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Mortal Subjects

Author : Christina Howells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745636292
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Subjects written by Christina Howells and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work’s primary focus on contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the light not only of the ‘death’ of the classical subject but also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete. Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and death.

Mortal Subjects

Author : Christina Howells
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745652751
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Subjects written by Christina Howells and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work’s primary focus on contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the light not only of the ‘death’ of the classical subject but also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete. Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and death.

Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical

Author : Joseph Lathrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical written by Joseph Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Urantia Papers

Author : Unknown
Publisher : tredition
ISBN 13 : 3347631226
Total Pages : 3323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Urantia Papers written by Unknown and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 3323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urantia Papers - Unknown - The Urantia Papers is a spiritual and philosophical book that originated in Chicago sometime between 1924 and 1955. The authorship remains a matter of speculation. The authors introduce the word Urantia as the name of the planet Earth and state that their intent is to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth. The book aims to unite religion, science and philosophy, and its enormous amount of material about science is unique among literature claimed to be presented by celestial beings. Among other topics, the book discusses the origin and meaning of life, mankind's place in the universe, the relationship between God and people, and the life of Jesus. It has been described as a rich and complex moral narrative, equal parts Tolkien and St. Paul.

The Knotted Subject

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864739
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Knotted Subject written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent. Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot, and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart, Wagner), cinema (Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Woody Allen), and visual art (Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Cindy Sherman). Each of these creative works attests to a particular relationship between hysteria and self-fashioning, and enables us to read hysteria quite literally as a language of discontent. The message broadcasted by the hysteric is one of vulnerability: vulnerability of the symbolic, of identity, and of the human body itself. Throughout this work, Bronfen not only offers fresh approaches to understanding hysteria in our culture, but also introduces a new metaphor to serve as a theoretical tool. Whereas the phallus has long dominated psychoanalytical discourse, the image of the navel--a knotted originary wound common to both genders--facilitates discussion of topics relevant to hysteria, such as trauma, mortality, and infinity. Bronfen's insights make for a lively, innovative work sure to interest readers across the fields of art and literature, feminism, and psychology. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Lyric Orientations

Author : Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501701053
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Orientations written by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). While Hölderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each believes in the power of poetic language to orient us as social beings in contexts that otherwise can be alienating. They likewise share the conviction that such alienation cannot be overcome once and for all in any universal event. Both argue that to deny the uncertainty created by the absence of any such event (or to deny the alienation itself) is likewise to deny the particularly human condition of uncertainty and mortality. By drawing on the work of Stanley Cavell, who explores how language in all its formal aspects actually enables us to engage meaningfully with the world, Eldridge challenges poststructuralist scholarship, which stresses the limitations—even the failure—of language in the face of reality. Eldridge provides detailed readings of Hölderlin and Rilke and positions them in a broader narrative of modernity that helps make sense of their difficult and occasionally contradictory self-characterizations. Her account of the orienting and engaging capabilities of language reconciles the extraordinarily ambitious claims that Hölderlin and Rilke make for poetry—that it can create political communities, that it can change how humans relate to death, and that it can unite the sensual and intellectual components of human subjectivity—and the often difficult, fragmented, or hermetic nature of their individual poems.

The Urantia Book

Author :
Publisher : Urantia Book Fellowship
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1812 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urantia Book written by and published by Urantia Book Fellowship. This book was released on with total page 1812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theology after Lacan

Author : Clayton Crockett
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227902807
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Theology after Lacan written by Clayton Crockett and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume highlights the continuing relevance of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose linguistic reworking of Freudian analysis radicalised both psychoanalysis and its approach to theology. The book's fi rst section, Part I: Lacan, Religion, and Others, explores the application of Lacan's thought to the development and phenomena of religion. Part II: Theology and the Other Lacan moves through the physical world and into the metaphysical, probing theological issues and ideas of today's world with curiosity and in the light of Lacan. In both parts I and II, a central place is given to Lacan's exposition of the real, thereby refl ecting the impact of his later work. Topics traverse culture,art, philosophy and politics, as well as providing critical exegesis of Lacan's most gnomic utterances on theology, including The Triumph of Religion. Contributors include some of the most renowned readers and influential academics in their respective fields: Tina Beattie, Lorenzo Chiesa, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Adrian Johnston, Katerina Kolozova, Thomas Lynch, Marcus Pound, Carl Raschke, Kenneth Reinhard, Mario D'Amato, Noelle Vahanian and Slavoj Zizek.

Paul's Concept of a Hebrew Deity in Relation to Jesus

Author : Peter Nagel
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161627091
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Paul's Concept of a Hebrew Deity in Relation to Jesus written by Peter Nagel and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Towards a Vegan Jurisprudence

Author : Jeanette Rowley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793623678
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Vegan Jurisprudence written by Jeanette Rowley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards a Vegan Jurisprudence: The Need for a Reorientation of Human Rightsargues that, in order to give effect to animal rights, human society is obliged to question the extent to which our social norms permit us to manifest compassionate justice to other animals. Jeanette Rowley posits a new perspective on the theory and practice of human rights to accommodate the demands of vegans for rights for nonhuman animals, recognizing the existing argument that the idea grounding human rights is our ethical responsibility to the precarious, mortal other. Rowley develops this principle to ground the rights claims of vegans in the ethics of alterity, applying the concept to nonhuman others to ground the protection of other animals and provide a new approach to human rights litigation to accommodate vegans, calling for the reconceptualization of the very idea of human rights.

The Linga Purana Part 1

Author : J. L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838726
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Linga Purana Part 1 written by J. L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

Author : Adrian Johnston
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748673318
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Transcendental Materialism written by Adrian Johnston and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically engaging with thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Claude Milner, Martin Hagglund, William Connolly and Jane Bennett, Johnston formulates a materialist and naturalist account of subjectivity that does full just

Secundum Naturam (According to Nature)

Author : Ron Hall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1716012112
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Secundum Naturam (According to Nature) written by Ron Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoicism is a logical philosophy. Herein, one may learn to reason like a Stoic, which leads to making progress toward living in accord with nature, and from which an abiding happiness is produced. Secundum Naturam is an exploration of Stoicism, given the thesis that the philosophical doctrines derive from Stoic logic. Itself, Stoic logic derives from one, first principle: contradiction does not exist in nature, although we contradict nature when we err. The connectives, modalities, and argument resolutions are all defined with respect to contradiction as conflict (between Both p and Not p). And when your will contradicts nature, you are living contrary to nature, while the goal is to live secundum naturam, according to nature. Best of all, learn how to improve yourself with Stoic logic, according to reason, according to nature, only with Secundum Naturam.

Embodiment

Author : Ramona Fotiade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317144902
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Embodiment written by Ramona Fotiade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection and eternal life.

The Epistle to the Philippians

Author : Mark Allfree
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291952616
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book The Epistle to the Philippians written by Mark Allfree and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposition of the apostle Paul's epistle to the Philippians. Special emphasis on the work of the Lord Jesus Christ as the suffering Servant.

The Black Mirror

Author : Lucius Grey
Publisher : ShieldCrest
ISBN 13 : 1907629785
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Black Mirror written by Lucius Grey and published by ShieldCrest. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of war and uncertainty, a young woman is evacuated from her home in London to live with an estranged relative in the countryside. The crumbling estate of her eccentric father holds a secret that has been hidden from the greedy eyes of those seeking powers beyond mortal comprehension. Only a true blood relative of Lord Knightsbridge can gain access to a secret chamber and activate an ancient artefact of great power. Cassandra soon discovers a sinister plot by Nazi sympathisers that could turn the tide of the war against the allies. However, nothing is truly as it seems.

Myths and Legends of All Nations

Author : Herbert Spencer Robinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153817829X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Legends of All Nations written by Herbert Spencer Robinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Legends of All Nations includes great stories of the Greeks, Romans, Orientals, Celts, Norse, Teutons, other Europeans, Polynesians, Africans, American Indians, and modern American folklore such as the fables about John Henry, Casey Jones, and Paul Bunyan.