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Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America

Morality's Muddy Waters: Ethical Quandaries in Modern America

George Cotkin

Ethical Quandaries in Modern America George Cotkin. Morality's Muddy Waters Ethical Quandaries in Modern America George Cotkin PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 2010 George Cotkin All rights reserved.
Existential America

Existential America

George Cotkin

After introducing the concept of an American existential tradition, Cotkin examines how formal existentialism first arrived in America in the 1930s through discussion of Kierkegaard and the early vogue among New York intellectuals for the ...
Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility

Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility

George Cotkin

A Cultural History of the New Sensibility George Cotkin. 51. Ralph J. Gleason, “ Lenny Bruce's Obscene Language Pinch in Frisco after Philly Rap,” Variety, 11 October, 1961, 64. 52. Goldman, Ladies and Gentlemen, 382–84; Gleason, “ Bruce's ...
William James, Public Philosopher

William James, Public Philosopher

George Cotkin

"Cotkin provides a gracefully written and consistently intelligent defense of James and pragmatism that deserves a wide audience among intellectual historians and their students."--Robert C. Bannister, American Historical Review.
Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900

Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900

George Cotkin

In Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880–1900, George Cotkin surveys the intellectual life of this crucial transitional period.
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

George Cotkin

In the process, Dive Deeper charts how, and why, this novel about a whale and its pursuer has captivated generations of American readers.
Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations: Essays ...

Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations: Essays ...

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George Cotkin echoes this sentiment by stating that in his 1906 talk on militarism James jettisons the melioristic thesis expressed in “On a Certain Blindness,” namely that “the blindness in human beings...is the blindness with which we all are ...
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

George Cotkin

1–19; Petra Mundik, “'Striking the Fire Out of the Rock': Gnostic Theology in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian,” South Central Review 26 (Fall, 2009), pp. 72–97. CHAPTER 88 New York Times (May 15, 1949), sec. BR18; (July 3, 1950), p.
Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature

Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature

Lucas Thompson

22 Wallace thus fits within a scholarly tradition that views James as a particularly salient American incarnation of (proto-)existential ideas, whose most widely known theories on God and faith were, in George Cotkin's phrasing, “essentially ...
Al caffè degli esistenzialisti

Al caffè degli esistenzialisti

Sarah Bakewell

Cfr. anche George Cotkin, Existential America, Baltimora, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, p. 162. 477 Hazel Rowley, Richard Wright: The Life and Times, ChicagoLondra, University of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 336. Per le difficoltà con il ...
George

George

Alex Gino

" - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever.
George:

George:

Alex Gino

" - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever.
Social psychology: contemporary perspectives on people

Social psychology: contemporary perspectives on people

George Cvetkovich

1, George Cvetkovich. p. 22, George Cvetkovich. Chapter 2: pp. 28 & 29, George Cvetkovich. p. 32, Dr. John Berry, p. 45, Andrew Mills. Chapter 3: pp. 60 & 61, George Cvetkovich. p. 63, David D. Johnson, p. 69, Photo by Dr. Alan M. Beck. p.
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 ...

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 ...

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George De Tellis Evangelistic Association Inc., Worcester, Ma. George Delacorte Fund, No Palm Beach, Fl. (4) George Drew Conger Md Foundation for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Inc., Tifton, Ga. George E. Coleman Jr Foundation, ...
Baffin Fair: Experiences of George Laing, a Scottish ...

Baffin Fair: Experiences of George Laing, a Scottish ...

George Laing

Experiences of George Laing, a Scottish Surgeon, in the Arctic Whaling Fleet 1830 and 1831 George Laing June Starke, ... George Laing, the fourth son of Francis Laing (cousin to John and also a merchant) and his wife, Ann Williamson, was ...
An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time

An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time

George Sale

George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton. reign (E). Herrera asserts, that he purchased his liberty c. SECT. IX. > Containing a Relation of the War bee.ween the Spaniards and ...
Miracle Cure

Miracle Cure

George Lockie

George Lockie. George Lockie Copyright © 2015 George Lockie. All rights reserved. No part.
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall: "The right man for ...

The Papers of George Catlett Marshall: "The right man for ...

George Catlett Marshall

George Catlett Marshall, Larry I. Bland, Sharon Ritenour Stevens. Copyright e 1991 ... Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data (Revised for volume 3) Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959. ... Ritenour, Sharon R. III. Title.
George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies

George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies

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Deborah Guth analyses another German influence in her "George Eliot and Schiller: Rereading Savonarola" (Cahiers Victorians et edonardens 49: 71-85). George Eliot's well-known admiration for Schiller (thinking that Wallenstein was ...
Doggett's New-York City Directory, for ...

Doggett's New-York City Directory, for ...

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Williamsburgh Roberts Frederick, binder, 49 Ludlow Roberts George, porter, 90 Crosby Roberts George, printer, r. 149 Forsyth Roberts George, mer. 106 Front, h . Brooklyn Roberts George S. (col'd) porter, 93 W. Broadway Roberts Graham, ...
Curious George and the Puppies

Curious George and the Puppies

H. A. Rey

When George and the man with the yellow hat visit the animal shelter, George is delighted to discover a large litter of puppies.
The Star Wars trilogy

The Star Wars trilogy

George Lucas

A new hope / by George Lucas -- The Empire strikes back / by Donald F. Glut ; based on a story by George Lucas ; screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan -- Return of the Jedi / by James Kahn ; based on a story by George Lucas ; ...
BCH Bibliographic Series

BCH Bibliographic Series

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(George Odell?) . (George Phares?) ., Jr. B. i V. W. (George Vicesimus Wigram) W. W. F. . (Hunter Beattie) . I. (Herbert Crowell) . A. (Anstey) . C. (Christy) . G. B. A. C. (H. D'Arcy Champrey) . (Hughes Fawcett) . (Helena Garrett) . M. ( McCarthy) .
George

George

Alex Gino

BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever.
An universal history: from the earliest accounts to the ...

An universal history: from the earliest accounts to the ...

George Sale

from the earliest accounts to the present time George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton. The principal cities and towns of Georgia are Thefflis, the capital, Gori, Aly, Suram, Zagan, ...
The Descendants of George Bigbie of Virginia

The Descendants of George Bigbie of Virginia

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The connection of these individuals to the progenitor George Bigbie, if in fact there is any, is unknown, and they are therefore discussed separately in this chapter. 2.1. John Bicby [Bigby?]. According to noted genealogist George Cabell Greer, ...
Missionary Magazine and Chronicle

Missionary Magazine and Chronicle

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0 3 4 Robert Owen 0 1 5 Ed. Nash 0 3 11 George New 0 2 0 Joseph Dubbins.... 0 2 10 JotmGuntLT 0 1 4 Henry Silver 0 0 6 Charles Wooden ..010 George Perkins .... 0 1 0 George Dexter .... 0 5 6 Henry Frampton .. 0 0 10 William Crammer ...
The Speech of Mr. George Kelly: Spoke at the Bar of the ...

The Speech of Mr. George Kelly: Spoke at the Bar of the ...

George Kelly

Spoke at the Bar of the House of Lords, on Thursday, the 2d of May, 1723. in His Defence Against the Bill Then Depending, for Inflicting Pains and Penalties Upon Him George Kelly. > THE SPEECH O F Mr. George Kelly. My LORD S,
The Papers of George Catlett Marshall: "The Whole World ...

The Papers of George Catlett Marshall: "The Whole World ...

George Catlett Marshall

"The Whole World Hangs in the Balance," January 8, 1947–September 30, 1949 George Catlett Marshall, Sharon Ritenour Stevens Larry I. Bland, Mark A. Stoler ... Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880—1959. 2. ... Stevens, Sharon R. IV.

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