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I recommend you get this book from the library before you spend the cash at a store.
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Both were quick and clever with words, loved to play with them, and were good friends in this joint pursuit while young together in the 1920's and 1930's. When they were thrown out of the university by the Nazi Anschluss, which barred Jews from professional schools and practices, both resolved to leave the country however they could. They got out in 1938, and struggled mightily to get their fellow family members out later. Their subsequent life strivings revolved around their identity as Jews, unwelcome refugees in most countries.
With luck, incredible perseverance and determination, they managed to travel incognito throughout Europe, each on his own path to a safe country where Jews were tolerated. Few places existed by the time the war had broken out, and only Shanghai remained as an open port where one could arrive without a valid passport or citizenship papers. So a large European Jewish emigre community there is the place where Max survived the war.
Both continued their journey, which they write about in alternating chapters in chronological sync, until, by heck and high water, both wind up in Berkeley, California. There they work in writing and publishing, as freelancers, as translators, ultimately giving lessons in writing English at UC Berkeley! They write for the U.C. Press, publish articles and even books.
They marry, have children, buy houses, and establish a new life in a new country, and stick together throughout. When this book was written, both were approaching 80, and both have died, one in 1993 and one in 1999.
For those who know European history, who love Austria, who love a sense of adventure, of great risk-taking and cleverness, this book is a delight. I read it straight through and take my hat off to them for composing such an engaging and sincere life story. They also become involved in questions of religion and community in their later years, for those of you interested in logotherapy and Viktor Frankel.
And remember, English isn't their native tongue!
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I wouldn't be surprised if the movie happened to be better than this book!
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Not all the images are great, nor is the text completely compelling, but there is a beauty evident in the initial investigations of these young students... This read like a book that could document the beginning of a new movement, with the students documented within becoming players in the landscape in the near future.. you can already find the work of architects like Dave Burns (Auburn Univ) and Paul Preissner in other biennales and exhibitions and influencing a 4th breed of students.. Colubmia and UCLA were two schools that have trained a new generation and this book in a way puts an end to the investigations of those institutions and starts anew.
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Of particular concern, is the math section. The cover of the guide advertises "Extensively revised and updated," and "All new math review." However, is where I found the greatest number of flagrant errors.
I don't know if primary responsibility for these errors rests with the author(s), editor(s), or publisher, but I'm certain most everyone will agree that the quality of educational materials of this nature is everyone's concern.
I have sent a sample of the errors I encountered to the publisher for review. I have also forwarded a copy to the Board of Education in California. Based on the number of (obvious) errors I encountered, I think it safe to assume the actual number of errors, in this particular publication, goes far beyond the 50 "+" question and answer errors I documented.
I am almost through with the math portion of the GED book, and I am so angry. By the time I realized how many errors were in almost every micro-section of the math review, I had already thrown away my receipt. This book is unbelievable. Granted, the portions that are written accurately are thoughtful and mostly easy to follow, but the amount of errors (3 errors on one of the math pages) are incomprehensible. How did this happen? Error after error after error.....I think you get the picture. I am now on page 522, where the "ANSWERS" portion of a chapter review test lists the answer to problem #6 as choice "7." Well, hello, but the choices only number from 1-5. Choice Number 7 doesn't exist!
Barron's wasted my time and my money on this one. The discussion portions are extremely helpful, but need to be backed up with consistantly accurate math problems and answers. If Barron's can go back and fix these errors (and maybe offer the poor saps who bought this version an unconditional money-back return policy, with or without receipt in hand), this would actually be a great book.
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Spader traces the classic phenomenological approach by which Scheler developed his theory of values and staked out his new personalist approach to ethics, and then offers a compelling reconstruction of the underlying 'logic' of Scheler's philosophical development. He reveals and examines the reasons for the dramatic shifts in direction throughout Scheler's career, which have usually been treated as all-but incomprehensible in the extant Scheler literature. Spader clearly indicates why Scheler, in his early period, neglected to fill out the phenomenological evidence he had promised to provide for his non-formal alternative to Kant's ethics; and, again, why he then, in his second phase, shifted to religious and metaphysical considerations without completing his ethics; and why, yet again in his third period, he embraced a 'pantheistic' view, as a result of an impasse in his thinking concerning the problem of theodicy. The personalism underlying Scheler's ethics naturally drove him towards theological considerations of how an infinite "person of persons" (that is, God), might be related to questions of a moral bearing. Thus Scheler was driven to undertake a religious and metaphysical investigation of the concept of God as a means of clearing a way for the completion of his ethics.
Spader corrects distortions and imbalances in existing studies of Scheler and defends him against key criticisms levelled by scholars such as Stephen Strasser, Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Dietrich von Hildebrand, Eugene Kelly, Philip Blosser, and Parvis Emad. Spader's treatment is not only a major contribution to Scheler scholarship in the English language; it is a contribution that allows those interested in Scheler to grasp the 'logic' of his total work in such a way that they can themselves carry out and 'complete' what he left unfinished, incorporating his insights into their continuation of his work. Spader's work is of inestimable value for students of Scheler's thought, providing insights nowhere else available in English. Highly recommended.