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Book Synopsis Meditations For Cats by : Anne Herman
Download or read book Meditations For Cats written by Anne Herman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They laze languidly on a sunny window ledge. They peek curiously over the side at a fellow feline curled up in the bathtub. They yawn, they purr, they fastidiously lick themselves clean. The kitties so wonderfully pictured in Meditations for Cats perfectly capture the essence of why we love our feline friends so much.But consider their point of view. This new book offers a wealth of quotations that sum up the feline philosophy. James Joyce, Groucho Marx, Fran Lebowitz, Oscar Levant: Beautifully united with stunning photography, their words capture the heart and soul of catdom. Meditations for Cats will delight all cat owners and leave every cat secretly saying, "See? I told you."
Book Synopsis What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat by : Steven D. Hales
Download or read book What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat written by Steven D. Hales and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighteen essays investigate philosophical aspects of the feline mind and the world of cats, illustrated by anecdotes about cats the authors have known"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis To Understand a Cat by : Sam S. Rakover
Download or read book To Understand a Cat written by Sam S. Rakover and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand a cat: methodology and philosophy rests on the realization that the everyday behavior of a cat (but other animals too) should be understood through a new approach, namely methodological dualism. It appeals to mechanistic explanation models and to mentalistic explanation models. It puts up the methodological idea that these models have to be combined in one theoretical structure according to the scientific game-rules. This approach shows that specific mentalistic explanations are generated from explanation models or schemes, which meet the demands of the scientific games-rules; and it proposes a new theoretical structure called the multi-explanation theory to generate particular theories, which provide us with efficient explanations for behavioral phenomena. The book delves deep into anthropomorphism, and the complex question of whether a cat has consciousness and free will, and examines the intricate relations of the mental, the computational, and the neurophysiological.(Series A)
Book Synopsis Meditations for Cats by : Watershed Books
Download or read book Meditations for Cats written by Watershed Books and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is more than just a wonderful collection of black and white photographs of cats and clever quotations. The cats and the quotations are anything but run of the mill. Adorable, playful, and persnickety cats are captured at their feline best, and the eclectic quotations complement the photos perfectly.
Book Synopsis Gombrowicz by : Aleksandra Konarzewska
Download or read book Gombrowicz written by Aleksandra Konarzewska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and novels in broad contexts. Gombrowicz (1904–1969) was a writer and philosopher whose experimental literary works belong to the stream of European existentialism and simultaneously mark the birth of postmodernism. In Gombrowicz’s grotesque universe, there is no separation between literature, biography, sexuality, and philosophy. His novels, including Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, and Pornography, contain autobiographical elements, whereas in his renowned Diary, daily life becomes an object of sophisticated philosophical reflection that links introspection with humor and a gift for observation. Gombrowicz: An Introduction is an approachable guide for students and instructors of Slavic literature and culture, comparative literature, philosophy, and theater studies.
Book Synopsis Understanding Animals by : Lars Svendsen
Download or read book Understanding Animals written by Lars Svendsen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do animals perceive the world? What does it really feel like to be a cat or a dog? In Understanding Animals, Lars Svendsen investigates how humans can attempt to understand the lives of other animals. The book delves into animal communication, intelligence, self-awareness, loneliness, and grief, but most fundamentally how humans and animals can cohabit and build a form of friendship. Svendsen provides examples from many different animal species—from chimpanzees to octopus—but his main focus is on cats and dogs: the animals that many of us are closest to in our daily lives. Drawing upon both philosophical analysis and the latest scientific discoveries, Svendsen argues that the knowledge we glean from our relationships with our pets is as valid and insightful as any scientific study of human-animal relations. With this entertaining and thought-provoking book, animal lovers and pet owners will gain a deeper understanding of what it is like to be an animal—and in turn, a human.
Download or read book Feline Philosophy written by John Gray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.
Book Synopsis The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, the Morals by : Plutarch
Download or read book The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, the Morals written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1603 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats by : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Download or read book The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hugely popular New York Times bestseller, Dogs Never Lie About Love, provocative psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson brilliantly navigated the inner landscape of “man’s best friend.” Now he delves deep into the secretive, playful world of cats, revealing emotions, debunking myths, and honoring the feline’s evolution from solitary jungle creature to human companion. Drawing from literature, history, animal behavioral research, and the wonderful true stories of cat experts and cat lovers around the world, Jeffrey Masson vividly explores the delights and mysteries of the feline heart. But at the core of this remarkable book are Masson’s candid, often amusing observations of his own five cats. Their mischievousness, aloofness, and affection provide a way to examine emotions from contentment to jealousy, from anger to love. Consider the question: Are cats selfish? While human egocentricity is defined by how little a person cares about others, the cat’s narcissism is not like that at all. Cats may appear self-centered, but they watch us all the time, taking us in. They see us; they notice us–a far cry from vanity. Cats are curious, a trait that rarely kills them. On the contrary, it gives them the chance to assess, in their own idiosyncratic way, whether we are worthy of their attention. Cats are happy to be themselves. What they think of us is a different question entirely. “We need cats to need us,” notes Masson, “It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.” The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats will captivate readers with its surprises and insights, offering a new perspective on the deep connection shared by humans and their feline friends. This is the book that Masson’s many fans and cat lovers everywhere have been waiting for.
Download or read book Southern Literary Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pets, People, and Pragmatism by : Erin McKenna
Download or read book Pets, People, and Pragmatism written by Erin McKenna and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pets, People, and Pragmatism examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either benign or unnatural and to be avoided. The book addresses a lack of respect in pet–people relationships; for respectful relationships to be a real possibility, however, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with which we live, work, and play. American pragmatism understands that humans and other animal beings have been interacting and transforming each other for thousands of years. There is nothing “unnatural” about the human domestication of other animal beings, though domestication does raise specific practical and ethical questions. A pragmatist account of our relationship with those animal beings commonly considered as pets does not prohibit the use of these beings in research, entertainment, competition, or work. It does, however, find abuse and neglect ethical. Because abuse can occur in any use of other animal beings, this pragmatist account takes up the abusive practices in research, entertainment, competition, and work without arguing that these practices are inherently abusive. Some of the sources of abuse have been addressed by utilitarian and deontological accounts, but a pragmatist evolutionary perspective offers unique insights and results in some surprising conclusions: For instance, there may be an ethical obligation to let a horse race, a dog show, or a cat compete in agility. Pets, People, and Pragmatism embarks on a philosophical journey that will captivate scholars and pet enthusiasts alike. It provides an important contribution to longstanding debates in the area of animal issues and strengthens the idea of multiple approaches to nonhuman beings. It also opens space for approaches that challenge some of the assumptions in the field of philosophy that have resulted in a dualistic and hierarchical approach to metaphysics and ethics.
Download or read book Choosing to Be written by Kat Tansey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the deeply personal reflections of a formerly depressed person, this uplifting story shows how a cat taught meditation and allowed the mind to heal. This lively, magical, and enlightening book revolves around a wise Maine Coon cat, his kitten muse, and the author Kat Tansey as they take the reader on a challenging and often amusing journey from the disorienting haze of depression to the freedom and clarity of the Buddha mind. The narrative is both inspiring and essential for gaining an understanding of the inner self, reducing stress, finding inner peace, and knowing the joys and comforts of answering to a cat master.
Book Synopsis Whitehead's Pancreativism by : Michel Weber
Download or read book Whitehead's Pancreativism written by Michel Weber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics has provided tools to understand Whitehead secundum Whitehead. We now seek to bring him in dialogue with James. It will be a pragmatic dialogue looking for two types of synergy: to establish the relevance of a Jamesian background to read Whitehead, and to adumbrate how Whitehead can help us understand the stakes of James's works. After one hundred years of scholarship, it appears that James's legacy has mainly been studied from the perspective of his own blend of pragmatism and that this blend has moreover chiefly been put into dialogue with Peirce and analytic philosophy at large. This double interpretational shift has allowed James to keep a fair amount of visibility on the academic scene but, over the years, it has significantly obliterated his vision. It is time to rediscover James from the perspective of his radical empiricism.
Download or read book Zen Cat written by and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black-and-white photograhs and illustrations combine with simple, inspirational quotes to reveal how cats exemplify the essential principles of Zen philosophy and to explore the special bonds between humans and their feline companions. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Catfulness written by A Cat and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings love to create problems for themselves. I observe this on a daily basis, as do all my feline friends. They never stop, and one of their favorite tasks is to find more tasks to do. They are always looking for something, as if the life they have isn't enough. They say they are looking for happiness--but do they know what happiness is? We cats know the art of living. We eat when we're hungry, sleep when we're tired. Sitting for hours outside a mouse hole has taught us patience. Staring at an aquarium has brought us meditation. And we know how to please ourselves. Catfulness is a seven-week mindfulness program for human beings. If they can live their lives more like us, the world will be more serene. As Sigmund Freud said, "time spent with cats is never wasted".
Download or read book A Whole New Life written by Huong Rapson and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great book about Julie, your guide to animal transition! She is the character that will take you on a journey across your new life as a cat and her new life perspective. Julie wakes to find she has turned into a cat. Julie has always felt out of place. As a cat she begins to have a different perspective on people and her life in general. Suspend your disbelief and accept that not only has turned into a cat but is still able to speak. She learns to adjust to being a cat and how to survive in both forms. What would you do if you woke up as a cat? Read the author's 'Metamorphosis' with a feline twist that speaks to the themes of our time -isolation, identity and desperation for connection. An introvert in an extrovert's world, Julie is stuck in a rut - until the day she wakes up as a cat. Can a feline perspective help her to reconnect with humanity?
Download or read book Cat Confidence written by Margaret Fourie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas lies on his side in feline repose. His head is supported on my yesterday's sweater and he gives the slightest suggested of a snore. His magnificent black coat has its winter thickness and his white socks and jabot form the outposts of his deeply fluffy white tummy, bulging slightly between his neat paws. Thomas is not a thin cat. Thomas is also not a shy cat. In fact, Thomas has got the world (well HIS world) by the throat and is able to while away the obliging hours in easy relaxation. He has, as far as I can tell, not a care in the world. When I reach out to stroke him lightly, without opening his eyes, he stretches back and paws and then forms into a slightly rounder shape to continue his nap. The only acknowledgement of my humble service is a little purr. This book is his. I suspect him to be truly wise, and from time to time discover his huge amber eyes gazing consideringly at me, every line of his furry self expressing his surprise at the incomparable stupidity of the human race. I'll let him tell it.
