The Notebooks Of Joseph Joubert

Author : Joseph Joubert
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171486
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert written by Joseph Joubert and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. "One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."

Author : Joseph Joubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert written by Joseph Joubert and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Joubert
Publisher : San Francisco : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865471085
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert written by Joseph Joubert and published by San Francisco : North Point Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Joubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Pensées of Joubert written by Joseph Joubert and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Joubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joubert written by Joseph Joubert and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason Peterson
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456613553
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Download or read book The Last Musician written by Jason Peterson and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristoffer Snider is an unlikely hero: an outcast musical prodigy. But when an evil force captures the power of music to rule the world, only Kristoffer can save the day. As music disappears and the idyllic land of Greenwood begins to fall apart, Kristoffer uses his unique gift to battle the malevolent Urizen, his underling Alistair Vull, and a trio of muses who may not be what they first seem. Kristoffer must venture into the mysterious forest outside Greenwood, and with the help of new, much-needed friends, including the poet Colin Williams and his plucky granddaughter Emily, set music free, save the people he loves, and discover the secret at the heart of his very existence. By turns heart-pounding and heart-warming, The Last Musician is an adventure with heart - and a song.

Author : Pierre Saint-Amand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838711
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Laziness written by Pierre Saint-Amand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? The Pursuit of Laziness examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period, and reveals that crucial eighteenth-century texts did find value in idleness and nonproductivity. Fleshing out Enlightenment thinking in the works of Denis Diderot, Joseph Joubert, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Siméon Chardin, this book explores idleness in all its guises, and illustrates that laziness existed, not as a vice of the wretched, but as an exemplar of modernity and a resistance to beliefs about virtue and utility. Whether in the dawdlings of Marivaux's journalist who delayed and procrastinated or in the subjects of Chardin's paintings who delighted in suspended, playful time, Pierre Saint-Amand shows how eighteenth-century works provided a strong argument for laziness. Rousseau abandoned his previous defense of labor to pursue reverie and botanical walks, Diderot emphasized a parasitic strategy of resisting work in order to liberate time, and Joubert's little-known posthumous Notebooks radically opposed the central philosophy of the Enlightenment in a quest to infinitely postpone work. Unsettling the stubborn view of the eighteenth century as an age of frenetic industriousness and labor, The Pursuit of Laziness plumbs the texts and images of the time and uncovers deliberate yearnings for slowness and recreation. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Joseph Joubert
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780836969450
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book Pensées and Letters of Joseph Joubert written by Joseph Joubert and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1928 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517646
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluets written by Maggie Nelson and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312990960
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Illusions written by Paul Auster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit?" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive? Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet.