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Meaning in Life
Irving SingerThis final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality.
Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique
Irving SingerIn Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united.
The Pursuit of Love
Irving SingerIn this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approach.
The Creation of Value
Irving Singer" In The Creation of Value, the first volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer studies the nature of imagination, idealization, and love in the context of humanity's attempt to define itself through the pursuit of meanings and values ...
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up
Irving SingerSinger's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and "trying to get a little further." This book continues his trailblazing explorations.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations
Isaac Bashevis SingerIncluded here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman.
The nature and pursuit of love: the philosophy of Irving Singer
David GoicoecheaSinger's approach to love in philosophy, literature, music, and psychology is critically assessed in this collection of nineteen original essays. The nature and pursuit of love has been an abiding concern of philosophers.
The Nature of Love
Irving SingerAn analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther.
Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship
Marjorie Heins21. Dorothy Singer, Diana Zuckerman & Jerome Singer, “Helping Elementary School Children Learn About TV,” Journal of Communication 30(3), summer 1980: 84-93, 86. 22. Wanda Rapaczynski, Dorothy Singer & Jerome Singer, “ Teaching ...
Explorations in Love and Sex
Irving SingerThe book's chapters are both philosophical and historical, and speak to general readers who wish to better understand the curious set of emotions called love.
Modes of Creativity: Philosophical Perspectives
Irving SingerPhilosophical reflections on creativity in science, humanities, and human experience as a whole.
Gifts
Isaac Bashevis SingerGifts is a limited cloth-bound edition of six Singer stories, including “Gifts” in English and its original Yiddish. A beautiful slip-cased book that is perfect for I.B. Singer’s devoted readers.
Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe
Irving HowePresented here is a compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life that could be viewed as the sequel to his intellectual autobiography, A Margin of Hope.
Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks
PreviewIrving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920?93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation.
Sex: A Philosophical Primer
Irving SingerA philosophical primer designed for the general reader as well as professionals in various fields, this book studies sex in itself and in its relation to love and compassion.
The Harmony of Nature and Spirit
Irving SingerMartin Morillas, Jose M. Ruiz Ruiz, Cayetano Estebanez, Francisco Garcia Tortosa, Leocadio Martin Mingorance, Barbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, and their colleagues. Toward Willis G. Regier, who guided my book as one of his first projects as ...
Irving Sandler: Out of 10th Street and Into The 60s
Irving SandlerThe critic and curator Irving Sandler was a key figure as a critic and friend to many artists as well as an employee of the influential Tanager gallery. Sandler was also an active presence at the famous Artists Club.
The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Richard Irving DodgeTHE EIGHT JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN THIS VOLUME, with entries dated between September 18, 1878, and December 18, 1880, are Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge's personal record of an eventful period in his career as a United ...
The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool," in 1957, until 1981.
John Irving
PreviewExplores the author's literary works through critical essays that explore Irving's popularity, narrative perspective, and post-modernism from a variety of viewpoints.
Mahalia Jackson: Singer
Charles K. WolfeA biography of the renowned gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people.
The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Richard Irving DodgeIn summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through ...
Something about the Author
Lisa Kumar... photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. / Adler, Irving, and Joyce Adler, photograph. Courtesy of Irving Adler. BECHARD, MARGARET I Cohen, Santiago, illustrator. From an illustration in My Mom Married the Principal, by Margaret Bechard.
Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry: A Record of Over ...
Walter CalvertOn reel with Yorick, pseud. A letter concerning Mr. Henry Irving.
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby IrvingFor twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships.
The Singer's Gun
Emily St. John MandelBut there is someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . . The Singer's Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail of a people trafficker, and Elena, caught up in the investigation against her will.
The Singer-Songwriter Handbook
PreviewThe use of the term “roots” in this chapter generally refers to the more contemporary musicians or singer-songwriters (from roughly the late 1980s onward) who are influenced by the same vernacular music (to borrow Benjamin Filene's use of ...
Leila Khaled: Fighting for Palestine
Sarah IrvingIn this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image.
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