In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

Bourland, who had studied under Korzybski, coined the term in a 1965 essay entitled A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime ( originally published in the General Semantics Bulletin ).

He brought out, in the Annals of Oriental Literature ( London, 1820 ), an essay entitled, " Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages ", in which he extended to all parts of the grammar what he had done in his first book for the verb alone.

Benjamin Franklin in his 1729 essay entitled " A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency " is sometimes credited ( including by Karl Marx ) with originating the concept in its modern form.

Shortly after, Rudolf Arnheim discussed the effects of microphonic recording in an essay entitled Radio, published in 1936.

The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War, subsequently published in essay form in 1910.

" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:

" This sense of exclusion was articulated by Jonathan Lethem in an essay published in the Village Voice entitled " Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction.

Lewis described the origin of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in an essay entitled It All Began with a Picture:

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

Borges traces, in an essay entitled " Avatars of the Tortoise ", the many recurrences of this paradox in works of philosophy.

In his essay, entitled " The Noble Savage ", Dickens expressed repugnance for Indians and their way of life in no uncertain terms, recommending that they ought to be " civilized out of existence ".

In an essay entitled " How I Became a Russian Composer " ( 2009 ) Appleton explains his love of Russian music and culture that he believes his stepfather, Alexander Walden, instilled in him.

An early critic of social contract theory was Rousseau's friend, the philosopher David Hume, who in 1742 published an essay " Of Civil Liberty ", in whose second part, entitled, " Of the Original Contract ", he stressed that the concept of a " social contract " was a convenient fiction:

In 1986, more controversy was caused by an essay published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 25 April 1986 entitled " Land Without A History " written by one of Kohl's advisors, the historian Michael Stürmer, in which Stürmer argued that West Germany lacked a history to be proud of, and called for effort on the part of the government, historians and the media to build national pride in German history.

In a 1939 essay entitled " The Total Library ", Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges traced the infinite-monkey concept back to Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Thoreau revised the lecture into an essay entitled Resistance to Civil Government ( also known as Civil Disobedience ).

At age 16, Williams won third prize ( five dollars ) for an essay published in Smart Set entitled, " Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?

Alan Greenspan, in his essay entitled Antitrust condemns the Sherman Act as stifling innovation and harming society.

Schiele's life and work have also been the subject of essays, including a discussion of his works by fashion photographer Richard Avedon in an essay on portraiture entitled " Borrowed Dogs.

" In another essay in Writing and Difference entitled " Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas ", the roots of another major theme in Derrida's thought emerges: the Other as opposed to the Same " Deconstructive analysis deprives the present of its prestige and exposes it to something tout autre, " wholly other ," beyond what is foreseeable from the present, beyond the horizon of the " same ".

This essay was later collected in Dissemination, one of three books published by Derrida in 1972, along with the essay collection Margins of Philosophy and the collection of interviews entitled Positions.

Editor Farnsworth Wright subsequently prompted Howard to write an 8, 000 word essay for personal use detailing " the Hyborian Age ," the fictional setting for Conan.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

*" The Hyborian Age " — An essay written in 1932.

Another early usage of the term, was by the American artist, mystic, and philosopher Walter Russell, who spoke of "... this New Age philosophy of the spiritual re-awakening of man ... Man's purpose in this New Age is to acquire more and more knowledge ..." in his essay " Power Through Knowledge ," which was also published in 1944.

Tolkien's essay " Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age " in The Silmarillion gives the background of the making of the rings.

A similar view was likewise argued by assorted members of the Frankfurt School, including Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in their essay The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass-Deception ( 1944 ), and also Walter Benjamin in his highly influential " The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction " ( 1936 ).

Chandler's essay rejects this model, declaring that " It is the ladies and gentlemen of what Mr. Howard Haycraft ( in his book Murder for Pleasure ) calls the Golden Age of detective fiction that really get me down.

In an essay found in Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( Win Scott Eckert, ed., MonkeyBrain Books, 2005 ), author Chuck Loridans contributes an article entitled " The Daughters of Greystoke " wherein he posits that Modesty is the daughter of Tarzan and La of Opar.

Since the publication of Schriften ( Writings, 1955 ) fifteen years after his death, Benjamin's work -- especially the essay " The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction " ( 1936 )-- is of seminal importance to academics in the humanities disciplines.

Black points out that hunter-gatherer societies are typified by play ( in the sense of " productive play "), a view he backs up with the work of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins in his essay " The Original Affluent Society ," reprinted in his book " Stone Age Economics " ( 1971 ).

His second novel, Tom's A-Cold: A Tale ( 1933 ) was grim, depicting a barbaric and dystopian future England ; it is mentioned in Joshua Glenn's essay " The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF ( 1904-33 ).

The essay as it stands in The Lost Road can be thus seen as an interpolated manuscript, badly translated by Men in the Fourth Age or even later: " For many thousands of years have passed since the fall of Gondolin.

Alexander Chislenko uses the same word in his 1996 essay Networking in the Mind Age, to refer to a software agent that possesses distributed intelligence.

Alexander Chislenko re-appropriated the term " infomorph " in his 1996 essay Networking in the Mind Age to refer to a distributed info-being that would exist independent of human intent:

Sarraute's essay The Age of Suspicion ( L ' Ère du soupçon, 1956 ) served as a prime manifesto for the nouveau roman literary movement, alongside Alain Robbe-Grillet's For a New Novel.

The Age of Suspicion ) ( essay )

After a plenary meeting in which important policies were decided ( some defiled monks suggested to change some precepts and rules, he scolded them and wrote an essay about the manifestation of the Dharma Ending Age.

Howard explained the origins and history of Aquilonia and its people in his essay " The Hyborian Age ".

Howard's Hyborian epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Age ( most recently republished by Del Rey in The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian in 2003 ), is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists.

On Old Age is an essay written by Cicero in 44 BC on the subject of aging and death.

It was especially central to the concerns of Walter Benjamin, whose 1935 / 36 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction has been highly influential, as has the work of Theodor Adorno. Gramscianism can see elite culture as " an instrument of social control ".

The work was in part derived from Walter Benjamin's essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

*“ Bodies of Information in the Information Age: Singing the Body Information ,” review essay, Science and Public Policy, 32, 3 ( June 2005 ), pp. 231 – 246.

In a 1983 speech, Hildebrand denied there had been a Sonderweg, and claimed that the Sonderweg only applied to the “ special case ” of the Nazi dictatorship In a 1984 essay, Hildebrand went further and wrote :“ It remains to be seen, whether future scholarship will initiate a process of historicization of the Hitler period, for example by comparing it with Stalinist Russia and with examples such as the Stone Age Communism of Cambodia.