Saint-exupery

Saint-exupery
Author: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 883
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307798399

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From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language. An impoverished aristocrat from one of France's oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined--with brilliant and catastrophic results--by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert. In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Author: Joy D. Marie Robinson
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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A biography and critical analysis of the works of this French writer and aviator.

Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy

Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy
Author: Bryan A. Smyth
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780937865

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Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class-specifically, that it rests upon a humanist myth of incarnation which, substantiated by Merleau-Ponty's notion of 'heroism', locates an objective historical purposiveness in the habituated organism of the modern subject. Foregrounding the phenomenological priority of history over corporeality in this way, Smyth's analysis recovers the 'militant' character of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology. It thus sheds critical new light on his early thought, and challenges some of the main parameters of existing scholarship by disclosing the intrinsic normativity of his basic methodological commitments.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
Total Pages: 259
Release:
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ISBN: 2738176313

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A Student's Guide to Saint-Exupéry

A Student's Guide to Saint-Exupéry
Author: Brian Masters
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1972
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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The Adventure of Weak Theology

The Adventure of Weak Theology
Author: Štefan Štofaník
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438471971

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Štofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its “founder,” John D. Caputo. In this distinctive exploration of John D. Caputo’s work, Štefan Štofaník traces Caputo’s journey of philosophical discovery from his earlier, more conventional academic writings to his later, almost confessional works of weak theology and his deep engagement with Derrida. Štofaník draws upon Caputo’s life story to help explain sudden shifts in Caputo’s thinking, offers intricate readings of philosophical passages that have all too often been taken for granted, and joins in Caputo’s effort to find a theology that can be trusted and that does not rely upon dogmatic and hierarchical authority. At the same time, Štofaník subtly disagrees with aspects of Caputo’s view and turns to the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as a way to suggest that one cannot take leave of the tradition of theology as easily as Caputo thinks. At times, The Adventure of Weak Theology reads like a letter to Caputo, and Štofaník’s own passion for theology, his deep understanding of Caputo’s work, and his gift for writing makes this an immensely appealing book for both admirers and critics of Caputo. Štefan Štofaník (1976–2014) received his PhD in theology from the University of Leuven in Belgium.

Savoir-Faire

Savoir-Faire
Author: Elspeth Broady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134790619

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Savoir-Faire meaning know-how or skill, is a wide-ranging language course for undergraduate learners of French. It focuses on communication skills in areas that graduates will need if they are to use their knowledge of French professionally, focusing particularly on: * report writing * translating and interpreting * making presentations. Savoir-Faire comprises a course book, teacher's book and three 60-minute audio cassettes. Each of the ten chapters deals with a distinct topic and set of skills and is built around the audio recordings and written texts, all taken from authentic sources. Although designed with first-year students in mind, with its emphasis on transferable skills, Savoir-Faire could be successfully adapted for use with second and final-year students.