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Excavating Stephen King

Excavating Stephen King ab 139.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: A Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,

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Excavating Stephen King

Excavating Stephen King ab 41.99 € als epub eBook: A Darwinist Hermeneutic Study of the Fiction. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,

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Three Prehistoric Inventions That Shaped Us, Hörbuch, Digital, 511min

Both Darwin and neo-Darwinist theorists like Stephen Jay Gould were wrong to suppose that human nature and the human mind arose out of biological and historical sources alone. Three Prehistoric Inventions That Shaped Us argues that humans are very different from other animals in certain respects and, because of those respects, some of the most important sources of the particular sort of human nature we possess at the present moment, and of the special types of thinking in which we now are able to engage, were cultural ones. To be more specific, it shows that our present-day human nature was shaped in fundamental ways by at least three intellectual inventions that some of our prehistoric ancestors made - namely, the inventions of religious consciousness, of domestication of animals, and of syntactically organized language. Language: English. Narrator: David Martel Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/open/000035/bk_open_000035_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Von ekstatischen Frauen und Affen im Salon

Im Sommer 1869 bewohnen nicht weniger als 14 Affen das Gartenhaus der Stadtvilla von Gabriel von Max (1840-1915). Der international gefeierte Münchner Malerstar, Darwinist und Theosoph erster Stunde ist gerade dabei, eine der bedeutendsten Privatsammlungen zu Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Anthropologie, Zoologie und Ethnologie zusammenzutragen. Seine Affen sind ihm lebendige Studienobjekte und liebgewonnene Begleiter, die auch immer häufiger in seine vom Symbolismus geprägte Bilderwelt eindringen und dort als "Kunstkritiker", "Gelehrte" und sonstige Menschen wie wir ihr Unwesen treiben. Neben ergriffenen Heiligen und todesbleichen Schönheiten werden die Affen zu seinem liebsten Sujet und bevölkern seither bedeutende Museen und Privatsammlungen.Karin Althaus, Kuratorin am Münchner Lenbachhaus und Gabriel von Max-Expertin, hat für dieses Buch die schönsten Gemälde aus allen Werkgruppen des Piloty-Schülers ausgewählt und stellt den Maler, der mit seinem Spagat zwischen Wissenschaft, Kunst und Spiritismus als geradezu beispielhaft für seine Zeit gelten kann, ausführlich vor.

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Henry Morgenthau, Jr.: The Remarkable Life of FDR's Secretary of the Treasury , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1019min

A fascinating exploration of early- to mid-20th-century political and social structure as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was a young man living in an interesting political and social atmosphere. Surrounded by people who viewed the world through a Social Darwinist lens, and grappling with his identity as an American Jew during the atrocities of WWII in Europe, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. played an integral role as Roosevelt’s secretary of the treasury during a tough economic and political time. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. explores the life of this native New Yorker, growing up in a business-minded family, spending most of his teenage years at boarding school, and feeling isolated from his peers. Morgenthau found true passion in farming, and it served him well during the years that FDR was governor of New York and again after Morgenthau’s retirement from political life. Morgenthau established not only a working relationship with FDR during his presidency, but also a personal relationship; one that allowed him some freedom of expression in what he viewed as a sometimes intolerant era. Herbert Levy has done extensive research at the archives in Hyde Park to include many of Morgenthau’s personal letters in this in-depth account of the man who crafted a controversial plan for the reconstitution of Germany. This book explores the complex and oftentimes frustrating world in which Morgenthau was forced to live and illuminates his odyssey as a Roosevelt technocrat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008497/bk_adbl_008497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Marriage Plot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 923min

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” Anthony Trollope. It’s the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead – charismatic loner and college Darwinist – suddenly turns up in a seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus – who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange – resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they have learned. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pittu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000936/bk_hcuk_000936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Marriage Plot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 930min

It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in 18th-century France,” real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old “friend” Mitchell Grammaticus—who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the 19th century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pittu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001297/bk_aren_001297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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On Human Nature: Revised Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min

This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny? With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate. He shows how evolution has left its traces on the most distinctively human activities, how patterns of generosity, self-sacrifice, and worship, as well as sexuality and aggression, reveal their deep roots in the life histories of primate bands that hunted big game in the last Ice Age. His goal is nothing less than the completion of the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into the center of the social sciences and the humanities. Wilson presents a philosophy that cuts across the usual categories of conservative, liberal, or radical thought. In systematically applying the modern theory of natural selection to human society, he arrives at conclusions far removed from the social Darwinist legacy of the last century. Sociobiological theory, he explains, is compatible with a broadly humane and egalitarian outlook. Human diversity is to be treasured, not merely tolerated, he argues. Discrimination against ethnic groups, homosexuals, and women is based on a complete misunderstanding of biological fact. But biological facts can never take the place of ethical choices. Once we understand our human nature, we must choose how "human" in the fullest, biological sense, we wish to remain. We cannot make this choice with the aid of external guides or absolute ethical principles, because our very concept of right and wrong is wholly rooted in our own biological past. This paradox is fundamental to the evolution of consciousness in any species; there is no formula for escaping it. The book is published by Harvard University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000024/bk_redw_000024_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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