Classical Literary Criticism

9 best books like Classical Literary Criticism (Penelope Murray): Free Will, Lord Jim, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Way Things are, A Defence of Poetry, Art & the Bible, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, On Beauty and Being Just

Free Will

Author	Sam Harris
ISBN	1451683405

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source...

Lord Jim

Author	Joseph Conrad
ISBN	1551111721

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they...

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Author	Flannery O'Connor
ISBN	0374508046

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners,...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Author	Immanuel Kant
ISBN	0521626951

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...

The Way Things are

Author

Lucretius

ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)

When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...

A Defence of Poetry

Author	Philip Sidney
ISBN	0199110220

This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:

"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...

Art & the Bible

Author	Francis A. Schaeffer
ISBN	0877844437

The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God." Many Christians, wary of creating graven images, have steered clear of artistic...

The Gospel Comes with a House Key

Author

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

About The Gospel Comes with a House Key

The word hospitality often invokes a scene of a gracious, impeccably fashioned host welcoming guests into a beautifully appointed home...

On Beauty and Being Just

Author	Elaine Scarry
ISBN	0691089590

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine...