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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
Category: Education | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has ...Show more
Eugene Onegin - A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Vladímir Nabokov (Introduction by, Translator); Brian Boyd
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov's friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of Books, o ...Show more
Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life Justice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice, critically analyzing basic concepts underlying most theories of j ...Show more
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden; Arthur C. Kirsch (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden . . . ...Show more
Men, Women, and Chain Saws - Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover (Preface by)
Category: Film Theory | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of ...Show more
Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershom Gerhard Scholem; David Biale; R. J. Zwi Werblowsky (Editor); Allan Arkush
Category: Spirituality | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelft ...Show more
PHILOSOPHY & THE MIRROR OF NATURE by RORTY RICHARD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
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 that r ...Show more
Reasons of Love (The) by Harry G. Frankfurt
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
A clear, accessible exploration of how and why we love by prominent philosopher and bestselling author Harry FrankfurtIn The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that lo ...Show more
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia ...Show more
The Dehumanization of Art & Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature by Jose Ortega y Gasset
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist Jos Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism, The Dehumanization of Art. In the essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, Ortega grappled philosophically with the newness of nonrepresentational ...Show more
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
Category: No Category | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. This book tells the story of how, some parts of the world began to experience sustained progress, and set the ...Show more
The Hard Facts of the Grimms` Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar
Category: Culture | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six ...Show more