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Book Synopsis Boston Metaphysical Society by : Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Download or read book Boston Metaphysical Society written by Madeleine Holly-Rosing and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade paperback compiling the four sequels: The Scourge of the Mechanical Men, The Spirit of Rebellion, Ghosts and Demons, The Book of Demons, plus an exclusive ten page short story called, The Meeting with art by Roberta Ingranata, color by Warnia Sahadewa, and letters by Troy Peteri. Cover art by Marguerite Sauvage. Interior art by Gwynn Tavares.
Book Synopsis Boston Metaphysical Society by : Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Download or read book Boston Metaphysical Society written by Madeleine Holly-Rosing and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are new to the series, the original six issue mini-series is about an ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist who battle supernatural forces in late 1800¿s Boston. They live in an alternate steampunk history where ghosts and demons are a normal part of life. Families known as the Great Houses control the economy of the Great States of America while the middle class and lower classes sole purpose are to serve the Great Houses.THE SCOURGE OF THE MECHANICAL MEN is a standalone continuation of the series written by Madeleine Holly-Rosing. Art, inking, and color are by Gwynn Tavares.THE STORYGranville and Tesla are in a race for time to save Boston from a mysterious disease that turns human beings into machines.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysical Club by : Louis Menand
Download or read book The Metaphysical Club written by Louis Menand and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-04-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea -- an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. Holmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things "out there" waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent -- like knives and forks and microchips -- to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely dependent-- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea deps not on its immutability but on its adaptability. The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. It begins with the Civil War and s in 1919 with Justice Holmes's dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. v. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. The first four sections of the book focus on Holmes, James, Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life.
Author :Robert Cummings Neville Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :1438448856 Total Pages :406 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Ultimates by : Robert Cummings Neville
Download or read book Ultimates written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in Metaphysics presented by the Metaphysical Society of America Robert Cummings Neville offers a new theology of the ultimate and a new theory of religion to back it up. The first volume in a trilogy, this book and companion volumes treating existence and religion advance a systematic philosophical theology to address first-order questions found in the array of Axial Age religions. Questions generally arising in the major religious traditions are interrogated with a dialectic of philosophical approaches. This volume begins the project with a consideration of ultimacy defined philosophically and illustrated in a wide range of traditions. To the question of how or why there is something rather than nothing, Neville answers with an elaborate hypothesis about the ontological act of creation that creates all determinate things as related to but different from one another. The result is the claim that there are five ultimates: the ontological act, the form of determinate things, the components of determinate things, the existential location of determinate things relative to one another, and the value-identity of ultimate things, giving rise to five universal religious problematics of ultimacy respectively: the question of existence, the ground of obligation, the quest for wholeness, engaging others, and finding meaning. Neville analyzes what can and cannot be known about each of these ultimates. Readers will find Neville's theory of religion and philosophy a bold one, running counter to dominant trends while richly informed by a long and fruitful engagement with theology, philosophy, and religion, East and West.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysical Club by : Louis Menand
Download or read book The Metaphysical Club written by Louis Menand and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysical Club was a group that met in Massachusetts, in 1872. The group believed that ideas are not things out there waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent to make their way in the world. This book is the story of that idea.
Book Synopsis Boston Confucianism by : Robert C. Neville
Download or read book Boston Confucianism written by Robert C. Neville and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Confucianism can be important to the contemporary, global conversation of philosophy and should not be confined to an East Asian context.
Download or read book The 4th Monkey written by Daniel Farrand and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th Monkey is a comic book anthology with the purpose of raising awareness about environmental and social issues through story.
Book Synopsis Philosophy of Being by : Oliva Blanchette
Download or read book Philosophy of Being written by Oliva Blanchette and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims to reopen the fundamental question of being. It raises the question of being after the natural sciences and phenomenology have run their course and pursues it according to a method that is properly metaphysical as well as critical.
Book Synopsis The Doorknob Society by : MJ Fletcher
Download or read book The Doorknob Society written by MJ Fletcher and published by MJ Fletcher. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloe Masters’ world changes in a heartbeat and all she did was touch a doorknob. When she was young Chloe’s mother vanished. Wracked by feelings of abandonment and anger she lost herself traveling with her fathers magic act, where illusions were part of her everyday life. Yet everything changes when they are pursued by a mysterious man in black out to kill her father. Touching a doorknob activates abilities she never knew she had and she finds herself thrust into a world of ancient societies and secrets. When her father disappears it is a race against time to find answers before she loses whats left of her family. Now Chloe must choose who to trust, the man who will do anything for her or the one she can’t stop thinking about. Book one of the Doorknob Society Saga.
Book Synopsis Beyond Mechanism by : Brian G. Henning
Download or read book Beyond Mechanism written by Brian G. Henning and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang “in the air” (Bowler, 1983; 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers together, this volume explores what might be termed “the New Frontiers” of biology, namely contemporary areas of research that appear to call an updating, a supplementation, or a relaxation of some of the main tenets of the Modern Synthesis. Such areas of investigation include: Emergence Theory, Systems Biology, Biosemiotics, Homeostasis, Symbiogenesis, Niche Construction, the Theory of Organic Selection (also known as “the Baldwin Effect”), Self-Organization and Teleodynamics, as well as Epigenetics. Most of the chapters in this book offer critical reflections on the neo-Darwinist outlook and work to promote a novel synthesis that is open to a greater degree of inclusivity as well as to a more holistic orientation in the biological sciences.
Book Synopsis The Life of Plants by : Emanuele Coccia
Download or read book The Life of Plants written by Emanuele Coccia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life. From this standpoint, we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Since our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone, life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words, life exists only insofar as it consumes other life, removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation. In contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms, Coccia’s account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big, offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.
Book Synopsis Boston Metaphysical Society by : Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Download or read book Boston Metaphysical Society written by Madeleine Holly-Rosing and published by Brass-T Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Medal Winner in the Feathered Quill Book Awards. Politics and power. Demons and spirits. When ex-Pinkerton detective Samuel Hunter married Elizabeth Weldsmore, the heir to one of Boston's Great Houses, he knew his life would change forever, but he never expected the return of Elizabeth's psychic abilities. Not only do they have to keep it a secret, but Elizabeth must learn quickly how to master them. For a psychic in a Great House is a political liability which her father, Jonathan Weldsmore, knows only too well. As the Great Houses jockey for power, the three of them must contend with treachery, subterfuge, and potentially a new demonic threat, in this political and supernatural thriller set in an alternate-history Boston of 1890. This novel is the prequel to the popular graphic novel, Boston Metaphysical Society: The Complete Series.
Book Synopsis Boston Metaphysical Society by : Madeleine Holly-Rosing
Download or read book Boston Metaphysical Society written by Madeleine Holly-Rosing and published by BRASS-T PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist battle supernatural forces in late 1800's Boston. Includes the complete six issue mini-series, plus the ten page story, Hunter-Killer.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysical Thought of Godfrey of Fontaines by : John F. Wippel
Download or read book The Metaphysical Thought of Godfrey of Fontaines written by John F. Wippel and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Students of the final troubled decades of the thirteenth-century (following the censures of the 1270s) will be delighted to have this richly researched presentation of the metaphysics of Godfrey of Fontaines."--Modern Schoolman "Plainly the indispensable key to understanding and evaluating Godfrey's thought."--International Studies in Philosophy "A clearly written and substantial contribution to our understanding of this important period in medieval thought. . . ."--Choice "This excellent study makes accessible the central philosophical ideas of one of the three or four most important Parisian masters of theology between Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. Already the leading authority on his subject, Professor Wippel here draws together and greatly extends his previous work, providing a superbly documented view of the highest of high scholastic discussion as seen in the contributions of a subtle and spirited participant."--Speculum
Book Synopsis The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by : Vine Deloria, Jr.
Download or read book The Metaphysics of Modern Existence written by Vine Deloria, Jr. and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.
Book Synopsis JALISCO, Latina Superhero by : Kayden Phoenix
Download or read book JALISCO, Latina Superhero written by Kayden Phoenix and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latina Superhero, Graphic Novel
Download or read book Dark Archives written by Megan Rosenbloom and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.
