The five strange wonders, in the north and west of England [[electronic resource] ] : as they were communicated to divers honourable members of Parliament, from several countrey gentlemen and ministers, concerning the strange and prodigious flying in the air of a black coffin betwixt Leicester and Nottingham, on Sabbath day last was a fortnight, with a flaming arrow, and a bloody sword, casting forth firearms of fire ... : with a conjecturation thereupon, what these dreadful signs from heaven, may denote and signifie to the people on earth this present summer : likewise, the great and wonderful warlike prodigies, which appeared over Marston-Moor, near the city of York, between two fierry or flaming pillars, and the three monstrous creatures found in three eggs, laid by one hen bought in Execter Market ... : together with the opening of the skie in a fearful manner over Standish town five miles from Gloucester, and the appearing of a terrible fiery shaking sword form the heavens ... : attested by an eye-witness, and entred upon record, in the original Mirrour, or Looking Glass .

• Record Nr.: UNISA996384819303316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for W. Thomas, 1659
• Descrizione fisica: 8 p
• Soggetti: Unidentified flying objects; Apparitions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0113

Cinders / / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Ned Lukacher ; introduction by Cary Wolfe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823487303321
• Autore: Derrida Jacques
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4529-4230-7
• Edizione: [First University of Mennesota Press edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (104 p.)
• Collana: Posthumanities ; ; 28
• Classificazione: PHI000000LIT006000HIS043000
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: Plays on words; Homonyms; Ambiguity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translation of: Feu la cendre.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Prologue; Animadversions; Cinders; Sources for Animadversions; Translator's Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: " "More than fifteen years ago," Jacques Derrida writes in the prologue to this remarkable and uniquely revealing book, "a phrase came to me, as though in spite of me. It imposed itself upon me with the authority, so discreet and simple it was, of a judgment: cinders there are (il y a là cendre). I had to explain myself to it, respond to it--or for it." In Cinders Derrida ranges across his work from the previous twenty years and discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. For Derrida, cinders or ashes--at once fragile and resilient--are "the better paradigm for what I call the trace--something that erases itself totally, radically, while presenting itself." In a style that is both highly condensed and elliptical, Cinders offers probing reflections on the relation of language to truth, writing, the voice, and the complex connections between the living and the dead. It also contains some of his most essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine and on the legacy of the Holocaust (both a word--from the Greek holos, "whole," and kaustos, "burnt"--and a historical event that invokes ashes) in contemporary poetry and philosophy. In turning from the texts of other philosophers ; to his own, Cinders enables readers to follow the trajectory from Derrida's early work on the trace, the gramma, and the voice to his later writings on life, death, time, and the spectral. Among the most accessible of this renowned philosopher's many writings, Cinders is an evocative and haunting work of poetic self-analysis that deepens our understanding of Derrida's critical and philosophical vision. "--