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The God within: Kant, Schelling, and historicity

Fackenheim, Emil L.
For nineteenth-century thinkers, the central problem of religious consciousness in the modern West was the tension between prevailing concepts of individual autonomy and the traditional Judaeo-Christian claim for divine revelation. The God Within brings together ten of Professor Emil Fackenheim's essays on the German Idealists who struggled to resolve this tension. This philosophic preoccupation found its most searching and comprehensive expression, when the traditional notion of 'God as Transcendent' was reconceptualized as 'the God within.' The internalization of God's `otherness' reached its climax with Hegel, the subject of Fackenheim's earlier work, The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought. This long-awaited companion to that volume examines the earlier stages of the process, beginning with its initiator, Kant, then considering Schelling in both his earlier and later phases, and finally, looking once more at Hegel. The investigation of this movement, together with the related themes of history and the literary arts, leads to reflection on the significance of taking historicity seriously. Included is the classic, much-cited article `Metaphysics and Historicity, ' which connects the philosophy of German Idealists to twentieth-century questions of historicity and existential thought in particular. The previously unpublished essay `Schelling in 1800-1801: Art as Revelation, ' provides an overview of philosophical history from Kant through Fichte and Schleiermacher, to the later Schelling. All the essays gathered here are concerned with the radical singularity of history and existence on the one hand and the demands of philosophical truth on the other. They are informed by Professor Fackenheim's engagement with the profound philosophical challenges of our day--particularly his efforts, as a Jewish theologian, to confront the horrors of the Holocaust. We see, through Fackenheim's exposition, how these thinkers sought to come to terms with the presence of radical evil, a problem whose modern relevance is explored in this volume's epilogue, the 1988 essay `Holocaust and Weltanschauung: Philosophical Reflections on Why They Did It.'
University of Toronto Press 1996-01-01 252 pages

Marxist Economic Theory

Ernest Mandel
CONTENTS: Introduction - Labour, Necessary product, Surplus Product - Exchange, Commodity, Value - Money, Capital, Surplus-value - The Development of Capital - The Contradictions of Capitalism - Trade - Credit - Money - Agriculture- Reproduction and the Growth of National Income - Periodical Crises - Monopoly Capitalism - Imperialism - The Epoch of Capitalist Decline - The Soviet Economy - The Economy of the Transition Period - Socialist Economy - Origin, Rise and Withering Away of Political Economy- Bibliography - Index
Merlin Press 1968 797 pages

Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine Rose, early women's rights leader

Rose, Ernestine L.
Product Description Susan B. Anthony hung a picture of her on the wall. Elizabeth Cady Stanton publicly eulogized her invaluable contributions to the women’s rights movement. Unique among her peers as an immigrant atheist of Jewish background, celebrity orator Ernestine Rose won the title “Queen of the Platform” for her brilliant speeches advocating, and linking together, women’s rights, the abolition of slavery, and religious freedom. This first collection of her extant papers reclaims her place with Anthony and Stanton. Paula Doress-Worters, a veteran activist, co-wrote the groundbreaking Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1970 and each subsequent edition. About the Author Born in Poland to a Jewish family, Ernestine Louise Rose (1810 -1892) was a feminist, abolitionist, freethinker, and atheist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America. After over thirty years of activism, Rose retired in 1869 to England, where she died 22 years later. Paula Doress-Worters, a veteran activist, is one of the original authors of the groundbreaking Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970) and has contributed to every edition up to Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century (1998). She is currently the director of the Ernestine Rose Society and a Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center of Brandeis University.
Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2008-01-01 389 pages

Ernst Haas

Haas, Ernst
This addition to the affordable Photofile series brings together the best work of Ernst Haas, one of the world's greatest photographers. One of the early pioneers of colour photography, Haas began his photographic career in the 1940s in Vienna, rising to fame following the publication of his photo essay on returning prisoners of war from Russia. In 1951, Haas decided to make his home in NewYork, and became renowned for his work with motion photography and advertising campaigns for companies such as Marlboro, Chrysler and Volkswagen. With a selection of his most representative images and a bibliography for further reading, this is an ideal introduction to the photographer.
Thames & Hudson 2010 140 pages

The Education of Eva Moskowitz A Memoir

Eva Moskowitz
From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America’s education system. Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"— if that’s a synonym for getting the job done, she’ll take it. A born and bred New Yorker, former City Councilmember, and "charter czarina," Moskowitz has taken on powerful unions and politicians to establish and grow her astonishingly effective and popular charter school program in four of the city’s five boroughs. In this unabashedly candid memoir, Moskowitz tells of how she became a forward-thinking education entrepreneur and her fight to establish nearly four dozen schools—activism that has made her into one of the most polarizing figures in New York City and beyond. Now, having established a remarkable, even unprecedented, track record for guiding the city’s most disadvantaged children to high academic performance, Moskowitz addresses the battles she has won and lost, writing candidly about the people who seek to undermine her work—most notably New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio—and celebrating the powerful allies who have aided her cause, including former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo. Moskowitz’s insightful memoir is a deeply felt personal story and an impassioned call to action that bluntly identifies failing policies and the alarmingly powerful forces arrayed against improving an education system that is both deeply dysfunctional and prejudiced. The Education of Eva Moskowitz is sure to galvanize supporters, enrage her opponents, generate headlines, and urgently impact the national conversation on education.
HarperCollins 2018-09-11 400 pages

Ideology and National Competitiveness, an Analysis of Nine Countries Conclusion

George C. Lodge,Ezra F. Vogel
A country's ideology-the framework of ideas it uses to make values explicit and its institutions legitimate-shapes the manner in which corporations and managers live and act. If not properly understood, it can blind a manager to problems he cannot avoid; if properly understood, it can alert managers to issues that help them in dealing with government agencies, the public, their workers, and in developing their own business strategy. In this probing study, Harvard Business School professor George C. Lodge and Harvard University sociologist Ezra F. Vogel have combined their expertise to examine ideology as a useful tool for understanding national communities-how and why they have evolved, the tensions that exist within them, and the differences between them.
Harvard Business School 1987 350 pages

Twentieth century neurology: the British contribution

Frank Clifford Rose
Neuroscience is one of the scientific fields where progress in the 20th century has been spectacular. With the coming of the new millennium, it is appropriate to look at some of the advances and the neurologists who helped to produce them. The original contributions in this volume reflect the background against which the rapid advances have taken place in the past 100 years.
Imperial College Press 2001 313 pages

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy A-major Symphony Op. 90 'italian' Symphony

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,John Michael Cooper,Hans-Günter Klein
English summary: Like many before and perhaps even many more after him, the young Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy saw in Italy the country of the greatest joy of living. In his letters that he wrote home to his family in Berlin from Venice, and even more in the ones from Rome, he was full of enthusiasm. It is therefore only natural that the composer soon went about writing a symphony. How far he had got with the symphony during his journey to Italy in the winter of 1830/1831 is not known, as no musical manuscripts have survived from this period. What has survived is the autograph score of the A-major symphony (later to be called the "Italian" symphony), written down from January to April 1833 in Berlin. It was used for the premiere of the symphony on 13 May 1833 and served as the basis for the posthumously published first edition; it transmits the reading by which the symphony has been known until today.It is little known that Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy worked on the symphony again in 1834, revising the movements II to IV, partly with substantial changes. He left out the first movement - he thought that he would have to rewrite it altogether and shied away from doing so. Thus, the second score - which is now held in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, together with the 1833 autograph - remained unfinished. Additional fragments have survived, which belong to the autograph score of 1833; the composer had taken them out of his autograph during a major revision in March/April 1833 (i.e., before the premiere). German description: Wie viele vor und nach ihm sah der junge Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Italien das Land der grossten Lebensfreude. Von Italien fasziniert, beschaftigte er sich bald mit entsprechenden Symphonie-Planen. Wie weit er allerdings mit der Ausfuhrung wahrend seiner Italienreise kam, weiss man nicht, da keine Aufzeichnungen daruber uberliefert sind. Erhalten ist die Partitur der spater als "Italienische" bezeichneten Symphonie in A-dur, die er vom Januar bis zum April 1833 in Berlin niederschrieb und nach der das Werk in London am 13. Mai 1833 zum erstenmal erklang. Sie ist auch Grundlage der gedruckten Ausgabe geworden, nach der die Symphonie bis heute aufgefuhrt wird. 1834 beschaftigte sich Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy noch einmal mit seinem Werk und schrieb den zweiten bis vierten Satz neu nieder - nun aber mit zum Teil tiefgreifenden Veranderungen, wobei der erste Satz ausgespart blieb. Er glaubte, dass er ihn wohl ganz neu wurde komponieren mussen, und davor war er zuruckgeschreckt. So blieb diese zweite Niederschrift, die sich zusammen mit dem Autograph von 1833 im Besitz der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz befindet, unvollendet. Erhalten sind ausserdem aus der Partitur von 1833 einige Bruchstucke, die der Komponist noch vor der Urauffuhrung aus seinem Autograph bei einer Revision im Marz/April 1833 herausgenommen hatte. Die Publikation besteht aus drei Teilen: der vollstandigen Partitur von 1833; den ausgesonderten elf Partitur-Blattern, die nach ihrem heutigen Aufbewahrungsort als "Oxforder Fragmente" bezeichnet werden; der Partitur der Satze 2 bis 4 von 1834. Die Edition ermoglicht einen Einblick in Mendelssohns Kompositionstechnik, lasst Ruckschlusse auf seine asthetischen Anschauungen zu und ist fur Uberlegungen zu seinem musikalischen Stil von grundlegender Bedeutung.
L. Reichert Verlag 1997 258 pages

Paulus Op. 36 Oratorium / Klavierauszug

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Instrumentation : SATB Soli - SATB Chorus - 2.2.2.2 - Cbsn - 4.2.3.1 - Timp - Org - Str(Eng./Ger.) Vocal Score. For his Oratorio Mendelssohn made a discreet selection from St. Paul's eventful life as recounted in the acts of the Apostles. The story begins with the stoning of St. Steven by the Jews, and continues through his miraculous conversion to the scene in Lystra, where Paul himself is nearly martyred by stoning, and his farewell in Miletus. Hardly any Oratorio of the Romantic period, could match St. Paul in popularity. Only years later was it overtaken in the public esteem my Mendlessohn's Elijah. In the first two years following its premiere performance it was performed in over fifty German cities, in many European capitals and the United States. Editor :Drffel
Alfred Music 2022-05 196 pages

Fred Stein: Paris, New York

Stein, Fred
Fred Stein (1909-1967) was a master of street photography. As an early pioneer of the hand-held camera, he captured poignant moments in the street life of two of the world's great cities: Paris and New York, where he lived after fleeing from Nazi Germany. This same immediacy infuses his portraits of the great personalities of the era, among them Albert Einstein, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Marc Chagall. Stein's images are a vital document of the twentieth century and an important part of photo history. He left behind an existensive oeuvre which this publication presents comprehensively for the first time.
Kehrer 2013 197 pages

Antiquity matters

Raphael, Frederic
Tackling a broad range of topics, from the presumed superiority of democracy to the momentum behind today's gay rights movement, the author presents an often daringly heterodox view of the Greek and Roman world that will provoke, surprise, and, at the same time, entertain readers. He shows how the interplay of fiction and reality, rhetorical aspiration and practical cunning, is threaded through modern culture.
Yale University Press 2017-01-01 362 pages

Going up: to Cambridge and beyond - a writer's memoir

Raphael, Frederic
The manager's name was Love. His first-floor flat was diagonally across the private road and the rose beds from ours. Each weekday morning, at eight fifteen, he hooked open his lattice-paned bedroom window and did exercises, in a white sleeveless vest and white drawers. So begins the extraordinary life story of one of Britain's most celebrated writers, Frederic Raphael. Going Up is a journey from Chicago to Putney, to Charterhouse, on up to Cambridge, and beyond to Hollywood and France, recording experiences that were absorbed in his opulent novels and screenplays. Raphael is the author of over twenty novels, the most celebrated being The Glittering Prizes and its sequels, following the aspirations and changing lives of a group of Cambridge students through to middle age. The Glittering Prizes became a critically acclaimed six-part BBC television series for which Raphael would win a Royal Television Society Writer of the Year Award. He also won an Oscar for his screenplay for the 1965 movie Darling.Going Up is a dazzling piece of virtuoso prose writing that is fabulously indiscreet but also deeply moving, and punctuated throughout by Raphael's indefatigable wit and incomparable erudition.
The Robson Press 2015 413 pages