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“nalin ranasinghe”

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  • The Confessions of Odysseus

    by Nalin Ranasinghe ...
    Nalin Ranasinghe undertakes the monumentally brash assignment of accusing man and then offering his defense, precisely as Homer does of Odysseus in the Iliad. Odysseus is portrayed as a human being deserving of both. For this reason and Homer’s perceptive descriptions, Ranasinghe claims Homer’s epic is the cornerstone of Western civilization. The central insights herein compel Ranasinghe to admit ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shakespeare's Reformation

    Christian Humanism and the Death of God

    by Nalin Ranasinghe ...
    This is a posthumously published collection of Nalin Ranasinghe's sharp analyses of Shakespeare's five heavy dramas: Hamlet, King John, Julius Caesar, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra. True to form, Ranasinghe serves up philosophical and literary genius for the reader's benefit and delight."I will try to claim that Shakespeare offers an esoteric vindication of the human soul itself, not merely ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Body Politic

    by Timothy Burns, Pamela Jensen, Joseph Alulis, Robert Schaefer, Peter Meilaender, Nasser Behnegar, David Nichols, Timothy Spiekerman, George Anastaplo, Laurence D. Nee, Nalin Ranasinghe ...
    Metaphors animate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail, variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare. Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor in Shakespeare and the Body Politic permits readers to examine the sentiments of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Teaching in an Age of Ideology

    by Leah Bradshaw, Charles R. Embry, Molly Brigid Flynn, Bryan-Paul Frost, Lance M. Grigg, Michael Henry, Tim Hoye, Michael Zuckert, Nalin Ranasinghe, Travis D. Smith ...
    This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and Hannah Arendt to political thinkers like Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, and their students such as ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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    Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of isolation, and the dangers to which this can lead, The Sane Society took his theories one step further. In doing so it established Fromm as one of the ... Read more

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  • Closing of the American Mind

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  • The Iliad of Homer

    by Homer, Richard Martin ...
    Translated by Richmond Lattimore ...
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