There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in oneâe(tm)s philosophyâe"and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age. Here Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity. And he delves even more deeply into themes taken up in A Secular Age: the continuity of religion from the past into the future; the nature of the secular; the folly of hoping to live by âeoereason aloneâe ; the perils of moralism. He also speculates on how irrationality emerges from the heart of rationality itself, and why violence breaks out again and again. In A Secular Age, Taylor more evidently foregrounded his Catholic faith, and there are several essays here that further explore that faith. Overall, this is a hopeful book, showing how, while acknowledging the force of religion and the persistence of violence and folly, we nonetheless have the power to move forward once we have given up the brittle pretensions of a narrow rationalism.

Offers a critical introduction to the novels and short stories of Katherine Anne Porter, tracing the biographical and thematic development of her works.

Essays discuss changing definitions of female sexuality, the nature of love, bisexuality, lesbianism, childbirth, feminist morality, and psychoanalysis

Verzameling artikelen en essays verschenen in verschillende periodieken waarin politieke en culturele onderwerpen en enkele literaire figuren besproken worden.

Bundeling van journalistiek en essayistisch werk van de Nederlandse auteur (1946-).

Essay over het nu achterhaald lijkende concept van de natiestaat.

Drie essays over de Duitse dichter Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), met name over diens jood-zijn.

Journalistieke teksten over verschillende onderwerpen, waaronder het typisch Nederlandse onbehagen m.b.t. ons nationale heden en culturele verleden.

Essay over het nu achterhaald lijkende concept van de natiestaat.

World-renowned scholars honor Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in this Festschrift.

Containing all the essays and reviews that Auden wrote when he lived in England, this volume also includes the full original versions of his two travel books, Letters From Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and Journey to a War (with Christopher Isherwood).

Recollections of Anaïs Nin presents Nin through the eyes of twenty-six people who knew her. She is the unconventional, distant aunt; the thoughtful friend; the owner of a strangely disarming voice; the author eager for attention yet hypersensitive to criticism; the generous advisor to a literary magazine; the adulteress; the beautiful septuagenarian; the recommender of books--the contributors elaborate on thses and many other perceptions of Nin. Readers of this book will meet one of the most enigmatic literary women of the twentieth century.