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Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human nature, morals, and society to art, politics, history, and more.
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Unparalleled Wit & Wisdom.......2002-12-01
"I can resist everything except temptation."
"There is no sin except stupidity."
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
"It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."
These laconic aphorisms are just the tip of the iceberg of Wilde's impressive, yet oftentimes eclectic and nihilistic, use of the English language. Dover gives us 60 pages of brilliant witticisms and axioms to use over and over again for a mere dollar. You can't go wrong. Also recommended - Dover's Shakespeare quotes book for a dollar. Enjoy.
Thin small and funny.......2002-01-11
Everyone knows OW was a witty guy.
If you want to find witty things he said in one small book such that you can try to emulate his wit, this book is for you.
It's good for an hour's read where you will snicker, snort, and grin.
It's exactly what i expected and exactly what I got. Whee!
Oscar Wilde is a Genius.......2000-03-27
This collection of Wilde's greatest quotes is an easy read, and wonderful to keep around the house. Wilde's wisdom is displayed throughout this edition, and is a must have for any Wilde fan.
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- "Between Me and Life There is A Mist of Words Always"
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Ralph Keyes
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Wilde on Sincerity: "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." Nearly a century after his death, the wit of Oscar Wilde remains as fresh and barbed as ever. This collection of his works, letters, reviews, anecdotes and repartee is ample proof of this iconoclast's enduring place in the world of arts and letters.
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"Between Me and Life There is A Mist of Words Always".......2003-08-09
Oscar Wilde once said "Drama is the meeting place of art and life." In this essential, compact volume Ralph Keyes leaves a trail to that corner by gathering the flamboyant author's thorniest, at times most insightful quotes and anecdotes. Keyes uses Wilde's plays, reviews, letters, interrogations, even conversational repartee (given its own section) which remained Wilde's signature to his time.
Keyes divides Wilde's epigrams and puns into brief, easily readable sections. Wilde twists traditional views on permanent truths and those of his day: altruism ("Charity creates a multitude of sins.") history ("History is merely gossip.") theology, poverty, dissent ("Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.")
Above all, Wilde (through Keyes' selections) quips and dissects each of the fine arts (music, prose, painting) and roles for creator, viewer, interpreter. He addresses the writer ("Even prophets correct their proofs.") critic ("Criticism is the highest form of autobiography"), and artist ("Like the Greek gods, artists are known only to each other.")
Amid his fast-paced one liners on male-female relations you sense how Wilde viewed marriage over and above his well-known bromide, "Divorces are made in heaven." The book ends with Wilde explaining and defending the homosexual relationship he called "the love that dare not speak its name". Whether or not you accept Wilde's lifestyle preferences, his eloquent, sad defense of a letter he wrote a younger man is moving as he describes the unique merge of intellect and youthful energy which to him formed "the noblest sort of affection." It is as close to heartfelt as anyone could get who once said, "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde was parodied, villified, and eventually imprisoned for his beliefs and flamboyance. But he eventually influenced artists from George Bernard Shaw to John Lennon, staking a claim as the earliest example of a postmodern artist. This book helps introduce Wilde's full books and plays (Keyes references them consistently and provides a full bibliography), or helps you reference witty, intellectual (or psuedo-intellectual, as Wilde might have preferred) quotes for any occassion. (As to plagarizing, Wilde himself called it, "the privilege of the appreciative man.") His full literary courses are nutritious and filling enough, but "The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde" is as savory when reading or writing as salt is when dining.
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Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network
David Hepburn Milton
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The American Civil War conjures images of bloody battlefields in the eastern United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest between the North and South in Europe. While the Confederacy eagerly sought the approval of Great Britain as a strategic ally, the Union utilized diplomacy and espionage to avert both the construction of a Confederate navy and the threat of war with England. This volume documents the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his European network of agents and explores the actions that forced neutrality between England and the Union
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Liverpool in the USA/CSA Civil War.......2003-02-14
Just curious if the author would investigate any role Liverpool Mormons might have had in the war between the US Army, Stephen Douglas, and the Democratic Party, vs the Mormons and Indians of Utah, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York. I stumbled into this as I investigated the USM Lady Elgin Shipwreck
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- Great book, lousy introduction
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- A collection of previously unpublished writings from the last decade of the life of editor & World War II survivor Hannah Arendt
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Responsibility and Judgment
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Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing and examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We also see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed.
Responsibility and Judgment is an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time.
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Excellent.......2007-05-28
A necessary companion to 'Eichmann in Jerusalem.' I concur to an extent with the reviewer below regarding Jerome Kohn's introduction. One should definitely start with the first chapter, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship," before reading Kohn's piece, as it clarifies some of the confusing aspects of Kohn's argument.
Great book, lousy introduction.......2007-01-29
Hannah Arendt has always been one of my favourite writers. This volume collecting her works does not disappoint.
However, do not expect the same incisive and indepth look into the pressing ethical issues here. This is not the fault of Hannah Arendt. This is afterall a collection of bits and pieces of her works, put together not necessarily in a coherent way.
Nonetheless, this book is worth a read, particularly as it condenses and crystalises some of the thoughts contained in her other, longer, and more difficult to read books. Next to her "Men in Dark Times", I would recommend this book as a good place for those unfamiliar with Hannah Arendt to begin.
However, do ignore the introduction by Jerome Kohn, which is rather a rather incoherent, bitter, and ranting little piece of work, attributing to Hannah Arendt thoughts and opinions that might or might not have been hers. It is better for the reader to judge for himself or herself as to what Hannah Arendt meant to say, and not left a lesser mind to colour the reader's perceptions.
A compilation of thought-provoking texts.......2006-11-05
Given that none of the editorial reviews on this page contain a table of contents, I decided it may be wise to copy it here:
Introduction by Jerome Kohn
A Note on the Text
Prologue
I. RESPONSIBILITY
Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship
Some Questions of Moral Philosophy
Collective Responsibility
Thinking and Moral Considerations
II. JUDGMENT
Reflections on Little Rock
The Deputy: Guilt by Silence?
Auschwitz on Trial
Home to Roost
The first part deals with somewhat abstract questions, whereas the second is an application of Hannah Arendt's moral and more generally philosophical considerations to real-world situations. The fundamental text contained in this volume is "Some Questions of Moral Philosophy", which is based on four lectures Arendt gave in 1965. In it, Arendt deals with Socrates, Immanuel Kant, Paul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo, and Friedrich Nietzsche while discussing thinking, willing and judging. Also of note is Arendt's examination of Dr. Franz Lucas's case (described in "Auschwitz on Trial"). In a nutshell, this is a very interesting, though somewhat mixed and slightly repetitive, collection of essays, speeches, and lectures by a significant Selbstdenker.
Alexandros Gezerlis
A collection of previously unpublished writings from the last decade of the life of editor & World War II survivor Hannah Arendt.......2005-10-07
Responsibility And Judgment is a collection of previously unpublished writings from the last decade of the life of editor and World War II survivor Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). Chapters wrestle with complex moral issues and philosophical questions both in general and in relation to specific events such as judicial trials of World War II criminals and the repercussions that America's failed war effort in Vietnam had on the nation's policies and psyche. Written in clear, no-nonsense terms, Responsibility And Judgment is as accessible to lay readers as it is to philosophers, and offers its insights free from the constraints of political ideology. Highly recommended.
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* When couples are in a distressed relationship, they hold
each other at fault for negative events, which exacerbates
the likelihood of divorce.
* When a schizophrenic or depressed family member is thought
to be responsible for his or her dysfunctional behavior,
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This intriguing new work provides a careful examination of how judgments of ourselves and others relate to such problems and, in so doing, yields valuable insight into human interactions and motivational processes. Laying out a general theory of social motivation, the author incorporates a number of well-researched areas in social psychology and motivation to elucidate basic principles that guide human conduct across culture and time.
Chapters reveal how responsibility inferences are reached, the manner in which such judgments affect emotions, and the role that "cold" judgments of responsibility versus "hot" feelings, such as anger, play in producing both positive and negative behaviors.
The author demonstrates that the ways others are perceived influence the behaviors directed toward them, showing how attributions of personal causality are followed by judgments of responsibility. These inferences then give rise to other-directed emotions such as anger and sympathy which, in turn, generate antisocial and prosocial actions.
Based on this framework, chapters examine how achievements are evaluated and what engenders help giving, aggression, and reactions toward the stigmatized, including those with AIDS, the obese, alcoholics, homosexuals, and the poor. Throughout, chapters include extensive reviews of the research, as well as experiments for readers to complete that illustrate the applicability of the theory. Attention is given to excuses because this tactic has been extensively studied and is the most understood mechanism of decreasing inferences of personal responsibility for a negative act. A detailed examination of confession, its impact and reasons for its success, is also presented.
Providing a conceptual system that permits readers a deeper understanding of motivational processes and suggests guidelines for more effective interventions, this book is insightful reading for a wide range of scholars. It offers a general theory of social motivation that will inform the work of social and motivation psychologists. Clinical and research psychologists, as well as mental health practitioners, will particularly appreciate its timely attention to reactions to those in society who are stigmatized. Written in an accessible style, it also serves as an advanced text for students in these fields.
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Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
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Moral Thinking is critical of mainstream academic ethics for being pretty nearly stuck on Kant and Mill, for neglecting nonviolence (Gandhi and King), for nearly neglecting the women's movement (it is not yet central to most ethics texts and courses), for largely neglecting the anti-racism movement (also marginal in academic ethics), and for almost totally neglecting the anti-imperialism movement. Moral Vision suggests an integrated approach that includes these often-neglected elements and also recognizes aesthetic and experiential dimensions of ethical reflection. This book will be of interest to anyone wondering what philosophy may contribute to our contemporary struggle with conflicting values and value collisions, personal as well as cultural.
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A worthy project. Loses focus and becomes a diatribe........2006-03-08
In this book, Duane Cady explores several relevant and vital topics, including the nature of moral reasoning, the dangers of making ethical considerations subservient to economic interests, the nature of gender, sexuality and race, and the moral implications of globalization.
His general thesis is that, "formal reasoning happens within conceptual frameworks but it cannot prove or provide those frameworks. Metaphor, allegory, parable, narrative, and life experience all reveal constructive visions that frame and guide moral reasoning. While these are not themselves reducible to formal reasoning, neither are they irrational." (xii)
His task in the book is to understand how we get our moral visions and then to consider the ethics of negotiating between them. Cady claims that we get our moral visions from many different sources, and that, with regard to moral argument, moral visions lead and guide such argumentation, rather than result from it. (xiii)
Cady begins by briefly surveying various critiques of a modern, analytic approach to philosophy; specifically, in ethics. The common theme here is that traditional analytic methods of reasoning are inadequate for describing and understanding moral reasoning.
In subsequent chapters he argues that although reason is valuable within a specific ethical framework (e.g. deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics), reason alone does not get us into or out of these frameworks. In other words, we are not merely argued into or out of our particular moral framework; rather, ethical change is also a result of psychological, experiential, and aesthetic considerations.
Cady examines the aesthetic aspects of moral thought (chapter four), but he does not spend much time on psychology per se and its relationship to moral theory. Given his main thesis (see above), this is unfortunate. Cady himself claims that Moral Vision is only a sketch or picture of an alternative to the standard, analytic approach to moral theory. However, I fear that without further development of his views, few analytically-minded philosophers will be inclined to follow his lead even if they are sympathetic to his approach. Similarly, Cady does not spend much time specifically presenting arguments for or against his views. Rather, he will often simply state his own view, or else quote the opinions of others with whom he agrees and leave it at that.
There is one other aspect of Moral Vision that renders it much less effective than it could otherwise have been. While the first four chapters cohere rather well with Cady's thesis, the tone and emphasis of chapters five through seven are, so to speak, all over the map. What begins as an inspiring adventure into what a robust picture of what morality might be quickly degenerates into an angry diatribe.
In chapter five, for example, Cady lumps those who hold traditional values about sexuality (he calls them heterosexists) with racists and those who want to dehumanize women. He writes, "Racists both enrage and inspire with racial slurs, sexists with gender put-downs, heterosexists with crude and hateful labels, and often the bigoted words are metaphoric and not literal, provoking images that entangle imagination, emotion, morality, and immorality...Surely their aesthetic power adds to their destructiveness by grabbing, engaging, provoking, and holding our attention." (71) In doing so, Cady himself undoubtedly realizes that he is using the very strategy for which he condemns racists, sexists, and "heterosexists." One wonders, therefore, why he adopts this strategy.
In chapter six, Cady quotes philosophers who essentially equate science with racism, claiming that, "scientific racism [is] one of modernity's more durable intellectual products." He also appears to equate being caucasian with being a racist, or at least employs a stereotype when he writes that, "whitely people have a staggering faith in their own rightness and goodness, and that of other whitely people." (78) Although he rightly notes that there is no scientific basis for race, he continues to write using race-oriented terminology, referring to "whites" as the dominant group and "blacks" as the disadvantaged, subordinate group. Given his prior emphasis on the power of metaphor for influencing one's moral outlook, one wonders why Cady has decided to cast social interaction in such combative terms rather than seeking to inspire people of all ethnicities to embrace one another as people worthy of respect.
Also, as he does in chapter five, in this chapter Cady again portrays caucasians and heterosexuals in a negative light. Specifically, he approvingly cites Marilyn Frye's view that white, male heterosexuals, "remain comfortably oblivious, not even noticing the social structures that provide them with advantages, imagining that merit alone accounts for well-being, secured in self-deceptive conceptual frameworks of self-deluding moral visions," while non-whites, along with gays and lesbians, "have a better understanding of what's going on" (82). The point of this passage seems to be that while heterosexual males are self-deluded and oblivious, gays and non-whites are informed and aware. Again one wonders why Cady employs such unsubstantiated stereotypes instead of cogent arguments to support his views.
There appears to be a lot of anger just beneath the surface in much of Cady's writing, which for several reasons is a hindrance to his project. For one thing, angry people are seldom, if ever, able to objectively examine their and others' points of view. Moreover, this aspect of Moral Vision is largely out of sync with the tone and focus of the rest of his material. Even in these chapters Cady makes several important claims, but I suspect that most readers will either be so filled with "righteous anger" at having their cause vindicated in writing, or so indignant at being ridiculed and browbeaten that, ultimately, the point of prior chapters will have been lost.
So, while I cannot recommend Moral Vision for its organization, writing style, or for having carefully presented and argued for a substantive philosophical view, I do recommend that readers consider the issues which Cady discusses, even if the reader heartily disagrees with Cady's take on them.
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Raising kids who can: Use good judgment, assume responsibility, communicate effectively, respect self & others, cooperate, develop self-esteem, and enjoy life
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In January of 1982 a nationwide television audience viewed the controversial CBS documentary "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception". In the program, General William C. Westmoreland, former commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, was accused of engineering a conspiracy, in the year leading up to the Tet Offensive, to suppress the numerical size of the enemy. The resulting furor generated front page news across the country and, along with a cover story in TV Guide, co-authored by Don Kowet, induced CBS to initiate an unprecedented six-week statement by CBS that, while it admitted many of the charges, basically defended the integrity of the documentary. General Westmoreland then filed a $120 million libel suit - the largest in the history of American media. A Matter of Honor is the full inside story of the CBS documentary and its repercussions, is the result of some 100 interviews and 75,000 pages of pre-trial affidavits and depositions. We see the motives and techniques that went into the show's production, and how the CBS investigation was conducted. This book deals with many dramatic issues: the ethics and ambitions of journalists, the honor of a beleaguered general, the value judgments of CBS correspondent Mike Wallace and News Chief Van Gordon Sauter, the pride of a great news-gathering organization, and the rights and responsibilities of a free press in a free society.
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The Bottom of the Main Sequence-And Beyond: Proceedings of the Eso Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 10-12 August 1994 (Eso Astrophysics Symposia)
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover
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This is a complete overview of the state of the art in the study of very-low-mass stars, especially brown dwarfs. It covers observations as well as modelling techniques, especially addressing the current statuts of our theoretical understanding of these objects; the relation of observed luminosity and mass functions to star formation. Besides the problems of clustering, surface activity, and current estimates of the mass density in low-mass stars, the reader will also learn how many bona fide brown dwarfs have been unambiguously detected so far. The book addresses astronomers and astrophysicists, researchers and graduate students.
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