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Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding

Author : H. Peter Steeves
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438466536
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding written by H. Peter Steeves and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture. Through a careful analysis of concrete examples taken from everyday experience and culture, Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding develops a straightforward and powerful aesthetic methodology founded on a phenomenological approach to experienceone that investigates how consciousness engages with the world and thus what it means to take such things as tastes, images, sounds, and even a life itself as art. H. Peter Steeves begins by exploring what it means to see, and considers how disruptions of sight can help us rethink how perception works. Engaging the work of Derrida, Heidegger, and Husserl, he uses these insights about seeing to undertake a systematic phenomenological investigation of how we perceive and process a range of aesthetic objects, including the paintings of Arshile Gorky, the films of Michael Haneke, Disneys Beauty and the Beast, zombie films, The Simpsons, the performance art of Rachel Rosenthal and Andy Kaufman, and even vegan hot dogs. Refusing hierarchical distinctions between high and low art, Steeves argues that we must conceptualize the whole of human experience as aesthetic: art is lived, and living is an art. This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent phenomenologist of culture. Its extremely accessible, illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being philosophically probing. David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

Things Themselves, The

Author : H. Peter Steeves
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481271
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Things Themselves, The written by H. Peter Steeves and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Bright and Blinding Sun

Author : Marcus Brotherton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316319104
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book A Bright and Blinding Sun written by Marcus Brotherton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author comes the incredible true story of an underage soldier's first love and loss on the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor—perfect for fans of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz and Unbroken. Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. He managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army two years later. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. Adrift in spirit, Joe visited a teenage prostitute, and they became unlikely, smitten allies. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 8, 1941, their hopes of being together had to wait. Joe and his fellow soldiers fought for four brutal months in Bataan and Corregidor, until they were forced to surrender. The boy endured years of horror as a prisoner of war, only dreaming about seeing again the girl he’d come to love. This lyrically written and deeply encouraging saga will remind you that every life can be lifted, forgiveness is the patron of restoration, and redemption is available to all.

Bright Young Things

Author : Anna Godbersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062023918
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Bright Young Things written by Anna Godbersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a star. . . . Cordelia is searching for the father she's never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imagined—and more dangerous. It's a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will. The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. But Astrid's perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets. Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls' fortunes will rise and fall—together and apart. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.

Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics

Author : Hans Rainer Sepp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048124719
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics written by Hans Rainer Sepp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, phenomenology began in Edmund Husserl’s theory of mathematics and logic, went on to focus for him on transcendental rst philosophy and for others on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and theory of interpretation. The c- tinuing focus has thus been on knowledge and being. But if one began without those interests and with an understanding of the phenomenological style of approach, one might well see that art and aesthetics make up the most natural eld to be approached phenomenologically. Contributions to this eld have continually been made in the phenomenological tradition from very early on, but, so to speak, along the side. (The situation has been similar with phenomenological ethics. ) A great deal of thought about art and aesthetics has nevertheless accumulated during a century and a handbook like the present one is long overdue. The project of this handbook began in conversations over dinner in Sepp’s apa- ment in Baden-Baden at one evening of the hot European summer in the year 2003. As things worked out, he knew more about whom to ask and how much space to allocate to each entry and Embree knew more about how to conduct the inviting, preliminary editing, and prodding of contributors who were late returning their criticized drafts and copyedited entries and was able to invest the time and other resources from his endowed chair. That process took longer than anticipated and there were additional unfortunate delays due to factors beyond the editors’s control.

The Blinding Knife

Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316215813
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Blinding Knife written by Brent Weeks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week. Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left -- now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiance who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago. If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks.

Beautiful Days: A Bright Young Things Novel

Author : Anna Godbersen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061962686
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Days: A Bright Young Things Novel written by Anna Godbersen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the bright young things of 1929, the beautiful days seem endless, filled with romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, friendship and rivalry. After a month in New York, Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are small-town girls no longer. They spend their afternoons with Astrid Donal at the Greys’ lush Long Island estate and their nights in Manhattan’s bustling metropolis. But Letty’s not content to be a mere socialite. She is ready at last to chase her Broadway dreams—no matter the cost. Cordelia is still reeling from the death of her father at the hands of Thom Hale, the man she thought she loved. Now she is set to honor Darius Grey’s legacy . . . and take her revenge. Promised to Cordelia’s half brother, Astrid is caught up in a world of dazzling jewels and glittering nights—and the sparkle is blinding. Charlie Grey is a gangster playing a dangerous game; and for Astrid, Cordelia, and Letty, the stakes could be deadly. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes the second book in an epic series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.

The Beautiful Land

Author : Alan Averill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101610980
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Land written by Alan Averill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takahiro O’Leary has a very special job… …working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines—as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig—until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school—because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak’s ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he “borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline. But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land—and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it. The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp—horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world…

This Blinding Absence of Light

Author : Tahar Ben Jelloun
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 014303572X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book This Blinding Absence of Light written by Tahar Ben Jelloun and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies in underground cells with no light and only enough food and water to keep them lingering on the edge of death. Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun narrates the story in the simplest of language and delivers a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.

Founding Community

Author : H.P. Steeves
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792347989
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Founding Community written by H.P. Steeves and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The direction of this text is both phenomenological and prescriptive as it attempts to provide a phenomenological foundation for communitarian ethical theory. It argues that the Ego and the Other arise together in sense and we are committed to community in a foundational way.

A Death for Beauty or An Immortal

Author :
Publisher : Freedom Rivers Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death for Beauty or An Immortal written by and published by Freedom Rivers Books. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the Civil War, a troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after the death of her abusive husband.

A Death for Beauty

Author : A. R. Arias
Publisher : Freedom Rivers Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death for Beauty written by A. R. Arias and published by Freedom Rivers Books. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking story about survival, second chances, and the mysteries of death. Set during the Civil War, a troubled young woman ventures across the western plains with her sickly daughter in tow. Virginia Mae Mercy dreams of a new life with an unscrupulous businessman who promises her a pot of gold. But her uncertain journey soon reveals a mystery, and what she encounters along the fringes of the Oregon Trail, in the dark corners of the prairies, will change her life forever.

Beauty and the Beast

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1543530117
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a tale as old as time. But what happens when Beauty is a real beast? Or when the prince is an android? Navigate your way through three twisted tales of the classic fairy tale. Will YOU CHOOSE the path to your happily ever after?

Mosaic

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Mosaic written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beauty for Ashes

Author : Alexander Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Beauty for Ashes written by Alexander Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

House Beautiful

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book House Beautiful written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bright Unbearable Reality

Author : Anna Badkhen
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681377063
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Bright Unbearable Reality written by Anna Badkhen and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction Essays about migration, displacement, and the hope for connection in a time of emotional and geopolitical disruption by a Soviet-born writer and former war correspondent. Called a “chronicler of a world on the move” by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time when one in seven people has left their birthplace, while a pandemic dictates the direst season of rupture in humankind’s remembering. Her new essay collection, Bright Unbearable Reality, comprises eleven essays set on four continents—roving everywhere from Oklahoma to Azerbaijan—and united by a common thread of communion and longing. In these essays, Badkhen addresses the human condition in the era of such unprecedented dislocation, contemplates the roles of memory and wonder in how we relate to one another, and asks how we can soberly and responsibly counter despair and continue to develop—or at least imagine—an emotional vocabulary against depravity. The subject throughout the collection is bright unbearable reality itself, a translation of Greek enargeia, which, says the poet Alice Oswald, is “when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves.” Essays include: • In “The Pandemic, Our Common Story,” which takes place in the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, one of the locations where humankind originated, the onset of the global pandemic catches Badkhen mid-journey, researching human dispersal 160,000 years ago and migration in modern times. • In “How to Read the Air,” set mostly in Philadelphia, Badkhen looks to the ancient Greeks for help pondering our need for certainty at a time of racist violence, political upheaval, and environmental cataclysm. • “Ways of Seeing” and the title essay “Bright Unbearable Reality” wrestle with complications of distance and specifically the bird’s eye view—the relationship between physical distance, understanding, and engagement. • “Landscape with Icarus” examines how and why children go missing, while “Dark Matter” explores how violence always takes us by surprise.