The most comprehensive theory of capital to date. Absolutely brilliant. It also contains the marginal utility theory which displaced the labor theory of vale (Smith, Ricardo). Also it has brilliant essays and critiques of the competing interest theories going back to Aristotle and including the socialist explotation theory of interest, the productivity theories and the agio theory. A warning howevor. This book is none to easy to read. If you think Smith and Ricardo are boring you had better brace yourself. Tremendously original, just unbelievably hard to read.

I first heard of Eugen Rosenstock-Hussey through the tapes of a certain Christian minister. Interested I ordered The Christian Future through Amazon. Rosenstock-Hussey says that the current language used to convey Biblical spirituality is worn out and practically useless in capturing the imagination of modern populations. This quote from page 4 is typical...

"For the flow of vital speech is the sign of living Christians.....for the great languages of Church as well as State, of the Bible as well as of the Constitution, are losing their power in a daily process of advertising, commercialization and mechanization. People become indifferent to the hullabaloo of all verbiage."

The author refers to this as a "withering from within." One cannot read this book without sensing that the author is a man of great learning and passion and, most importantly, all of it geared toward bringing the reader into a better understanding of what is needed for life where the connection between faith and life is real and strong, not a nebulous wraith rooted in subjectivity. The author always seems to, at his core, be keenly aware of the relationship between words and reality, and all through the book he labors to open the eyes of the jaded modern reader to the vital nature of that relationship. Rosenstock-Hussey is one of those writers whose grasp of things goes deep yet without losing sight of how that depth is translated into every day life. One wonders if our superficial day and time can produce such men anymore.

This book examinates Eugen Fink's Philosophy from the phenomenological studies with Husserl and Heidegger till the last years of his life. The Focus is on the first phenomenological steps about the absolute, the descriptions of time, space and world. This becomes, through the connexion of the problem of the imagination (representation) and the reduction the central theme of his collabboration to the sixth Descartes' Meditation with Edmund Husserl. To connect this last theme with the development of his proper philosophy as a cosmology is the last step: this happens by the means of the relation between "Spiel" (game) and imagination, which is the phenomenological reduction. In this collection of essays by Tengelyi, Richir, Sebbah, Waldenfels, KErckhofen, Bruzina, Depraz, Mouille, Besnier, Norr, San Martin, Vandevelde, Biemel, Meitinger, Leibovich, Sepp, Dastur and Ruggenini, the reader has the possibility to look trough Finks philosophy from several points of view.

In many ways this is the fruit of Rosenstock-Huessy's life-work. It is a book written out of love of the gospels and their meaning, and it is as dazzling as it is challenging. Only Kierkegaard comes this close to distilling the existential relevance of Christianity. It is a book to be read over and over. And one need not be a Christian to learn much about life and history from it.

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To tell the truth, all I was able to read of this book is Bohm-Bawerk's Introduction, but that was enough. To get the jist of the Introduction, one must remember that Marx was setting up an Economic Model. Bohm-Bawerk rightly spotted an error in the Marx Model, the Production Function. The jist of his rebbutal is that just because something is produced is no reason that anyone wants it, case in point being a toothless comb for bald men. Bohm-Bawerk is really using Menger's Principles to underline Marx'es Mistake. The result was the evolution of this discussion into von Mises'es Socialist Calculation Debate.

To tell the truth, the rest of the book is an anticlimax, a lot of SEVERELY THEORETICAL stuff,which eventually boils down to a lot of Math and "backwards sixes". Karl Kautsky's rebuttal that Socialist Calculations so not have to follow Capitalistic (or for that matter, Rational) rules is self-serving. The Botkiewicz short-paper is ammusing in that it basically says "Here is a quickie Math equation that MIGHT WORK.", was not impressive.

The meat is in the Introduction. The rest is a hard read, and despite my degree in math, i did not think it worth the effort to continue. I still give it 5 stars because of the introduction, and the amusing futile rebuttal by Kautsky & Bortkiewicz.

My three-year-old doesn't know Simba from Nala. She doesn't know a soccer ball from a football. She doesn't own a single Barbie. But, she knows all of the instruments in the orchestra. And she will soon learn that oboes and bassoons are great for college scholarships. I am greatful for this worthwhile book; every preschool should have it

Ravenstock-Huessy was an unknown name that I happened to come across when studying educational reform. But no matter what the field, the insights the author provides an awareness of how humans use language and relate to others through their speech. His sagacious comments, delightfully peppered throughout his writing, caused me to pause and reflect many times on how people communciate. He is a linguist, philosopher, psychologist, politician and sociologist at the same time. He addresses such issues as the four diseases of speech- war, crisis, revolution and decay- and helped me think about how current world tensions simply violate the formal speech roles and opt for chaos and conflict. Speech versus reflection and authentic speech, grammar and rituals, questions and answers, gender and the speech of mankind are some of the arenas he gets into. This book caused me to pursue his other works and I am now into my second book, Speech and Reality. W. H. Auden wrote of him saying that "...anyone reading him for the first time...may find as I did, certain aspects of Rosenstock's Huessy's writing a bit hard to takebut let the reader perservere and he will find , as I did, that he is richly rewarded.

This is a readable philosophical book about language. But don't let that throw you; the author (I wish he had a shorter name) puts the cookies on the table and they are enjoyable. Please read it if you have a half a notion to understand human speech. Reading this books pays relational dividends. It caused me to reflect more on how I talk than any other book I have read in the last ten years.

Prince Eugen of Savoy was of an Italian/French background (his mother Olympia was related to Cardinal Mazarin) and raised in and around the court of that great French expansionist, Louis XIV. His decision to flee France and join the court of the Habsburgs, France's most implacable opponents, is the stuff of legend, and his epic battles against Vendome and Villars won him the status of Louis XIV's Enemy Number One. Of course, in English history, Eugen plays second-banana to his great ally, the Duke of Marlborough, and while it is true that two of his greatest victories (Blenheim and Oudernarte) were won at the Duke's side, his other exploits are equally glorious. He won a series of crushing victories against the Ottoman empire, permanently altering the balance of power in the Balkans, and conducted a Northern Italian campaign that ranks equally with those of Hannibal and Napoleon. (Indeed, it was Eugene, and not Marlborough, who made Napoleon's "greatest hit" list of famous generals.) This 1960s classic is the only English language biography of Eugen available, and the reprint is most welcome. Henderson also does an admirable job of showing us Eugen in peacetime: as his wonderful Belvedere and Winter Palace attest, he was foremost among Europe's greatest art collectors, builders and bibliophiles.

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