wyszukanych pozycji: 62
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ISBN: 9788381963619 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Iris Murdoch, znana w Polsce głównie jako pisarka, była też wybitną przedstawicielką filozofii, przemawiającą głosem odrębnym na tle innych dwudziestowiecznych myślicieli. Prezentowany tom jest pierwszym w Polsce tak bogatym zbiorem jej esejów filozoficznych, dotyczących głównie etyki i metafizyki, a zwłaszcza ich związków z literaturą. Myśl Iris Murdoch - krytyczna synteza platonizmu z wątkami egzystencjalnymi - wyróżnia się racjonalnością, logiczną precyzją, celnością argumentu i dbałością o szczegół. Ogromna erudycja i przenikliwość diagnoz sprawiają,...
Iris Murdoch, znana w Polsce głównie jako pisarka, była też wybitną przedstawicielką filozofii, przemawiającą głosem odrębnym na tle innych ...
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The Black Prince
ISBN: 9780099589259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "It is witty and wise and provocative... brilliantly good." --"Evening Standard"
" The Black Prince" is both a remarkable thriller and a story about being in love. Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Finding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations -- his ex-wife, her delinquent brother, a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, Baffin's restless wife and engaging daughter -- Bradley attempts to escape. His failure to do so and its aftermath lead to a violent climax and a most unexpected conclusion. "It is witty and wise and provocative... brilliantly good." --"Evening Standard"
" The Black Prince" is both a remarkable thriller and a story ... |
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The Message To The Planet
ISBN: 9780099583288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil.
For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a mi...
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Jackson's Dilemma
ISBN: 9780701188474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and friends gather together for a celebratory dinner on the eve of the ceremony.
Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the weddin...
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The Flight From the Enchanter
ISBN: 9780099283690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A group of poeple have elected Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment.
A group of poeple have elected Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and ...
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The Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head
ISBN: 9781841593708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst.
Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned in...
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The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780140014747 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art, and political ambition. Mor s teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself disenchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a... A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed whe... |
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The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780099285267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian"
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gratifying and the impersonal -- the nice and the good -- as they are embodied in a fascinating array of paired characters. "The Nice and the Good" leads through stress and terror to a joyous and compassionate 'Midsummer Nights Dream' conclusion, in which the couples all... "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian"
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolve... |
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Henry and Cato
ISBN: 9781453200957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Good Apprentice
ISBN: 9780099285250 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a pr...
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The Red and the Green
ISBN: 9780099429135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single Anglo-Irish family provides the diverse characters: Pat Dumay, a Catholic and an Irish patriot; his pious mother pursuing her private war with his step-father; Pat's English-Protestant cousin Andrew Chase-White, an officer in King Edward's Horse and Frances, the girl he loves. Weaving between them all moves Millie Kinnard - fast, feminist, and only just respectable.
Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single ...
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The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780140030341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good.
John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping. In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray s adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of... From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice ...
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A Severed Head
ISBN: 9780099285366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.
Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Ma...
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Something Special
ISBN: 9780099422655 / Miękka / 2001 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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A Word Child
ISBN: 9780099429128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemptiton.
Saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition. - With a new introduction by Ray Monk (British philosopher and academic) Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemptiton.
Saved by education from a delinquen... |
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Die Souveränität des Guten
ISBN: 9783518299920 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulänglichkeiten der analytischen Moralphilosophie und fordert einen Richtungswechsel. Wir können Moral nicht verstehen, wenn wir uns rein auf naturwissenschaftliche und sprachphilosophische Methoden beschränken. In Auseinandersetzung mit Wittgenstein, Kant, Sartre, Weil oder Platon argumentiert Murdoch, dass die Moral nicht darin besteht, rationale Entscheidungen in einer wertneutralen Welt zu treffen. Stattdessen besteht sie in der Orientierung an... In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulängli... |
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The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780099433583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him.
The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. M...
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The Book and the Brotherhood
ISBN: 9780140104707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest? Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history, Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide... A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political... |
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Henry And Cato
ISBN: 9780099429081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
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The Philosopher's Pupil
ISBN: 9780099283591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil.
In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean insp...
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