Catalog > Human Sciences > Languages > Literature > Andrea Radasanu: In Search of Humanity (ePUB)

Andrea Radasanu
In Search of Humanity [EPUB ebook]
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

Support

Cover of Andrea Radasanu: In Search of Humanity (ePUB)

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of ‘;humanity’ as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative ofand also a replacement forformerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.

€56.91

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780739184172 ● Editor Andrea Radasanu ● Publisher Lexington Books ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5459985 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Andrea Radasanu

67,452 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Frederic Regard: British Narratives of Exploration

Frederic Regard: British Narratives of Exploration

Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers” sense of self was de …

Cover of Carol Stewart: The Rash Resolve and Life''s Progress

Carol Stewart: The Rash Resolve and Life”s Progress

Eliza Haywood was one of the most popular and versatile writers of the eighteenth century. The two novellas in this edition – The Rash Resolve (1724) and Life’s Progress (1748) – show her developing …

Cover of Dr Paul Edmondson & Tian Yuan Tan: 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu''s China

Dr Paul Edmondson & Tian Yuan Tan: 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu”s China

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years …

Cover of Tracy Mishkin: Literary Influence and African-American Writers

Tracy Mishkin: Literary Influence and African-American Writers

First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the …

Cover of Dr Catherine Brown & Dr. Elinor Shaffer: The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

Dr Catherine Brown & Dr. Elinor Shaffer: The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the European nineteenth century, as well as a pioneering translator of challenging and controversial Continental …

Cover of Watt Committee on Energy Publications: Validating Bachelorhood

Watt Committee on Energy Publications: Validating Bachelorhood

This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown”s Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative for …

Cover of Professor Faye Hammill & Professor Mark Hussey: Modernism''s Print Cultures

Professor Faye Hammill & Professor Mark Hussey: Modernism”s Print Cultures

The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism”s Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field …

Cover of Carl Weber: Hardy of Wessex

Carl Weber: Hardy of Wessex

First published in 1940 and revised in 1965, this work by the distinguished Hardy Scholar, Carl J. Weber, traces Hardy’s literary career from High Brockhampton to the grave in Poet’s corner, Westmins …

Cover of Professor Robert Doran: The Ethics of Theory

Professor Robert Doran: The Ethics of Theory

In The Ethics of Theory, Robert Doran offers the first broad assessment of the ethical challenges of Critical Theory across the humanities and social sciences, calling into question the sharp dichoto …

Cover of Brian McHale: Postmodernist Fiction

Brian McHale: Postmodernist Fiction

In this trenchant and lively study Brian Mc Hale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic …