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Zobrazeno: 891-920 z celkem 3508 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec Collapse of an Empire
Lessons for Modern Russia
Anotace: The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word—a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it was built on shaky foundations. That instability made its demise inevitable, asserts Yegor Gaidar, former prime minister of Russia and architect of the "shock therapy" economic reforms of the 1990s. Yet a growing desire to return to the glory days of empire is pushing today's Russia backward into many of the same traps that made the Soviet Union untenable. In this important new book, Gaidar clearly illustrates why Russian nostalgia for empire is dangerous and ill-fated: "Dreams of returning to another era are illusory. Attempts to do so will lead to defeat." Athanasia
aneb Důvody pro nesmrtelnost duše
Anotace: Kniha Athanasia oder Gründe für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele z roku 1827 je nadmíru aktuální právě dnes, kdy chybějí v celé společnosti vodítka k pochopení nejen sebe samých, ale i světa okolo. Žijeme v době, která je nejméně zmocněná k tomu, aby rozuměla sobě samé, protože, jak řekl někde politický filozof Leo Strauss, velká míra politické svobody má paradoxně za následek velkou bezmoc. Bolzanova Athanasia patří k žánru konzolační či útěšné literatury, jejímž hlavním představitelem je Boëthiova kniha Útěcha z filozofie. Jde ale i o filozofickou práci, v níž se velký vědec a filozof Bernard Bolzano vyrovnává s otázkou nesmrtelnosti, otázkou, jíž se zabýval mezi mnoha jinými Platón ve svém Faidónovi. Vedle Vlastního životu jde o jedno z nejintimnějších Bolzanových děl, protože právě v Athanasii rezonuje bolest Bolzanovy velké mecenášky Anny Hoffmannové nad ztrátou její šestnáctileté dcery Karolíny. Velkostatek Josefa a Anny Hoffmannových Těchobuz u Pacova poskytl Bernardu Bolzanovi potřebný azyl pro práci na Vědosloví a dalších (matematických) spisech. Jazyk Bolzanovy knihy Athanasia je šťastně dvojlomný, neboť vedle osobního, útěšného tónu zde zaznívá i jazyk objektivismu 19. století, respektive originálního objektivismu, který tvoří páteř Bolzanova díla. Warlords of Republican Rome
Anotace: The fateful clash between two of history's greatest generals . . . The war between Caesar and Pompey was one of the defining moments in Roman history. The clash between these great generals gripped the attention of their contemporaries and it has fascinated historians ever since. These powerful men were among the dominant personalities of their age, and their struggle for supremacy divided Rome. In this original and perceptive study Nic Fields explores the complex, often brutal world of Roman politics and the lethal rivalry of Caesar and Pompey that grew out of it. He reconsiders them as individuals and politicians and, above all, as soldiers. His highly readable account of this contest for power gives a vivid insight into the rise and fall of two of the greatest warlords of the ancient world. Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason
Anotace: This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays a philosophical and textual sophistication that will enlighten Kant scholars as well. This translation recreates as far as possible a text with the same interpretative nuances and richness as the original. Mary G. Houston, Florence S. Hornblower
Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian Costumes and Decorations
Anotace: If this work is to be kept within its limitations, it is naturally impossible to give a complete survey of all the varieties of the various styles. To get this knowledge it will be necessary to consult the works of reference, of which lists are given in each section. On the other hand, the special aspect of the work is more fully treated than in any other accessible book upon the subject.Every illustration of costume given has been actually cut out and made up before being sketched, except in a few cases which are of the nature of duplicates, so that by following the directions given it will be easy for anyone to reproduce them in material. Where decoration is required, the exact drawing and colouring of the various styles of Historic Ornament, which are the work of F. S. Hornblower (who has also coloured the costumes where necessary), will enable such details to be appropriately applied.Throughout the book, the illustrations are given by means of facsimiles of drawings by artists of the various centuries, so that a historic survey of the History of Figure Drawing will be included. Where the drawings of primitive artists do not clearly express the ideas intended to be conveyed, a modern drawing of the garment on a dress-stand will be used for explanation of the measured drawings of the cut-out garments. The growing appreciation of the beauty and value of the earlier and more primitive systems of cutting shown in modern dress designing for the last decade, when the so-called Magyar blouse (really the simple tunic common to all primitive folk) began to be popular, will make the present volume a convenient form of inspiration for designers; also, where more exact reproduction is needed, as in theatrical work, pageantry, and so forth, the careful working out of the details of cut and decoration will expedite production and save hours of fruitless searching in reference libraries.To the Art Student, in addition to the always interesting history of costume, the development of the Art of Representation, as shown in the illustrations of these volumes, which is so strangely repeated in the personal history of every young person learning to draw, will be attractive and instructive. Finally, in connection with the history lesson in the ordinary school, teachers will find the illustrations clear and helpful, especially if dramatic representations are attempted. Archibald Hurd
The Fleets at War
Anotace: A comparison of the navies of Germany and Great Britain at the beginning of World War I. Armoured Warfare and Hitler's Allies 1941-1945
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Anotace: German, American and British tanks come to mind first whenever the military vehicles of the Second World War are considered – they get all the historical attention. The tanks, self-propelled guns and armored cars built and deployed by the secondary nations in the conflict, in particular by Hitler’s Axis allies, have been almost forgotten. The rarity of these armored fighting vehicles makes them especially interesting, and that is why Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history is of such value. William Stearns Davis
A Day in Old Athens
Anotace: A hypothetical tour of the private and public features of Athens during its political and cultural apex circa 360 B.C. When She Was Good
Anotace: In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. The Prague Orgy
Anotace: In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism. The Humbling
Anotace: Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air." When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. "Something fundamental has vanished." His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can’t persuade him to make a comeback. The Human Stain
Anotace: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. The Great American Novel
Anotace: In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee. The Dying Animal
Anotace: 'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex' The Anatomy Lesson
Anotace: At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers grows into an addiction to vodka, marijuana, and Percodan. The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness written in what the English critic Hermione Lee has described as "a manner at once...brash and thoughtful... lyrical and wry, which projects through comic expostulations and confessions...a knowing, humane authority." The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound , The Anatomy Lesson provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest About The Author: Award-winning author Philip Roth has made a career of confronting the heartbreaking dissolution of relationships, the absurdity of sexual neuroses, and the downside of his own literary fame. Many of his readers believe that Roth has been merely writing his own story for nearly fifty years. However, the author refuses to offer such speculators any simple answers, saying of his characters, It's all me. Nothing is me." Sabbath's Theater
Anotace: Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress—an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring surpassed even his own—Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction. Our Gang
Starring Tricky and his Friends
Anotace: A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. Operation Shylock
A Confession
Anotace: What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? My Life As A Man
Anotace: A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. Indignation
Anotace: Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. I Married a Communist
Anotace: I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. Goodbye, Columbus
Five Short Stories
Anotace: Winner of the National Book Award. Roth's award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love--instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of characters. Everyman
Anotace: Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality. Mikulášovy prázdniny
Anotace: Mikuláš je malý nezbedný klučík s partou kamarádů, kupou bláznivých nápadů a úžasným dětským pohledem na svět. Už v 60. letech se stal ve Francii jedním ze symbolů dětské literatury a od té doby bavil čtenáře po celém světě. Jeho příběhy dostanou každého svým promyšleným a nevinným humorem, lehkostí stylu, a výjimečným literárním talentem autora – Réné Goscinyho. West and the Rest
Globalization and the Terrorist Threat
Anotace: In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception, Scruton. The Soul of the World
Anotace: In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive--and to understand what we are--is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things. Rather than an argument for the existence of God, or a defense of the truth of religion, the book is an extended reflection on why a sense of the sacred is essential to human life--and what the final loss of the sacred would mean. In short, the book addresses the most important question of modernity: what is left of our aspirations after science has delivered its verdict about what we are? Drawing on art, architecture, music, and literature, Scruton suggests that the highest forms of human experience and expression tell the story of our religious need, and of our quest for the being who might answer it, and that this search for the sacred endows the world with a soul. Evolution cannot explain our conception of the sacred; neuroscience is irrelevant to our interpersonal relationships, which provide a model for our posture toward God; and scientific understanding has nothing to say about the experience of beauty, which provides a God's-eye perspective on reality. Ultimately, a world without the sacred would be a completely different world--one in which we humans are not truly at home. Yet despite the shrinking place for the sacred in today's world, Scruton says, the paths to transcendence remain open. The Ring of Truth
The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Anotace: Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account. The Ring of Truth is an exploration of the drama, music, symbolism and philosophy of the Ring from a writer whose knowledge and understanding of the Western musical tradition are the equal of his capacities as a philosopher. Scruton shows how, through musical connections and brilliant dramatic strokes, Wagner is able to express truths about the human condition which few other creative artists have been able to convey so convincingly. For Wagner, writes Scruton, the task of art is to 'show us freedom in its immediate, contingent, human form, reminding us of what it means to us. Even if we live in a world from which gods and heroes have disappeared we can, by imagining them, dramatize the deep truths of our condition and renew our faith in what we are.' Love, death, sacrifice and the liberation that we win through sacrifice - these are the great themes of the Ring, as they are of this book. Scruton's passionate and moving interpretation allows us to understand more fully than ever how Wagner conveys his ideas about who we are, and why the Ring continues to be such a hypnotically absorbing work. Notes from Underground
Anotace: Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan Reichl, condemned to a menial life by his father's alleged crime, and of Betka, the girl who offers him education, opportunity and love, but who mysteriously refuses to commit herself. Komentář: Kniha nehodná filozofa, ač konzervativního. Rozporuplné čtení pro Čechy (Čechoslováky) a tuplem pro ty, kteří žili ve své vlasti v době, do které autor zasadil svůj příběh. V jednotlivostech se knize daří relativně zdařile vystihnout určité aspekty té doby, v zásadnějších otázkách je ovšem značně tendenční a povrchní (vyniká kupř. velmi emocionální a jednostranné vylíčení nespravedlností páchaných na sudetských Němcích, aniž by byly zasazeny do širších souvislostí složitých vztahů mezi Čechy a Němci; obzvláště pak v meziválečné éře). Kniha neumožňuje jiný výklad autorova náhledu na Čechy (Čechoslováky) než ten, že má do úcty či snad dokonce obdivu na hony daleko a český disent (se kterým udržoval pravidelné styky) v něm vyvolával převážně shovívavý úsměv ("většina jejich děl měla menší hodnotu než papír, na kterém byla napsána"). Úvaha o "národu knihy", který vznikl skrze knihy a v podstatě mimo knihy neexistuje, mně osobně v hlavě utkvěla asi nejdéle. Příběh samotný je archetypální a v různých obdobách ho patrně prožila velká část mužů. Modern Philosophy
An Introduction and Survey
Anotace: Philosopher Roger Scruton offers a wide-ranging perspective on philosophy, from logic to aesthetics, written in a lively and engaging way that is sure to stimulate debate. Rather than producing a survey of an academic discipline, Scruton reclaims philosophy for worldly concerns. Kant
A Very Short Introduction
Anotace: Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton--a well-known and controversial philosopher in his own right--tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring. Zobrazeno: 891-920 z celkem 3508 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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