Author: Norman Arthur Fischer File Type: pdf As widely applied as Marxist theory is today, there remain a host of key western thinkers whose texts are rarely scrutinized through a Marxist lens. In this philosophical analysis of Marxs never-before translated German notes on Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Lewis Henry Morgan, Norman Fischer points to a strain of Marxist ethics that may only be understood in the context of the great works of Western political theory and philosophyparticularly those that emphasize the republican value of public spiritedness, the communitarian value of solidarity, and the liberal values of liberty and equality.**

Author: V. I. Lenin File Type: epub Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian Revolution, and the role of Communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight and understanding. Taken together, they represent a balanced cross-section of his revolutionary theories of history, politics, and economics his tactics for securing and retaining power and his vision of a new social and economic order. This first volume contains four works (New Economic Developments in Peasant Life, On the So-Called Market Question, What the Friends of the People Are and How They Fight the Social- Democrats, The Economic Content of Narodism and the Criticism of It in Mr. Struves Book) written by Lenin in 18931894, at the outset of his revolutionary activity, during the first years of the struggle to establish a workers revolutionary party in Russia. **

Author: Edwyn Bevan File Type: pdf First published in 1938, this title presents the greater part of the 1933 Gifford Lectures in natural theology, given by Edwyn Bevan. The questions raised regarding the element of symbolism in religious conceptions takes the reader to the very heart of the religious problem, and addresses some of the most fundamental questions posed by theology and comparative religion the nature of Spirit the spiritual efficacy of sacred histories and the images they utilise, in particular those found in the Bible the ambiguous role of language, not only in relation to God but also to the world around us and the uncertainties pertaining to rationalism and mysticism. ul l*l ul Symbolism and Belief offers the student of theology, philosophy, scriptural exegesis and anthropology a wide-ranging resource for the study of religious discourse. **

Author: Bill Clegg File Type: mobi Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life.What is it that leads an exceptional young mind want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life--and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. He also explores the shape of addiction, how its pattern--not its cause--can be traced to the past.Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative--lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written--from which you simply cannot look away.From Publishers WeeklyA rising publishing industry star trashes his life during a bender in this intense but callow confessional. Clegg, a literary agent with William Morris Endeavor, tells the story of a two-month crack binge in which he smoked away his literary agency partnership, his $70,000 bank account, 40 pounds (hes forever cutting new holes in his belt to cinch it to his wasting frame), and his relationship with his devoted long-suffering boyfriend. Theres crazed excess and tawdry sex, but also a sharply etched portrait of the addicts mindset the veering between paranoia and a compulsive sociability with the random crackheads he picks up to party with the shrinkage of the planning horizon to the search for the next hit the bliss of the high (the warmest, most tender caress... then, as it recedes, the coldest hand) the benders unstoppable acceleration until, like a cartoon character running off a cliff, it has nothing left to sustain it. The authors efforts to impart psychological depth to his addictionhe writes of wan collegiate debauches and a childhood complex about urinatingare less convincing its clear that the binge will end when his money runs out. Though richly rendered, Cleggs crack odyssey feels like an epic bout of self-indulgence. (June 14) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Bookmarks MagazineIn this chilling debut, Clegg has written a serious and compelling, if somewhat detached, addition to the subgenre of addiction memoirs. Cleggs tight, elegant prose, earnest tone, and meticulous attention to detail call up a fairy tale world brutally transformed into a monstrous hell. While the New York Times Book Review and the Times considered the book tedious and cliched, their comments appeared to be directed more toward the genre as a whole, whose repetitive descriptions of substance abuse are amply familiar to anyone who has ever watched a single episode of Behind the Music on VH-1 (Times). Of course, reviewer David Carr has written his own tale of addiction, The Night of the Gun (12 NovDec 2008). Most critics, however, agreed with the Globe and Mail, *which called Cleggs unflinching, intelligent, and grim account a skillfully conjured, slow-motion train wreck from which its impossible to look away.