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Moral Imagination
Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From The Sublime And Beautiful To American Independence
This intellectual biography examines the first three decades of Burke's professional life. His protest against the cruelties of English society and his criticism of all unchecked power laid the groundwork for his later attacks on abuses of government in India, Ireland, and France.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him thereDonald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Writing Politics: An Anthology
Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology.David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In Writing Politics, Bromwich... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1949 -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth: Selected And Prepared For Use In Schools And Classes, From Hudson's Text-book Of Poetry (Modern Library Classics)
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth's prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late "Yarrow Revisited." Wordsworth's poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the lov... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 7 (The\pickering Masters Ser.)
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 1
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 4
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 2 (The\pickering Masters Ser.)
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 5 (The\pickering Masters Ser.)
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 8
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 9
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 3
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 6
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
The Social Contract And The First And Second Discourses
by Susan Dunn • Robert N. Bellah • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Conor Cruise O'Brien • David Bromwich • Gita MayJean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings--The Social Contract and The First Disc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Nature and Value
by Jonathan Schell • Jedediah Purdy • Nikolas Kompridis • David Bromwich • Carol Rovane • Joanna Picciotto • Robert Pollin • Sanjay Reddy • Jan Zalasiewicz • Bina Gogineni • Anthony Laden • Kyle Nichols • James Hamilton TullyToday, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019