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In the fifth part of an eight part lecture series on "Daniel Deronda," Professor Ruth Wisse looks at the title character's gradual evolution as he searches for his identity and forms a career path. An expert on Yiddish and Jewish literature and winner of the National Humanities Medal, Wisse discusses how Daniel is brought up as an English gentleman with the paths of scholarship and government open before him. His qualities of morality, empathy and...
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In the final part of an eight part lecture series on "Daniel Deronda," Professor Ruth Wisse summarizes George Eliot's great novel of nationalism. An expert on Yiddish and Jewish literature and winner of the National Humanities Medal, Wisse discusses the concept of the Jewish community remaining separate, yet communicating with other people and nations. With Mordecai's support, Daniel embraces his calling to lead the pursuit of nationhood in Israel....
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The Play of Daniel is a 12th-century liturgical drama of collective authorship whose manuscript originated at Beauvais Cathedral. It relates how the prophet Daniel deciphered the Writing on the Wall for King Belshazzar, then was miraculously saved from the lions' den. The story was probably sung and acted out by young clerics during the Christmas festivities, when liturgical rigour was relaxed somewhat. This recording transports us back to the origins...
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Why do we argue? To out-reason our opponents, prove them wrong, and, most of all, to win! ... Right? Philosopher Daniel H. Cohen shows how our most common form of argument - a war in which one person must win and the other must lose - misses out on the real benefits of engaging in active disagreement. "(Filmed at TEDxColbyCollege.).
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He was a respected judge in 19th-century Germany, but at age 51 Daniel Paul Schreber began claiming to receive messages from God via a "writing down machine" that spanned the cosmos. He spent several years in an asylum, tortured by delusions of cosmic control and convinced he was shifting gender. During his confinement he wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, a volume later referenced in detail by Freud. In it, Schreber argued that his belief system...
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Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel...
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In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to the New York Times, making headlines around the world. The film tells how one man's change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, president and Supreme Court, the surrounding events of which led directly to Watergate, Nixon's resignation...
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