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![]() ![]() Other early philosophical writings by Sartre include an account of the emotions, and two short books about the imagination. Sartre’s early philosophy was highly influenced by Husserl’s phenomenology his first philosophical publication, The Transcendence of the Ego (hereafter TE), engaged in scholarly detail with Husserl’s commitment to a pure Ego, arguing that even by Husserl’s own lights this was a mistake. Because Sartre’s philosophy was fundamentally about the nature of human existence, it inflects all his writing.Īlthough Sartre is often described as a major existentialist philosopher, this label should be treated with caution, as the term ‘existentialist’ only came to be associated with Sartre after the publication of his major philosophical work, Being and Nothingness (hereafter BN) in 1943. He was also a novelist, literary critic, playwright, essayist, biographer, autobiographer, journalist, and political theorist. ![]() Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is one of the best-known philosophers of the twentieth century. ![]()
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The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While we can reconstruct some aspects of Mycenaean life, however, the practice of writing itself is much harder to understand from the surviving evidence. They are almost entirely bureaucratic in nature, originating from large centralised complexes (“palaces”) and recording the personnel and commodities that the central administration wanted to keep tabs on. Dating from the 15th to the end of the 13th C BC, the archives of clay documents written in Linear B are the earliest surviving records written in the Greek language. The book The Mycenaean World was published in 1976 and intended as an accessible description of what we know about life in the Mycenaean palaces based on the Linear B documents deciphered and read in the 1950s by Michael Ventris (in collaboration with John Chadwick). Here is the original painting by Henry Hankey, made especially for John Chadwick’s book: ![]() Far from a just-for-fun exercise, this actually has some helpful practical applications in making us question what Mycenaean scribes did at work, and how Linear B archives functioned. Happy International Lego Classicism Day to all our friends and colleagues! In celebration this year, I have been working on something special: a re-imagining of the cover art from John Chadwick’s The Mycenaean World book, in a 3D Lego model. ![]()
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Saeed jones how we fight for our lives5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() SANDERS: This is Saeed Jones - constantly observing the way he moves through spaces not made for him, spaces full of people who don't look like him, and then drawing observations that are universal about what it means to be fully human, wherever you are. JONES: That's what I'm meant be looking at. JONES: Anything that is about the intersection of, basically, sex, race and power, I'm there. SANDERS: Jones says there's some deeper stuff there, besides the fun. SANDERS: Jones says he loved it all, even though it took him out of his comfort zone. JONES: And that was already - I think that was an hour into the experience. SANDERS: 8:54 a.m., and I'm drinking a vodka Red Bull. I mean, it's, like, 8 o'clock in the morning. JONES: I hate that here it's very early in the morning. But when Saeed Jones moved to Columbus, Ohio, this year, he fell in love with it all at an Ohio State tailgate party. The nuts and bolts of the sport don't fascinate him. SAEED JONES: I'm wearing an OSU shirt right now, by the way (laughter). ![]() SAM SANDERS, BYLINE: Saeed Jones is an unlikely fan of Ohio State football. ![]() And just a note to listeners here, you'll hear Jones use what has long been considered a derogatory term for gay men. NPR's Sam Sanders recently interviewed Jones. Those words come from poets say Saeed Jones' new memoir, "How We Fight For Our Lives." The book details his struggles as a young black gay man coming of age. People don't just happen we sacrifice former versions of ourselves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society and then proceeds to redefine that position, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be "companions" to their husbands, rather than mere wives. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to the educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who wanted to deny women an education. Template:Infobox Book Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the earliest works of feminist literature or philosophy. Please remove after the page is dewikified. Most if not all wikilinks should simply be removed. ![]() This page was imported and needs to be de-wikified.īooks should use wikilinks rather sparsely, and only to reference technical or esoteric terms that are critical to understanding the content. ![]()
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Catwoman by Jeph Loeb5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() This page-turning adventure will fly off the shelves. Fans of those titles will definitely appreciate this one, but there is enough backstory included so that it isn't necessary to have read the other books. When in Rome takes places chronologically between two Batman stories by the same author/artist team: The Long Halloween (1999) and Dark Victory (2001, both DC Comics). Bringing The Riddler with her on this trip turns out to be both an inspired choice and more trouble than it's worth. All of these events revolve around the heart of the story, which is that Catwoman goes to Italy both to settle a score with the Falcone crime family and to try to learn the identity of her mother. The fact that her meetings with Batman are filled with sexual tension so thick that you can cut it with a claw adds yet another dimension to her troubles. Freeze, The Scarecrow, and Batman, but questioning whether they are real or imaginary leaves her doubting her sanity. ![]() She encounters such regulars as Cheetah, Mr. ![]() While she spends most of the book in Italy, it seems that Gotham City is never far behind. ![]() Grade 9 Up Gotham City's sexiest cat burglar returns in a story featuring intrigue, fight scenes, and Catwoman in various stages of undress. ![]()
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Borne jeff vandermeer review5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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1-800-CallLoki by Dawn Blair5/24/2023 ![]() In one moment, Eclipse has a hold of him, and in the next, the teen is gone. In escorting the boy to the back to the castle, the young man is genuinely afraid of crossing through doorways. He has only a star to assist his way through these dark times, and it lights his way to a teen, frightened, alone, and sleeping in a doorway. Worse, the royal council presses him for a decision. ![]() He doesn't understand why he can't get a handle on them. Eclipse searches for the kingdom's next ruler, but his calculations are skewed and unfocused. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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My Life by Bill Clinton5/23/2023 ![]() I really felt that my early years with him convinced me that I could organize and run things. I stayed in touch with him on and off until he passed away. He thought that everybody was good at something and if he just looked hard enough he could find it, he could convince them of it, and he could raise their aspirations and their hopes. But always he was trying to find things that people were good at. And he taught us basic organizational skills and how to allocate resources and move things around. We put on the state band festival every year, for example, and he let lots of us help. He also was always looking for things that young people could do besides play music. He took a personal interest in kids, and seemed to instinctively know when they were having trouble at home or having trouble in school, and always to know what to say to them and more importantly maybe what questions to ask to find out what was really going on in their lives. He was quite good, but he was a world-class human being. Not because he was a particularly great band director. ![]() ![]() My high school band director, Virgil Spurlin, had a huge impact on my life. ![]() William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States. Watch a public service announcement featuring Bill Clinton in support of National Mentoring Month. Interview Watch the video of President Bill Clinton. ![]()
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Mona awad bunny5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Bertram refuses to consummate the marriage, so Helen fools him into sleeping with her in a "bed trick." In the end, in one line, Bertram seems to suddenly love Helen back.Įarly in Mona Awad's new novel All's Well, protagonist Miranda Fitch calls the play "neither a tragedy nor a comedy, something in between." That's also an apt description of Awad's book - a surreal exploration of chronic pain, women's believability and visibility, and desperation that straddles the line between comedy and horror. She cuts a deal with a king to magically heal him in exchange for compelling Bertram to marry her. ![]() The gist: Orphaned Helen, a "poor unlearned virgin," is desperately in love with noble Bertram, who is kind of a jerk. A so-called " problem play" that explores questions of morality, its ambiguous tone, unlikeable characters, and confusing ending have rendered it unpopular. William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well is rarely staged. ![]()
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Hickman schiti marvel5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() The problem here is that many of the best parts of Inferno #1 are the scenes that were literally written years ago in House of X. The moments between Mystique and Destiny are awesome and easily the best-written parts of the issue. Inferno #2 reveals how it was done without Magneto or Xavier’s knowledge. Inferno #1 reveals that Destiny is still alive. Inferno intends to resolve the longstanding plot thread involving Mystique and the resurrection of her Wife, Destiny. ![]() ![]() It ’s relevant but I’d rather focus on the titles themselves on this platform. ![]() I don’t want to get into the rumors swirling about the creative direction of these books. It was pretty clear that something had gone wrong in the X-Office and that the core concept of Hickman’s House of X had been warped. After a year of a meandering and stalled storyline, I felt myself checking out of the X-Men again. Hickman reintroduced high concept storytelling to the X-Men and also presented fresh ideas that went well beyond the constant rehashes of popular storylines that were overdone a decade ago. The House and Powers of X series were brilliant and seemed to be a jumping-on point for the comic line. The promise of Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men inspired me to dip my toe back into Marvel Comic’s after a long layover. ![]() |