Ralph Hancock: 4 books

Book cover of The Responsibility of Reason

The Responsibility of Reason

Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age

by Ralph Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

Can we run our lives and govern our societies by reason? The question provoked Socrates to redirect philosophic inquiry in a political direction, and it has remained fundamental to Western thought. Martin Heidegger explored this problem in his profound critique of the Western metaphysical tradition,...
Book cover of A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson
by Shannon L. Mariotti, Joseph H. Lane Jr., Alex Zamalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Marilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson's award-winning body of work -- including...
Book cover of Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

The Fourth Musketeer

by Ralph Hancock, Letitia Fairbanks
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length...
Book cover of Subjectivity

Subjectivity

Ancient and Modern

by Steven F. McGuire, Lee Trepanier, Mark Shiffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...
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