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The Critical Imagination

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

786 kr

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The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it involves responding imaginatively to a work. Literary works can be interpreted in many ways; architecture can be seen as stately, meditative, or forbidding; and sensitive descriptions of art are often colourful metaphors: music can 'shimmer', prose can be 'perfumed', and a painter's colouring can be 'effervescent'. Engaging with art, like creating it, seems to offer great scope for imagination. Hume, Kant, Oscar Wilde, Roger Scruton, and others have defended variations on this attractive idea. In this book, James Grant critically examines it. The first half explains the role imaginativeness plays in criticism. To do this, Grant answers three questions that are of interest in their own right. First, what are the aims of criticism? Is the point of criticizing a work to evaluate it, to explain it, to modify our response to it, or something else? Second, what is it to appreciate art? Third, what is imaginativeness? He gives new answers to all three questions, and uses them to explain the role of imaginativeness in criticism. The book's second half focuses on metaphor. Why are some metaphors so effective? How do we understand metaphors? Are some thoughts expressible only in metaphor? Grant's answers to these questions go against much current thinking in the philosophy of language. He uses these answers to explain why imaginative metaphors are so common in art criticism. The result is a rigorous and original theory of metaphor, criticism, imaginativeness, and their interrelations.

Bagehot

The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

213 kr

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As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007–9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that—decades later—inspired the radical responses to the financial crises.

Friends Until the End

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

429 kr

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Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause in eighteenth-century Britain for twenty-five years: they supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended religious liberty and attempted to shield Britain’s credit from the crisis-prone East India Company. The two men were an improbable pair. But the hard-drinking, mistress-collecting Fox loved and admired Burke, feelings that the clean-living political philosopher and statesman warmly reciprocated. They moved together in the London intellectual world, opposing what they regarded as the overreaching crown. Friends Until the End traces Burke and Fox’s relationship through three events: the American Revolution; the impeachment of the East India Company’s governor-general; and the French Revolution, which ended their political union and shattered their friendship.With panache, James Grant illuminates the politics and economics of their era and its lessons for our divided present.James Grant’s Bagehot was praised as:“[…] in Grant’s hands, Bagehot’s life and career provide a superb prism through which to observe the extraordinary revolution in the British economy during the 19th century."—Simon Nixon, The Times"[An] engaging new biography of Bagehot... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating—and great—Victorian."—Financial Times

Bagehot

The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

288 kr

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During the upheavals of 2007–9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that—decades later—inspired the radical responses to the world’s worst financial crises.In James Grant’s colourful and groundbreaking biography, Bagehot appears as both an ornament to his own age and a muse to our own. Brilliant and precocious, he was influential in political circles, making high-profile friends, including William Gladstone—and enemies in Lord Overstone and Benjamin Disraeli. As an essayist on wide-ranging topics, he won the admiration of Matthew Arnold and Woodrow Wilson. He was also a misogynist, and while he opposed slavery, he misjudged Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. As editor of the Economist, he offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column.

Metropolitan Pulpit; or Sketches of the Most Popular Preachers in London, Volume I

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

493 kr

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Scottish Soldiers of Fortune

Mercenaries in Foreign Service from the 14th to 19th Centuries

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

364 kr

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Scottish Soldiers of Fortune

Mercenaries in Foreign Service from the 14th to 19th Centuries

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

217 kr

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A Geography of Western Nigeria

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

435 kr

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A Geography of Western Nigeria

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

270 kr

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Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh, Volumes 1-3

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

484 kr

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Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh, Volumes 1-3

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

342 kr

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Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh

AvJames Grant,Petter Galpin and Co Cassell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

444 kr

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Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh

AvJames Grant,Petter Galpin and Co Cassell

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

315 kr

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Plymouth Brethren

Their History and Heresies

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

338 kr

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Plymouth Brethren

Their History and Heresies

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

189 kr

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Narrative Of A Voyage Of Discovery, Performed In His Majesty's Vessel The Lady Nelson, Of Sixty Tons Burthen

With Sliding Keels, In The Years 1800, 1801, And 1802, To New South Wales

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

389 kr

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Narrative Of A Voyage Of Discovery, Performed In His Majesty's Vessel The Lady Nelson, Of Sixty Tons Burthen

With Sliding Keels, In The Years 1800, 1801, And 1802, To New South Wales

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

264 kr

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Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn

Knight, Governor of Munich, Marshall of France Under Louis Xiii, and Commander of the Scots Brigade Under Gustavus Adolphus, Etc

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

401 kr

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Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn

Knight, Governor of Munich, Marshall of France Under Louis Xiii, and Commander of the Scots Brigade Under Gustavus Adolphus, Etc

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

273 kr

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Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

373 kr

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Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

215 kr

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British Battles on Land and Sea

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

473 kr

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British Battles on Land and Sea

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

362 kr

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Scottish Soldiers of Fortune

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

435 kr

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Scottish Soldiers of Fortune

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

311 kr

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Chemistry of Breadmaking

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

365 kr

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Chemistry of Breadmaking

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

230 kr

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Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh

Its History, Its People, and Its Places; Volume 1

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

444 kr

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Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh

Its History, Its People, and Its Places; Volume 1

AvJames Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

315 kr

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Memoirs Of James, Marquis Of Montrose, K.g. Captain General Of Scotland

AvJames Grant

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

431 kr

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