![]() The scale of this ambition partly explains why he wrote his three-part narrative journey – through hell ( Inferno), purgatory ( Purgatorio) and paradise ( Paradiso) – in Italian, for a mass audience, not just the Latin-reading literati. He realised that this cosmic vision was being challenged, and he didn’t seek to reject it or restore it, but to remake it. But Dante was born in a time of troubling transition. It is taken to be a genius expression of a discarded worldview, not the modern one, from an era in which everything was taken to be connected to the supreme reality called God. ![]() This might sound surprising, given that his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, is often described as one of the most brilliant creations of the medieval imagination. He was the first writer to use the word moderno, in Italian, and the difficulty he spotted with the modern mind is its limited capacity to relate to the whole of reality, particularly the spiritual aspects. ![]() Dante Alighieri was early in recognising that our age has a problem. ![]()
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It promotes a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. This work demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. ![]() The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche’s position as the towering European philosopher of his age. ![]() Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. 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She accepted due to financial difficulties caused by her recent divorce, and published the book under the pseudonym Mike Roote, concerned that publishing under her own name would cause problems with her employers.įleischer went on to publish six novelizations under the name Roote, including the bestselling novelization of Enter the Dragon. ![]() ![]() In 1969 Fleischer, then a senior editor at Ballantine Books, was invited to write a novelization of biker film C.C. She published over forty novelizations under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms. Leonore Fleischer (5 September 1932 – 2009) was an American writer specialising in novelizations of movies. ![]() ![]() ![]() adults received either a raise or a promotion in 2022 amid the strong labor market. unemployment remained at a 54-year low of 3.4% in April. 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