The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion

7 best books like The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion (John D. Caputo): The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, I Am America (And So Can You!), America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, Vita Nuova, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, The Dyer's Hand

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0140443339

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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...

I Am America (And So Can You!)

Author	Stephen Colbert
ISBN	0446580503

Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.

From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions...

America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

Author	Stephen Colbert
ISBN	0446583979

Book nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.

But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return...

The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

Author	George M. Marsden
ISBN	0465030106

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country’s traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George...

Vita Nuova

Author	Dante Alighieri
ISBN	0192839357

Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as one of Dante's most profound creations. The thirty-one poems in the first of his major writings are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story...

Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art

Author

Susanne K. Langer

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music. By implication it sets up a theory of all the arts; the transference of its basic concepts to other arts than music...

The Dyer's Hand

Author	W.H. Auden
ISBN	0679724842

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation...