and political fiction – share their thoughts on the interplay between politics and art in their own work and those that inspired it.
