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Responding to our modern disillusionment with any claims to absolute truth regarding morality or reality, this book offers a conceptual approach for discussing absolutes without denying either the relevance of divergent religious and philosophical teachings or the evidence supporting postmodern and poststructuralist critiques. Case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedanta Hinduism, Madhyamika Buddhism, and Nicene Christianity demonstrate the value of this approach and offer many fresh insights into the metaphysical presuppositions of these religions as well as into the nature and value of mystical experience. Like Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, this book finds ultimate reality to be rationally graspable only as an eternal fugue of pattern and paradox. Yet it does not so much counter other philosophical views as provide a conceptual tool for understanding and classifying incommensurable views.
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F. Samuel Brainard received his doctorate in religion from Temple University. During his varied career he has taught religion at Temple and Rutgers-Camden, served as financial vice president of an electronics manufacturing firm, owned and operated a bookstore, and been involved with two nonprofit organizations, one focusing on holistic health and the other on interreligious understanding.
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Deals with the late Victorian publisher Leonard Smithers and his relationship to some key decadent figures of the 1890s.
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PUBLISHER TO THE DECADENTS: LEONARD SMITHERS IN THE CAREERS OF BEARDSLEY, WILDE, DOWSON.
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Pennsylvania State University Press,, University Park,, 2000
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xvi, 430. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered silver on spine. Illustrated in b/w throughout. With an Appendix on Smithers and the Erotic Book Trade by Peter Mendes and a Checklist of Smithers's Publications by James G. Nelson and Peter Mendes. ISBN: 0953503380 Loosely inserted printed receipt from Rivendale to a bookseller in Charing Cross Road fwiw. Fine in unclipped fine dust jacket. No inscriptions. Seller Inventory # C100322
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Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson
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Rivendale Press, 2000
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Publisher to the Decadents Leonard Smithers in the careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson. With an Appendix on Smithers and the Erotic Book Trade by Peter Mendes and a Checklist of Smithers's Publications by James G. Nelson and Peter Mendes. First UK edition.
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Rivendale Press, High Wycombe, 2000
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First UK edition, 2000. (First published by Penn State Press, 2000). Hardback. [i - vii], viii - ix, [x - xi], xii - xiv, [xv], xvi, 1 - 430 plus one page of publisher's ads at end. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This book chronicles the experiences of Leonard Smithers (1861 - 1907), a key figure in the literary culture of late Victorian England. In his day he was known primarily for publishing books of upscale erotica. He became the publisher of choice for the Decadents, including most notably Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. While a young solicitor in his native Sheffield, Smithers established a correspondence with the famed explorer and translator of exotic texts Captain Sir Richard Burton. Smithers collaborated with Burton in the publication of two Latin texts, the "Priapeia" and the "Carmina of Catullus", both of an erotic cast. After Burton's death in 1890, Smithers continued a significant involvement with his work, serving as an advisor to Lady Burton. During this time Smithers formed a partnership with Harry Sidney Nichols, and together they produced a series of clandestine books under the imprint of the Erotika Biblion Society. The crowning achievement of the partnership (which ended in 1894) was the publication of several splendid editions of "The Thousand Nights and a Night" in 1894 - 95. the years between 1895 and 1900 were Smithers's glory years. During this time he was the centre of young avant-garde writers and artists. After Wilde's imprisonment, it was Smithers who came to the rescue of the dispossessed Decadents, offering them both friendship and financial support. As a result of his championing the Decadents, Smithers published a number of books illustrated by Beardsley; Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" and the plays "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "An Ideal Husband"; a magazine known as the "Savoy"; and books of verse by Ernest Dowson and Arthus Symons that have proved to be the finest expression of the Decadent Movement. Throughout his career, Smithers sought to produce attractive, well-made books that were tastefully designed and printed. This book provides expansive and expert insight into the prizes and pitfalls of an English publisher of the decadent Nineties. Black & white illustrations. Book in fine condition with little sign of use. Dust jacket fine and unclipped in a removable protective sleeve. Book. Seller Inventory # 1308629