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“mark william roche”

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  • Why Choose the Liberal Arts?

    by Mark William Roche ...
    In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted, Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student, faculty member, and administrator, Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of ... Read more

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  • Realizing the Distinctive University

    Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture

    by Mark William Roche ...
    In Realizing the Distinctive University: Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture, Mark William Roche changes the terms of the debate about American higher education. A former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, Roche argues for the importance of an institutional vision, not simply a brand, and while he extols the value of entrepreneurship, he defines it in ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Ugliness

    Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts

    by Mark William Roche ...
    This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche’s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, ... Read more

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  • Theories of Ugliness

    An Unseemly Aesthetic History

    by Professor of German Language and Literature Concurrent Professor of Philosophy Mark William Roche ...
    Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinising ideas of the ugly and unsightly from across the history of Western aesthetic and philosophical writing.Taking in ancient, medieval and early modern concepts, all the way ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century

    by Dean Mark William Roche ...
    Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the separation of art and morality. (When the distinction between ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Read more

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  • The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

    From Hellenism to Celan

    by George Steiner ...
    From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language.With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

    Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being

    by Vanessa Lemm ...
    "[Lemm] consolidates her reputation as one of Nietzsche's most original, attentive, and lively readers." — The Journal of Nietzsche StudiesThis book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's body of work. Vanessa Lemm argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a ... Read more

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  • The German Greeks: German Philosophy and the German Philosophers: Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

    Ancient Wisdom, #7

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 7 - Ancient Wisdom
    What if the standard story of Western philosophy is backwards?A book that makes you stop and rethink how you've been taught philosophy. —Jamie Michele for Readers' FavoriteWe are taught that philosophy moves forward—from myth to reason; from the Greeks to modern science; from Plato to progress. But The German Greeks argues the opposite: that modern German philosophy is not a break from ancient ... Read more

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  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Selected Writings of Jan Patocka

    Care for the Soul

    by Jan Patocka ...
    Translated by Alex Zucker ...
    Jan Patocka'scontribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely available in English and the Anglophone world remains rather unfamiliar with his work. In this new book of essential Patocka texts, of which the majority have been translated from the original Czech for the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Origin of the Political

    Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Vincenzo Binetti, Gareth Williams ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by being observed by others”— as the common origin and point of departure for our understanding of Western ... Read more

    $30.59 USD