Memorials: Klosterheim. The Sphinx's Riddle. The Templars' Dialogues - Softcover

Thomas De Quincey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037192765X ISBN 13: 9780371927656

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Memorials: Klosterheim. The Sphinx's Riddle. The Templars’ Dialogues by Thomas De Quincey collects three major works by the English Romantic essayist. The volume interleaves historical fiction and philosophical inquiry with sharp social critique. The Klosterheim section presents a sprawling Romantic tale set during the Thirty Years' War in Klosterheim, a German city under a merciless Landgrave; through Maximilian, Paulina, and the enigmatic Masque, De Quincey explores tyranny, loyalty, and the catastrophic consequences of power in a siege-lit world. The Sphinx’s Riddle surveys ancient myth and its reception, using the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx to probe concepts of guilt, piacularity, and the limits of symbolic interpretation. The Templars’ Dialogues is a dense, dialogic critique of Ricardo's political economy, in which De Quincey stages a long debate on the ground and measure of value, wages, profits, and the role of theory in political economy. The book blends narrative adventure, mythic speculation, and rigorous philosophical argument to examine power, fate, and the uses of critique.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037192765X
• ISBN 13: 9780371927656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 363