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WHO DO I THINK I AM?
The author takes a trip to his past from the origins and comes to the conclusion that “he should not have been born”. Son of a bourgeois family of Norwegian and Swedish origin on the mother's side linked to the shipping industry and to diplomatic work in Spain, who fled to Norway at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Grandpa Ness remains in Spain where he saves many lives and was decorated for this act in Norway in 1939. The family hides from him the identity of the biological father from whom he takes the surname, one of the oldest in Norway, and he lives the trauma of a fake father who mistreats him, who gives him another surname, in the face of his mother's indifference. At the ag...
Shadow Echo Me
Shadow Echo Me The Life and Times of Thomas Wiggin, 16011666 The Making of American Values by Joyce Wiggin-Robbins Thomas Wiggin, captain and governor in Colonial New Hampshire, was an accumulation of moral values, religious principals, political and European conflicts, and all the desires typical for a man of his era. With a heritage as a son of the clergy, being well educated, with a history of advantageous networking, Thomas would become the example of the discipline and strength needed to establish a home in the New England wilderness of the seventeenth century. Turning his back to a cultured, established, and predictable life in England, he chose to bring a wife and carve a life out of the wilderness and bring up his children in a place of wide-open opportunity and freedoms. It was men like Thomas Wiggin who became the backbone of the future United States of America.
A Stone Most Precious
What is the grail? A chalice? Stone? Anagram? Code Word for a new world order? Secret dimension? "A Thing Called The Grail" has had us mystified and fascinated for nearly a thousand years. "The Thing" suddenly appeared; mysteriously well coordinated accounts spread like wildfire over a few decades then vanished, only for the enigmatic motif to reappear just as suddenly five-and-a-half centuries later. Still with us, becoming a household word for any ultimate solution, The Holy Grail has generated a history of research, artistic creativity, obscure metaphysics, political use and abuse that reads like a thriller in its own right.
Philosophy at Gunpoint
Heraclitus died on a dunghill. Empedocles threw himself into a volcano. Nietzsche ostracized himself, chose isolation and went mad. Is there an inner urge behind philosophizing? Can it turn the one who studies it diligently into a loner? Does it hurt? Id it dangerous? Carlos Wiggen approaches these questions in an autobiographical way, starting with his own unusual approach to the discipline which led to his being ordered to answer the question "what is philosophy?" in the form of a mandatory lecture, starting from scratch with one week at his disposal. With a gun to his head.
The British Film Catalogue
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Spine of Western Culture
Reviving Nietzsches use of the ancient gods Apollo and Dionysus as notions for seeing the emergence, growth, and imminent and final decay of Western culture, Carlos Wiggen goes through the historical process by way of selected interpretations of this cultures drama, thought, and social structure. Is the spine of a radically new culture already forming? If so, what is its essence?
Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
Cook's accounts of periodicals are consistently informative, clear, and penetrating: his sensitivity to much of what he discusses, is, at times, positively uncanny. Reference Books Bulletin
Halliwell's Film Guide
A comprehensive guide to around 20,000 of the most enduring movies ever made, including American, British, and foreign-language films, as well as movies of the silent era.
Kant and the Barbarians
Apocalyptic views on our future are commonplace today. Revolutionary outlooks took hold of scholars and students alike in the 1960s. Oswald Spengler wrote his prophetic DECLINE OF THE WEST in the 1920s. Friedrich Nietzsche saw the need for a revaluation of all values in the 1880s. Karl Marx envisioned the general breakdown of the industrial nations in the 1840s. But, the first modern thinker to spot the writing on the wall was IMMANUEL KANT. His perspectives on a possible backslide from civilized society to a havoc of rebarbarization date from the 1790s, some 220 years prior to the doomsday scenarios displayed on our flatscreens. Of all the Enlightenment philosophers, KANT was the only one whose concerns, even today, prove to be right on the mark. * Carlos Wiggen, doctor of philosophy and history of ideas, author of Barbary and Civilization, presents and discusses the Kantian notes on the frailty of civilization and the need for a resolute defense in this personal, essayistic tour de force exposition of one of the true giants of thought in Western culture.
Those that Fly Without Wings
Those that Fly without Wings is a study concentrating on the practice of music and dance within a Chilean immigrant community in Oslo. It is a qualitative and interpretive account of how music activity plays a part in the negotiation and construction of immigrant identity, as well as how it gives a voice to tensions and contradictions within an immigrant group in an urban landscape. The study concerns a community with a considerable musical activity of various Latin American genres, taking place in public as well as private arenas. By engaging with both historical and present discourses in the community, complex processes of adaptation, redefinition, and reconstruction are addressed. Based on field research and interviews as well as song lyrics and poetry, the study examines various ways in which people with an active and committed relationship to music make their practices meaningful in this particular social setting.
