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The New Cosmopolis
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
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New Cosmopolis
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
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New Cosmopolis A Book Of Images
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-12
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FIRST impressions: Why did Mr. Huneker collect and republish the articles which make up this book? Why did he ever publish them in magazines and newspapers? How came such a clever man as Mr. Huneker to write them at all? Unforgettable and unforgivable are some of the things Mr. Huneker says about beer. He calls it "the cool brew," "the amber brew," "foaming nectar," "the wet blond masterpiece." A man who will write like that is a man without shame. Mr. Huneker knows better, ever so much better. He can also do worse, ever so much worse. Listen to him at his worst of all: "Bargain day is a marrow bone sweet to woman; sweeter even than the Votiform Appendix." Reader, did you ever yearn to make quiet, strong men weep? Call them to you and read aloud that sentence. Second impression: Mr. Huneker is the most catholic liker in the world. He likes New York, Stendhal, beer, Ernest Lawson, shipping, Bach, Pelham Parkway, the Karlskirche in Vienna, fried oysters, Saint Gaudens' Farragut, Memling, Rupert Hughes, veal chops, Von Vondel's Luzifer, bean soup, Shelley, Jules Laforgue, Vance Thompson, locomotives, Piranesi, Berlin hotels and Cornelia van Oosterzee. Mr. Huneker is the only living man who likes both Rembrandt and Zuloaga, and Vermeer and Defregger and Van Gogh. Not only catholic but indiscriminating? Not so indiscriminating as you might suppose. Take any one of the above items and collect Mr. Huneker's scattered dicta. Take beer. He doesn't like all beer. He likes beer at a certain temperature, Pilsner better than other beers, Pilsner at Prague better than Pilsner at Pilsen: "As for the Pilsen Urquell-and you can't go to Prague without drinking its chief beverage-I can only say as a humble admirer of the liquid that makes pleased the palate but does not fatten, that not in Pilsen, its home, is the brew so artfully presented." Third impression: A similar examination of Mr. Huneker upon all the items in the above list would establish this astounding fact: He has actually read the books of all the authors, seen the pictures of all the painters, heard the music of all the composers, slept in the hotels of all the towns, whose names he tosses off. At first his easy familiarity with these proper names appears unwarranted, but if you read enough of him you discover that it is nothing of the sort. In Mr. Huneker the habit of multifarious reference is neither the pretentiousness nor the affectation it sounds like. If he made up his mind not to talk shop he would have to stop writing. Everything is his shop. Fourth impression: Impossible to guess in what degree Mr. Huneker is a perceiver. Signs of perceptiveness, appearing here and there on the flood of reference, soon sink out of sight. They sink, but he swims. Every temptation to throw him a life-preserver should be resisted. He doesn't need one. This flood is his native element, in which he can keep afloat indefinitely, swimming with unwearied energy at high speed. Fifth impression and last: This book is a space-filler, written without sign of fatigue, written by a very energetic and omnivorous man, in a devil of a hurry, by a man who doesn't care what stuff the curtains are made of that he hangs between you and his cleverness and ability. Not an impression but an objective truth: "New Cosmopolis" is a useful guide about many of the places it treats-about New York, Vienna, Prague, Madrid, Bruges, Rotterdam. -The New Republic, Volume 2
New Cosmopolis A Book Of Images Intimate New York Certain European Cities Before The War
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-21
New Cosmopolis A Book Of Images Intimate New York Certain European Cities Before The War written by James Huneker and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-21 with categories.
Excerpt from New Cosmopolis; A Book of Images, Intimate New York, Certain European Cities, Before the War: Vienna, Prague, Little, Holland, Belgian Etchings, Madrid, Dublin, Marienbad, Atlantic City and Newport That inveterate cosmopolite, Stendhal, wished to be in a city where the people were most like him. Now, Max Stirner, implacable philoso pher Of egoism, would never have acknowledged there could be a place Where his like might be found. As a cosmopolitan by self - election, I agree with both these egoists. The world at large is compounded Of rhythmic surprise and charm, as may well be our intimate life; their enjoyment depends upon the vision and sym pathy we bring to them. If Stendhal were in New York to-day he could write: lo, I am at cosmopolis! The New Cosmopolis. Let me conclude this meagre apology for a preface with the declaration Of literary faith made by j.-k. Huysmans: I record what I see, what I feel, what I have experienced, writing it as well as I can, oi voila tout! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
New Cosmopolis
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher: Buck Press
Release Date : 2010-04
New Cosmopolis written by James Huneker and has been published by Buck Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with categories.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Cosmopolis
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Author : Howard Mansfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Cosmopolis written by Howard Mansfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Political Science categories.
The twentieth century saw a grand procession of promises for the city. The great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, Frank Lloyd proposed cities with no downtown, cities spread across the countryside with each family on its homestead, and skyscraper utopians of the 1920s promised paradise on the one-hundredth floor with our airplane hangared next door. One thing was sure: the city of tomorrow would put to shame the city of yesterday. Another thing was certain, too: we would be happier, more peaceful (and productive) people. Here is Le Corbusier: "Free, man tends to geometry." And if we followed the "radiant harmony" of his geometry, the world’s cities could become "irresistible forces stimulating collective enthusiasm, collective action, and general joy and pride, and inconsequence individual happiness everywhere . . . the modern world would emerge . . . and would beam around, powerful, happy, believing." There were others who promised deliverance through their brands of architecture: the right angle, the curvilinear road in the park, the tower of glass. Each fervently preached that his was the magic geometry that, like tumblers on a lock, would open the way to the good life. Cosmopolis is a pattern book of expectations, generously illustrated with a gathering of plans from the City Beautiful to the Italian Futurists, The Cité Industrielle, World’s Fair utopias, science fiction visions, and the grand plans of the Moderns. Cosmopolis is the story of the ideal city we never achieved, and the great plans that went into making-over precincts of our urban language.
New Cosmopolis A Book Of Images Intimate New York Certain European Cities Before The War
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01
New Cosmopolis A Book Of Images Intimate New York Certain European Cities Before The War written by James Huneker and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with Atlantic City (N.J.) categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Cosmopolis
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Author : Don DeLillo
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-09-23
Cosmopolis written by Don DeLillo and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-23 with Fiction categories.
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target . . . An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.
Cosmopolis
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Author : Stephen Toulmin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-11
Cosmopolis written by Stephen Toulmin 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 1992-11 with History categories.
In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world. "By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."—Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia "[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."—Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books
New Cosmopolis
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Author : James Huneker
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-03
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