Category: Essays Correspondence

By Aristoteles

Aristoteles: Nikomachische Ethik

Glückseligkeit, Tugend und Gerechtigkeit sind die Gegenstände seines ethischen Hauptwerkes, das Aristoteles kurz vor seinem Tode abschließt.

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, four. Auflage

Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Die »Nikomachische Ethik« entstand vermutlich im letzten Lebensabschnitt von Aristoteles, additionally in den Jahren vor 322 vor Chr. Erstdruck in lateinischer Übersetzung: Straßburg (vor 10.4.1496). Erstdruck des griechischen Originals: Venedig 1498. Erste vollständige deutsche Übersetzung durch Daniel Jenisch, Danzig 1791. Der textual content folgt der deutschen Übersetzung durch Adolf Lasson von 1909. Die Überschriften stammen vom Übersetzer.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:

• Aristoteles: Nikomachische Ethik. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Adolf Lasson, Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1909.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Hayez, Francesco: Aristoteles

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By Christopher Ivic, Grant Williams

This number of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up a space of research ignored through modern Renaissance scholarship, that's too usually swayed by way of a severe paradigm dedicated to the "art of memory." This quantity recovers the an important position of forgetting in generating early modernity's subjective and collective identities, wants and fantasies.

By Charles Bukowski

Screams from the Balcony is a suite of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's existence as he attempts to get released and paintings at a postal workplace, all whereas ingesting and gambling.

By Sander L. Gilman

The fats man—a cultural icon, a social enigma, a urgent clinical issue—is the topic of this remarkably wealthy publication. The figures that Sander L. Gilman considers, from the grotesque fats guy with the gorgeous sylph trapped within to the clever fats boy to the getting older physique desirous of rejuvenation, look and reappear in several guises all through Western tradition. And as is frequently actual, such marginal situations aid outline the moving heart of our desires and ideology. An exploration into the realm of male physique fantasies, Gilman’s ebook examines how the illustration of the fats guy alters with time and alters how males relate to their very own our bodies and the our bodies of others, either female and male. His examples—ranging from Santa Claus to Sancho Panza, from Falstaff to Babe Ruth, from Nero Wolfe to Al Roker—illustrate the complexity perennially linked to fats males. From discourses approximately normality to the taking part in fields of baseball, from Greek male attractiveness to the fats detective, Gilman’s booklet examines and illuminates how cultures have imagined and portrayed the fats boy.

By Dave Barry

A brilliantly humorous exploration of the treacherous country of maturity via the Pulitzer Prize-winning slapstick comedian. a few humans may well ask yourself what this topic has to do with Dave Barry, for the reason that Dave's struggled challenging opposed to becoming up his complete life-but the result's one of many funniest, warmest, so much pitch-perfect books ever on that mystifying territory we name "adulthood". In hilarious, brand-new items, Dave tackles every thing from fatherhood, new fatherhood ("Over the subsequent 5 years, you'll spend approximately forty five mins, overall, hearing songs you're keen on, and approximately 127,000 hours to songs exploring issues similar to how the horn at the bus is going* [*It is going: 'Beep! Beep! Beep!']"), self-image, the conflict of the sexes, celebrityhood, expertise, parenting types, yes unmentionable scientific strategies ("There is admittedly no cause to be scared of a vasectomy, other than that: THEY minimize A gap on your SCROTUM."), and masses extra. it's a e-book of natural pride from the guy one newspaper claimed "could turn into an important American slapstick comedian due to the fact Mark Twain" (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)...though, frankly, we expect they have been indulging in a few grownup drinks on the time.

By Matthew Arnold

By Benjamin Franklin, Ellen R. Cohn

By James I. Robertson Jr.

Excess of an insignificant documentation of the horrors and banality of the Civil conflict, John Preston Sheffey’s literate or even macabrely witty writings reveal his ardor for conflict, his love of his domestic kingdom of Virginia, and his ardour in waging a such a lot onerous and suspenseful crusade: to win Josephine Spiller of Wytheville, Virginia, as his spouse. fantastically edited by means of James I. Robertson, Jr., Sheffey’s letters are the 1st released correspondence through a member of the eighth Virginia Cavalry. They replicate the ever present risks of conflict and a soldier’s poignant makes an attempt to soothe a woman’s fears of committing to a guy engaged faraway from domestic within the dire fight for the Confederacy.

A local of Marion, Virginia, Sheffey offers a useful photograph of socio-military affairs within the missed western and southwestern areas of the nation. Too mountainous to be neutralized by means of Union army efforts, southwest Virginia’s groups harbored assets of coal, lead, and salt in addition to the one rail line connecting Richmond and the Western theater of the war—all of which have been necessary to any risk of good fortune for the Confederacy. Sheffey’s mixture of intimate minute-to-minute, daily recording and bigger perception into the dynamics of fellows, terrain, provides, and protocol make this assortment special.

Displaying an impressive diversity in his fascinating letters, Sheffey mentioned every thing from Greek monsters of mythology to English poets of the 16th century. He was once in a position to pining to Josephine, "And nonetheless you won't write. . . . i'm going to give up myself to the Yankees or incurable blues," and of describing a wounded Union soldier who "lived for greater than an afternoon together with his brains shot out, conclusive proof that they could get alongside nearly besides with out [brains] as with them." Sheffey’s greater than 90 letters are a novel resource of curiosity for revealing the paradoxes and tragedies of remoted yet very important Civil struggle skirmishes in southwest Virginia.

By Lars E. Troide, Stewart J. Cooke

By Albert Einstein