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  • The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche

    by Ronald Hayman ...
    'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.While the nineteenth century's coherent, consistent systems of certainty came crashing down ingloriously at the very ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Techniques of Acting

    by Ronald Hayman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media – theatre, film and television – and to show how the art of acting, which never stops evolving had entered into a new phase of growth in the sixties. Ronald Hayman examines questions which are basic, but had often been ignored: What ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Set-Up

    An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today

    by Ronald Hayman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and motives flow through it. On the one hand there are the organisations: the big national companies, the West End managements, the regional repertory theatres, the ‘fringe’ groups, the trade unions, the Arts ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Tolstoy

    by Ronald Hayman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Extracts are, however, taken from all the major novels and are arranged chronologically to demonstrate the development of his technique. The main part of the book is concerned with narrative method and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Günter Grass

    by Ronald Hayman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translating the sordid history of the movement into fiction; none has looked more critically at the ‘denazification’ and reconstruction of Germany. In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Such Rotten Luck: Series 1 & 2

    A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama

    by Ronald Hayman ...
    Narrated by mx Tim Pigott-Smith, Zoë Wanamaker ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 2 min

    The complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio sitcom about the ups and downs of a second-class writerOnce upon a time, there was a struggling writer named Woodhouse Carton, who tried to make his name as an author while simultaneously running his own creative writing class...Over 12 episodes, we follow the frustrated scribe's fruitless search for fame and fortune as, supported by his long-suffering ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Great Philosophers:Schopenhauer

    by Michael Tanner ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860Western philosophy's most profound and unrelenting pessimist, Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he thrilled to the beauties of music and art.How did such deep bleakness and such sublime enthusiasm come to coincide in one man, one mind? Only by squaring these two sides of Schopenhauer can we truly ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Hegel

    by Raymond Plant ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned''Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, modern thought is unthinkable - all those whose ideas have made the modern age have worked in his ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Spinoza

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Born to be misunderstood, Spinoza was a man whose theology was banned for Godlessness. The very virtuosity of his reasoning left logicians unsettled, while even to professional thinkers in our own time, Spinoza has seemed too clever by half.And yet, as Roger Scruton shows in this strikingly readable introduction to the man and his though, Spinoza's concerns were both simple and sublime. Few ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Hume

    by Anthony Quinton ...
    A short book combining extracts from the work of one of the world's greatest thinkers with commentary by one of Britain's most distinguished writers on philosophy. ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers:Heidegger

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division. Born in Germany, he was concerned with what makes beings intelligible ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Plato

    by Professor Bernard Williams ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors'Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected Plato's views have found themselves working ... Read more

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