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Author : John McManners
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Death and the Enlightenment written by John McManners and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McManners
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Death and the Enlightenment written by John McManners and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of pestilence and plague, and examines the terrible fears connected with childbirth, disease, disfigurement, mortality, and the hereafter. He also examines suicide, public execution, and the rites surrounding the deathbed, and demonstrates how the period's ever-present concern with death and dying was transformed into the Romantic cult of melancholy that occupied the creative imagination of generations to come.
Author : Scott Carney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069818629X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book A Death on Diamond Mountain written by Scott Carney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson’s death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations—and undertake it in illusory ways—can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson’s wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson’s death illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson’s private papers, along with cutting-edge neurological research that reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes, A Death on Diamond Mountain is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.
Author : Mark Matousek
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781948626255
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Sex Death Enlightenment written by Mark Matousek and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic memoir, a gay man living a fast-track life in NYC (working for artist Andy Warhol), escapes to India, confronts his demons, and takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride to realize his dreams and discover the true meaning of life and holiness.
Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754818
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought written by Stephen Miller and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Hume and Johnson told profoundly different views of religion, their political thinking has much in common. Their reformist thought differs radically from what might be called the transformist thought of Marat, who hoped the French would become disinterested citizens whose civil religion was patriotism.".
Author : Harry Redner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351472631
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals written by Harry Redner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth instalment of Harry Redner's tetralogy on the history of civilization argues that intellectuals have a brilliant past, a dubious present, and possibly no future. He contends that the philosophers of the seventeenth century laid the ground for the intellectuals of the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. They, in turn, promoted a fundamental transformation of human consciousness: they literally intellectualized the world. The outcome was the disenchantment of the world in all its cultural dimensions: in art, religion, ethics, politics, and philosophy.In this fascinating study, Redner demonstrates how secularization took the sting out of both the dread and promise of an afterlife and intellectuals learned to die without the hope of immortality popularized by philosophy and religion. Ultimately, they produced the ideologies that generated the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, which subsequently exterminated these intellectuals through mass murder on a scale never before experienced. The book traces the sources of this fatal entanglement and goes on to examine the contemporary condition of intellectuals in America and the world.Wherein lies the future of the intellectuals? Redner suggest that in the present state of globalization, dominated by technocrats, experts, and professionals, their fate remains uncertain.
Author : Gabriel Dee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781515019916
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The Power of Death written by Gabriel Dee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ONLY Book You Need for Lasting Motivation, Personal Transformation and Spiritual Growth Do you want to change your life, but constantly lose motivation? Are you trying to find or transform yourself? Are you seeking spiritual enlightenment? Stop the search, and get the book now! The Power of Death will show you a revolutionary method to reach all of the above and more. This technique was invented by the Buddha, but it has not been widely used, because it seems so contradictory and radical at first. However, the lives of millions of people is the proof that it works. Although it "happened" to them by accident, now you can learn to use it consciously at will. This is the secret of the greatest spiritual teachers that they hardly talk about, but that led to their own enlightenment. You probably didn't hear about this method before, and this information is not available elsewhere in such a comprehensive form. Steve Jobs said that this was his most important tool to help him make big choices in life. It is simple, and you can do it, too. You are about to discover: How to develop lasting motivation effortlessly without willpower? How to live an authentic and meaningful life instead of just surviving? How to eradicate all of your fears, and have the courage to be yourself? Why personal development is a trap, and radical transformation is the only way? Why belief is the greatest barrier in spiritual growth, and how to go beyond it? How to recognize the different games of the ego, and stop cheating yourself? How to develop real compassion without "trying" to be a good person? This is the Master Key That Will Unlock the 7 Doors to Spiritual Growth All at Once Even if you are not interested in spirituality, the Power of Death can make you take the first step. And if you are a spiritual seeker, this can be the last step on your path. It is guaranteed to change your life one way or another. In this book, you will find out: How to wake up from the illusion that you are living in? How to develop unconditional love and deep compassion? How to be in the here and now and live the present moment? How to be grateful for every moment without trying it too hard? How to drop your ego effortlessly and finally find yourself? How to develop real non-attachment and deep acceptance? How to face death and experience your immortality? I will not only tell you why this works, but also show you how to practice it in everyday life. During my travels, I have tried almost all of the spiritual techniques in the world, and this is the most powerful one that I know of. It also played an important part on my own spiritual path that ultimately led to enlightenment. Let me share it with you!
Author : Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
ISBN 13 : 1782275568
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Murder in the Age of Enlightenment written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stylishly original collection of seven newly translated stories from the iconic Japanese writer The stories in this fantastical, unconventional collection are subtly wrought depictions of the darkness of our desires. From an isolated bamboo grove, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, to the Emperor's court, they offer glimpses into moments of madness, murder, and obsession. Vividly translated by Bryan Karetnyk, they unfold in elegant, sometimes laconic, always gripping prose. Akutagawa's stories are characterised by their stylish originality; they are stories to be read again and again.
Author : Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Publisher : eNPublishers
ISBN 13 : 1606070134
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Door to Enlightenment written by Paramahamsa Nithyananda and published by eNPublishers. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Matousek
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948626268
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Sex Death Enlightenment written by Mark Matousek and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's hard to know when you're having a breakdown in New York City. The symptoms of living here, succeeding here, and losing your mind here are almost identical." So begins Matousek's 1996 breakout memoir about leaving a fast-track publishing life (working for pop artist Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine) and hitting the dharma trail in search of a meaningful life and spiritual wisdom. Hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "brave, beautiful, and brilliantly observed," Sex Death Enlightenment became an international best seller (published in 10 countries). Like Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat Pray Love and Paul Monette in Borrowed Time, Matousek takes the reader on an insightful, rollicking search for answers to life's deepest questions in this landmark memoir. “Mark Matousek takes you everywhere his title promises – and then some. Sex Death Enlightenment is the most gripping and elegantly written memoir I’ve read in ages. It tugged me onward like the best suspense novel, though I couldn’t help lingering time and again to savor its wisdom.” —Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City “An extraordinarily articulate chronicle of how the sickness of our time can spawn spiritual awakening and compassion.” —Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now and Grist For the Mill “Brave, beautiful and brilliantly observed.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : James MacGregor Burns
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024900
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Fire and Light written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western civilization and shows us how understanding them is essential for anyone who would seek to decipher the complex problems and potentialities of the world we will live in tomorrow." --Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 "James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America - for better and for worse - what it is." --Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Revolutionary Summer Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to vivid life the galaxy of revolutionary leaders of thought and action who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, driven by a hunger for change, created the modern world. Burns discovers the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment in men like the Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. Today the same questions Enlightenment thinkers grappled with have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab Spring, in the former Soviet Union, and China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns's exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions.
Author : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Dead written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas J. Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472537539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (375 download)
Download or read book In the Age of Enlightenment written by Douglas J. Davies and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How has our understanding of death evolved over the course of 2,500 years? What can recorded history tell us about how different cultures and societies have felt about, experienced, responded to and marked the occasion of death across different periods and lands? These are the questions pursued by 54 experts in this landmark work that explores the way past societies thought, behaved and developed as they wrestled with enormity of their own mortality. The volumes draw on history, anthropology and cultural studies to carve a complete picture of death, its symbols and interpretations from Antiquity to the present day."--Publisher site.
Author : Michel Vovelle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226865683
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Portraits written by Michel Vovelle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-08-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A subtle and complex study of the Enlightenment, this book allows us to reflect on how nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars have constructed our views on eighteenth-century people.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300203993
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Culture and the Death of God written by Terry Eagleton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new observations on the persistence of God in modern times, and considers how the war on terror and a post-9/11 society has impacted atheism.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525427570
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Now written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
Author : Arianne Baggerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004172696
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Child of the Enlightenment written by Arianne Baggerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s sheds new light on the rise of autobiographical writing in the 19th century and sketches a panoramic view of Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution and the Batavian Revolution in the Netherlands provide the backdrop to this study, which ranges from changing perceptions of time, space and nature to the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and its influence on such far-flung fields as education, landscape gardening and politics. The book describes the high expectations people had of science and medicine, and their disappointment at the failure of these new branches of learning to cure the world of its ills.
