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Im Gegensatz zum Tier, das den Tod erst im Sterben kennenlernt, trägt der Mensch die Gewissheit seines Todes stets mit sich herum. Der Tod steht unausweichlich im Hintergrund und kann jeden Augenblick herantreten. Arthur Schopenhauer, der Meisterdenker des Pessimismus, ist gleichwohl der Überzeugung, dass der "Kern unseres Wesens" im Tod unversehrt bleibt. Vom Tod betroffen ist das individuelle Bewusstsein. Doch dieses ist ohnehin nur Schein. "Wir werden im Augenblicke des Sterbens inne, dass eine bloße Täuschung unser Dasein auf unsere Person beschränkt hatte."

A Casebook Edition containing the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, plus notes and critical essays

The material in this casebook edition of one of the most widely read novels of our time includes not only the full text of LORD OF THE FLIES, but also statements by William Golding about the novel, reminisces of Golding by his brother, an appreciation of the novel by E.M. Forster, and a number of critical essays from various points of vierw. Included are psychological, religious, and literary approaches by noted scholars and studies of the novel's relation to earlier works, as well as...

Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000. Nor is it an old town: the oldest extant building dates from about 1885, and the town itself was not incorporated until after 1900. What has granted Palm Beach its fame is the same combination of elements that made Bath famous in the 18th century: a very few clear-sighted men they can be counted on the fingers of one hand, wealthy families attracted to what these men had to offer, and some remarkable architecture built when wealth and vision intermingled. This book records that architecture....