Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Title | Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Aidan Tynan |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2020-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474443370 |
Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Title | The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Aidan Tynan |
Publisher | Crosscurrents |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2022-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781474443364 |
Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Title | Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Tynan Aidan Tynan |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2020-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474443389 |
Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deserts and wastelands in literature since the Romantics, he argues that the desert has served to articulate anxieties over the cultural significance of space in the Anthropocene. He explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity. And he looks at how the desert has been a terrain of desire over which the Western imagination of space and place has range, in writings from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo, from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Blue Desert
Title | Blue Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bowden |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1988-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780816510818 |
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Desert
Title | Desert PDF eBook |
Author | George Sher |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0691221367 |
The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.
Desert and Virtue
Title | Desert and Virtue PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Kershnar |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780739139363 |
Desert and Virtue: A Theory of Intrinsic Value presents a comprehensive examination of desert and what makes people deserve things. Stephen Kershnar demonstrates how desert relates to virtue, good deeds, moral responsibility, and personal change and growth through the life process. He persuasively argues that desert is a function that relates well-being, intrinsic value, and a "ground," which is defined as a person's character or act. Kershnar also explores whether his theory is consistent with the limited responsibility people have for who they are. Desert and Virtue's insightful analysis will be particularly useful for those interested in philosophy, religion, and other fields that touch on value theory.
The Geometry of Desert
Title | The Geometry of Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Shelly Kagan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 675 |
Release | 2014-12-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190233729 |
The Geometry of Desert explores the hidden complexity of moral desert. Using graphs to illustrate and contrast alternative views, it carefully investigates the various ways in which the value of an outcome varies when people get (or fail to get) what they deserve.