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Lifton, Robert Jay; Mitchell, GregBiblio.com

Who Owns Death: Capital Punishment the American Conscience and the End of Executions

Miller, Mitchell HBiblio.com

The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman together with Dialectical Education and Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Statesman

200450125Parmenides Publishing. New. 2004. Paperback. 1930972164 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 219 pages. DESCRIPTION: In the Statesman Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method political theory and drama. In his 1980 study reprinted here Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical political and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying context of the dialogue revealing that its chaotic variety of movements is actually a carefully harmonized act of realizing the mean. The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically in the metaphysical order of things motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds at the end of the dialogue Miller addressed in a separate essay first published in 1999 and reprinted here. In it he opens the horizon of interpretation to include the new metaphysics of the Parmenides the Philebus and the "unwritten teachings. " This study demonstrates how the Statesman is the culminating expression of Plato's lifelong effort both in Athens and in the Academy to bring metaphysical insight to the unending political crisis of his times. REVIEWS: "The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman a trail-blazing work. While not every reader will agree with the lessons Miller himself draws from this approach none should fail to be impressed by its interpretive power. All this is exciting stuff. The interpretive pathway on which Miller has embarked has the potential for changing the face of scholarship on the late Platonic dialogues. Parmenides Publishing is to be commended for making these two important contributions available under a single cover. " --Kenneth Sayre Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame "Miller casts considerable light on virtually every aspect of the dialogue. . .All in all this book is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Statesman. " --Stanley Rosen Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy Boston University -- with a bonus offer-- . Parmenides Publishing paperback

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Mitchell, Elizabeth Kathleen; Hogarth, WilliamBiblio.com

Death by Hogarth

199934629Univ. New. 1999. Paperback. 1891771086 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY - 72 pages 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 38 illustrations - Although it may seem incongruous from a 20th - century perspective in early modern England public executions were as popular an amusement as pleasure gardens fairs and theater extravaganzas. Art performance and capital punishment blended irreverently in grisly spectacles staged northwest of London at the three-sided gallows known as Tyburn. William Hogarth 16971764 fleshed out numerous prints with references to criminal culture and the highly dramatic rituals that accompanied executions. Accused criminals had been executed at established and improvised sites throughout England but the name Tyburn was synonymous with hanging during the 18th century. Given Hogarths interest in manners and urban life it is no surprise that he peppered his prints with references to crime and execution. The intricate plot lines embedded in his images played with a threefold understanding of execution as sanctioned by Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language: as performance as death imposed by official order and as the process of following a plan through to its proper end. These three definitions entangle in Hogarths representations of deviant behavior and capital punishment. The catalogue includes three essays 42 catalogue entries an index and a bibliography and are of particular interest to those interested in early modern England 18th-century English art social history criminal culture and gender studies. -- William Hogarth 1697-1764 is one of England's greatest printmakers who satirized his country's moral condition. The exhibition Death by Hogarth on display at the Fogg Art Museum from May 8 through July 18 1999 will examine Hogarth's prints that address the three implications the word execution-as performance as death sentenced on official order and as the process of following a plan through to its natural end-with an emphasis on images related to hanging. Most of the approximately fifty prints to be displayed will come from the collection of Suzanne and Gerald Labiner and others will be loaned from collections throughout Harvard University and are rarely exhibited. Comparative prints by other artists will also be included. In early modern England public execution was as popular an amusement as pleasure gardens fairs and theater extravaganzas. Art performance and capital punishment blended irreverently in grisly castigation spectacles staged northwest of London at the three-sided gallows known as Tyburn. Hogarth fleshed out numerous print narratives with references to criminal culture and the melodramatic rituals that accompanied executions. Yet while other creative persons reacted against the harsh legal environment by romanticizing insurgence and portraying a sympathetic fascination with the condemned criminal Hogarth's prints present execution as one of many unfortunate worldly ends earned by a life of dishonesty. -- with a bonus offer-- . Univ paperback

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