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Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein Philosophical Encounters and Divides


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031147618, 3031147588 | PDF | pages: 165 | 1.4 mb
This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein. The two phenomenologists discussed and debated insights and ideas about the nature of the soul, phenomenology, personhood and individuality, animal life, nature, being, and God. This book brings together for the first time leading international scholars of phenomenology to explore the philosophical exchange between both Conrad-Martius and Stein. This is an important book for understanding the development of the phenomenological movement and key phenomenological ideas and methods. It provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the key issues that helped frame both phenomenologists’ philosophical trajectories. Additionally, the ideas of Conrad-Martius and Stein are mined to address contemporary questions surrounding such topics as personal identity, animal versus human personhood, contemporary atheism, and the relationship between religion and science. The book will have greatappeal to phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of philosophy.

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Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy Centennial Essays


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English | ISBN: 1350440841 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays takes the opportunity to reflect on Conrad’s enduring influence on literature and culture in the 21st century.

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A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad


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English | 2016 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1498505007, 0739178245 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and then for English. He attempted suicide at the age of twenty. He invested in various schemes and lost his inheritance. He married an English typist nearly sixteen years younger than himself with whom he had nothing in common. He worked as a writer though he made no money through all the years of his most important work and though he experienced terrible psychological breakdowns after completing each novel. He was warm with his friends, ingratiating with influential strangers, but also intensely irritable and easily offended.

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Conrad and Language


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English | ISBN: 147440376X | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad’s complex relationship with language

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