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Book Synopsis The Age of the Passions by : John Dwyer
Download or read book The Age of the Passions written by John Dwyer and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the 18th century, so long regarded as the age of reason, should also be considered the age of passions. Eighteenth-century writers began to explore self-interest, sociability and love, and to manipulate them in ways that would have momentous consequences for the development of Western culture. When carefully cultivated: self-interest led to prudent behaviour and national improvement; sociability contributed to inter-group harmony and national identity; the powerful attraction between the sexes metamorphosed into politics and altruism. Exploring the 18th-century language of the passions in its specifically Scottish context, the author suggests that Scottish writers, such as Allan Ramsay, James Fordyce and James MacPherson were cultural pioneers whose significance goes far beyond the transitory popularity of their literary output. Examiming more lasting thinkers, such as Adam Smith and John Millar, from a radically different perspective, he draws on new connections between the philosophy, social thought, sermons, letters, poetry and epic literature of enlightened Scottish society.John Dwyer is the author of "Virtuous Discourse: Sensibility and Community in Late-Eighteenth-Century Scotland".
Book Synopsis Consuming Passions by : Sian Griffiths
Download or read book Consuming Passions written by Sian Griffiths and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, mythological, historical and contemporary accounts of cannibalism became particularly popular. Consuming Passions synthesizes and analyses those responses to Eucharistic teachings.
Book Synopsis Slaves of the Passions by : Mark Schroeder
Download or read book Slaves of the Passions written by Mark Schroeder and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long claimed to be the dominant conception of practical reason, the Humean theory that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires, is the basis for a range of worries about the objective prescriptivity of morality. As a result, it has come under intense attack in recent decades. A wide variety of arguments have been advanced which purport to show that it is false, or surprisingly, even that it is incoherent. Slaves of the Passions aims to set the record straight, by advancing a version of the Humean theory of reasons which withstands this sophisticated array of objections. Mark Schroeder defends a radical new view which, if correct, means that the commitments of the Humean theory have been widely misunderstood. Along the way, he raises and addresses questions about the fundamental structure of reasons, the nature of normative explanations, the aims of and challenges facing reductive views in metaethics, the weight of reasons, the nature of desire, moral epistemology, and most importantly, the relationship between agent-relational and agent-neutral reasons for action.
Book Synopsis Unwrapping Your Passion by : Karen Putz
Download or read book Unwrapping Your Passion written by Karen Putz and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivational speaker and barefoot water skier shares stories of people—including herself—who found the courage to follow their passions. For years Karen Putz worked a sales job she neither loved nor hated. She liked the company and her boss, yet something essential was missing: passion. So she set out to learn from people who were madly in love with their work and their lives. Here, Karen tells the inspiring stories of individuals who discovered their true passion, purpose, and desire. And she begins with her own story of going deaf from a barefoot water-skiing accident only to rediscover her passion for the sport at age forty-four. Everyone is given a unique gift in life—but too many of us never unwrap the package. Unwrapping Your Passion is your guide to shaking up the status quo and getting down to the essence of who you are, what you love, and the passion that will drive your life forward.
Book Synopsis My Three Mothers and Other Passions by : Sophie Freud
Download or read book My Three Mothers and Other Passions written by Sophie Freud and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Freud— author, teacher, social worker, mother, daughter, and grand-daughter of Sigmund Freud—here offers, for the first time, a candid portrait of her struggles in her own life. Blessed and cursed with the legacy of a famous family, Dr. Freud has negotiated her way from a blissful childhood in Vienna, to Paris, to Radcliff College, to her present-day life as on one of the most respected teachers in her field. My Three Mothers and Other Passions is a remarkable story about a remarkable woman, and Dr. Freud explores with us openly and engagingly the many experiences of her life.
Book Synopsis Passions of the Sign by : Andreas Gailus
Download or read book Passions of the Sign written by Andreas Gailus and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. Andreas Gailus examines a largely overlooked strand in the philosophical and literary reception of the French Revolution, one which finds in the historical occurrence of revolution the expression of a fundamental mechanism of political, conceptual, and aesthetic practice. With a close reading of a critical essay by Kleist, an in-depth discussion of Kant's philosophical writing, and new readings of the novella form as employed by both Goethe and Kleist, Gailus demonstrates how these writers set forth an energetic model of language and subjectivity whose unstable nature reverberates within the very foundations of society. Unfolding in the medium of energetic signs, human activity is shown to be subject to the counter-symbolic force that lies within and beyond it. History is subject to contingency and is understood not as a progressive narrative but as an expanse of revolutionary possibilities; language is subject to the extra-linguistic context of utterance and is conceived primarily not in semantic but in pragmatic terms; and the individual is subject to impersonal affect and is figured not as the locus of self-determination but as the site of passions that exceed the self and its pleasure principle. At once a historical and a conceptual study, this volume moves between literature and philosophy, and between textual analysis and theoretical speculation, engaging with recent discussions on the status of sovereignty, the significance of performative language in politics and art, and the presence of the impersonal, even inhuman, within the economy of the self.
Book Synopsis The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant by : Robert Doran
Download or read book The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant written by Robert Doran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.
Book Synopsis From Passions to Emotions by : Thomas Dixon
Download or read book From Passions to Emotions written by Thomas Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteenth-century theological psychologies and placing Charles Darwin and William James within a broader and more complex nineteenth-century setting, Thomas Dixon argues that this domination by one single descriptive category is not healthy. Overinclusivity of 'the emotions' hampers attempts to argue with any subtlety about the enormous range of mental states and stances of which humans are capable. This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.
Book Synopsis Martin's History of France by : Henri Martin
Download or read book Martin's History of France written by Henri Martin and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life's Progress Through the Passions by : Eliza Fowler Haywood
Download or read book Life's Progress Through the Passions written by Eliza Fowler Haywood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life's Progress Through the Passions by Eliza Fowler Haywood
Book Synopsis A treatise on man and the development of his faculties by : A.J. Quetelet Lambert
Download or read book A treatise on man and the development of his faculties written by A.J. Quetelet Lambert and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Passions of the Human Soul by : Charles Fourier
Download or read book The Passions of the Human Soul written by Charles Fourier and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Passions of the Human Soul and Their Influence on Society and Civilization... by : Charles Fourier
Download or read book The Passions of the Human Soul and Their Influence on Society and Civilization... written by Charles Fourier and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life's Progress Through the Passions; Or, The Adventures of Natura by : Eliza Fowler Haywood
Download or read book Life's Progress Through the Passions; Or, The Adventures of Natura written by Eliza Fowler Haywood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life's Progress through the Passions; or, The Adventures of Natura," is a 1748 novel by the prominent English writer of the era Eliza Haywood. Today, she is considered one of the founders of the novel as a genre in Great Britain. Many of her works were dedicated to the position of a woman in the society of the 18th century.
Download or read book Footy Passions written by Joy Damousi and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary stories and recollections dominate this energetic glimpse into the hearts and minds of the die-hard fans of the Australian Football League. Based on interviews conducted with 50 football supporters, this account takes the roller-coaster ride through the passions of triumph and despair, mourning and melancholy, joy and fulfillment, and sacrifice and resurrection. With a keen ear, this study listens to the fans talk about the emotions associated with the game, how it gives meaning to their lives, and shows that football is much more than just a game.
Book Synopsis Wake Up to Your Passions by : Fabian Markl
Download or read book Wake Up to Your Passions written by Fabian Markl and published by Fabian Markl. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 31 Uncommon Questions That Reveal Your Hidden Passions (That You Are Not Aware Of) You are just 31 uncommon questions away from having a crystal clear idea of some of your hidden passions - that you don’t know you have. Want to discover your passions to make a career change or start a business? Want your work to be more fulfilling and exciting? Or, you just want to enjoy your daily life more and use some of your free time to have more fun? If you answered “Yes!” to any of the above questions, then you need to know how to find your passions. Most people know what their passions are. Or, they just take a quick personality test or a quiz by a career expert, and they know their passions. Other people - like me (and you?) - don’t get anywhere with such tests and quizzes. They struggle with finding their passions for years. Regardless of whether you’ve always been struggling with identifying with what you are passionate about. Or, whether you don’t consider yourself a person full of passion, or whether you’ve lost some of your passions as you went through some major life challenges and transitions, this book is going to help you. Specifically, with the help of this book, you will: • Remove the 5 biggest obstacles that prevent you from finding your passions • Learn why making a list of your “interests” or “things you love to do” didn’t work to find your passions • Have a clear idea what some of your passions are that you have not been aware of • Know what to do if your passions aren’t “profitable” or “productive” • Get started with integrating your newly discovered passions into your life even if you have no time You are just 31 uncommon questions away from having a crystal clear idea of some of your hidden passions - that you don’t know you have.
Book Synopsis Passion of the Western Mind by : Richard Tarnas
Download or read book Passion of the Western Mind written by Richard Tarnas and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
