Radiant truths: essential dispatches, reports, confessions, & other essays on American belief 9780300169218, 0300169213, 9780300206968, 0300206968

A startling and immensely pleasurable collection of American writings on belief, from the Civil War to Occupy Wall Stree

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Radiant truths: essential dispatches, reports, confessions, & other essays on American belief
9780300169218, 0300169213, 9780300206968, 0300206968

Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier’s bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid

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A collection of essays by the great Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb, most published in English for the first time. A

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Oswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparen

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Imitation approaches identity with the thing imitated; design attenuates to a void. The visual arts must be practised so

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Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Sch

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On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider progra

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A collection of 21 essays on writers, including Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Saul Bellow, Edit

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