Conversation At Princeton
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Conversation At Princeton
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Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Conversation At Princeton written by Mario Vargas Llosa and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo. Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course on literature and politics with Rubén Gallo. Over several classes, the two writers spoke to students about the theory of the novel and the relationship between journalism, politics, and literature through five beloved books by the Nobel laureate: Conversation in The Cathedral, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, A Fish in the Water, and The Feast of the Goat. Conversation at Princeton records these exhilarating discussions and captures the three complementary perspectives that converged in the classroom: that of Vargas Llosa, who reveals the creative process behind his novels; that of Rubén Gallo, who analyzes the different meanings the works took on after their publication; and that of the students, whose reflections and questions give voice to the responses of millions of Vargas Llosa’s readers. During these talks, Vargas Llosa not only speaks with intelligence and lucidity about the craft of writing, but also offers an absorbing, inquisitive analysis of today’s political and cultural landscape. Conversation at Princeton is a singular opportunity to attend a unique master class on literature and society taught by one of our greatest writers and thinkers.
A Face Drawn In Sand
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Author : Rey Chow
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-13
A Face Drawn In Sand written by Rey Chow and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions. Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault’s concept “outside.” This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, race and racism, sound/voice/listening, and confession and self-entrepreneurship. Against what she polemicizes as the moralistic-entrepreneurial norming of knowledge production, Chow foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry: How to process, analyze, and evaluate different types of texts across languages and disciplines; how to form and sustain viable arguments; how to rethink familiar problems through less known as well as very well-known sources, figures, and methods. Above all, she asks in an abidingly humanistic spirit, how not to know all the answers before the questions have been posed.
Conversaci N En Princeton Conversation At Princeton
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Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
language : es
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-01-09
Conversaci N En Princeton Conversation At Princeton written by Mario Vargas Llosa and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Una clase magistral sobre la actualidad y el oficio de novelista por el Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. Universidad de Princeton, Nueva Jersey, 2015. Durante un semestre, Mario Vargas Llosa impartió junto a Rubén Gallo un curso sobre literatura y política. Ambos conversaron con los alumnos sobre teoría de la novela, y sobre la relación del periodismo y la política con la literatura, a través de cinco obras del autor: Conversación en La Catedral, Historia de Mayta, ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, El pez en el agua y La Fiesta del Chivo. En estas conversaciones, el Nobel, con su brillantez acostumbrada, habla del oficio de escritor y de los retos a los que se enfrenta en la construcción de sus novelas, pero también ofrece un análisis inteligente de la actualidad. Es especialmente conmovedora la charla con Philippe Lançon, periodista del Charlie Hebdo que sobrevivió al atentado islamista perpetrado ese mismo año. Tres perspectivas complementarias confluyen en este libro: la del autor, que desvela el proceso creativo de sus novelas; la de Rubén Gallo, que analiza las distintas significaciones que las obras de Vargas Llosa cobran en el momento de su difusión, y la de los alumnos, que con sus reflexiones y preguntas dan voz a los millones de lectores de Vargas Llosa. Conversación en Princeton es una oportunidad sin igual para asistir a un curso magistral sobre literatura y realidad impartido por uno de los escritores más reconocidos y valorados en todo el mundo. Reseñas: «Con la publicación de este libro, podemos convertirnos en privilegiados alumnos del Premio Nobel, aprender y disfrutar de sus agudos comentarios y conocer mucho mejor el proceso creativo de uno de los grandes escritores de hoy.» Adrián Sanmartín, El Imparcial «En esta ocasión el escritor Mario Vargas Llosa nos ha sorprendido con un nuevo libro, que aunque no es una novela, trata de lo que mejor practica: la oralidad literaria y creativa, al estilo Borges, y desde las múltiples perspectivas que le otorgan su oficio de intelectual y de observador de la realidad más inmediata, que tan fielmente refleja en sus artículos periodísticos, que son algo así como ensayos cortos a lo Montaigne.» José Manuel Martínez Cano, La tribuna de Albacete ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Master Class about current events and the craft of a novelist by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. During a semester in 2015 Vargas Llosa taught a course at Princeton University. In it he spoke with the students about literature and current affairs. Along with the students and with Rubén Gallo, director of Princeton’s Latin American Studies Program, Vargas Llosa performed an in-depth analysis of five of his works. This book gathers these conversations in which the Nobel Prize winner, with his habitual wisdom and brilliance, speaks of the craft of the writer and about challenges that he faces when in the process of creating his novels. But it also offers an analysis of current times. What is especially touching is the conversation with Philippe Lançon, a Charlie Hebdo journalist who survived the Islamist attack perpetrated against the satirical paper in 2015. Everything that a reader may, at any point, have wanted to ask the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner is in this book. An unparalleled opportunity to experience a master class on literature and reality taught by one of the most recognized and valued writers in the world. Ruben Gallo is a Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish America and has directed Princeton’s Latin American Studies Program since 2008. Among other works he has published Mexican Heterodoxies: A Conversed Anthology (2006), The Arts of the City: Essays on the Capital’s Visual Culture (2010), and Proust’s Latin Americans (2014).
The Fire Is Upon Us
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Author : Nicholas Buccola
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09
The Fire Is Upon Us written by Nicholas Buccola and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2019.
Aesopic Conversations
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Author : Leslie Kurke
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-25
Aesopic Conversations written by Leslie Kurke and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was--unexpectedly--central to the construction of ancient Greek literature. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Demokratia
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Author : Josiah Ober
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Demokratia written by Josiah Ober and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with History categories.
This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek democracy and its contemporary relevance. The nineteen contributors remain diverse in their political commitments and in their analytic approaches, but all have engaged deeply with Greek texts, with normative and historical concerns, and with each others' arguments. The issues and tensions examined here are basic to both history and political theory: revolution versus stability, freedom and equality, law and popular sovereignty, cultural ideals and social practice. While the authors are sharply critical of many aspects of Athenian society, culture, and government, they are united by a conviction that classical Athenian democracy has once again become a centrally important subject for political debate. The contributors are Benjamin R. Barber, Alan Boegehold, Paul Cartledge, Susan Guettel Cole, W. Robert Connor, Carol Dougherty, J. Peter Euben, Mogens H. Hansen, Victor D. Hanson, Carnes Lord, Philip Brook Manville, Ian Morris, Martin Ostwald, Kurt Raaflaub, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Barry S. Strauss, Robert W. Wallace, Sheldon S. Wolin, and Ellen Meiksins Wood.
On Bullshit
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Author : Harry G. Frankfurt
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
On Bullshit written by Harry G. Frankfurt and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with Philosophy categories.
The #1 New York Times bestseller that explains why bullshit is far more dangerous than lying One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory." Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
Talk At The Brink
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Author : David R. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-29
Talk At The Brink written by David R. Gibson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-29 with History categories.
Uses the tools of Conversaton analysis to show how the decisions of the ExComm were made during the Cuban Missile Crisis, based on audio tapes made by President Kennedy.
On All Fronts
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Author : Clarissa Ward
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-09-08
On All Fronts written by Clarissa Ward and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist beautifully outlines . . . what it means to seek the truth. It gave me a new faith in the power of reporting.” —Oprah Winfrey The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range. With her deep empathy, Ward finds a way to tell the hardest stories. On All Fronts is the riveting account of Ward’s singular career and of journalism in this age of extremism. Following a privileged but lonely childhood, Ward found her calling as an international war correspondent in the aftermath of 9/11. From her early days in the field, she was embedding with marines at the height of the Iraq War and was soon on assignment all over the globe. But nowhere does Ward make her mark more than in war-torn Syria, which she has covered extensively with courage and compassion. From her multiple stints entrenched with Syrian rebels to her deep investigations into the Western extremists who are drawn to ISIS, Ward has covered Bashar al-Assad’s reign of terror without fear. In 2018, Ward rose to new heights at CNN and had a son. Suddenly, she was doing this hardest of jobs with a whole new perspective. On All Fronts is the unforgettable story of one extraordinary journalist—and of a changing world.
Becoming Human
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Author : Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Becoming Human written by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. In so doing, Becoming Human demonstrates that the history of racialized gender and maternity, specifically antiblackness, is indispensable to future thought on matter, materiality, animality, and posthumanism. Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production alters the meaning of being human and engages in imaginative practices of world-building against a history of the bestialization and thingification of blackness—the process of imagining the black person as an empty vessel, a non-being, an ontological zero—and the violent imposition of colonial myths of racial hierarchy. She creatively responds to the animalization of blackness by generating alternative frameworks of thought and relationality that not only disrupt the racialization of the human/animal distinction found in Western science and philosophy but also challenge the epistemic and material terms under which the specter of animal life acquires its authority. What emerges is a radically unruly sense of a being, knowing, feeling existence: one that necessarily ruptures the foundations of "the human."