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Lovers in Essence

Author : Sharon Krishek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197500927
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Lovers in Essence written by Sharon Krishek and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Romantic love is a defining phenomenon in human existence, and an object of heightened interest for literature, art, popular culture, and psychology. But what is romantic love and why is it typically experienced as so significant to our existence? Using central ideas from the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard as well as engaging with contemporary discussions in the philosophy of love, this book explores the nature of romantic love and philosophically substantiates its meaningfulness to an individual's life. It does so by developing a connection between love and selfhood, here explained in terms of one's distinct individuality. To be a self, it is claimed, is to possess a 'name,' that is, an individual essence. Further, the book argues, it is when we love that we regard people by their names; we respond to who they (truly) are. Accordingly, the idea anchoring the book is that love is a correspondence between essences: if Jane loves Edward, she responds to him being 'who he is,' by virtue of her being 'who she is.' The conception of being thus correspondent has important implications as to the moral and spiritual value of romantic love. Relying on Kierkegaard's analysis of the self, of faith, and of love - even if sometimes in a way that departs from Kierkegaard's explicit position - the book explores these implications. By doing this, it construes romantic love as a desirable phenomenon, emotionally, morally, and spiritually"--

Art and Selfhood

Author : Antony Aumann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498552854
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Art and Selfhood written by Antony Aumann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Art and Selfhood lies at the intersection of existentialism and the philosophy of art. On the philosophy of art side, it addresses questions about why art matters and how we ought to appreciate it. On the existentialism side, it attends to questions pertaining to authenticity or authentic selfhood. That is to say, it focuses on issues and problems having to do with our personal identity or our sense of who we are. The goal of the book is to bring together these two topics in a productive manner by showing that works of art matter partly because they can help us with the project of selfhood. In other words, works of art are important in part because they can offer us much needed guidance and support as we try to figure out who we really are. To make the case for this thesis, On Art and Selfhood draws on the works of the Danish thinker, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). It mines his writings for insights regarding aesthetics and personal identity, and then uses these insights to contribute to current discussions of these topics. Thus, the book speaks not only to those with interests in contemporary analytic philosophy but also to those with interests in historical scholarship on Kierkegaard.

Selfhood

Author : Terry Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908561008
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Selfhood written by Terry Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELFHOOD is a practical self-help book, designed to help people to recover their sense of self, be happier and more fulfilled. Readers will learn a great deal about themselves, others and life. Readers will discover what selfhood means, how closely selfhood is linked to emotional and mental wellbeing and mental illness, the components of selfhood, how selfhood is lost, the feature of low and high selfhood, and how to reclaim one's sense of selfhood.SELFHOOD contains many practical suggests and recommended actions, devised to enhance people's sense of self. It is simply not possible to feel good, to regularly experience emotional wellbeing and mental health if your level of selfhood is low. SELFHOOD is the first of Dr. Terry Lynch's Mental Wellness Book Series.

Heart Radical

Author : Anne Liu Kellor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647421748
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Heart Radical written by Anne Liu Kellor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey? Whether witnessing a Tibetan sky burial, teaching English at a university in Chengdu, visiting her grandmother in LA, or falling in love with a Chinese painter, Anne is always in pursuit of intimacy with others, even as she is all too aware of her silences and separation. For two years, she settles into a comfortable routine in her boyfriend’s apartment and regains fluency in Chinese, a language she spoke as a young child but has used less and less as an adult. Eventually, however, her desire to know herself in other ways surfaces again. She misses speaking English, she feels suffocated by urban, polluted China, and she starts to fall for another man. Ultimately, Anne realizes that to live her truth as a mixed-race, bilingual woman she must embrace all of her influences and layers. In a world that often wants us to choose a side or fit an ideal, she learns that she can both belong and not belong wherever she is, and that home is ultimately found within.

Identifying Selfhood

Author : Henry Isaac Venema
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791492109
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Identifying Selfhood written by Henry Isaac Venema and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying Selfhood provides the first sustained treatment of the development of Paul Ricoeur's decentered formulation of selfhood from his earliest works to his most recent. For Henry Venema, Ricoeur's affirmation that consciousness is always rooted in the signs, symbols, and texts that precede the hermeneutical project of self-recovery and discovery provides the thread that links all of Ricoeur's philosophical inquiries together. However, as Venema argues, Ricoeur's hermeneutic is caught up in the semantics of identity to such an extent that selfhood is confused and often equated with the textuality of the reflective process and is never dealt with on the intimate level of the reflexive structure of selfhood in relation to otherness. In the end, Ricoeur's formulation of alterity identifies the other within the circle of the self-same.

Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love

Author : Frederick Neuhouser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199542678
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love written by Frederick Neuhouser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Jacques Rousseau revolutionized our understanding of ourselves with his brilliant investigation of amour propre: the passion that drives humans to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love - the recognition - of their fellow beings. Frederick Neuhouser traces the development of this key idea in modern thought.

Millay at 100

Author : Diane P. Freedman
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319732
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Millay at 100 written by Diane P. Freedman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newest addition to Sandra M. Gilbert’s Ad Feminam: Women and Literature series, Diane P. Freedman brings together twelve essays by critics of poetry and women’s writing for a critical reappraisal of the prolific work of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Though finding its occasion in the life of Millay—the centennial of the writer’s birth—this volume refocuses attention on Millay’s art by asking questions central to our present concerns: What in the varied body of Millay’s work speaks to us most forcefully today? Which critical perspectives most illuminate her texts? How might those approaches be challenged, extended, or reoriented? In seeking the answers to such questions, the volume’s contributors illuminate the means by which Millay’s early success has been slighted and misunderstood and examine issues of personality, personae, critical stature, and formal experimentation in Millay’s various genres: lyric poetry, the sonnet, verse drama, fiction, and the personal letter. In 1920, following the publication of A Few Figs from Thistles, Millay was the "It girl" of American poetry. But by the late 1930s, her popularity waned as her critical reputation declined under the reign of high modernism and its critics. In fact, Millay, like others of her generation, had rejected modernist elitism in favor of public engagement, using her powerful public voice to plead for an end to the Sacco-Vanzetti trials as well as for U.S. entry into World War II. Condemned for both her politicizing and her political poetry, she was the first to admit that she and her poetry suffered in the service of public causes. Grouped into four parts, these essays focus on Millay’s relation to modernism, her revisionary perspectives on love, her treatment of time and of the female body, and her use of masquerade and impersonation in life and in art. Throughout, the essayists pose such questions as: Where is Millay’s place in the literary histories of modern writing and in our hearts? How are we to value, interpret, and characterize the various forms and genres in which she wrote? What is the cultural work Millay achieves and reflects? How does she help us redefine modernism? What do Millay’s great gifts enable us to see about genre, the social construction of gender, the definition of modernism, and the role of the poet? Millay’s considerable productivity, the range and virtues of her forms, and her experimentation clearly argue for a wide-ranging reappraisal of her work.

Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

Author : Richard McCombs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666936065
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love written by Richard McCombs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since art is essential to the love of one’s neighbor as oneself and to love’s chief goal of building up one another, we cannot understand love without also understanding its art. Observing that praise is ubiquitous in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings, Richard McCombs interprets Kierkegaard’s Works of Love as a eulogy of love’s arts of forgiveness, peace-making, and building up one’s neighbor in maturity and charity. Kierkegaard stresses love's ability to achieve results, calling love irresistible and almost magical in overcoming obstacles to its purposes; living the life of faith and love involves skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual’s life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard’s ideas about the art of love reveal limits or exceptions to his individualism and to his anti-consequentialism in ethics. Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love explores Kierkegaard’s distinct praises of love through texts like Works of Love, The Brothers Karamazov, and Middlemarch to illustrate, complement, and sometimes correct Kierkegaard’s profound account of love’s art and wisdom, suggesting ways that the art of praise bears on other questions in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.

The Culture of Love

Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674179592
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Love written by Stephen Kern and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kern divides love into its elements and traces profound changes in each: from waiting for love to ending it. Most revealing are the daring ways moderns began to talk about their current lovemaking as well as past lovers.

The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin

Author : Dieter Henrich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804727396
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hölderlin written by Dieter Henrich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of studies over the last 30 years, Henrich has shown that Hölderlin played a decisive role in the development of philosophy from Kant to Hegel. This book includes six of Henrich's most important essays on Hölderlin.

Selfhood and the Soul

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198777256
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Selfhood and the Soul written by Richard Seaford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of original essays in honor of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. The contributions cover a wide range of approaches and topics, but all are committed to examining central issues about the experience of being a person and the question of how best to live.

Love and Selfhood

Author : Annemarie van Stee
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031068034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Love and Selfhood written by Annemarie van Stee and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make. The stories of five people in search of self-understanding serve as touchstone throughout the book. Their identities are tied up with what they love. The book provides in-depth analyses of CNS of love and CNS of self-reflection. It critically discusses philosophers who focus on the relation between love, self-understanding and selfhood, such as Harry Frankfurt, Susan Wolf, Charles Taylor and Søren Kierkegaard. It also builds an argument about CNS’ contributions to self-understanding more broadly, and how different these are from philosophy’s contributions. The book develops conceptual review as a philosophical method for improving the validity and comparability of CNS studies. It integrates CNS insights into its philosophical view on love and selfhood where applicable. This book thus argues and exemplifies that philosophy and CNS can work together.

Autobiography of Madame Guyon

Author : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of Madame Guyon written by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heaven and Hell, Also The Intermediate State, Or, World of Spirits

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Hell, Also The Intermediate State, Or, World of Spirits written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love's Grateful Striving

Author : M. Jamie Ferreira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029888
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Love's Grateful Striving written by M. Jamie Ferreira and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bears on issues peculiar to a religious ethic, such as the role of God as "middle term," and the possibility of preserving the aesthetic dimensions of love in a religious ethic of relation.

The Apocalypse Revealed in which are Disclosed

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Apocalypse Revealed in which are Disclosed written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of (erotic) Love

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of (erotic) Love written by Robert C. Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon and Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love.