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Writing Politics by David Bromwich
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374628Author David BromwichFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691161419
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of... -
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich 9780300079890
Booksplease Price: £44.08Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of... -
How Words Make Things Happen by David Bromwich
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £29.55Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of... -
Skeptical Music: Essays on Poetry by David Bromwich 9780226075617
Booksplease Price: £26.68The poems that are written about, in the essays found in this book, all stake a definitive claim for the modernist style and its intent to capture an audience beyond the present moment. Bromwich's... -
Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s by David Bromwich 9780226075570
Booksplease Price: £24.80Although we know him as one of the greatest English poets, William Wordsworth might not have become a poet at all without the experience of personal and historical catastrophe in his youth. In... -
Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking by David Bromwich 9780300059205
Booksplease Price: £30.79Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture... -
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence by David Bromwich
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £35.19David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy 9780300095289
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry This selection of... -
Beyond Poststructuralism: The Speculations of Theory and the Experience of Reading by Wendell Harris 9780271025483
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £37.32The essays in Part I of Beyond Poststructuralism seek to demonstrate fallacies of structuralist and poststructuralist thought that remain potent even though the theoretical structures that led to... -
Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays by Uttara Natarajan
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a... -
Poems Twice Told by MACPHERSON 9780195403794
Booksplease Price: £9.70This volume brings together two collections - one well known but unavailable for some time, the other little known - by a distinguished Canadian poet. The Boatman, first published in 1957, was one of... -
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William Wordsworth: "Concerning the Convention of Cintra" by Richard Gravil 9781847600745
RRP: £21.75Booksplease Price: £20.75In 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) inflicted a major defeat on Napoleon's forces at the battle of Vimiero, but promptly signed an armistice and convention (negotiated by Sir... -
Humanistic Judgment: Ten Experiments in Reading Benjamin Barasch 9780300269970
Booksplease Price: £30.75A defense of individual judgment as the core of humanistic study Why do some works of art and thought speak to us for generations while the vast majority are quickly forgotten? What insights do we... -
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 9780141441351
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.99'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar WildeThe Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a... -
Why the Romantics Matter by Peter Gay 9780300144291
Booksplease Price: £46.29A renowned scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the... -
Nature and Value by Akeel Bilgrami 9780231194624
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays... -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Richard Rorty 9780691178158
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.93When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers... -
The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780300091410
Booksplease Price: £16.74Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings... -
The Humanist Comedy by Alexander Welsh 9780300197518
Booksplease Price: £30.79For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218566
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia George Scialabba 9780300282399
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our... -
Home: A Place in the World by Arien Mack 9780814754832
Booksplease Price: £90.57Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic. Robert Frost's... -
The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture by Morris Dickstein
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218559
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume Two by Robert Frost 9780674726642
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.72The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928 is the second installment of Harvard's five-volume edition of the poet's correspondence. Nearly three hundred letters in the critically-acclaimed... -
Nature and Value by Akeel Bilgrami
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays... -
Home: A Place in the World by Arien Mack 9780814755266
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic. Robert Frost's... -
Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies by Diana Senechal 9781538115169
Booksplease Price: £37.44Too often our use of language has become lazy, frivolous, and even counterproductive. We rely on cliches and bromides to communicate in such a way that our intentions are lost or misinterpreted. In a... -
Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History Jackson Lears 9780300267143
Booksplease Price: £30.43The best essays from America's premier cultural historian Jackson Lears has been hailed as the "dean of American cultural history" and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time." Well... -
Lincoln's Political Thought by George Kateb 9780674368163
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26One of the most influential philosophers of liberalism turns his attention to the complexity of Lincoln's political thought. At the center of Lincoln's career is an intense passion for equality, a... -
Liberty, Equality, and Humbug: Orwell's Political Ideals by David Dwan 9780198738527
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.63George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize, the Orwell Lecture, and, more recently, Orwell Day. A statue of Orwell now stands... -
Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art by Rochelle Gurstein 9780300215489
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.26A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a... -
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt 9781324090526
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century's foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of... -
Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq by Michael Walzer 9780812242164
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Eventually every conqueror, every imperial power, every occupying army gets out. Why do they decide to leave? And how do political and military leaders manage withdrawal? Do they take with them those... -
James Gillray - A Revolution in Satire by Tim Clayton
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £47.65A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature James Gillray (1756-1815) was late Georgian Britain's funniest, most inventive, and most celebrated... -
The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom Harold Bloom 9780300283839
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.84A selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters... -
Shocked But Connected: Notes on Laughter by Michael Roemer 9781442217560
Booksplease Price: £46.29Why do funny movies make us laugh? In this thoughtful essay, by turns stimulating and meditative, distinguished filmmaker and Yale professor Michael Roemer shares his musings on what causes us to... -
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free by Martin Hagglund
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Join Swedish philosopher Martin Hagglund on an original inquiry into the deepest questions of existence, beginning with a radical declaration:...