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The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry

Author : Heather Eaton
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739185918
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry written by Heather Eaton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural visionary of extraordinary stature. Thomas Berry’s vast knowledge of history, religions, and cultural histories is a unique blend revealing a genuine, original thinker. The ecological crisis, in all its manifestations, came to dominate Berry’s concerns. He perceived that the greatest need was to offer the possibility of a viable future for an Earth community. Many know of his proposal for a functional cosmology, the need for a new story, and a vital Earth sensitive spirituality. Few know of his rich and varied intellectual journey. The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community is about the roots and insights hidden within his ecological, spiritual proposal. These essays, written by experts on Thomas Berry’s work, probe into, and reveal distinct themes that permeate his work, in gratitude for his contribution to the Earth.

Intellectual Journeys in Ecological Psychology

Author : Agnes Szokolszky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000825612
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Journeys in Ecological Psychology written by Agnes Szokolszky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual Journeys in Ecological Psychology: Interviews and Reflections from Pioneers in the Field presents 12 in-depth interviews with prominent scientists associated with Ecological Psychology, rooted in James Gibson’s radical approach to perception. Featuring a mix of interviews conducted around the turn of the millennium with leading figures of Ecological Psychology, the book reveals discussions not previously found in publications and authentic personal perspectives about the early days of Ecological Psychology, a significant paradigm of post-cognitivist psychology. The interviews are supplemented by current reflections that bridge the past to the present. Each interview chapter also contains a brief biography of the interviewee and a list of their top ten most significant publications. An introductory chapter by Harry Heft provides an overview of Gibson’s theory and the post-Gibsonian theoretical landscape. A further chapter by the editors highlights lineages and patterns in the scientific careers and work of the interviewees. An epilogue by William Warren concludes the volume, addressing the current state and directions of Ecological Psychology. In the Appendix photographs taken by Sverker Runeson in the 1960s and 1970s show scenes and actors from scientific event in Ecological Psychology. This book will be beneficial to all researchers and students in the international community of Ecological Psychology. It will also serve as a starting point for those who wish to learn more about the movement and origins of Ecological Psychology.

Intellectual Journeys

Author : Lise Andries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786947376
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Journeys written by Lise Andries and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exchange of ideas between nations during the Enlightenment was greatly facilitated by cultural ventures, commercial enterprise and scientific collaboration. But how were they exchanged? What were the effects of these exchanges on the idea or artefact being transferred?Focussing on contact between England, France and Ireland, a team of specialists explores the translation, appropriation and circulation of cultural products and scientific ideas during the Enlightenment. Through analysis of literary and artistic works, periodicals and official writings contributors uncover:the key role played by literary translators and how they adapted, naturalized and sometimes distorted plays and novels to conform to new cultural norms;the effects of eighteenth-century anglomania, and how this was manifested in French art;how the vagaries of international politics and conflict affected both the cultural products themselves and the modes of dissemination;how religious censorship engendered new Irish Catholic and French Huguenot diasporas, with their particular intellectual pursuits and networks of exchange;the significance of newspapers and periodicals in disseminating new knowledge and often radical philosophical ideas.By exploring both broad areas of cultural activity and precise examples of cultural transfer, contributors toIntellectual journeysreveal the range and complexity of intellectual exchange and its role in the formation of a truly transnational Enlightenment.

By Force of Thought

Author : János Kornai
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262612240
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book By Force of Thought written by János Kornai and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual autobiography of an economist influential in both command economies and free market economies that discusses his life, work, and the social and political environment during the Second World War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath, and the post-socialist transition.

Spiritual Psychology: The Fourth Intellectual Journey in Transcendent Philosophy. Volume VIII & IX of the Asfar

Author : Mulla Sadra Shirazi
Publisher : ICAS Press
ISBN 13 : 1904063314
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Psychology: The Fourth Intellectual Journey in Transcendent Philosophy. Volume VIII & IX of the Asfar written by Mulla Sadra Shirazi and published by ICAS Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-diciplinary and inter-diciplinary work presents the rethinking of the entire tradition of Islamic philosophical psychology by Mulla Sadra on the most profound questions and issues pertaining to the soul. It includes the views of the ancient Greek philosophers and physicians, Muslim philosophers, theologians, Sufis, theosophists and physicians, the teachings of the Qur'an the Traditions of the Prophets and the Shi'ite Imams and Mulla Sadra's own profound insights and intellectual elucidations combined with impeccable logical proofs and demonstration. It deals with the definition of the soul, the proof of its existence, its birth as corporeal and its survival as spiritual, various levels of the soul and the body, the vertical development of the soul through its substantial motion, the soul-body relation, the holistic approach to psychosomatic diseases, the resurrection and post-mortem survival of the soul, the body of the resurrection, his original interpretation of metempsychosis, the meaning of Heaven and Hell and the intellectual or spirituas worlds beyond this world. The central issue in this work is self-knowledge. The human soul is created in the Image of God with a purpose. This image comes to full actualization through self-knowledge, which according to Mulla Sadra is the key to knowledge of God, the Day of Resurrection and the Return of all creatures to God.

Itinerary

Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780156010719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Itinerary written by Octavio Paz and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today. It is the final work by a great thinker and a magnificent writer.

Augustine's Intellectual Conversion

Author : Brian Dobell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513391
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Augustine's Intellectual Conversion written by Brian Dobell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Augustine's intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13-21.27. It is widely assumed that this occurred in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine's volitional conversion in the garden at Milan. Brian Dobell argues, however, that Augustine's intellectual conversion did not occur until the mid-390s, and develops this claim by comparing Confessions 7.9.13-21.27 with a number of important passages and themes from Augustine's early writings. He thus invites the reader to consider anew the problem of Augustine's conversion in 386: was it to Platonism or Christianity? His original and important study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the history of philosophy and the history of theology.

A Scholar's Tale

Author : Geoffrey Hartman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823228347
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book A Scholar's Tale written by Geoffrey Hartman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies, and he was a pioneer in Jewish studies, trauma studies, and studies of the Holocaust. At Yale, he was a founder of its Judaic Studies program, as well as of the first major video archive for Holocaust testimonies. Generations of students have benefited from Hartman’s generosity, his penetrating and incisive questioning, the wizardry of his close reading, and his sense that the work of a literary scholar, no less than that of an artist, is a creative act. All these qualities shine forth in this intellectual memoir, which will stand as his autobiography. Hartman describes his early education, uncanny sense of vocation, and development as a literary scholar and cultural critic. He looks back at how his career was influenced by his experience, at the age of nine, of being a refugee from Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport. He spent the next six years at school in England, where he developed his love of English literature and the English countryside, before leaving to join his mother in America. Hartman treats us to a “biobibliography” of his engagements with the major trends in literary criticism. He covers the exciting period at Yale handled so controversially by the media and gives us vivid portraits, in particular, of Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. All this is set in the context of his gradual self-awareness of what scholarship implies and how his personal displacements strengthened his calling to mediate between European and American literary cultures. Anyone looking for a rich, intelligible account of the last half-century of combative literary studies will want to read Geoffrey Hartman’s unapologetic scholar’s tale.

The Mind of Pope Francis

Author : Massimo Borghesi
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814687911
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Mind of Pope Francis written by Massimo Borghesi and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader but that he lacks the intellectual depth of his recent predecessors. Massimo Borghesi’s The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey dismantles that image. Borghesi recounts and analyzes, for the first time, Bergoglio’s intellectual formation, exploring the philosophical, theological, and spiritual principles that support the profound vision at the heart of this pope’s teaching and ministry. Central to that vision is the church as a coincidentia oppositorum, holding together what might seem to be opposing and irreconcilable realities. Among his guiding lights have been the Jesuit saints, Ignatius and Peter Faber; philosophers Gaston Fessard, Romano Guardini, and Alberto Methol Ferrer; and theologians Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Recognizing how these various strands have come together to shape the mind and heart of Jorge Mario Bergoglio offers essential insights into who he is and the way he is leading the church. Notably, this groundbreaking book is informed by four interviews provided to the author, via audio recordings, by the pope himself on his own intellectual formation, major portions of which are published here for the first time.

Genius--in Their Own Words

Author : David Ramsay Steele
Publisher : Open Court Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780812695038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Genius--in Their Own Words written by David Ramsay Steele and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven of the 20th century's greatest thinkers describe how they arrived at the ideas for which they are now known. The seven great thinkers are: A.J. Ayer, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Bertrand Russell, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

The end of the Western Civilization? The Intellectual Journey of Humanity to Adulthood

Author : Hippokratis Kiaris
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 164889593X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The end of the Western Civilization? The Intellectual Journey of Humanity to Adulthood written by Hippokratis Kiaris and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilizations can be perceived as living human beings that are born, mature, age, and ultimately die and disappear, passing their legacy to the future generations. These transitions may be projected to the different stages of cognitive development of children. The Western Civilization, which embodies our current state of cultural advancement from the Classic Greek to the modern period, can be paralleled by the gradual transitions of human beings toward adulthood. From this perspective, the ancient Greek era resembles the toddler years of humanity at which the first “why”-type questions are being asked. The theocratic period that followed until the Renaissance can be seen as our childhood, when people lived their lives under the tight boundaries set by religious authorities. The period spanning from the Enlightenment until almost the end of the 20th century can be considered as our teenage years when people rediscover their past, are liberated from superstition, and set the path forward based on reason by a manner at which the distinction between plausible and feasible is vague. Within this scheme, postmodernism also finds its place in our teenhood. The last few decades, from this perspective, signify our entrance to adulthood at which major questions are considered answered, or at least settled, and the only path forward perceived as feasible is the one that is followed already, a state that is bringing us closer to our intellectual aging and its inevitable death. Some signs of aging-related pathologies are already manifested in today’s technology-intensive society. By identifying our intellectual age and by appreciating our health status, we may be able to proactively delay or even avert our intellectual aging and death.

Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport

Author : Armand L. Mauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607812043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport written by Armand L. Mauss and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of a Mormon intellectual examines his navigation between faith and academic life

Intellectual Imagination

Author : Omedi Ochieng
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268103321
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Imagination written by Omedi Ochieng and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual vocation. Omedi Ochieng argues that robust and rigorous thought about the form and contours of intellectual practices is best envisioned in light of a comprehensive critical contextual ontology—that is, a systematic account of the context, forms, and dimensions in and through which knowledge and aesthetic practices are created, embodied, translated, and learned. Such an ontology not only accounts for the embeddedness of intellectual practices in the deep structures of politics, economics, and culture, but also in turn demonstrates the constitutive power of critical inquiry. It is against this background that Ochieng unfolds a multidimensional and capacious theory of knowledge and aesthetics. In a critique of the oppositional binaries that now reign in the modern and postmodern academy—binaries that pit fact versus value, science versus the humanities, knowledge versus aesthetics—Ochieng argues for the inextricable intertwinement of reason, interpretation, and the imagination. The book offers a close and deep reading of North Atlantic and African philosophers, thereby illuminating the resonances and contrasts between diverse intellectual traditions. The upshot is an incisively rich, layered, and textured reading of the archetypal intellectual styles and aesthetic forms that have fired the imagination of intellectuals across the globe. Ochieng’s book is a radical summons to a practice and an imagination of the intellectual life as the realization of good societies and good lives.

Hayek's Challenge

Author : Bruce Caldwell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226091929
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Hayek's Challenge written by Bruce Caldwell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell—editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek—understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal social theorist. Caldwell begins by providing the necessary background for understanding Hayek's thought, tracing the emergence, in fin-de-siècle Vienna, of the Austrian school of economics—a distinctive analysis forged in the midst of contending schools of thought. In the second part of the book, Caldwell follows the path by which Hayek, beginning from the standard Austrian assumptions, gradually developed his unique perspective on not only economics but a broad range of social phenomena. In the third part, Caldwell offers both an assessment of Hayek's arguments and, in an epilogue, an insightful estimation of how Hayek's insights can help us to clarify and reexamine changes in the field of economics during the twentieth century. As Hayek's ideas matured, he became increasingly critical of developments within mainstream economics: his works grew increasingly contrarian and evolved in striking—and sometimes seemingly contradictory—ways. Caldwell is ideally suited to explain the complex evolution of Hayek's thought, and his analysis here is nothing short of brilliant, impressively situating Hayek in a broader intellectual context, unpacking the often difficult turns in his thinking, and showing how his economic ideas came to inform his ideas on the other social sciences. Hayek's Challenge will be received as one of the most important works published on this thinker in recent decades.

Hadith

Author : Gholamali Haddad Adel
Publisher : EWI Press
ISBN 13 : 1908433078
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Hadith written by Gholamali Haddad Adel and published by EWI Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadith are second only to the Qur’an in their importance in the Islamic tradition. The present book offers a comprehensive analysis of virtually all aspects of hadith. Both Sunni and Shi‘i hadith are discussed with respect to the Qur’an, including the role of hadith in Qur’anic exegesis. The hadith are also discussed with regards to various subjects, such as theology, ethics, philosophy, mysticism, and history. Both traditional and Western approaches to the question of the authoritativeness of hadith are examined. This book is part of a series of translations from the Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (EWI) which was originally compiled in Persian. Other entries from this encyclopaedia which are available in English include Hawza-yi ‘Ilmiyya, History and Historiography, Muslim Organisations, Political Parties, Qur’anic Exegeses, Qur’anic Exegesis, and Education in the Islamic Civilisation.

Of Economics, Policy, and Development

Author : Deena Khatkhate
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198078982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Of Economics, Policy, and Development written by Deena Khatkhate and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr I.G. Patel wrote on a wide range of issues related to theory and policy in the areas of money, finance, trade, balance of payments, and economic development. This collection presents a tapestry of ideas that continue to be relevant in the contemporary Indian and global economic setting.

The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire

Author : Carlos Alberto Torres
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119236711
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire written by Carlos Alberto Torres and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new insights on the lasting impact of famed philosopher and educator Paulo Freire 50 years after the publication of his masterpiece, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this book brings new perspectives on rethinking and reinventing Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire. Written by the most premier exponents and experts of Freirean scholarship, it explores the currency of Freire's contribution to social theory, educational reform, and democratic education. It also analyzes the intersections of Freire’s theories with other crucial social theorists such as Gramsci, Gandhi, Habermas, Dewey, Sen, etc. The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire studies the history and context of the man as a global public intellectual, moving from Brazil to the rest of the world and back. Each section offers insides on the epistemology of the global south initiated by Freire with his work in Latin America; the connections between class, gender, race, religion, the state and eco-pedagogy in the work of Freire; and the contributions he made to democratic education and educational reform. Presents original theory and analysis of Freire’s life and work Offers unique and comprehensive analysis of the reception and application of Paulo Freire in international education on all continents Provides a complete historical study of Freire’s contributions to education Systematically analyzes the impact of Freire in teachers training, higher education, and lifelong learning The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire is an ideal book for courses on international and comparative education, pedagogy, education policy, international development, and Latin America studies.