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Modern Library (1954), Edition: College Edition, Paperback, 552 pages
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Roam explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and myth-those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus, and Achilles' mother, Thetis-and mingle with the author's own voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, thes
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This old-ish selection was my introduction to Hegel. I found him just as impenetrable as I'd heard but -- surprisingly? -- interesting and even occasionally clear. I hate that sentence.
The strangeness of this volume begins early: editor Friedrich admits up front that he's never been exactly
The strangeness of this volume begins early: editor Friedrich admits up front that he's never been exactly
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enthusiastic about Hegel's philosophy, which he considers "wrong" in many ways. The order of the selections is peculiar: The Phenomenology of Spirit is generally thought of as the entry-way to Hegel's system, yet here the selection from that work is placed last (except for a few brief political essays). The translations have probably all been superseded by later ones. BUT it's a wide range of texts, and Friedrich's editorial insertions are lively and sometimes funny. Show Less
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German
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0394309766 / 9780394309767
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Philosophy of History. History of Philosophy. Science of Logic. Philosophy of Right and Law. Lectures on Aesthetics. Phenomenology of the Spirit; 3 political essays