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Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade
Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
If Jean-Luc Nancy was able to write in "The Sublime Offering," in 1993, that the sublime was fashionable (25), then academic and theoretical tastes have changed, and beauty has come back in style. Throughout the late 1990s, cultural critics and theorists undertook a return to beauty against the fashion for the sublime that returned in twentieth-century theory and philosophy of art in works by Jean-François Lyotard and Theodor Adorno, among others. The interest in the sublime has been grounded in violent historical experience. Not that violence was new, or that the kinds of violence that the twentieth century bequeathed us …
Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph
Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph
Patrick T. Randolph
In this collection of poems, Patrick T. Randolph achieves something all too few writers are able accomplish: He conveys honest joy, and he does so deeply, convincingly, and sustainedly. The book is a true pleasure to read. Lester Smith, president, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets has said: "If I could bequeath one book of poetry to my grandchildren and great grandchildren, it would be Father "s Philosophy by Patrick T. Randolph. Randolph's poems are written with such love and sunshine that more than one generation should have the pleasure and privilege of reading them. ” Joanne Flemming, editor of Irish Stew.
Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph
Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph
Patrick T. Randolph
151 poems about hunger and homelessness, from 80 poets, many with direct experience, such as: Dori Appel, a Red Cross disaster volunteer; Mary L. Downs, a volunteer at LEAVEN; Barbara Flaherty, former treatment center supervisor; Nancy Gauquier, formerly homeless in NY; Randall Horton, a Ph.D. candidate who advocates for the homeless and prison reform, having been homeless and in prison; Michele Leavitt, a teenage runaway in the 1970s, who later worked as a public defender; John J. Quirk, a member of Chicago's Homeless Action Committee; Nancy Scott, a social worker who helps find housing; and Julian I. Taber, who treated …
North Of Kowloon, Pamela Herron
Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim
Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim