Logodaedalus

Author : Alexander Marr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986302
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logodaedalus written by Alexander Marr and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individuals—as having their own attributes and talents, stemming from an “inborn nature” that included many qualities, not just intelligence. Through ingenuity and its family of related terms, early moderns sought to understand and appreciate differences between peoples, places, and things in an attempt to classify their ingenuities and assign professions that were best suited to one’s abilities. Logodaedalus, a prehistory of genius, explores the various ways this language of ingenuity was defined, used, and manipulated between 1470 and 1750. By analyzing printed dictionaries and other lexical works across a range of languages—Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German, and Dutch—the authors reveal the ways in which significant words produced meaning in history and found expression in natural philosophy, medicine, natural history, mathematics, mechanics, poetics, and artistic theory.

Author : Logo Daedalus
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797819174
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selfie, Suicide written by Logo Daedalus and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disintegrating romantic anatomy in five acts.

Author : Peter Gratton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748699708
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nancy Dictionary written by Peter Gratton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean-Luc Nanc, a key figure in the contemporary intellectual landscape. This dictionary considers the full scope of his writing and will provide insights into the philosophical and theoretical background to hi

Author : Javier Patiño Loira
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644533464
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Subtlety written by Javier Patiño Loira and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping reality in highly creative ways. The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science, analyzing technical writings on conceits by such scholars as Baltasar Gracián, Matteo Peregrini, and Emanuele Tesauro against the background of debates on telescopic and microscopic vision, the generation of living beings, and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. It contends that in order to understand conceits, we must locate them within the early modern culture of ingenuity that was also responsible for the engineer’s machines, the juggler’s sleight of hand, the wiles of the statesman, and the discovery of truths about nature.

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
ISBN 13 : 9780804753548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of the Syncope written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy's classic study of the role of language in Kant demonstrates why the question of how to write philosophy, of philosophical style, is not just ancillary to critical philosophy but goes to the heart of the project of establishing human reason in its autonomy and freedom.

Author : Richard J. Oosterhoff
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988461
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ingenuity in the Making written by Richard J. Oosterhoff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.

Author : Leslie Hill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144116622X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing written by Leslie Hill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide a detailed account of fragmentary writing in the work of the French novelist, critic, and thinker Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003).

Author : R. Cam
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ampersand written by R. Cam and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry written on my phone 2011-2020

Author : Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 039958482X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Most Powerful Man in the World written by Phillips Payson O'Brien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief “O'Brien's biography at last gives Leahy his due.”—John Lewis Gaddis • “Fascinating… greatly enriches our understanding of Washington wartime power.”—Madeleine Albright • “Beautifully written and thoroughly researched.”—Douglas Brinkley • “Transforms our understanding of America's wartime decision-making.”—Hew Strachan Aside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II than Admiral William D. Leahy--not Douglas MacArthur, not Dwight Eisenhower, and not even the legendary George Marshall. No man, including Harry Hopkins, was closer to Roosevelt, nor had earned his blind faith, like Leahy. Through the course of the war, constantly at the president's side and advising him on daily decisions, Leahy became the second most powerful man in the world. In a time of titanic personalities, Leahy regularly downplayed his influence, preferring the substance of power to the style. A stern-faced, salty sailor, his U.S. Navy career had begun as a cadet aboard a sailing ship. Four decades later, Admiral Leahy was a trusted friend and advisor to the president and his ambassador to Vichy France until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Needing one person who could help him grapple with the enormous strategic consequences of the war both at home and abroad, Roosevelt made Leahy the first presidential chief of staff--though Leahy's role embodied far more power than the position of today. Leahy's profound power was recognized by figures like Stalin and Churchill, yet historians have largely overlooked his role. In this important biography, historian Phillips Payson O'Brien illuminates the admiral's influence on the most crucial and transformative decisions of WWII and the early Cold War. From the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and France, to the allocation of resources to fight Japan, O'Brien contends that America's war largely unfolded according to Leahy's vision. Among the author's surprising revelations is that while FDR's health failed, Leahy became almost a de facto president, making decisions while FDR was too ill to work, and that much of his influence carried over to Truman's White House.

Author : Steven Poole
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787478599
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Word for Every Day of the Year written by Steven Poole and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weird and wonderful word and its meaning for every day of the year. 'A lexicological delight' Professor David Crystal Who knew that to dringle is to 'waste time in a lazy lingering manner'? Or that a sudden happy ending could be termed a eucotastrophe? Looking for an alternative word to 'bullshit'? Then try taradiddle. A Word for Every Day of the Year is a fascinating collection of 366 words and their definitions, perfect for anyone who loves the richness of the English language, its diversity and wants to expand their vocabulary. Each day offers a rare and remarkable word with its history and definition and occasionally a challenge to include it in our lives.