Abgrund der Freiheit

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Lee Margaret Jenkins

"This revisionary study of Wallace Stevens queries the dominant interpretations of the poet's career. It redirects the reader's attention to the neglected achievement of Stevens's first book, Harmonium (1923), and examines the pluralism of these early poems in the context of current critical revaluations of modernisms." "The originality of this book lies in its new interpretation of Stevens, and in its British (and Irish) viewpoint. A principal contribution is the extended discussion of Stevens's relationship with the Irish poet Thomas MacGreevy."--BOOK JACKET.

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Edward L. Galligan

Postmodern critics fail to ask the truth-seeker's essential question, What does the evidence prove? Instead they trust the generalizations and slogans of ideologies to guide their interpretations. Attempting to be up-to-date and profound, these critics lose sight of the literature they are supposed to explore. The Truth of Uncertainty celebrates values commonly associated with modern, not postmodern, criticism, applying them to contemporary works in a series of fresh and unusual inquiries. Galligan finds important implications for criticism in work from the physical sciences that are rarely touched on by American intellectuals, such as Gerald M. Edelman's Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind and Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. Likewise, he finds illumination in the works of novelists that American critics have largely ignored - Josef Skvorecky, George V. Higgins, Mary Lee Settle, Robertson Davies.

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Jorge Eduardo Rivera

Serie de ensayos escritos en los que el autor expone algunos puntos fundamentales de la filosofía de Heidegger y de la metafísica de Zubiri, despejando prejuicios construidos en torno a dos filósofos que representan el pensamiento vivo inaugurado por Parménides, Heráclito, Platón y Aristóteles. Al mismo tiempo, deja planteada la posibilidad de explorar los pensamientos de Heidegger que Zubiri asume y transforma estableciendo una conexión entre el concepto heideggeriano de "ser mismo" y el de "realidad" que desarrollará más tarde el filósofo español. El autor es Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Heidelberg, Alemania. Profesor Titular asociado de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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Jane Daggett Dillenberger

In the two years before he died, Andy Warhol made over one hundred paintings, drawings, and prints based on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. The dramatic story of these works is told here for the first time. It reveals the part of Andy Warhol that he kept very secret: his lifelong church attendance and his personal piety. In The Religious Art of Andy Warhol, art historian and curator Jane Daggett Dillenberger explores the sources and manifestations of Warhol's spiritual side. The sources are to be found in Warhol's childhood in a Slovakian ghetto of Pittsburgh and in the rich rituals of its Byzantine Catholic Church, but particularly in his devotion to his mother, Julia, with whom he lived for almost 40 of his 58 years. And the manifestations are to be found mostly in the paintings of the last decade of Warhol's life: his Skull paintings, the prints based on Renaissance religious paintings, the Cross paintings, and the large series based on Leonardo's Last Supper.