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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality, and happiness of the whole community of creation. .
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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as the connections that hold between art and social institutions and art history. The book distinguishes what belongs to artistic theory from what has traditionally been confused with it, namely aesthetic theory and offers as well a systematic account of metaphor, expression, and style, together with an original account 0f artistic representation. A wealth of examples, drawn especially from recent and contemporary art, illuminate the argument..
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The Dove in the Stone: Finding the Sacred in the Commonplace
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Commonplace Learning: Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630 (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. This book, the first contextualized study of this rich tradition, has wide-ranging implications for the intellectual, cultural, and social histories not only of the Holy Roman Empire but also of the entire Protestant world in the crucial decades immediately preceding the advent of the "new philosophy" in the mid-seventeenth century..
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The Donkey Show (Commonplace Jernt)
Meet Patrick, a bright and well-meaning white-boy freshly relocated to the semi-dark world of New Orleans After humid mornings spent misleading inner-city youth, Patrick pedals his disloyal bike to The Donkey Show, where he slaves for tips, chases love, and experiments with Relativity (or tries to) as his first ever Mardi Gras tumbles silently by, on the other side of the Picture Window. Michael Welch is an awesome, feral talent. He's the most exciting young writer I've come across. Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man It'ss no surprise that lurking under the usual perception of New Orleans exists a grainier, grittier experience, one connected by memorable characters, streets and experiences. Michael Welch tells his stories with emotion and intelligence, with a sense of drama and a sense of humor. Paul Tough, New York Times.
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Hatch's Order of Magnitude: Methodical Rankings of the Commonplace and the Incredible for Daily Reference by a Man of Extraordinary Genius and Impeccable Taste
Behold--the Profundity! Some people say the universe is unfathomable Now, with the help of Hatch, you will not only fathom, you will command The pages of this book contain the answers to mysteries of our modern world--the manliest beverage, the entire spectrum of chaos and order, the epitome of villain hubris. For vocabulaphiles and mavens of the trivial, this definitive reference arranges everything worth knowing in order of magnitude. In your hands, you hold a catalyst for debate, a handrail for the imagination, and a certification for the obsessive and mildly insane. Hatch has bestowed upon the world his far-reaching knowledge of the Best, Worst, Least, Most, Biggest, Smallest--in short, the Ultimate. You may now proceed to understand the magnitude of the universe, in its most detailed orders..
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A Commonplace Book of Cookery: A Collection of Proverbs, Anecdotes, Opinions and Obscure Facts on Food, Drink, Cooks, Cooking, Dining, Diners & Dieters, dating from ancient times to the present
Commonplace books, observes M. F. K. Fisher in her preface to this collection, "are rarely compiled by commonplace people." Robert Grabhorn was a San Francsico fine printer and publisher who "also worked diligently at the arts of eating and drinking." Thanks to his lifelong habits of reading, clipping, and filing, his "fever for the printed word," we can, with him, "pluck gastronomical crumbs from off and from under the tables of the great, sub-great, superficial wits and thinkers of History." A Commonplace Book of Cookery is a celebration of food and drink, a feast to be ravenously entered into or ceremoniously nibbled at, a banquet of offerings producing flavors of recognition and surprise, delight, wit, and wisdom. This tasteful edition is a facsimile of the limited edition produced by the Arion Press in 1975, as designed by Mr. Grabhorn's equally esteemed associate, Andrew Hoyem. A delicious book..
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