Loneliness Of A Caribbean Philosopher And Other Essays

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Loneliness of a Caribbean Philosopher and Other Essays

Author : Earl McKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789769557987
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Loneliness of a Caribbean Philosopher and Other Essays written by Earl McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Caribbean cannot hope to develop great thinkers unless it nurtures them, and in all the great civilizations I know about philosophy has been the main nursery for the development of these transformative persons. In this book McKenzie tells the story of how he developed his convictions about the importance of this discipline, and how he decided to become an academic philosopher and a teacher and researcher in the subject, and especially in the exploration of the virtually unknown area of Caribbean Philosophy. He describes some of the challenges he faced in a social and intellectual environment that is unaccustomed to this subject, and how he tried to overcome his loneliness by seeking company in the writings of thinkers such as Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Édouard Glissant, in the creative writings of Lorna Goodison and Earl Lovelace, in the thinking of Rastafari, the art of Edna Manley, and in the proverbs of Jamaica. Loneliness of a Caribbean Philosopher offers an apologia for academic philosophy as a part of the West Indian intellectual tradition."--Page 4 of cover.

African Epistemology

Author : Peter Aloysius Ikhane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000854124
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book African Epistemology written by Peter Aloysius Ikhane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems originating within the African continent. Bringing together key voices from across the field of African philosophy, this book explores the nature of knowledge across the continent and how they are rooted in Africans’ ontological sense of being and self. At a time when moves to decolonize curricula are gaining momentum, this book shows how understanding the specific ways of knowing that form part of the every day life of the African, will play an important part in rebalancing studies of philosophy globally. Employing critical, conceptual and rigorous analyses of the nature and essence of knowledge as understood by indigenous African societies, the book ultimately asks what could pass as an African theory of knowledge. This important guide to the connections between knowledge and being, in African philosophical thought, will be an important resource for researchers and students of philosophy and African studies.

Loneliness as a Way of Life

Author : Thomas Dumm
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047885
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Loneliness as a Way of Life written by Thomas Dumm and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒWhat does it mean to be lonely?Ó Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in ShakespeareÕs King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern lonelinessÑhow it is a response to the problem of the Òmissing mother.Ó Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experienceÑBeing, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural textsÑMoby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, EmersonÕs ÒExperience,Ó to name a fewÑwith his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rareÑan intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us.

Loneliness and Other Essays

Author : Agnes L. Larkcom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Loneliness and Other Essays written by Agnes L. Larkcom and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultures of Solitude

Author : Ina Bergmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Solitude written by Ina Bergmann and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris

Author : Gianluca Delfino
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838269055
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris written by Gianluca Delfino and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gianluca Delfino’s study of one of the Caribbean’s most controversial authors paves the way for looking at Wilson Harris’s body of work in a new light. Harris’s imaginative approach to reality is discussed in relation to the categories of history and time with reference to several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal, Jonestown, and The Dark Jester, spanning more than forty years of his vast literary production. Delfino’s analysis, encompassing critical perspectives ranging from African philosophy to Jungian readings through historiography and anthropology, demonstrates that Harris’s works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author’s complex imagination. As a result, the cross-cultural quality of Harris’s thought emerges as a healing outcome of the traumatic colonial encounter, bringing together elements of Amerindian, African, and European origin in an ongoing dialogue with time, nature, and the psyche.

Morality in Tess and Other Essays: In Honour of Mulk Raj Anand

Author : Atma Ram
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170996101
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Morality in Tess and Other Essays: In Honour of Mulk Raj Anand written by Atma Ram and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Diaspora and the Metropolis

Author : Fassil Demissie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317988051
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book African Diaspora and the Metropolis written by Fassil Demissie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North America. These individuals traversed the "middle passage" in the opposite direction from the forced journey undertaken by their enslaved ancestors. Later they began to arrive in large numbers as free men and women in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Lisbon, New York, and other places in the metropolis by steam ships and later by planes, and were actors in the larger history of empire from which the imperatives of forced migration, uprooting, displacement, and exile had arisen. The texts selected offer critical examination of a broad range of African Diaspora experiences in the metropole drawn from Senegal, the Caribbean, United States, Britain, Nigeria and France. Bringing together comparative and diasporic perspectives, the book explores the complex roles that race, gender, sexuality and history have played in the formation of African Diaspora identities in the metropole since the 19th century. This book was published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

Philosophy in the West Indian Novel

Author : Earl McKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in the West Indian Novel written by Earl McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl McKenzie's pioneering philosophical study of the West Indian novel is based on three main assumptions: first, that philosophy is a reflection on the fundamental questions we can ask about ourselves and our world; second, that literature, particularly the novel, is the best method yet devised to provide a "human face" to these reflections; and third, Caribbean philosophy is at present embedded in other forms of cultural expression, like literature, and these forms need to be excavated to reveal what lies within. McKenzie examines ten novels by George Lamming, Roger Mais, Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul, Orlando Patterson, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, Lakshmi Persaud, Earl Lovelace and Jamaica Kincaid, each selected to represent differences in geography, chronology, ethnicity and gender. In this cross-section of novels, McKenzie identifies ancestral influences from the philosophies of Europe, Africa and India, and show how West Indian fiction embodies ideas from several areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of education, social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of literature. Philosophy in the West Indian Novel uncovers sections of the mostly unknown Caribbean philosophical mosaic, and McKenzie's work will encourage further study and refection on philosophical ideas in a Caribbean context. It will be of interest to philosophers, literary critics, educators, social scientists, and anyone interested in Caribbean studies.

The Sense of Brown

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012560
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Brown written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, and Tania Bruguera, and singer José Feliciano, among others, arguing for a sense of brownness that is not fixed within the racial and national contours of Latinidad. This sense of brown is not about the individualized brown subject; rather, it demonstrates that for brown peoples, being exists within what Muñoz calls the brown commons—a lifeworld, queer ecology, and form of collectivity. In analyzing minoritarian affect, ethnicity as a structure of feeling, and brown feelings as they emerge in, through, and beside art and performance, Muñoz illustrates how the sense of brown serves as the basis for other ways of knowing and being in the world.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1898 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Entangled Fictions

Author : Suvadip Sinha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000607208
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Entangled Fictions written by Suvadip Sinha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings, Entangled Fictions argues that the corpus is limited epistemologically and politically when it comes to their examinations of the nonhuman in India. Deeply influenced by the political/existential expediencies of our times, the book traverses several genres, shifts from fictional to anecdotal, and transitions from autobiographical to spectra in effort to introduce readers to fictional worlds marked by human-nonhuman fluidity and trans-species contiguity that was imagined and lived much before the telos of human extinction became either a global or local concern.

Dark Ghettos

Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970500
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Dark Ghettos written by Tommie Shelby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Spitz Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought Winner of the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Why do American ghettos persist? Scholars and commentators often identify some factor—such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime—as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to “fix” ghettos or “help” their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. “Provocative...[Shelby] doesn’t lay out a jobs program or a housing initiative. Indeed, as he freely admits, he offers ‘no new political strategies or policy proposals.’ What he aims to do instead is both more abstract and more radical: to challenge the assumption, common to liberals and conservatives alike, that ghettos are ‘problems’ best addressed with narrowly targeted government programs or civic interventions. For Shelby, ghettos are something more troubling and less tractable: symptoms of the ‘systemic injustice’ of the United States. They represent not aberrant dysfunction but the natural workings of a deeply unfair scheme. The only real solution, in this way of thinking, is the ‘fundamental reform of the basic structure of our society.’” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

Essays of Schopenhauer

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775417875
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Essays of Schopenhauer written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays are a valuable criticism of life by a man who had a wide experience of life, a man of the world, who possessed an almost inspired faculty of observation. Schopenhauer, of all men, unmistakably observed life at first hand. There is no academic echo in his utterances; he is not one of a school; his voice has no formal intonation; it is deep, full-chested, and rings out its words with all the poignancy of individual emphasis, without bluster, but with unfailing conviction. He was for his time, and for his country, an adept at literary form; but he used it only as a means. "

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Full Moon Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated) written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Full Moon Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, in which he argues that the phenomenal world is driven by a metaphysical will that perpetually and malignantly seeks satiation. He also wrote influentially on aesthetics, ethics, and religion.Transcendental idealism formed the basis for much of his thought, and his atheistic philosophy has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism. Finding his philosophical conclusions to be compatible with those of much Eastern philosophy, his solutions to the problems of existence and suffering were consequently similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers. Schopenhauer's influence has proven profound across various disciplines; those who have cited his influence include Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Leo Tolstoy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Author : MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241339466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.

Political Loneliness

Author : Jennifer Gaffney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178660695X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Political Loneliness written by Jennifer Gaffney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding examines the loneliness that remains at work in modern life even as we find ourselves increasingly interconnected. While much has been said about this experience in the main currents of continental philosophy, this book opens new paths within this discourse by developing the problem of loneliness in a political register. The central claim of this book is that neoliberal subjectivity has rendered us lonely. Drawing especially on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author suggests that the political structures we have inherited from the liberal tradition—such as the anonymity of the vote and the right to pursue one’s private self-interest as far as possible—have left us hidden from one another, unable to appear as members of a common world. The author further argues that it is precisely this experience of political loneliness that renders citizens in liberal and allegedly open societies desperate to belonging and willing, in turn, to surrender to delusional fellowships like totalitarianism. By developing the problem of loneliness in a political register, this book offers a framework for interpreting the rise of totalitarianism at the beginning of the twentieth century, no less than the recent ascendance of right-wing populism in Western liberal democracies today. It thus makes an important contribution to debates in current continental philosophy, liberal political theory, and critical theory regarding issues of alienation, political life, and community in the present age.