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Parasite A Philosophical Exploration
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Download or read book Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian’s De Parasito, Nietzsche’s “the vengeance of the weak,” Dostoyevsky’s “Underground,” or Marxism, among others.
Download or read book The Parasite written by Michel Serres and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.
Download or read book Parasites written by Rosemary Drisdelle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution and life history of parasites, their role in shaping human history, as well as future threats posed by them.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration by : Rick Szostak
Download or read book Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration written by Rick Szostak and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Championing an emerging global community of scholars, this Handbook provides a detailed examination on how to successfully integrate interdisciplinarity into education programs. A comprehensive look into the current landscape of the field, it emphasises the importance of interdisciplinary teaching and administration in the development of creativity, citizenship and information literacy. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Book Synopsis The Mind Parasites by : Colin Wilson
Download or read book The Mind Parasites written by Colin Wilson and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to--and beyond--its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other's thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought alone. Pushed so that man can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms.
Book Synopsis The Cinema of the Real by : Hyon Joo Yoo
Download or read book The Cinema of the Real written by Hyon Joo Yoo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant intervention into Lacanian film studies, this book sets forth a new theory of the psychoanalytic Real in cinema. In psychoanalysis, the Real ruptures the Symbolic that organizes law, ideology, and other systems of belief, revealing fissures in this underlying order. The Cinema of the Real explores how transnational cinema and especially South Korean cinema facilitate an encounter with the Real, enabling the emergence of a new political subject. Paying close attention to form, Hyon Joo Yoo reveals the existence of an "emancipatory drive" in films by Jang Hun, Park Chan-wook, Lee Chang-dong, Jia Zhangke, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, and Bong Joon-ho, among others. Their work in effect provides viewers with a picture of how it looks and feels to be on a trajectory in which the subject and her world can change. Far from being a passive consumer of images, Yoo's spectator enters the space of the Real. Theoretically rigorous and inventive, The Cinema of the Real offers new, transnationally attuned tools for conceptualizing the body, affect, femininity, and spectatorship, as well as fresh readings of both classic and contemporary films.
Book Synopsis Nietzsche and Dostoevsky by : Paolo Stellino
Download or read book Nietzsche and Dostoevsky written by Paolo Stellino and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky happened on the verge of nihilism. Nietzsche announced the death of God, whereas Dostoevsky warned against the danger of atheism. This book describes the double encounter between Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. Following the chronological thread offered by Nietzsche’s correspondence, the author provides a detailed analysis of Nietzsche’s engagement with Dostoevsky from the very beginning of his discovery to the last days before his mental breakdown. The second part of this book aims to dismiss the wide-spread and stereotypical reading according to which Dostoevsky foretold and criticized in his major novels some of Nietzsche’s most dangerous and nihilistic theories. In order to reject such reading, the author focuses on the following moral dilemma: If God does not exist, is everything permitted?
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of the Parasite by : Carlos Madrigal Flores
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Parasite written by Carlos Madrigal Flores and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many questions for humanity, about who are we? Where are we going? What's the meaning of life? Our objective in life? But none of those things matter and that is the very fear that humans have. More important than those meaningless questions there are truths that may be of use or perhaps for the worse. The question has never been how to be happy, but instead, why should we be happy? We don't come to this world to make good, but rather than do as much bad as we can...
Book Synopsis Philosophical Tales by : Martin Cohen
Download or read book Philosophical Tales written by Martin Cohen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Tales “A lover of philosophical ideas and practiced debunker of intellectual sham, Martin Cohen knocks some thirty important philosophers from Socrates to Derrida off their pedestals, and presents in a series of philosophical tales various aspects of their thought, life and personality which few of us ever suspected.” Zenon Stavrinides, University of Bradford
Book Synopsis The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality by : Randy Thornhill
Download or read book The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality written by Randy Thornhill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress theory of sociality. The evidence we present in our book indicates that both a wide span of human affairs and major aspects of human cultural diversity can be understood in light of variable parasite (infectious disease) stress and the range of value systems evoked by variable parasite stress. The same evidence supports the hypothesis that people have psychological adaptations that function to adopt values dependent upon local infectious-disease adversity. The authors have identified key variables, variation in infectious disease adversity and in the core values it evokes, for understanding these topics and in novel and encompassing ways. Although the human species is the focus in the book, evidence presented in the book shows that the parasite-stress theory of sociality informs other topics in ecology and evolutionary biology such as variable family organization and speciation processes and biological diversity in general in non-human animals.
Book Synopsis I Eat, Therefore I Think by : Raymond D. Boisvert
Download or read book I Eat, Therefore I Think written by Raymond D. Boisvert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Eat, Therefore I Think breaks new ground by introducing philosophy via an activity central to life: eating. Building on the original meaning of philosophy as love of wisdom, it explains how the search for wisdom can best succeed by addressing not just the mind, but the entire human being. Eating, an activity that integrates physiological, social, religious, cultural, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions, offers an opportunity to re-think fundamental questions. The result: surprising and novel ways to approach art, religion, knowledge, ethics, and even democracy. The book outlines a new philosophy for our time. As such, it will be of interest to people curious about the topic of food, to those interested in learning about philosophy, and to those who seek new ideas as guides for living meaningful lives in an intelligible world.
Book Synopsis The God Parasite by : Abhijit Naskar
Download or read book The God Parasite written by Abhijit Naskar and published by Neuro Cookies. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Best Seller The existence of God has long fascinated the human species. Based on a system of belief and several historical encounters with God, the human society has constructed various religions. Whenever something bizarre bothers someone, and that someone takes refuge in divine guidance, hardcore religious preachers give only one absurd answer : “God works in a mysterious way”. But has any of the billions of human minds on this planet ever experienced a true Almighty Being? Or is there a mysterious biological phenomenon underneath the human experience of God and Divinity? Does a Supreme Omnipotent Entity ever intervene in the daily issues of life on this planet? In this book celebrated Neuroscientist and International Bestselling Author Abhijit Naskar takes us to the scientific land of investigation where we shall explore the true biological foundation of God and religious beliefs. In this fascinating journey of neuroscience we shall discover how exactly we humans constructed God and not the other way around.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Lines by : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Download or read book The Philosophy of Lines written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the book describes the “philosophy of lines” in art, architecture, and science. The book compares Western and Eastern traditions. It examines lines in the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Michaux, as well as in Chinese and Japanese art and calligraphy. Lines are not merely a matter of aesthetics but also reflect the psychological states of entire cultures. In the nineteenth century, non-Euclidean geometry sparked the phenomenon of the “self-negating line,” which influenced modern art; it also prepared the ground for virtual reality. Straight lines, distorted lines, blurred lines, hot and cold lines, dynamic lines, lines of force, virtual lines, and on and on, lines narrate the development of human civilization.
Download or read book Mini Philosophy written by Jonny Thomson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parasite written by and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Experience Machines by : Mark Silcox
Download or read book Experience Machines written by Mark Silcox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give you any experience you desired'. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the rest of their lives under the influence of this type of invention. Nozick thought (and many have since agreed) that this simple thought experiment had profound implications for how we think about ethics, political justice, and the significance of technology in our everyday lives. Nozick’s argument was made in 1974, about a decade before the personal computer revolution in Europe and North America. Since then, opportunities for the citizens of industrialized societies to experience virtual worlds and simulated environments have multiplied to an extent that no philosopher could have predicted. The authors in this volume re-evaluate the merits of Nozick’s argument, and use it as a jumping–off point for the philosophical examination of subsequent developments in culture and technology, including a variety of experience-altering cybernetic technologies such as computer games, social media networks, HCI devices, and neuro-prostheses.
Book Synopsis Saints and Symposiasts by : Jason König
Download or read book Saints and Symposiasts written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. Argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter, communicating distinctive ideas about how to talk and think, and distinctive and often destabilising visions of human identity and holiness.
