Oxford Book Of American Essays

Ross, Bruce: Venturing upon Dizzy Heights. Lectures and Essays on Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2008. ISBN: 978-1-4331-0287-5
This book assembles lectures and essays on literature (William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, Chinese mountain poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Tao Te Ching), art (Paleolithic cave art, Vincent Van Gogh, American landscape painting), and Japanese poetry forms (haiku, haibun, tanka) that were originally presented and published between 2000 and 2007. The essays identify strategies to counter the so-called postmodern condition. Matters of will, ethics, and consciousness are examined in comparative contexts with the aim of formulizing models of enlightened states of being and their aesthetic expressions. This study focuses on Wordsworth's rainbow epiphany; Walter Benjamin's "aura" and "monad"; Chinese mountain poetry's cosmic emptiness; Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Paleolithic cave art's transpersonal expression; Van Gogh's "dizzy heights" of natural beauty; American landscape painters' depiction of the sublime; haiku's absolute metaphor epiphany; and tanka's connection between natural beauty and erotic feeling. The collection is a re-examination of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "fundamental unity" between humanity and nature, as well as an examination of often-unmediated affective experience and its expression in this context through literature and art.

VIII, 121 pp. Hardback *neuwertig*

[KW: Anglistik]

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Knowles, Kim: A Cinematic Artist. The Films of Man Ray. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2009. ISBN: 978-3-03911-884-7
The American artist Man Ray was one of the most influential figures of the historical avant-garde, contributing significantly to the development of both Dadaism and Surrealism. Whilst his pioneering work in photography assured him international acclaim, his activity in other areas, notably film, is to this day both unknown and undervalued. During the 1920s Man Ray made four short experimental films and collaborated on a host of other projects with people such as Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Rene Clair and Hans Richter. These works, along with a series of cinematic essays and home movies made during the 1920s and 1930s, represent the most important contribution to the development of an alternative mode of filmmaking in the early twentieth century. This book explores Man Ray's cinematic interactions from the perspective of his interdisciplinary artistic sensibility, creating links between film, photography, painting, poetry, music, architecture, dance and sculpture. By exposing his preoccupation with form, and his ambiguous relationship with the politics and aesthetics of the Dada and Surrealist movements, the author paints an intimate and complex portrait of Man Ray the filmmaker.

VIII, 334 S., 23 Ill. Bibliographie Reg. Br. *neuwertig*

[KW: Film; Film & Foto; Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft]

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Konvolut von ca. 25 englischsprachigen Büchern zur Geschichte und Kulturgeschichte der USA.
Konvolut von ca. 25 englischsprachigen Büchern zur Geschichte und Kulturgeschichte der USA Die Bücher entstammen dem Nachlass eines fanatischen Sammlers. Er kaufte die Titel zumeist in Antiquariaten. Zustand also meistens mit den üblichen Gebrauchsspuren, Besitzervermerke, berieben, partiell fleckig u.ä.- hässliche Mängel wie Anstreichungen sind unten angegeben. Teils auch schön erhalten (da ja ein gewisser Prozentsatz aller Bücher ungelesen bleibt, oft jahre- bis jahrhundertelang). Teils sind die Bücher kartoniert, überwiegend jedoch fest gebunden. Siehe Bild. The books were part of the estate of a fanatic book-collector. He bought most of them used at antiquarian bookshops. Conditions vary from ok to fine, see picture. Einige Bücher zur Kulturgeschichte scheinen lesenswert. Der bekannte Bill Bryson schreibt auf seine unnachahmliche Weise über sein Heimatland, dessen Eigenheiten, Geschichte und Bevölkerung. Benson und Adair tauchen in die "Ursuppe" des Puritanismus ein, Billington gibt dem Leser Einblick in das Bild, das Europa sich von der US-Frontier im 19. Jahrhundert machte. MacGregor ("Vineyard of Liberty") behandelt die Kulturgeschichte der USA von den 1780er-Jahren bis 1863. Chafee analysiert die Gegebenheiten des im 1. Amendment zur Verfassung festgesetzten Rechts auf freie Meinungsäußerung in den Urteilen des Supreme Court. American Heritage (13x) - Cuming und Skelton und Quinn: The discovery of North America (American Heritage Press, New York 1972, 303 St., Leinen, Umschlag); - Cunliffe, M. und American Heritage: The American Heritage History of the Presidency (Am. Her. 1968, 383 St., Leinen, Schuber); - A treasury of American Heritage, a selection from the first five years of the Magazine of history (Simon & Schuster 1960, 400 St., Hlblwd., OU); - 7 Ausgaben der Zeitschrift (6/1956, 12/1961, 2/1962, 4/1962, 8/1962, 10/1962, 6/1964, je fester Kartoneinband, ca. 75 St.); - 3 Ausgaben der Zeitschrift "Horizon", im Vlg. American Horizon (3/1960, 2/1976, 4/1976, je fester Kartoneinband, ca. 75 St.). Kulturgeschichte (11x) - Bryson, Bill: Made in America (Secker & Warburg 1994, 478 St., der bekannte Autor lebt seit langem in Großbritannien); - Benson Lowrie, E.: The shape of the Puritan mind, the thought of Samuel Willard (Yale University Press 1974, 253 St., Umschlag fleckig, sonst wie neu); - Adair, J.: Puritans, religion and politics in seventeenth century England and America (Sutton 1998, 302 St.); - Davidson, Marshall: Life in America in 2 Volumes (Bd. 1 und 2, Houghton Mifflin 1951, zus. ca. 1000 St., Leinen); - McKnown, R.: Washington's America (Grosset 1961, 93 St.); - MacGregor, J.: The vineyard of liberty, the American experiment (Knopf 1982, 741 St., partiell wasserwellig); - Abraham, H.: Freedom and the Court, civil rights and liberties in the United States (Oxford University Press 1967, 335 St.); - Chafee, Z.: Free speech in the United States (Harvard University Press 1954, 632 St.); - Wallace, Irving: The twenty-seventh wife (Simon & Schuster 2962, 443 St., first printing); - Billington, R.: Land of Savagery, land of promise, the European image of the American frontier in the 19. century (Norton 1981, 364 St.). Belletristik, Bibliophilie (ca. 5x) - The Papyrus, a magazine of individuality, edited by Michael Monahan (New Jersey, Ausgaben 7/8, 9, 10, 11, 12 1908 in einem Band, Halbleinwand, zus. ca. 150 St.); - Sinclair Lewis: Main street (Cape 1930) und Babbitt (Cape 1929); - Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The twenty essays (Bell 1899, einiege Seiten mit Randanm.); - 2 religiöse Bücher.

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Kuklick, Bruce: A History of Philosophy in America 1720-2000. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780198250319
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - Inhalt: Speculative Thought in America, 1720-1868 -- Calvinism and Jonathan Edwards -- Philosophy and Politics -- Theological Dispute: From Joseph Bellamy, True Religion Delineated (1750) to Nathaniel William Taylor, Moral Government of God (1858) -- Collegiate Philosophy: From John Witherspoon, Lectures on Moral Philosophy (1800) to Noah Porter, The Human Intellect (1868) -- Innovative Amateurs: From James Marsh's Edition of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1829) to the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1867) -- The Age of Pragmatism, 1859-1934 -- The Shape of Revolution: The Impact in America of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859), J. S. Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865), and German higher criticism -- The Consensus on Idealism, 1870-1900 -- Pragmatism in Cambridge: From Charles Peirce 'On a New List of Categories' (1867) to Morris Cohen (ed.), Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays by the Late Charles S. Peirce, the Founder of Pragmatism (1923) -- Pragmatism at Harvard: From William James, 'Spencer's Definition of Mind' (1878) tojosiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity (1913) -- Instrumentalism in Chicago and New York: From John Dewey (ed.), Studies in Logical Theory (1903) -- to John Dewey, A Common Faith (1934) -- Professional Philosophy, 1912-2000 -- Professional Realism: From The New Realism (1912) to Wilfrid Sellare, 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' -- Europe's Impact on the United States: From Rudolph Carnap, Logische Aufbau der Welt (1928) to Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964) -- Harvard and Oxford: From Nelson Goodman, 'The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals' (1946) to W. V. O. Quine, 'Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World' (1975) -- The Tribulations of Professional Philosophy: From Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) to Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (1999). - Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the fascinating story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the USA, in the context of the intellectual and social changes of the times. Kuklick sketches the genesis of these intellectual practices in New England Calvinism and the writing of Jonathan Edwards. He discusses theology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the origins of collegiate philosophy m the early part of the nineteenth century. We see the development of secular preconceptions and the emergence, after Darwin's writings of the mid-late nineteenth century, of forms of thought hostile to religion. Philosophy is situated in a variety of cultural contexts - the ministry, the growing system of higher learning, the conflict between philosophers and theologians and between amateur and professional thinkers, the suspicion of European ideas, and worries about the relevance of philosophy to public and political life. Kuklick s narrative portrays such great thinkers as Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, C. I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, W V Quine, and Richard Rorty, and assesses their contributions to philosophy. He brings us right up to date with the first historical treatment of the period after pragmatism, and the fragmentation of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. Kuklick steers a controversial course between the divergent views that historians and philosophers take of the significance of philosophy in recent years. Anyone interested in American intellectual history, or in how philosophy got where it is today, will enjoy this book. (Verlagstext). ISBN 9780198250319 - , ISBN: 0198250312

326 S. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag.

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