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James A Heffernan
The subjects in this collection include science, mysticism, spirituality, philosophy, politics and government, A.I., environmental awareness, spaceflight, neuroscience, and many others. It is a book for virtually all ages, and…
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James A. W. Heffernan
Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations…
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Ripples on an Infinite Sea is an eclectic collection of poems written on a wide variety of subjects. From Evolution Revolution to Intention Processor to Mathemagical to The Pit and…
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Nonlocal Nature: The Eight Circuits of Consciousness is a modern manual for self-realization. Some philosophers have postulated that the human nervous system is composed of a series of neurological circuits…
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James A. Heffernan
The poetry in this volume is an amalgamation of physics and anthropology, and a multitude of other subjects. Sublime Chaos, Soup, and Spiritual Marble are just a taste of these…
Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order, is a journey through the scientific and philosophical strands of a realm that transcends our everyday awareness, yet paradoxically gives rise to it…
Tunnels Through Time: Poems and Observations is a book that contains just that: Brief philosophical observations in addition to original poems, all offered for the first time in print. Anyone…
James A.W. Heffernan
Fourteen essays examine how the French Revolution has been represented in art, literature, and historical narratives from England, France, Germany, and the Caribbean.
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Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art. Heffernan explores this ambivalent poetry, which simultaneously celebrates the power of the silent image while circumscribing that power with the authority…
Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using a range…
Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.
In works of Western literature ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This book traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ’s…
James A. W. Heffernan (Dartmouth College, USA)
Charlene J. Gray,James M. Heffernan,Michael H. Norton
Describes the $1.5 million three-year project conducted by the New York and the Pennsylvania Campus Compacts, funded by Learn and Serve America - Higher Education, entitled Building on Our Strengths…
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity is an edited collection of sixteen essays on the idea of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Reconsidering the eighteenth-century realist…
Addresses the crisis of modern democracy evident in the decline of the institutions of civil society. Drawing upon social and political reflection found in the Catholic and Neo-Calvinist traditions, it…
