Frederic Will is President of the Humanities Institute (humanitiesinstitute.org), an online research institution devoted to advanced research and study in the Humanities. He has published fifty-six books, ranging from cultural history, philosophy, poetry, translation, and fiction to travel narrative, and has received six Fulbright Grants from the United States Government and multi-year support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his journal of world poetry in translation, Micromegas. He was a founding editor, with William Arrowsmith, Donald Carne-Ross, and John Sullivan, of the journal of Classical culture, Arion. His poetry has received praise in the UK; the TLS has described his poetic work as “accomplished and insightful, ” and his criticism as “brilliant.” His lifetime literary papers are collected in the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, USA.
22 Ebooks by Frederic Will
Frederic Will: Modernist Impulse and a Contemporary Opus
This volume represents a study in the formation of a personal literary opus, and in some of the theoretical reflections involved in understanding how parts of that opus are constructed. The opus in q …
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€85.56
Frederic Will: Historia
Historia is a series of interlocked observations on the nature of temporality, the human practice of writing its history, and the histories all things accumulate around themselves, as does the author …
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€78.30
Frederic Will: Essays on the Condition of Inwardness
Inwardness is the condition of being inside. However, this can mean many things: one can be inside himself – dealing with his emotions, his projections, his fantasies – or with other people who becom …
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€85.76
Frederic Will: Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts. …
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€83.77
Frederic Will: Southern Nigerian Community
The present book is a social and cultural study of a mid-sized Nigerian city. The author strives to indicate the structure of the everyday, in a community where hustle and insecurity hasten a world o …
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€74.34
Frederic Will: Platonism for the Iron Age
The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, …
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€74.64
Frederic Will: Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday Volume II
Like its companion Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday (2016), this volume is a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of the moral or emotional life – goodness and bad …
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€85.48
Frederic Will: Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday
Polarities is a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of the moral or emotional life – goodness and badness; ugly and beautiful; quiet and raucous. Each item, in each polarity, is allowe …
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€78.68
Frederic Will: Downloading the Poetic Self
This volume presents an autobiography of one writer’s existence in poetry, the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public; it is also a forum in which to act out and discover oneself. It w …
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€120.95
Frederic Will: Daily Life
Every day we eat, walk, make use of our skills, meet or talk with our friends, and fall into the inevitable habits that eventually become important elements in making us what we are. The thirteen hig …
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€107.78
Frederic Will: Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers a series of verbal "doing its" in which there is significant complicity between sentences, but plenty of dissonance to slip in the spices that defin …
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€109.63
Frederic Will: Fred Will Reader
A Fred Will Reader samples the writings of Frederic Will, compiling excerpts of his poetry, travel work, agricultural sociology, short stories and novels, speculative philosophy, and cultural history …
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€125.81
Frederic Will: From a Year in Greece
In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century, led by a poet-narrator who is a comfortable and engaging guid …
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€19.25
Frederic Will: From a Year in Greece
In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century, led by a poet-narrator who is a comfortable and engaging guid …
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€3.84
Frederic Will: Guide to Ancient Greek Literature, Language, Script, Imagination and Philosophy
This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, dr …
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€109.56
Frederic Will: Film and the Heat of Life
This collection of film profiles, comprising 37 discussions, covers a variety of films from the twentieth century. It will appeal to a wide reading audience interested in exploring the relevance of f …
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€116.27
Frederic Will: Shakespeare as a Portable Guide to the Human Condition
This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeare’s plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great writer regularly generates. The ‘help rendered’ is …
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€115.24
Frederic Will: Structure, Commentary, and Culture in Ancient Greek Drama
This book explores the extant works of the playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The principal characters, their motivations, and the reputations and interactions of the auth …
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€136.11
Frederic Will: Labor and Writing
This book highlights the writing act, humanity’s determinant cultural investment. Writing, which is labor, that is work against resistance, is the way we record and reconsider what we have been, and, …
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€111.48
Frederic Will: Literary Journey through the Development of Mediaeval Thought
This volume surveys nine mediaeval texts which track the growth, sophistication, and power of the mediaeval mind, as it evolved from the sixth century scholarly thought of Cassiodorus and Boethius to …
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€111.71
Frederic Will: Exploring the Making of the Modern Mind Through Selected Texts
This book is an anthology of small texts chosen from a sequence of significant writers whose work fell between the Renaissance and the later seventeenth century, from Ficino to Dryden. The study trac …
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€120.67