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Author : Swami Vivekananda
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8175058021

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This booklet published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication centre of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, contains the prophetic and epochal speeches delivered by Swami Vivekananda at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, in 1893 which shot him to world fame and wherein he presented the gist of Hinduism and made a clarion call for 'harmony and peace' among the different religions wending their way to the same goal. Keywords: Chicago Speeches, World Parliament of Religions; Hinduism; Vedanta; Harmony of Religions

Author : Robert Musil
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0226554090

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"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."—Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."—Boston Review "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul—the matter of life and art."—Choice

Author : Madame de Maintenon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226502406

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Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the urgent need to remedy the scandalous neglect of the education of women. In her writings as well as in her own model school at Saint-Cyr, Maintenon embodies the demand for educational reform as the key to the empowerment of women at the dawn of modernity.

Author : Pomegranate
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780764963377

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Hardbound with hidden wire binding that lets the book lie flat. Introduction Space for 480 names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses

Author : University of Chicago. Press
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9780226104041

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Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.