A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.Winner of the 2023 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyIn the early 1950s, German philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl to be the poet of his generation and of the hidden Occi...

The complex, colorful history of South Carolina's southeastern cornerIn the first volume of The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, three distinguished historians of the Palmetto State recount more than three centuries of Spanish and French exploration, English and Huguenot agriculture, and African slave labor as they trace the history of one of North America's oldest European settlements. From the sixteenth-century forays of the Spaniards to the i...

The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians.Moore’s findings draw on a quantitative analysis of all OMB decisions and settlements from 2000 through 2006, as we...

At the age of eighteen I was a member of the Junior Class at Washington College at Lexington, Virginia, during the session of 1860-61, and with the rest of the students was more interested in the foreshadowings of that ominous period than in the teachings of the professors. Among our number there were a few from the States farther south who seemed to have been born secessionists, while a large majority of the students were decidedly in favor of the Union. Our president, the Rev. Dr. George...

"The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson" by Edward Alexander Moore is a compelling memoir that provides a firsthand account of the Civil War from the perspective of a soldier in the artillery. Moore, who served under the legendary General Stonewall Jackson, shares his experiences on the battlefield, detailing the camaraderie among soldiers and the harsh realities of war. His narrative captures the intensity of combat, the strategic maneuvers of the Confederate army, and the perso...

Heidegger characterizes the history and essence of metaphysics as ontotheological. Ontotheology concentrates on the being of entities and conceives of this being in two interdependent ways. First, as common to all entities, being serves as the ontological ground for their coherence and intelligibility. Second, being is understood theologically, that is, by recourse to a highest entity that both exemplifies what is common to entities and serves as the causal foundation of entities and their...

Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to "cosmic play." Well-known for its nontechnical...

Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to "cosmic play." Well-known for its nontechnical...

CLASH OF THE GIANTS tells a story of civil war on the West coast of Africa, due to racism, ethnocentrism, and tribalism. It focuses on a mythical nation called Tillikai, the natives, and an ethnic group of outlanders called Qwe. It begins with the early culture of the natives and progresses to the arrival of the Qwe. It shows cultural shock between the natives and the Qwe. It unfolds bigotry, hatred, greed, and deception.CLASH OF THE GIANTS is one of a kind. It is an allegory, in m...

Robert Egger did not want to start a charity, or even volunteer at one. But after his wife dragged him out one night to serve meals on the streets of Washington, DC, Egger realized that most of what society called “charity” did more to reward the people giving their time and money than it did to liberate those on the receiving end. He set aside his career running nightclubs and vowed to come up with something better. Egger named his gritty front-line nonprofit DC Central Kitchen. Today, it...

In "The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson," Edward Alexander Moore provides a firsthand account of the experiences of a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, particularly focusing on his service in the artillery under the legendary General Stonewall Jackson. Written in a vivid and engaging narrative style, Moore's memoir uniquely combines a detailed depiction of battlefield dynamics with poignant reflections on camaraderie and the harsh realities of war. The text offers a ri...

40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned accounts of defeat, loyalty, courage, and loss. Read critically, the volume also exposes the omissio...