Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.
An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four ...gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, Giorgio Agamben suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. In this pithy, poetic, and compelling book, Agamben maps a journey from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, Agamben presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.
Fall captive to the code-the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye ...patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders were essential for everyone's survival. These "Laws" were sets of rules that determined everything from how much each pirate earned from their plunder to compensation for injuries, punishments, and even the entertainment allowed on ships. These rules became known as the "Pirates' Code," which all pirates had to publicly swear by. Using primary sources like eyewitness accounts, trial proceedings, and maritime logs, this book explains how each one of the pirate codes was the key to pirates' success in battle, on sea, and on land.
Death in the Snow Lovell, W. George
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Pedro de Alvarado is best known as Cortés's right-hand man in the conquest of Mexico and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala. Less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim ...to the riches of the Inca Empire. Death in the Snow conveys the delusions of one headstrong conquistador and mourns the loss of countless Indigenous lives, casualties of Alvarado's lust for fame and fortune.
This volume deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family ...made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and America.
His is a name synonymous with seduction. His was a life lived without limits. Giacomo Casanova left behind thousands of pages detailing his years among Europe's notable and noble. In Casanova the ...Irresistible , Philippe Sollers--prolific intellectual and revered visionary of the French avant-garde--proffers a lively reading of and guide to the famed libertine's sprawling memoir. Armine Kotin Mortimer's translation of Sollers's reading tracks the alluring Venetian through the whole of his astounding and disreputable life. Eschewing myth, Sollers dares to present the plain realities of a man "simple, direct, courageous, cultivated, seductive, funny. A philosopher in action." The lovers are here, and the ruses and adventures. But Sollers also rescues Casanova the writer, a gifted composer of words who reigns as a titan of eighteenth-century literature. As always, Sollers seeks to shame society for its failure to recognize its failings. By admiring those of Casanova's admirable qualities present in himself, Sollers spurns bourgeois hypocrisy and cliché to affirm a jocund philosophy of life devoted to the twinned pursuits of pleasure and joy. A masterful translation that captures Sollers's idiosyncratic style, Casanova the Irresistible escorts readers on a journey into the heads and hearts of two singular personalities.
Plongez dans la vie maritime du XVIIIe siecle en suivant la carriere d'un matelot pas comme les autres !A treize ans, Louis Garneray (1783-1857), fils de Jean-Francois Garneray peintre du roi, ...s'engage dans la Marine incite par son cousin capitaine de fregate. Il embarque a Rochefort pour l'ocean Indien. Toute sa carriere maritime - dix-huit annees - se deroule entre l'ile de France, l'ile Bourbon, Zanzibar et la cote africaine, Madagascar... Il connait les tempetes, les combats navals, les abordages, la maladie, les trahisons, les superstitions, les naufrageurs... Il engage ses economies, malgre son ideal dans un navire negrier alors que la traite est interdite. Il rencontre Robert Surcouf et survit a l'abordage du Kent par La Confiance. De retour vers la France, il est fait prisonnier par les Anglais. Precurseur du roman d'aventure maritime, Louis Garneray livre dans Voyages, aventures et combats ses souvenirs de mer. Un recit fougueux et haut en couleurs !EXTRAITJe n'etais pas encore revenu de ma surprise, lorsque le capitaine Beaulieu passa a mes cotes. Quelque bon que fut mon cousin, et personne n'etait meilleur et plus affable que lui, il ne daigna pas m'adresser la parole. A peine laissa-t-il tomber sur mon humble personne un regard froid et distrait. Je ne m'attendais certes pas de sa part, lui-meme m'avait prevenu a ce sujet, a une reception expansive, mais je comptais au moins sur une parole bienveillante, sur un mot d'encouragement ; aussi, en voyant cet accueil glacial, me figurai-je un instant qu'il ne m'avait pas reconnu. Mon erreur fut de courte duree.- Lieutenant Mamimeau, dit-il en me designant par un leger signe de tete a un officier que j'appris plus tard etre le lieutenant en pied, faites placer cet homme a la timonerie, en qualite de pilotin.A PROPOS DE L'AUTEURPeintre de la Marine, Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857), connut une vie d'aventurier. Corsaire avec Surcouf et Dutertre, il fut prisonnier des Britanniques pendant huit ans. Peintre, dessinateur et graveur, il fut aussi ecrivain. Voyages, aventures et combats ses souvenirs de mer a ete edite en 1866 en deux volumes.
