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The many ramifications of Bach's comprehensive essay have been neatly explained & annotated in a manner that makes the Essay a valuable reference work & an interesting venture in musical literature & history The translator William J Mitchell brought to his task a long standing familiarity with C P E Bach ...

Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial effort or attempt An ancient form with an eye on the future a genre poised between tradition & experiment The essay wants above all to wander but also to arrive at symmetry & wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity & disarray perfection & fragmentation confession & invention How to write about essays & essayists while staying true to these contradictions? ESSAYISM is a personal critical & polemical book about the genre its history & contemporary possibilities It's an example of what it describes an essay that is curious & digressive exacting yet evasive a form that would instruct seduce & mystify in equal measure Among the essayists to whom he pays tribute
- from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec Joan Didion to Sir Thomas Browne
- Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own life as a reader & out of melancholia to a new sense of writing as adventure

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One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by &will&
- the blind & irrational desire for physical existence This selection of his writings on religion ethics politics women suicide books & many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer&s last work Parerga & Paralipomena which he published in 1851 These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good & evil & each individual absolutely free within a Godless world in which art morality & self-awareness are our only salvation This innovative
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- view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy & art directly affecting the work of Nietzsche Wittgenstein & Wagner among others Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788 where his family of Dutch origin owned a respected trading house Arthur was expected to inherit the business but hated the work & in 1807 after his father&s suicide & the sale of the business he enrolled in the grammar school at Gotha He went on to study medicine & science at Gottingen University & in 1810 began to study philosophy In 1811 he transferred to Berlin to write his doctoral thesis & began to write The World as Will & Idea a complete exploration of his philosophy which was finished in 1818 Although the book failed to sell his belief in his own views sustained him through twenty-five years of frustrated desire for fame During his middle life he travelled widely in Europe & in 1844 brought out a much expanded edition of his book which after his death became one of the most widely read of all philosophical works His fame was established in 1851 with the publication of Parerga & Paralipomena a collection of dialogues essays & aphorisms He died in 1860 RJ Hollingdale has translated works by among others Schopenhauer Goethe TA Hoffmann Lichtenburg & Theodor Fontane as well as eleven of Nietzsche&s books many for the Penguin Classics He has published two books on Nietzsche & was Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society until his death in 2003


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These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan but each shows a different world-view In the short memoir Hojoki Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs & live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains contemplating the impermanence of human existence Kenko however displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his collection of anecdotes advice & observations From ribald stories of drunken monks to aching nostalgia for the fading traditions of the Japanese court Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience Meredith Mc Kinney's excellent new translation also

Includes:: notes & an introduction exploring the spiritual & historical background of the works Chomei was born into a family of Shinto priests in around 1155 at at time when the stable world of the court was rapidly breaking up He became an important though minor poet of his day & at the age of fifty withdrew from the world to become a tonsured monk He died in around 1216 Kenko was born around 1283 in Kyoto He probably became a monk in his late twenties & was also noted as a calligrapher Today he is remembered for his wise & witty aphorisms ' Essays in Idleness' Meredith Mc Kinney who has also translated Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book for Penguin Classics is a translator of both contemporary & classical Japanese literature She lived in Japan for twenty years & is currently a visitng fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra' Essays in Idleness is a most delightful book & one that has served as a model of Japanese style & taste since the 17th century These cameo-like vignettes reflect the importance of the little fleeting futile things & each essay is Kenko himself' Asian Student

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' De Botton is a national treasure'
- Susan Hill author of The Woman in Black With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love
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An assortment of fragrant wooden incense sets from the Esscents Home range Available in 6 different fragrances ...

Essential Academic Vocabulary prepares students for academic success by helping them preview learn & practice vocabulary from the Academic Word List in context Engaging academic readings highlight chapter vocabulary in context From chapter to chapter the readings & vocabulary increase in complexity level allowing students to establish & build upon a solid vocabulary foundation ...