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The Great ideas today, 1996
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The Great ideas today, 1996

Author: Hermann von Helmholtz; Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher: Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, ©1996.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hermann von Helmholtz; Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 0852296312 9780852296318
OCLC Number: 41415091
Description: viii, 471 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: I. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Film, attention, and communication / Noel Carroll -- Rethinking the art of medicine / Mark Swaim and Galen Wagner. II. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Shakespeare's fairy tales : Cordelia as Cinderella / Cynthia L. Rutz -- Montaigne's psychology / Jon Elster -- The condition of knowledge / Charles Van Doren. III. Special features. Virtuality / Thomas K. Simpson -- On Robert's rules of order / George Anastaplo -- Poetic justice / John Van Doren. IV. Additions to the great books library. Selections from Science and culture / Hermann von Helmholtz (On Goethe's scientific researches ; On thought in medicine) -- Selected stories / Elizabeth Gaskell (Mr. Harrison's confessions ; Crowley castle ; The Manchester marriage). V. Comments on recent books. The varieties of metaphysical poetry [by T.S. Eliot] / John Bayley -- The morality of happiness [by Julia Annas] / Deal W. Hudson -- The age of extremes : a history of the world 1914-1991 [by Eric Hobsbawm] / Thomas K. Simpson -- The origin of Satan [by Elaine Pagels] / John Polkinghorne -- Mozart : a life [by Maynard Solomon] / Douglas Allanbrook -- From the heat of the day and The murderer [by Roy Heath] / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- Integrity [by Stephen L. Carter] / George Anastaplo --The language instinct [by Stephen Pinker] / Otto Bird.
Responsibility: Mortimer J. Adler, editor.

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