![]() ![]() With the other volumes (Elemental Passions and Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche) in Irigaray's "elemental" series, The Forgetting of Air offers a fundamental rereading of basic tenets in Western metaphysics. In this complex, lyrical, meditative engagement with the later work of the eminent German philosopher, Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air. ) volume is the first English translation of L'oubli de l'air chez Martin Heidegger (1983). ![]() ![]() In answer to Heidegger's undoing of Western metaphysics as a "forgetting of Being," Irigaray seeks in this work to begin to think out the Being of sexedness and the sexedness of Being. Among her many writings are three books (with a projected fourth) in which she challenges the Western tradition's construals of human beings' relations to the four elements-earth, air, fire, and water-and to nature. French theorist Luce Irigaray has become one of the twentieth century's most influential feminist thinkers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With life and love at stake, Emmie must face the cost of changing the path of history and realize that her greatest sacrifice is yet to come. However, not everyone is pleased to see the glorious King Nick betrothed to the unknown and uncultured Emmie-especially the noblemen commanded to protect her.Īs Emmie is drawn deeper into Nick's sumptuous and savage world-where beheadings are way more popular than time travelers-the Tudor court heads on progress across the country, and a growing rebellion against the promised queen looms. True love has never been more deadly in this lush sequel to the best-selling Emmie and the Tudor King.įor an extraordinary love, Emmie Grace has given up her life in the modern world to move to the sixteenth century and marry the Tudor king she bravely saved from a dreadful fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most affecting of all her encounters, however, is her long association with an orphaned lion cub named Leo, whom she and her family raised into adulthood. Among the animals she encounters in the pages of her memoir are enterprising hyenas who, for whatever reason, pilfer cookware and blankets a python that crept into bed with the Krügers on their first night in Mahlangeni Egyptian goslings raised by a proud but broad-minded bantam hen and the occasional ill-tempered elephant. ![]() ![]() In The Wilderness Family, Krüger recounts adventures and misadventures with the curious menagerie that shared her turf-and sometimes her roof-in the remote Mahlangeni section of Kruger National Park, which lies in the river-laced country between South Africa and Mozambique. Longtime animal lover Kobie Krüger got a little more than she bargained for when she married a game warden and moved deep into some of South Africa's wildest country. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sansom has been consulted on the series, which is in the final stages of negotiation. ![]() The rest of the Shardlake books are expected to follow. The BBC have commissioned an adaptation of Dissolution with the actor Kenneth Branagh set to star as Shardlake. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire and then Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation. He came to prominence with his series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake. He practised for a while in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before quitting in order to work full-time as a writer. ![]() After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He was born in 1952 and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is an English writer of crime novels. ![]() |