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  • Lydia Maria Child

    A Radical American Life

    by Lydia Moland ...
    The biography of one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem "Over the River and Through the Wood," Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and ... Read more

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  • Hegel's Aesthetics

    The Art of Idealism

    Hegel is known as "the father of art history," yet recent scholarship has overlooked his contributions. This is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of art in English in thirty years. In a new analysis of Hegel's notorious "end of art" thesis, Hegel's Aesthetics shows the indispensability of Hegel's aesthetics for understanding his philosophical idealism and introduces a ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Lydia Moland, Alison Stone ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century disrupts the widespread impression that there were no women philosophers in this period. Building on feminist histories of philosophy that cover other eras, this volume includes chapters on a wide range of women philosophers: those who wrote explicitly philosophical texts for academic audiences, others who ... Read more

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    Lydia Maria Child

    A Radical American Life

    by Lydia Moland ...
    Narrated by Lydia Moland ...

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    17 hours 38 min

    A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the Wood,” Child had become famous at an early age for ... Read more

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  • All Too Human

    Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    Edited by Lydia L. Moland ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic theorists of this period. Through differentiating humor from comedy, the book suggests important distinctions within the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

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    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • What's Wrong with Benevolence

    Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

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    Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to ... Read more

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  • Stolen Childhood

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  • Ethics, Literature, and Theory

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