Paris At The End Of The World
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Paris At The End Of The World
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Author : John Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Paris At The End Of The World written by John Baxter and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with History categories.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of destruction. And yet in its darkest hour, the City of Light blazed more brightly than ever. It’s taxis shuttled troops to the front; its great railway stations received reinforcements from across the world; the grandest museums and cathedrals housed the wounded, and the Eiffel Tower hummed at all hours relaying messages to and from the front. At night, Parisians lived with urgency and without inhibition. Artists like Pablo Picasso achieved new creative heights. And the war brought a wave of foreigners to the city for the first time, including Ernest Hemingway and Baxter’s own grandfather, Archie, whose diaries he used to reconstruct a soldier’s-eye view of the war years. A revelatory achievement, Paris at the End of the World shows how this extraordinary period was essential in forging the spirit of the city beloved today.
To The End Of The World
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Author : Blaise Cendrars
language : en
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Release Date : 2002
To The End Of The World written by Blaise Cendrars and has been published by Peter Owen Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Actresses categories.
A Parisian actress in her late 70s, with an active stage and sex life, is held for questioning after the murder of a barkeeper. What follows is a superbly imaginative, often hilarious vivification of Paris in the late 1940s. "Without Cendrars, neither Miller nor Burroughs would have existed.
Indigenous Perceptions Of The End Of The World
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Author : Rosalyn Bold
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-06-29
Indigenous Perceptions Of The End Of The World written by Rosalyn Bold and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-29 with Social Science categories.
This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden Western understandings of what climate change constitutes. In this context, existing cosmologies are challenged, opening spaces for hegemonic narratives to enter into conversation with the non-modern and construct ‘worlds otherwise’—situations of world change and renewal through climate change. Bold brings together perspectives from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to converse with scientific narratives of climate change and create cracks that bring new worlds into being for readers.
The End Of The World
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Author : Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-03-29
The End Of The World written by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-29 with Philosophy categories.
This volume attempts to show that it is vital that we address the motif of the 'end' in contemporary world – but that this cannot be done without thinking it anew.
The Paris Quartet
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Author : Garry Crystal
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-02
The Paris Quartet written by Garry Crystal and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-02 with categories.
Dark humor, existential angst and a search for meaning can be found within these short stories set in the bars, bedrooms and cafes of Paris. Paris may be the city of love but not all love stories have a happy ending. The Paris Quartet features four interconnected tales set in the City of Light. This is a first date gone wrong, a man who feels isolated and trapped in a city of illusion, a depressed married man who embarks on an affair because it seems pointless not to, and a family dinner marred by a threatening atmosphere, where the guests may be spending their last night together. The Paris Quartet: Short Stories For the End of the World is also available in the collection, All of Us With Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas. For mature readers. Excerpts "Being here in this apartment is my escape, if only for a short while, and I only realize this tonight as I am welcomed through the door. It's an escape from the outside world, from the everyday drudgery of Paris. It's not a real escape in the long-term sense, but when I enter this apartment, all I have to do is drink vodka, laugh, talk and fuck, and for a night my worries disappear. No one knows I'm here and no one can find me. My mind is free from everything that I cannot stop thinking about outside of this apartment, and that is my escape. In this apartment, the outside doesn't exist and the clock stops ticking." - Anywhere But Here "Now this sounds interesting. The kitchen staff would have lined up next to me in an instant if they had heard a customer using the words 'honest' and 'won't be mad' in the same question. I knew they were in the early stages of their relationship. I slide my body along behind the desk, closer to them, in order to hear clearly." - Waiting in the 11th Arrondissement "The candles have almost died out, the flames flickering but still holding on. I want to ask Esme if she is scared but her reply, if it's a yes, will only make me more scared and I don't want that, but I can feel my heart racing as I lift the half-empty bottle and drink to extinguish the fear. I drink a large amount of the whisky and pass it to Esme, who has her arms tightly around my waist. And as I look at her as she drinks, I wish that we were anywhere else but here. She puts the bottle down and rests her head on my shoulder. "Tell me again," I say." - Detours "I don't know." I sigh. But I do know that nothing I can say is going to make this any less painful for her. "Maybe she has a wrinkle on her face in just the right place and I find it attractive. Maybe she says all of her statements as questions and I find that endearing. Maybe she swallows instead of spits or maybe I was just looking for a way to kill time with someone new. Reasons don't matter." - All of Us with Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas Reviews for Garry Crystal's short stories. These stories depict the common scene for thirty something men and women in the lonely city, whether Paris, London, or New York: struggles at recovery from ruined relationships, lapses into sloth, alcohol, drugs, casual, sometimes barely civil, sexual encounters and of course a depression that blankets these scenes of urban discontent like a grey, palpable fog. For all this, I could not dismiss as dreary cliche this highly entertaining and thought provoking collection. It was fun to read and at some points, downright intriguing. This collection has much to offer to readers from a broad band of tastes who enjoy good story telling. If you insist upon inspirational or "uplifting", you might be hard pressed to extract it here. For readers prone to anxiety and depressed moods these stories could pose a hazard, for those who enjoy nuanced meaning and dark ambiguities by way of succinct narration and lively dialogue, these stories are the right stuff. - Online Book Club Organization
The End Of The World And Other Teachable Moments
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Author : Michael Naas
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2014-10-15
The End Of The World And Other Teachable Moments written by Michael Naas and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
A Derrida scholar traces the evolution of the philosopher’s final seminar in Paris as he contemplates the state of the world and his own mortality. For decades, philosopher Jacques Derrida held weekly seminars in Paris, spending years at a time on a single, complex theme. From 2001 to 2003, he delivered the final work in this series, entitled “The Beast and the Sovereign.” As this final seminar progressed, its central theme was diverted by questions of death, mourning, memory, and, especially, the end of the world. Now philosopher and Derrida scholar Michael Naas takes readers through the remarkable itinerary of Derrida’s final seminar in The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments. The book begins with Derrida’s analyses of the question of the animal in the context of his other published works on that subject. It then follows Derrida as a very different tone begins to emerge, one that wavers between melancholy and extraordinary lucidity with regard to the end of life. Focusing the entire second year on Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe and Martin Heidegger’s seminar “The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,” Derrida explores questions of the end of the world and of an originary violence that is both creative and destructive. The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows Derrida from week to week as he responds to these emerging questions, as well as to important events unfolding around him, both world events—the aftermath of 9/11, the American invasion of Iraq—and more personal ones, from the death of Maurice Blanchot to intimations of his own death less than two years away.
Notes From An Apocalypse
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Author : Mark O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Notes From An Apocalypse written by Mark O'Connell and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Social Science categories.
'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph **NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE** Of late, Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy theorists yearning for a lost American idyll. Journeying with him through this landscape of anxiety, we learn just what it takes to make it to the other side.
The End Of The World In Medieval Thought And Spirituality
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Author : Eric Knibbs
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-27
The End Of The World In Medieval Thought And Spirituality written by Eric Knibbs and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,” devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of “Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis,” with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to “The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts.” In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.
The End Of The World In Scandinavian Mythology
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Author : Anders Hultgård
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-08
The End Of The World In Scandinavian Mythology written by Anders Hultgård and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-08 with categories.
"A myth about the end of the world, the Ragnarok, was told among Viking Age Scandinavians. It is here reconsidered against a comparative background. The signs of the end, the final battle, the destruction and renewal of the world are the main themes distinguished. The myth was handed down in a Christian medieval context and the problem of Christian influence is thoroughly discussed. Particular attention is given to the Old Norse homilies as instruments of conveying Christian teachings to both the elites and the common people. The comparative framework is set up by traditions on the end of the world in early Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Graeco-Roman world, Celtic Europe as well as ancient Iran and India. The geographical area covered by these traditions formed a network of cultural contacts providing possibilities of various influences. These texts are studied in their own right to avoid superficial paralleling. The analogies with Iranian traditions are striking and include the idea of the cosmic tree, the role of number 'nine', and the myth of the heavenly warriors"--
The End Of The World
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Author : Ernesto de Martino
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023
The End Of The World written by Ernesto de Martino and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Civilization, Modern categories.
The first English translation of a classic work of twentieth-century anthropology and philosophy. A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto de Martino (1908-65) produced a body of work that prefigured many ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. In his writing, we can see the roots of ethnopsychiatry and medical anthropology, discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer, considerations of social inequality and hegemony from a Gramscian perspective, and an anticipation of the discipline's "existential turn." We also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book La Fine del Mondo, or The End of the World. Examining apocalypse as an individual as well as a cultural phenomenon, treating subjects both classic and contemporary and both European and non-Western, ranging across ethnography, history, literature, psychiatry, and philosophy, de Martino probes how we relate to our world and how we might be better subjects and thinkers within it. This new translation offers English-language readers their first chance to engage with de Martino's masterwork, which continues to seem prescient in the face of the frictions of globalization and environmental devastation.