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In a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals-courage, contemplation, and compassion-that once gave life meaning. Here, Mark Edmundson makes an impassioned attempt to defend the value of these ancient ideals and to resurrect Soul in the modern world.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 222 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-1-62040-107-1
EAN 9781620401071
Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Edmundson has felt firsthand the pressure on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9298-3
EAN 9780747592983
When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life. Staring down certain death, Freud, in typical fashion, does not enjoy ...
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n this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 33,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-62463-4
EAN 9780674624634
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