The Shorter Writings

The Shorter Writings
Author: Xenophon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501718517

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This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; Regime of the Athenians; Ways and Means, or On Revenue; The Skilled Cavalry Commander; On Horsemanship; and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs.

He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka

He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka
Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374722293

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A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. “Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka’s preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen’s selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe’s only reliable narrator—God.

Kant's Shorter Writings

Kant's Shorter Writings
Author: Robert Hanna
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 144386272X

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This collection highlights the importance of Kant’s shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kant’s work, which typically focus on a specific period of his career, and on either his theoretical philosophy or his practical philosophy. These shorter works offer a framework for understanding several central questions of critical philosophy in the context of Kant’s complete corpus of writings. As such, this volume provides a ground-breaking approach to contemporary Kant studies by offering a new interpretive perspective to enable Kant scholars to advance their research projects. At the same time, it allows a general overview of Kant’s work for a broader non-scholarly audience interested in his critical philosophy and its context.

Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation

Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation
Author: Geerhardus Vos
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780875525136

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Geerhardus Vos has been called "the father of Reformed biblical theology." During his 39 years as a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, he achieved the reputation of a theologian whose biblical insight is without equal. The full impact of his exegetical labor has been realized only in recent years.

The Shorter Socratic Writings

The Shorter Socratic Writings
Author: Xenophon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophers
ISBN: 9780801472985

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This book presents translations of three dialogues Xenophon devoted to the life and thought of his teacher, Socrates. Each is accompanied by notes and an interpretative essay that will introduce new readers to Xenophon and foster further reflection in those familiar with his writing. "Apology of Socrates to the Jury" shows how Socrates conducted himself when he was tried on the capital charge of not believing in the city's gods and corrupting the young. Although Socrates did not secure his own acquittal, he profoundly impressed some listeners who then helped to shape the public perception of philosophy as a noble, if highly idiosyncratic, way of life. In "Oeconomicus," Xenophon relates the conversation Socrates had on the day he turned from the study of natural philosophy to that of moral and political matters. "Oeconomicus" is concerned most directly with the character and purpose of Socrates' political philosophy. Xenophon provides entertaining portraits of Socrates' circle of friends in the "Symposium." In the process, he conveys the source of every individual's pride in himself, thus defining for each a conception of human excellence or virtue. The dialogue concludes with Socrates' beautiful speech on love (eros) and its proper place in the good or happy life.

Theology and Church

Theology and Church
Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-02-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498270832

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Examine a collection of Karl Barth’s shorter works, written after the first publication of his Epistle to the Romans, during his time as professor in Göttingen and Münster, in the wake of World War I.

Poems and Shorter Writings

Poems and Shorter Writings
Author: James Joyce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1991
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9780571210985

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This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach. It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous occasional verse, much of which is fugitive and little known to the general reader. In addition, the volume provides the text of the surviving prose Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce - the fascinating Trieste notebook that Joyce compiled while finishing A Portrait of the Artist and beginning Ulysses, in which he first explored the world of his autobiographical novel.

Selected Shorter Writings

Selected Shorter Writings
Author: John Gresham Machen
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780875525709

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Forty-six of Machen's shorter writings are organized into ten categories. Selections made by Machen's biographer, who contributes an introduction, a bibliography and "For Further Reading."

Existence and Faith

Existence and Faith
Author: Rudolf Bultmann
Publisher: Fontana Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1961
Genre: Theology
ISBN: 9780006410447

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Boundless Salvation

Boundless Salvation
Author: Andrew M. Eason
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-04-28
Genre: Theology
ISBN: 9781433127441

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William Booth (1829-1912) is remembered for the major role he played in founding the Salvation Army, an evangelical organization now operating in more than 120 countries. Few people, however, are aware of the fact that Booth was also a prolific author. During his long lifetime he wrote countless articles and speeches on a variety of topics, ranging from Christian doctrine to female ministry and missionary work. The most important of these shorter writings are presented in one volume for the first time here, along with perceptive commentary by two leading scholars of the Salvation Army. Boundless Salvation: The Shorter Writings of William Booth convincingly demonstrates that Booth's enormous accomplishments arose from deeply held religious convictions. It argues persuasively that his life and ministry must be understood in relation to the Methodist theology and transatlantic revivalism that inspired and guided him. By showcasing and analyzing these religious contexts, this edited collection sheds considerable light on a towering figure of the Victorian period. In the process, it offers valuable insight into the origins and development of the Salvation Army, one of the most remarkable organizations to arise during the nineteenth century. Boundless Salvation: The Shorter Writings of William Booth will appeal to a broad readership, especially to those with an interest in religion and history.