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The genetic lottery : why DNA matters for social equality
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ISBN: 0691226709 9780691226705 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery"--

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Genetics --- Social aspects. --- Academic achievement. --- Adolescence. --- Alcoholism. --- Allele. --- Americans. --- Association for Psychological Science. --- Autism. --- Behavior. --- Behavioural genetics. --- Bioethics. --- Biology. --- Causal inference. --- Chromosome. --- Cookbook. --- Deaf culture. --- Developmental psychology. --- Economic inequality. --- Education. --- Educational attainment. --- Educational inequality. --- Effect size. --- Environmental factor. --- Equal opportunity. --- Equality of outcome. --- Estimation. --- Eugenics. --- Experiment. --- Explanation. --- Eye color. --- Genetic association. --- Genetic diversity. --- Geneticist. --- Genetics. --- Genome-wide association study. --- Genomics. --- Genotype. --- Grandparent. --- Hearing loss. --- Heredity. --- Heritability. --- Human behavior. --- Ideology. --- Income. --- Inference. --- Inferiority complex. --- Ingredient. --- Institution. --- Insurance. --- Intellectual disability. --- Level of analysis. --- Make A Difference. --- Measurement. --- Mental disorder. --- Meritocracy. --- Meta-analysis. --- Moral responsibility. --- My Child. --- Nature versus nurture. --- Obesity. --- On Intelligence. --- Oppression. --- Pessimism. --- Phenotype. --- Philosopher. --- Polygenic score. --- Prediction. --- Princeton University Press. --- Probability. --- Protein. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Race (human categorization). --- Racism. --- Result. --- Richard Lewontin. --- Russell Sage Foundation. --- Schizophrenia. --- Scientist. --- Sexism. --- Sibling. --- Social class. --- Social inequality. --- Social science. --- Social status. --- Socioeconomic status. --- Sociology. --- Sperm. --- Standardized test. --- Statistic. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- Technology. --- The Bell Curve. --- The Philosopher. --- Theodosius Dobzhansky. --- Twin study. --- Twin. --- Underclass. --- Wealth.


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Collected Works of C.G. Jung.
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ISBN: 1400850967 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On the Psychology of the Unconscious" and "The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious," with their original versions in an appendix.

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Subconsciousness. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Archetype (Psychology) --- A Matter of Fact. --- Active imagination. --- Adolf Bastian. --- Allegory. --- Allusion. --- Analogy. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Antithesis. --- Apotheosis. --- Apuleius. --- Archetype. --- Article (grammar). --- Astrology. --- Axiom of Maria. --- Benvenuto Cellini. --- Buddhism. --- Causality. --- Co-operation (evolution). --- Collective unconscious. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Deity. --- Delusion. --- Dissociation (psychology). --- Emblem. --- Enantiodromia. --- Explanation. --- Fairy tale. --- Feeling. --- Figure of speech. --- Four sons of Horus. --- Good and evil. --- Hermes Trismegistus. --- Hiranyagarbha. --- Humming. --- Hypothesis. --- Idealization. --- Illustration. --- Imagination. --- Incest. --- Individuation. --- Inference. --- Lecture. --- Level of consciousness (Esotericism). --- Literature. --- Loneliness. --- Materialism. --- Medical psychology. --- Mephistopheles. --- Mother goddess. --- Mythology. --- Neurosis. --- Parapsychology. --- Personal life. --- Personal unconscious. --- Personality. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Prejudice. --- Prima materia. --- Probability. --- Psyche (psychology). --- Psychic. --- Psychological Types. --- Psychology and Alchemy. --- Psychology of the Unconscious. --- Psychology. --- Psychopathology. --- Psychosis. --- Psychotherapy. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Religion. --- Religious experience. --- Requirement. --- Schizophrenia. --- Science (journal). --- Science. --- Seven Sleepers. --- Spirit. --- Spiritual development. --- State of affairs (sociology). --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Symbols of Transformation. --- Symptom. --- Taoism. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Various. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Transference. --- Trickster. --- Unconsciousness. --- Wise old man. --- World. --- Writing.


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How to tell a story : an ancient guide to the art of storytelling for writers and readers
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ISBN: 0691211108 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter of such hits as The Social Network and The West Wing, recently urged aspiring writers to become students and evangelists for Aristotle's Poetics. How is it that this small and rather obscure treatise by an ancient philosopher better known for metaphysics and ethics has become over the centuries the standard and best handbook for writing drama, novels, short stories, and now screenplays for film and television? How can a book that is admittedly difficult to read have become so influential among the small group of top professional writers? The short answer is that there is nothing better than Aristotle's Poetics for explaining the key points of successful storytelling. No one has examined and explained the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other crucial points of writing like Aristotle. It is THE standard work from which we derive many of our terms and our understanding the way stories work. It is one of the most powerful and brilliant books ever written on the subject of how to tell a story, yet very few people have actually read it. Part of the reason for this is that Aristotle, even at his clearest, can be difficult to understand. The Poetics in particular can be confusing to read on one's own without a skilled teacher's guidance. Because of this, the Poetics remains the purview of only those who make the effort to work through its careful arguments and astounding insights. And yet. Philip Freeman, thus, aims to produce a faithful yet readable translation along with introduction and commentary of Aristotle's Poetics for a modern audience, especially for aspiring writers who want to follow Sorkin's advice and become immersed in this amazing work"--

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Poetry --- Aesthetics --- Alcmaeon (mythology). --- Amanita. --- Ancient Greek comedy. --- Author. --- Basic Story. --- Catharsis. --- City Of. --- Cleophon (politician). --- Coccidioides. --- Comedy. --- Compost. --- Costume. --- Cresphontes. --- Culture. --- Description. --- Discourses (Meher Baba). --- Elegiac couplet. --- Eucleides. --- Euripides. --- Eurypylus. --- Feeling. --- Fine art. --- Fungus. --- Furniture. --- Haemon. --- Hamartia. --- Herodotus. --- Heterobasidion annosum. --- Iambic trimeter. --- Illyrians. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Inner ear. --- Intarsia. --- Iphigenia. --- Lysistrata. --- Marquetry. --- Megara. --- Metaphor. --- Misery (novel). --- Modern language. --- Mycelium. --- Mycenae. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Neoptolemus. --- Neosartorya. --- Odysseus. --- Odyssey. --- Organism. --- Oviparity. --- Peleus. --- Peripeteia. --- Philoctetes (Sophocles play). --- Phylum. --- Pity. --- Playwright. --- Plot device. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Post hoc ergo propter hoc. --- Preposition and postposition. --- Prose. --- Protagonist. --- Recitation. --- Rhapsode. --- Routledge. --- Russula. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sextus Empiricus. --- Sinon. --- Socratic dialogue. --- Sophocles. --- Sophron. --- Special effect. --- Spectacle. --- Sthenelus. --- Stoma. --- Storytelling. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Superiority (short story). --- Symptom. --- Telemachus. --- Telephus. --- Teliospore. --- Terminology. --- Theognis of Megara. --- Theseus. --- Tituba. --- Tragedy. --- Trojan War. --- Tunbridge ware. --- Usage. --- Vowel. --- Wood ear. --- Work of art. --- Writing.


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Clear and Simple as the Truth : Writing Classic Prose
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ISBN: 0691654743 0691602999 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Report writing. --- English language --- English language --- Style. --- Rhetoric. --- Abstraction. --- Accessibility. --- Active voice. --- Allegory. --- Antithesis. --- Approximation. --- Areopagitica. --- Classical language. --- Colloquialism. --- Concept. --- Conflation. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Deed. --- Distraction. --- Divine providence. --- Elizabeth Eisenstein. --- Empiricism. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Etiquette. --- Family resemblance. --- Figure of speech. --- Fine art. --- Formality. --- Greatness. --- Handbook. --- Heuristic. --- Hilary Putnam. --- Humility. --- Ideogram. --- Image schema. --- Inception. --- Informality. --- Ingenuity. --- Introspection. --- Invention. --- Irony. --- James Thurber. --- Julian Barnes. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Lady Catherine de Bourgh. --- Lettres provinciales. --- Level of detail. --- Linguistic competence. --- Mark Twain. --- Metonymy. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- New Thought. --- Obfuscation. --- On Truth. --- Optimism. --- Oracle. --- Parody. --- Peor. --- Persuasive writing. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Phrase. --- Piety. --- Plain English. --- Platitude. --- Prima facie. --- Printing. --- Prose. --- Provenance. --- Reasonable person. --- Religion. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Righteousness. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Self-interest. --- Selfishness. --- Sentimentality. --- Silliness. --- Simile. --- Sincerity. --- Sir Thomas Elyot. --- Skepticism. --- Sophistication. --- Special pleading. --- Spoken language. --- Standard English. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Elements of Style. --- The Other Hand. --- Theorem. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Understatement. --- Verbosity. --- White's. --- Writing style. --- Writing.


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Chief Plays of Corneille
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ISBN: 1400874971 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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"Well translated by Lacy Lockert, who provided an excellent critical introduction, this is a valuable selection of the plays of the great French Neo-Classicist. Included are Horace, The Cid, Cinna, Polyeucte, Rodugune, Nicomede."-Library Journal.Originally published in 1952.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Ad libitum. --- Aeschylus. --- Anapestic tetrameter. --- Andromaque. --- Artifice. --- Augury. --- Bithynia. --- Blank verse. --- Britannicus. --- Camma. --- Cartoon. --- Casuistry. --- Censure. --- Cinna. --- Condottieri. --- Confidant. --- Courtier. --- Death's Door. --- Demosthenes. --- Despair (novel). --- Dirce. --- Disgrace. --- Don Sanche. --- Dramatis Personae. --- Egotism. --- Eloquence. --- English poetry. --- Enthusiasm. --- Euphorbus. --- Euripides. --- Exposition (narrative). --- Farce. --- Flattery. --- Foe (novel). --- Fratricide. --- Freedman. --- French alexandrine. --- His Woman. --- Horace. --- Horatii. --- Horatius. --- Illustration. --- In Cold Blood. --- In Death. --- Irony. --- Italian Renaissance. --- Jocasta. --- King of Rome. --- Laius. --- Lars Porsena. --- Life and Letters. --- Literature. --- Locksley Hall. --- Lombards. --- Magnanimity. --- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir). --- Mark Antony. --- Master of the World (novel). --- Melodrama. --- Misery (novel). --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Modern Lovers. --- Monologue. --- Murena. --- Narrative. --- Parricide. --- Perjury. --- Pity. --- Plautus. --- Playwright. --- Poetry. --- Pretext. --- Proscription. --- Prose. --- Resentment. --- Retinue. --- Rhyme. --- Roman army. --- Royal Household. --- Sadness. --- Seriousness. --- Sextus (praenomen). --- Soliloquy. --- Sophocles. --- Stanza. --- Sulla. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tender Mercies. --- The Betrothed (Manzoni novel). --- The Other Hand. --- The Persians. --- The Ultimate Solution. --- Tomyris. --- Tragedy. --- Tullus (praenomen). --- V. --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Victor Hugo. --- War of Wrath. --- William Shakespeare.


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Rich and Strange : Gender, History, Modernism
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ISBN: 1400801583 1400820588 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton, NJ, USA Princeton University Press

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Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to the cultural implications of turn-of-the-century political radicalism. Marianne DeKoven argues powerfully to the contrary, maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism. Organized around pairs and groups of female-and male-signed texts, the book reveals the gender-inflected ambivalence of modernist writers. Male modernists, desiring utter change, nevertheless feared the loss of hegemony it might entail, while female modernists feared punishment for desiring such change. With water imagery as a focus throughout, DeKoven provides extensive new readings of canonical modernist texts and of works in the feminist and African-American canons not previously considered modernist. Building on insights of Luce Irigaray, Klaus Theweleit, and Jacques Derrida, she finds in modernism a paradigm of unresolved contradiction that enacts in the realm of form an alternative to patriarchal gender relations.

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Adjective. --- Allusion. --- Ambiguity. --- Ambivalence. --- Anti-Oedipus. --- Awakenings. --- Black people. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Carelessness. --- Castration. --- Classicism. --- Conflation. --- Counterstereotype. --- Cowardice. --- Cynicism (contemporary). --- Cynicism (philosophy). --- Deconstruction. --- Deleuze and Guattari. --- Denial (poem). --- Desiring-production. --- Dialectic. --- Digression. --- Disgust. --- Duress. --- Embarrassment. --- Emblem. --- Eroticism. --- Fatalism. --- Femininity. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Feminism. --- Genre. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Gloom. --- Greatness. --- Hatred. --- Ideology. --- Imagery. --- Imperialism. --- Indication (medicine). --- Infanticide. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- John Barth. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Kurtz (Heart of Darkness). --- Laziness. --- Leveling (philosophy). --- Liminality. --- Literature. --- Loneliness. --- Lord Jim. --- Luce Irigaray. --- Macabre. --- Masculinity. --- Meanness. --- Memoir. --- Metonymy. --- Misogyny. --- Modernism. --- Mr. --- Mrs. --- Narrative. --- New Criticism. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Oppression. --- Patusan. --- Pity. --- Plotinus. --- Poetry. --- Postmodernism. --- Promiscuity. --- Race (human categorization). --- Racism. --- Result. --- Reterritorialization. --- Self-destructive behavior. --- Selfishness. --- Sexual inhibition. --- Simile. --- Sister Carrie. --- Stanza. --- Stupidity. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Sympathy. --- T. S. Eliot. --- Tender Buttons (book). --- Terence. --- The Other Hand. --- The Voyage Out. --- Think of the children. --- Thought. --- Undoing (psychology). --- Upper middle class. --- Western culture. --- Woolf. --- Writing.


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Anatomy of criticism : four essays
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ISBN: 069120425X Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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""Brilliant. . . . Frye has wit, style, audacity, immense learning, [and] a gift for opening up new and unexpected perspectives in the study of literature."-The Nation"--

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Criticism. --- Absurdity. --- Adjective. --- Allegory. --- Ambiguity. --- An Essay on Criticism. --- Anachronism. --- Anagnorisis. --- Aphorism. --- Apuleius. --- Archetype. --- Aristophanes. --- Aristotle. --- Ben Jonson. --- Catharsis. --- Comic book. --- Decorum. --- Diction. --- Eclogue. --- Eiron. --- English literature. --- Epigram. --- Epithet. --- Etymology. --- Euripides. --- Ezra Pound. --- Farce. --- Fiction. --- Finnegans Wake. --- François Rabelais. --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- Grammar. --- Hamartia. --- Historical criticism. --- Humanities. --- Humour. --- Il Penseroso. --- Illustration. --- Imagery. --- Invective. --- Irony. --- King Lear. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary fiction. --- Literature. --- Lycidas. --- Madame Bovary. --- Melodrama. --- Menippean satire. --- Metaphor. --- Metre (poetry). --- Mimesis. --- Misery (novel). --- Modern Fiction (essay). --- Myth and ritual. --- Myth. --- Mythopoeia. --- Narrative. --- New Criticism. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Old Comedy. --- Oracle. --- Parable. --- Parody. --- Pedant. --- Pentameter. --- Philosopher. --- Pity. --- Plautus. --- Poet. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Prose. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Rhetoric. --- Rhetorical criticism. --- Ridicule. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Shakespearean comedy. --- Simile. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tamburlaine. --- Terence. --- The Faerie Queene. --- The Other Hand. --- The Pilgrim's Progress (opera). --- The Various. --- Theory. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Volpone. --- Western literature. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writer. --- Writing.


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Yellow : The History of a Color
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ISBN: 069125138X Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer--while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy, pleasure and abundance. The yellow stars of the Holocaust were seared into the color's negative tradition. In Europe today, yellow has diminished to a discreet color. Greenish yellow can still be seen as dangerous, sickly, or poisonous, and golden yellow remains positive, but the color is absent in much of everyday life and is lacking in symbolism. In Asia, however, yellow pigments like ocher and orpiment and dyes like saffron, curcuma, and gaude are abundant. Painting and dyeing in this color has been easier than in Europe, offering a richer and more varied palette of yellows that has granted the color a more positive meaning. In ancient China, for example, yellow clothing was reserved for the emperor. In India, the color is seen as a source of happiness: wearing a little yellow is believed to keep evil away. And importantly, it is the color of Buddhism, whose temple doors are marked with the color. Yellow continues to have different meanings in different cultural traditions, but in most, the color remains associated with light and sun, something that can be seen from afar and that seems warm and always in motion"--

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Jaune dans l'art. --- Symbolisme des couleurs --- Couleur --- Jaune. --- Yellow in art. --- Symbolism of colors --- Color --- Yellow. --- Histoire. --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- History. --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Adage. --- Adjective. --- Athanasius Kircher. --- Beige. --- Bible Historiale. --- Blond. --- Cagot. --- Caravaggio. --- Chivalric romance. --- Church Fathers. --- Classical Latin. --- Clothing. --- Coat of arms. --- Courtly love. --- Cubism. --- Degenerate art. --- Demagogue. --- Dionysus. --- Dyeing. --- Egyptomania. --- Etymology. --- Eurystheus. --- Facsimile. --- Fauvism. --- Gold leaf. --- Grandes Chroniques de France. --- Grisaille. --- Hebrews. --- Heraldry. --- Iconography. --- Impressionism. --- Iseult. --- Jan Hus. --- Jan Steen. --- Jean Chardin. --- Lacquer. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Medieval Latin. --- Middle French. --- Naples yellow. --- Nibelungenlied. --- Ochre. --- On the Eve. --- Orpiment. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Paul Klee. --- Philip II of Macedon. --- Pigment. --- Pope Innocent III. --- Prostitution. --- Red hair. --- Rococo. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman de Fauvel. --- Roman sculpture. --- Silver age. --- Simon Vouet. --- Sumptuary law. --- Superiority (short story). --- Talc. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Tables of the Law. --- The Various. --- Trickster. --- Urine. --- Victor Hugo. --- Vinegar. --- Yellow Peril. --- Yellow journalism. --- Language and languages --- Gold-leaf. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects.


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Against the Current : Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
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ISBN: 1400843235 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.

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Philosophy. --- Idea (Philosophy) --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Alexander Herzen. --- Atheism. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Calculation. --- Capitalism. --- Chauvinism. --- Civilisation (TV series). --- Class conflict. --- Classicism. --- Communism. --- Consciousness. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Criticism. --- Despotism. --- Empiricism. --- Epistemology. --- Existentialism. --- Explanation. --- Feeling. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Frederick the Great. --- Germans. --- Giambattista Vico. --- Giuseppe Mazzini. --- Hatred. --- Herder. --- Historicism. --- Human spirit. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Imperialism. --- Individualism. --- Institution. --- Intellectual. --- Irrationality. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Italians. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jews. --- Joseph de Maistre. --- Left-wing politics. --- Literature. --- Marxism. --- Materialism. --- Monism. --- Montesquieu. --- Morality. --- Moses Hess. --- Moses Mendelssohn. --- Nationalism. --- Nationality. --- Natural science. --- Niccolò Machiavelli. --- Obstacle. --- Pessimism. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of history. --- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. --- Poetry. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Positivism. --- Prejudice. --- Principle. --- Rationalism. --- Rationality. --- Reactionary. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Resentment. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Skepticism. --- Social theory. --- Stupidity. --- Sturm und Drang. --- Superiority (short story). --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- The New Science. --- The Philosopher. --- Theism. --- Theology. --- Theory. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Thought. --- Toleration. --- Treatise. --- Utilitarianism. --- Utopia. --- Western thought. --- Writing. --- Zionism.


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Calling philosophers names : on the origin of a discipline
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ISBN: 0691197423 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece. Tracing the evolution of the word's meaning over its first two centuries, Christopher Moore shows how it first referred to aspiring political sages and advice-givers, then to avid conversationalists about virtue, and finally to disciplinary investigators who focused on the scope and conditions of those conversations. Questioning the familiar view that philosophers from the beginning "loved wisdom" or merely "cultivated their intellect," Moore shows that they were instead mocked as laughably unrealistic for thinking that their incessant talking and study would earn them social status or political and moral authority.Taking a new approach to the history of early Greek philosophy, Calling Philosophers Names seeks to understand who were called philosophoi or "philosophers," and why, and how the use of and reflections on the word contributed to the rise of a discipline. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, the book demonstrates that a word that began in part as a wry reference to a far-flung political bloc, came, hardly a century later, to mean a life of determined self-improvement based on research, reflection, and deliberation. Early philosophy dedicated itself to justifying its own dubious-seeming enterprise. And this original impulse to seek legitimacy holds novel implications for understanding the history of the discipline and its influence.

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Philosophy, Ancient. --- Alcidamas. --- Ambiguity. --- Anachronism. --- Analogy. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anaximander. --- Ancient philosophy. --- Anecdote. --- Antidosis. --- Antisthenes. --- Apotheosis. --- Archetype. --- Archilochus. --- Aristotle. --- Calculation. --- Center for Hellenic Studies. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Clitophon (dialogue). --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Decision-making. --- Demetrius of Phalerum. --- Democritus. --- Dialectic. --- Dissoi logoi. --- Empedocles. --- Epistemology. --- Etymology. --- Euripides. --- Explanation. --- Flourishing. --- Glaucon. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias (dialogue). --- Gorgias. --- Herodotus. --- Hippias. --- Historiography. --- Hypothesis. --- Iamblichus. --- Inference. --- Inquiry. --- Intellectual history. --- Ionians. --- Isocrates. --- Literature. --- Logos. --- Meditations. --- Mythology. --- Narrative. --- Neologism. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- On Ancient Medicine. --- Parmenides. --- Pessimism. --- Phaedo. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Philotimo. --- Plato. --- Platonic Academy. --- Polymath. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prodicus. --- Prose. --- Protagoras. --- Protrepticus (Aristotle). --- Pythagoras. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reason. --- Referent. --- Relevance. --- Rhetoric. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-control. --- Self-knowledge (psychology). --- Sensibility. --- Seriousness. --- Skepticism. --- Socratic. --- Sophism. --- Sophist. --- Sosicrates. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Usage. --- Writing. --- Xenophanes.

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