Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is university professor. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of Why Write?, Why Teach?, Why Read?, Teacher, The Death of Sigmund Freud, and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, the American Scholar, Raritan and Harper”s. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.
9 Ebooks by Edmundson Mark Edmundson
Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Self and Soul
An ARTery Best Book of the Year An Art of Manliness Best Book of the Year In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Death of Sigmund Freud
When Hitler invaded Austria in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud was among the 175, 000 Viennese Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Though Freud was near the end of his life-eighty-one years old, battling …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Why Read?
In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Why Teach?
Mark Edmundson’s essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Why Write?
From one of America’s great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?–an inspiring exploration of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.Why …
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€14.85
Mark Edmundson: The Death of Sigmund Freud
A dramatic narrative of Freud”s last two years, when he fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London, and the rise of Adolf Hitler
”As tense as any thriller … Edmundson traces some very interesting …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Song of Ourselves
In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman’s journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Heart of the Humanities
From one of America’s great professors, a collection of works exploring the importance of reading, writing, and teaching well, for anyone invested in the future of the humanities.In his series of …
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Edmundson Mark Edmundson: Age of Guilt
How Freud’s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a …
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