Selected Writings

  • Selected Writings: 1938-1940
    By Walter Benjamin

    On Benjamin's concept of historical materialism , see in particular section I of his essay " Eduard Fuchs , Collector and Historian , " in Selected Writings , Volume 3 : 1935-1938 ( Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 2002 ) ...

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    By Jules Supervielle

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    By José Martí

    Organized chronologically, this collection begins with his early writings, including a thundering account of his political imprisonment in Cuba at age sixteen.

  • Selected Writings
    By Robert Musil

    Writings: Young Torless, Three Women, The Perfecting of a Love and other Writings, by Musil by Robert Musil>

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    By Elizabeth Rottenberg, Sarah Kofman, Georgia Albert

    The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994).

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    By Saint Hildegard

    Profiles the twelfth-century German who became a nun and founded her own convent at Ruperstberg, and includes selections of her musical compositions, sermons, correspondence, and ideas in science, art, and...

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    By Alexander von Humboldt

    The Selected Writings is not only a tribute to Humboldt's important role in environmental history and science, but also to his ability to fashion powerfully poetic narratives out of scientific observations.

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    By Elisabeth Leseur

    Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.

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    By Meister Eckhart

    Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond.

  • Selected Writings
    By Paul Valéry

    LE CIMETIÈRE MARIN Ce toit tranquille , où marchent des colombes , Entre les pins palpite , entre les tombes ; Midi le juste y compose de feux La mer , la mer , toujours recommencée! O récompense après une pensée Qu'un long regard sur ...

  • Selected Writings
    By Thomas Carlyle

    The book also includes an introduction and notes by Alan Shelston. Thomas Carlyle was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1795.

  • Selected Writings
    By William Hazlitt

    William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama and art, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. Praised for his eloquence, he was...

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    By William Hazlitt

    "Writing at a time of great social and intellectual turmoil, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was uncompromising in his defence of truth, liberty and justice, and in his championship of the inarticulate...

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    By John Ruskin

    For suppose that over Ludgate Hill the sky had indeed suddenly become blue instead of black; and that a flight of twelve angels, 'covered with silver wings, and their feathers with gold,'* had alighted on the cornice ...

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    By , Galileo

    This generous selection from Galileo's writings contains all the essential texts.

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    By Thomas, Saint Thomas, Thomas Aquinas

    Brings together sermons, commentary responses to criticism, and substantial extracts from the "Summa Theologiae," arranged chronologically.

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    By JAMES CONNOLLY

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    By Karl Marx

    A comprehensive selection from the whole range of Marx's writings, including some material that has never before been published in English, as well as passages from Marx's letters and substantial...

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    By Alexander Hamilton

    This collection of the Founding Father’s public and private writings introduces his life, personality, and political career as well as his influence on early American history.

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    By Anna Freud

    'There are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves' Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of ...