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  • Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame

    by Andre Lefevere ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Classics
    One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies,this Routledge Translation Classic is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline.Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentiethcentury, Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame showshow rewriting – translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translation/History/Culture

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by André Lefevere ...
    Series series Translation Studies
    The most important and productive statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s are collected in this book. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries - power, poetics, universe of discourse, language, education - it contains texts previously unavailable in English, and translated here for the first time from classical, Medieval, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Basic Writings of Existentialism

    Edited by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon MarinoBasic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Sickness Unto Death

    A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus

    Translated by Alastair Hannay ...
    by Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard ...
    One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment - including some ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

    by David Hume ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion' of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • A Summer with Montaigne

    On the Art of Living Well

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Tina Kover ...
    "Brings the man to life and shows his questions, ideas, and solutions to be every bit as relevant as they were in the 16th century." — New York Journal of BooksMichel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? ... Read more

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  • On the Origin of Language

    Two Essays

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder ...
    Translated by John H. Moran, Alexander Gode ...
    This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of Grammatology, and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

    by Johan Huizinga ...
    In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of "Homo Ludens," or "Man the player" through ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Narrative

    Revised and Expanded

    by Robert Scholes, James Phelan, Robert Kellogg ...
    For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Anthology Of German Literature

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,E.T.A. Hoffmann,Immanuel Kant ...
    Over a dozen classic works in one collection with an active table of contents.Works include:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:AutobiographyEgmontErotica RomanaFaustHermann and DorotheaIphigenia in TaurisE.T.A. Hoffmann:The Deserted HouseThe Sand-ManImmanuel Kant:The Critique of Practical ReasonThe Critique of Pure ReasonFundamental Principals of the Metaphysic of MoralsThe Metaphysical Elements of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

    by Søren Kierkegaard, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong ...
    Series Book XIX - Kierkegaard's Writings
    A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher.In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard moves beyond anxiety on the mental-emotional level to the spiritual ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Disowning Knowledge

    In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD