Technique And Freedom
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Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
Author: J. M. Bernstein
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2003
This 2002 volume offers translations of major works of classic and romantic German aesthetics.
Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume II
Author: Friedrich Schiller
language: en
Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review
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Friedrich Schiller, the great German classical poet and friend of the American Revolution, assigned to art the task of ennobling the spirit of Man, especially at those times when political circumstances are most unfavorable, men most degraded, and when the qualities of genius are most urgently required to find a way to avert political catastrophe. Reading Schiller’s poetry, as well as his historical, philosophical, and aesthetic works, has precisely the effect on the sensitive reader of which Schiller informed us--to produce in the reader an ennobling power which then continues to exist long after the reading is done. This is volume II of the four volume collection of translations. Volume II includes Schiller Institute English translations of the following: Wilhelm Tell The Parasite What Is, and to What End Do We Study, Universal History The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon On Grace and Dignity Kalias, or, On the Beautiful The Mission of Moses
The Modern Art of Dying
Author: Shai J. Lavi
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2009-01-10
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Lavi illustrates these changes with compelling accounts of changes at the deathbed. He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed by religion through the medicalization of death with the physician presiding over the deathbed, to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Unlike previous books, which have focused on law and technique as explanations for the rise of euthanasia, this book asks why law and technique have come to play such a central role in the way we die. What is at stake in the modern way of dying is not human progress, but rather a fundamental change in the way we experience life in the face of death, Lavi argues. In attempting to gain control over death, he maintains, we may unintentionally have ceded control to policy makers and bio-scientific enterprises.