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…Scholar William Barrett in Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1962), argues that the attenuated forms of Giacometti's figures reflect the view of 20th century modernism and existentialism that modern life is increasingly empty and devoid of meaning. "All the sculptures of tod...
William Christopher Barrett (19131992) was a professor of philosophy at New York University from 1950 to 1979. Precociously, he began post-secondary...
ISBN #
1
Meet the twenty-six year old lawyer who commanded Texas' most famous garrison for thirteen incredible days and penned the words, "I shall never retreat or surrender-victory or death." William Barrett Travis is the first scholarly biography of the legendary Alamo commander. Historian Archie P. McDona...
Author
Archie P. McDonald
Binding
Paperback
Pages
228
Publisher
Eakin Press
ISBN #
1934645060
EAN Code
9781934645062
ISBN #
10
No other figure in history has played a bigger part in opening the West to Buddhism than the eminent Zen author, D.T. Suzuki, and in this reissue of his best work readers are given the very heart of Zen teaching. Zen Buddhism, which sold more than 125,000 as an Anchor paperback after its publication...
Author
Daisetz T. Suzuki
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Publisher
Doubleday
ISBN #
038548349X
EAN Code
9780385483490
ISBN #
8
During his 50 years of psychical research, Sir William Fletcher Barrett (February 10, 1884 - May 26, 1925) observed many types of phenomena. In his reminiscences, read at a private meeting of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on June 17, 1924, less than a year before his death, Barrett said:...
Author
William Barrett
Binding
Paperback
Pages
140
Publisher
White Crow Books
ISBN #
1907661026
EAN Code
9781907661020
ISBN #
6
Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literatur...
Author
William Barrett
Binding
Paperback
Pages
314
Publisher
Anchor Books/Doubleday
ISBN #
0385031386
EAN Code
9780385031387
ISBN #
1
One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream--to build a chapel in the desert.
Author
William E Barrett
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN #
0446315001
EAN Code
9780446315005
ISBN #
5
The author examines the diminishing place of the spirit in philosophical thought from Descartes to the present day, and demonstrates that the ever more pervasive influence of scientific materialism seriously compromises our ability to form an adequate idea of the conscious mind.
Author
William Barrett
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
173
Publisher
Anchor Books
ISBN #
038515965X
EAN Code
9780385159654
ISBN #
4
A study in existential philosophy
Author
William Barrett
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Doubleday Anchor
ISBN #
7
price clipped jacket, else VG
Author
William Barrett
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
270
Publisher
Anchor Press/Doubleday
ISBN #
0385159668
EAN Code
9780385159661
ISBN #
2
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16th-century English writer
16th-century English person • Person of the Tudor period
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