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Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism
"Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and…
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Modern mythology
xxiv p., 1 l., 212 p. 23 cm.
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Manual of mythology
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Myth and ritual in Christianity
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Manual of mythology
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Hephaestus
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Sun lore of all ages
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Eros
Eros
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Comparative mythology
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Culture and religion in some of their relations
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What I saw in America
Like many writers and thinkers of his era, British author G. K. Chesterton toured the United States to get a clearer sense of the country's culture and zeitgeist. The collection What I Saw in America offers Chesterton's impressions of the U. S. in the early twentieth century. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, and part historical analysis, this unique volume is a must-read for Chesterton…
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Eros and Civilization
This is Herbert Marcuse's masterpiece which transfixed youth in the 1960s, convincing the New Left there was hope in revolutionary activity. It's also Marcuse encounter with Signmund Freud, well worth the time to decipher it. Narcuse is optimistic, in that if we tame or transform capitalism, we can fix ourselves. It's a far cry from Freud's pessimistic outlook.
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Mythe et société en Grèce ancienne
This book is a stimulating and largely persuasive collection of essays on the interrelations between social institutions and mythical thinking in ancient Greek society. What is fundamental to the author's approach is a determination to see the meaning of Greek myth and of Greek social institutions in patterns of association and opposition, in the articulations of a system of ideas. It is in this…
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The merry men, and other tales and fables
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Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World
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Ginx's baby
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Tíminn og eldurinn
Tíminn og eldurinn
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The Lonely Crowd
**The Lonely Crowd** is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney. Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), it is considered a landmark study of American character.
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