Death Of An Idealist
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Death Of An Idealist
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Author : Beverley Naidoo
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2012-09-07
Death Of An Idealist written by Beverley Naidoo and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-07 with Political Science categories.
Death of an Idealist is the biography of Neil Aggett, the only white person to die while being held in custody by South Africa's apartheid security police. A medical doctor who worked most of the week as an unpaid trade union organiser, Aggett's stark non-materialism, shared by his partner Dr Elizabeth Floyd, aroused suspicions. When their names appeared on a list of 'Close Comrades' prepared for opposition leaders in exile they were among a swathe of union activists detained in 1981. After 70 days in detention Aggett was found hanging from the bars of the steel grille in his cell in John Vorster Square. He was the 51st person, and the first white person, to die in detention. He was 28. His death provoked an enormous public outcry, his funeral attended by thousands of workers who marched through the streets of Johannesburg. This quiet, intense young man was, in death, a 'people's hero'. Born to settler parents in Kenya in 1953, Neil Aggett moved with his family to South Africa in early childhood. He attended school in Grahamstown before studying medicine at the University of Cape Town. Death of an Idealist explores the metamorphosis of a high-achieving, sports-loving schoolboy into a dedicated activist and unpaid trade union organiser. Beverley Naidoo traces Neil Aggett's life, in particular the years leading up to his detention as a result of a Security Branch 'sting' operation, the weeks of interrogation, and the inquest that followed his death. She recreates the momentous events of his life and, in doing so, reveals the extraordinary impact Neil's life had on those around him including his family, friends and comrades. Today, a generation later, South Africa is free and democratic. Yet the idealism and sacrifice displayed by Neil Aggett and so many others appears to have been replaced by cynicism and hand-wringing. Death of an Idealist is as much the story of a remarkable young man as it is a reminder that every generation needs its idealists.
Death Of An Idealist
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Author : John Stonehouse
language : en
Publisher: W.H. Allen
Release Date : 1975
Death Of An Idealist written by John Stonehouse and has been published by W.H. Allen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Great Britain categories.
The Idealist
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Author : Justin Peters
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-03
The Idealist written by Justin Peters and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with Computers categories.
Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz's life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz's life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information."--
Aestheticism And The Philosophy Of Death
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Author : Giles Whitely
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
Aestheticism And The Philosophy Of Death written by Giles Whitely and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Philosophy categories.
"Walter Pater, best known as the author of The Renaissance (1873) and as Oscar Wildes tutor and friend, was a leading figure in European aestheticism and British fin-de-siecle culture. Despite this, he has received only limited critical attention, and has tended to be read conservatively. Drawing on Paters unpublished manuscripts, Giles Whiteley challenges this view of Pater as a closeted don who spend the remainder of his life regretting the excesses of his Renaissance. Focusing on Paters reading of the German idealist philosopher, G. W. F. Hegel, Whiteley argues that Paters response to both the philosophical and the ideological legacies of idealism was significantly more advanced than has been hitherto thought. Presenting a persuasive new reading of the genre of the imaginary portrait Paters most elusive form of writing the book paints a picture of Walter Pater as a truly revolutionary thinker. Pater, like Nietzsche during the same period, breaks with the dialectic as a method. Anticipating the radical critiques of ideology of post- Hegelians such as Derrida and Deleuze, Pater becomes a radical and transgressive thinker in his own right."
The Education Of An Idealist
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Author : Samantha Power
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Education Of An Idealist written by Samantha Power and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world’ Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Times Literary Supplement
Culture And The Death Of God
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Author : Terry Eagleton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Culture And The Death Of God written by Terry Eagleton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Religion categories.
Offers new observations on the persistence of God in modern times, and considers how the war on terror and a post-9/11 society has impacted atheism.
Evolution Of A Corporate Idealist
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Author : Christine Bader
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-10-21
Evolution Of A Corporate Idealist written by Christine Bader and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Business & Economics categories.
There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed. Christine Bader is one of those people. She worked for and loved BP and then-CEO John Browne's lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights--until a string of fatal BP accidents, Browne's abrupt resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony Hayward's tenure as chief executive, which would end with the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Bader's story of working deep inside the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company (accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management; of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing for change from within. The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil is based on Bader's experience with BP and then with a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves in the stories of other "Corporate Idealists" working inside some of the world's biggest and best-known companies.
The Idealist The Story Of Baron Pierre De Coubertin
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Author : George Hirthler
language : en
Publisher: Ringworks Press
Release Date : 2016-06-16
The Idealist The Story Of Baron Pierre De Coubertin written by George Hirthler and has been published by Ringworks Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In its narrative scope, The Idealist spans two centuries, covering the 74 years of Coubertin's lifefrom his birth in Pairs in 1863 to his death in Geneva in 1937. It reveals how the transformation of Paris into the capital of modernity helped fire a young man's imaginationand how the drumbeats of war sounded by the German hosts of the 1936 Berlin Olympics spoiled an old man's dreams, and left him bereft of hope for the Movement he created to foster peace among nations.
The Book Of Dead Philosophers
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Author : Simon Critchley
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-08-04
The Book Of Dead Philosophers written by Simon Critchley and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death. The book consists of short entries on various philosophers, cataloguing the manner of their demises and linking this to their central ideas, from the Pre-Socratics to Rousseau, Kant and Nietzsche among many others. The book concludes with Critchley's thoughts on the ideal of the philosophical death as a way of denouncing contemporary delusions and sophistries, what Francis Bacon saw as the Idols of the Tribe, the Den, the Market-Place and the Theatre (incidentally, Bacon died in a particularly cold winter in London in 1626 from a cold contracted after trying to stuff a chicken with snow as an experiment in refrigeration).
The Tragic Absolute
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Author : David Farrell Krell
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Tragic Absolute written by David Farrell Krell and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Idealism, German categories.
Exposes the core of tragic absolutes in German Romantic and Idealist philosophy.