The Quest of the Absolute
Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Louis Dupré |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0268077819 |
This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically reflects on its attempts to recapture the past and transform the present in a movement that is partly a return to premodern culture and partly a violent protest against it. Following an introduction on the historical origins of the Romantic Movement, Dupré examines the principal Romantic poets of England (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats), Germany (Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin), and France (Lamartine, de Vigny, Hugo), all of whom, from different perspectives, pursued an absolute ideal. In the chapters of the second part, he concentrates on the critical principles of Romantic aesthetics, the Romantic image of the person as reflected in the novel, and Romantic ethical and political theories. In the chapters of the third, more speculative, part, he investigates the comprehensive syntheses of romantic thought in history, philosophy, and theology. The Quest of the Absolute is an important work both as the culmination of Dupré's ongoing project and as a classic in its own right. The book will meet the expectations of the specialist as well as appeal to more general readers with philosophical, cultural, and religious interests.
Author | : Honore De Balzac |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2019-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781318523504 |
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Author | : Robert P. Crease |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393082040 |
The epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement. Millions of transactions each day depend on a reliable network of weights and measures. This network has been called a greater invention than the steam engine, comparable only to the development of the printing press. Robert P. Crease traces the evolution of this international system from the use of flutes to measure distance in the dynasties of ancient China and figurines to weigh gold in West Africa to the creation of the French metric and British imperial systems. The former prevailed, with the United States one of three holdout nations. Into this captivating history Crease weaves stories of colorful individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, an advocate of the metric system, and American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, the first to tie the meter to the wavelength of light. Tracing the dynamic struggle for ultimate precision, World in the Balance demonstrates that measurement is both stranger and more integral to our lives than we ever suspected.
Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Kurt Mendelssohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Low temperature engineering |
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Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Frederick J. Adelmann (S. J., ) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Daniel Guebel |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1644211610 |
Winner.... Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016 A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator’s ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. “This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It’s the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.” —La Nación
Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1904 |
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