LIBROS DEL AUTOR: John O'Meara

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  • Syrianus
    Syrianus / Dominic J. O’Meara / John Dillon
    Syrianus, originally from Alexandria, moved to Athens and became the head of the Academy there after the death of Plutarch of Athens. This discussion of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 3-4 shows how metaphysics, as a philosophical science, was conceived by the Neoplatonic philosopher of Late Antiquity. The questions raised by Aristotle in Metaphysics 3 regarding the scope of metaphysic...
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    67,15 €

  • Syrianus
    Syrianus / Dominic J. O’Meara / John Dillon
    Until the launch of this series in 1985, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. Syrianus, originally from Alexandria, moved to Athens and became the head of the Academy there after the d...
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    66,75 €

  • On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    A Trilogy bringing together titles by John O’Meara that are also individually available from iUniverse. The Modern Debacle Containing close readings of work by Beckett, Hemingway, and T.S.Eliot; Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and Brecht; Plath, Hughes, and Robert Graves, and W.B. Yeats. “beautifully and fluently written and ingenious in its combination of catastrop...
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    18,89 €

  • Shakespeare, the Goddess, and Modernity
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    “O’Meara’s work is the perfect supplement to [Ted] Hughes’s “Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being”, shedding further illumination into those areas where Hughes’s penetrating lens finally appears to dim. [This work] shines utterly clear light on the path of understanding we may re-win with regard to myth, forcing the reader to face the incredible starkness of the prospe...
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    18,74 €

  • This Life, This Death
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    Looking ahead to the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, this small book challenges fresh questions about where Wordsworth stood in his poetic production in the great years of creative ferment between 1798 and 1806. Numerous poems are covered from this period, but especially does this book re-think our traditional conception of the relationship between The Prelude and Inti...
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    8,83 €

  • Shakespeare’s Richard II, God, and Language
    O'Meara John O'Meara / O’Meara John O’Meara
    This book presents an in-depth view of the extraordinary revisionist language Shakespeare gives to his most royal of all kings, from the time Richard falls dramatically out of favor with God. Readers will find this book most useful in seeking to disentangle the play’s notoriously elaborate verbal presentation, but what the author brings out in connection with Richard’s approach...
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    8,30 €

  • Myth, Depravity, Impasse
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    How can we know the great Goddess again? How worthy are we of that mythical experience? How are we related to that experience in our deepest depravity? And why has the mythical experience grown so opaque to us in our post-Romantic, modern world. These are the main issues arising out of Western literary tradition that John O’Meara explores in this book. In the work of Robe...
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    9,65 €

  • The New School of the Imagination
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    This essay offers a radical view of the post-Renaissance, Western literary scene inasmuch as Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy bears a relation to it, principally through his Mystery Plays. A number of major authors are highlighted as having an intrinsic connection with the Anthroposophical revelation-notably T.S. Eliot, and especially S.T. Coleridge. The prospect of a new cultura...
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    7,13 €

  • The Thinking Spirit
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    This collection of texts, in presenting Rudolf Steiner’s highly evolved understanding of the nature of thinking, points the direction to take today to carry on with the work of Goethe, of Coleridge and of Emerson as the three principal spokesmen for Romantic Imagination in 19th century Europe and America.Their Romantic epoch came to an end, because the creative thought that ser...
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    12,06 €

  • The Modern Debacle
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    The period covered in this book ranges from the early part of the 20th century right through to its end-roughly from the death of Chekhov to that of Ted Hughes. The question is raised whether the vision of the modern world that opened up to the authors of this period does not still apply in our own time. The book’s main theme is the finality of modern nothingness. What remains ...
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    10,52 €

  • Shakespeare’s Muse
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    Recent interest in who Shakespeare’s Muse may have been prompts one to come forthto dispel the drastically simplistic notions that have been brought forward.In this essay John O’Meara suggests where our concern with Shakespeare shouldactually lie or what form of Muse we can suppose it was that commanded hisdevelopment the way it did.Shakespeare was fated for a certain experienc...
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    7,20 €

  • Prospero’s Powers
    John O'Meara / John O’Meara
    As the third part of his trilogy on Shakespeare, Prospero’s Powers extends thestudy of the late plays O’Meara offered in Othello’s Sacrifice, to considermore closely how Shakespeare fulfills his personal artistic development inThe Tempest.The play is seen as expressing in its structure the whole of Shakespeare’stragic development up to that time. Great powers of self-knowledge ...
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    7,32 €