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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Meet me with your black drawers on my life in music / by Cheatham, Jeannie

Table of Contents: “…Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! …”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Rhine -- Cargo cults and the ethics of science -- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein -- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams -- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing -- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations -- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings -- Cultural artifacts and reductionism -- Learning about the self: new horizons -- Seeing with the brain -- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Does high art convey knowledge? -- Tragedy and mourning as progress -- The power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Reality testing as an intrapsychic process -- Looking outward, three movies -- Blow up -- High anxiety -- The conversation -- Isolating valid signals, making the right cut -- Magnification in humanistic theory.…”
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Improving Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry by Melissen, F. W. (Frans)

Table of Contents: “…People and sustainability; Introduction; Human behaviour and unsustainability; The complexities of human behaviour; Our tragedy of the commons and our social dilemmas; Bring in the Flintstones; Promoting sustainable behaviour; Focus on what we do know…”
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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene / by Dionne, Craig

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Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene / by Dionne, Craig

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Comprehending Columbine / by Larkin, Ralph W., 1940-

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Roméo et Juliette Romeo and Juliet / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Comprehending Columbine / by Larkin, Ralph W., 1940-

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Iphigénie en Tauride Iphigenia in Tauris / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Don Carlo by Fisher, Burton D.

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Il Trovatore The Troubadour / by Fisher, Burton D.

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The Marquis de Sade, The crimes of love heroic and tragic tales ; preceded by an Essay on novels : a selection / by Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814

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Theodor Storm’s Novellen : Essays on Literary Technique / by McCormick, Edward Allen

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Theodor Storm’s Novellen : Essays on Literary Technique / by McCormick, Edward Allen

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The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance / by Mueller, Werner A. (Werner Achilles), 1903-1999

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Tocqueville the Ancien R�egime and the French Revolution / by Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859

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The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance / by Mueller, Werner A. (Werner Achilles), 1903-1999

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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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An Unspecific Dog: Artifacts of This Late Stage in History / by Rothes, Joshua

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