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1966

The Teachings of the Church Fathers


John R. Willis - 1966
    In this powerful one-volume library, Father Willis presents more than 250 selected doctrinal topics in an exhaustive selection of writings from the major sources of the Fathers. He lets the Fathers speak for themselves on a wide variety of spiritual themes.

Foucault | Blanchot: Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside, and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him


Michel Foucault - 1966
    In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present reflections on writing, language, and representation that question the status of the author/subject and explore the notion of a “neutral” voice that arises from the realm of the “outside.” This book is crucial not only to an understanding of these two thinkers, but also to any overview of recent French thought.

The Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Joyce's Ulysses


Harry Blamires - 1966
    The guide will enable someone approaching Joyce for the first time to reach an understanding of Ulysses which, without help, it might have taken [them] several readings to arrive at.Catalogues: CELT96, RS96 |S ED07, LIT96 |S EK08, LIT97 |S CL07, CCAT97 |S AM, LIT98 |S CI03, LIT00 |S AD52, LIT99 |S CH07, LITTEXT00 |S B14, LIT01 |S AD, BESTSEL01 |S AQ, LIT02 |S AH99, LITENCY02 |S JJ and LIT03 |S AQ20Advertisements: THES 03/96, In Dubli

Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use (Convergence)


Noam Chomsky - 1966
    Attempts to indentify the fundamental concepts of language, argues that the study of language reveals hidden facts about the mind, and looks at the impact of propaganda.