The Active Life James Gunn

The Active Life James GunnA sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy. The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide ranging examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form.

and seeks to foreground the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial

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It argues for the importance of a new literary history of the southern colonies that accounts for Indigenous

Historical information is provided to place the royal mummies in context

This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres

Argues that Plato's dialogues contain a surprisingly neglected account of Socrates' education about the love of noble virtue and that recovering this education could help broaden and deepen liberalism's moral and political horizon

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Struck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical insignificance

and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film

The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Donnie Darko

A history of the near-simultaneous emergence of moving pictures in several countries in the mid-1890s and a thorough reevaluation of the development of the technology