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Saving Beauty

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Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509515135
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Saving Beauty written by Byung-Chul Han and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from Jeff Koon's sculptures and the iPhone to Brazilian waxing. Reaching far deeper than our superficial reactions to viral videos and memes, Han reclaims beauty, showing how it manifests itself as truth, temptation and even disaster. This wide-ranging and profound exploration of beauty, encompassing ethical and political considerations as well as aesthetic, will appeal to all those interested in cultural and aesthetic theory, philosophy and digital media.

Saving Beauty a Memoir of Love, Desire and Multiple Sclerosis

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Author : Harvey A. Kaplan
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608605728
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Saving Beauty a Memoir of Love, Desire and Multiple Sclerosis written by Harvey A. Kaplan and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does love have its limits? Are couples challenged beyond what they can handle when one becomes ill? How does one cope in the face of a devastating, debilitating disease that has come to steal your loved one from you? Saving Beauty is a deeply personal narrative of a marriage transformed by the emergence of a serious illness. Dr. Kaplan shares his touching story of loving a beautiful woman ravaged by multiple sclerosis. A tale of love, sensitivity and strength emerge from the pages as Dr. Kaplan examines the psychological and social effects of disability with the wisdom and expertise of a trained psychologist. Saving Beauty is not only about facing the unexpected, it is also about exploring the meaning of soul, and learning how to muster courage and acceptance while dealing with life and death issues. Dr. Kaplan provides pragmatic insight into celebrating life, even through the devastation and pain. Saving Beauty examines how circumstances, good and bad, shape our characters and destinies, as it champions the importance of hope. These memoirs capture the redemptive power of love in the face of despair. With a surprising conclusion, the reader discovers how pain and loss can become catalysts for amazing soulful transformations. Dr. Harvey A. Kaplan is a psychotherapist who lives and practices in New York City.

Saving Beauty from the Beast

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Author : Vicki Crompton
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031603004X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Saving Beauty from the Beast written by Vicki Crompton and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating violence affects a huge number of teenage girls -- one in three girls between the ages of ten and eighteen reports having been assaulted by a boyfriend -- and can run the gamut from possessiveness to stalking to outright physical abuse. Often it is the girls with the highest selfesteem, those who believe they are in control of their lives and can bring out the best in their boyfriends, who find themselves in the grip of a relationship in which the tables have been turned. This essential and timely book incorporates the insights and advice of experts in the fields of education, adolescent psychology, criminal justice, threat assessment, and sociology. Authors Crompton and Kessner also include the voices of teenagers and parents to provide an in-depth portrait of the dynamics of controlling behavior.

Saving Beauty

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Author : Kathryn B. Alexander
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1451472234
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Saving Beauty written by Kathryn B. Alexander and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community. With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, the volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically necessary, as the author argues, in eliciting hope for ecological redemption. This volume makes a vital contribution to the systematic and philosophical framework for ecological theology, aesthetics, and theological ethics.

Saving Beauty

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Author : Veronica Donnelly
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039107230
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Saving Beauty written by Veronica Donnelly and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balthasar is one of the most influential of Catholic twentieth-century theologians, and his oeuvre is astonishing in its range and amplitude. This together with a style of writing that is cyclic rather than systematic makes his work difficult to assimilate. The author has overcome this obstacle by finding an integrating motif that makes coherent sense of the whole. That motif is the concept of 'form'. The first section of the book deals with that 'form': its genesis, its meaning as a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts, and as a revelation of the mystery of Being. Section two shows how, when the concept is applied christologically, it signifies the incarnate form of Jesus as expressing the glory of the triune God, the source of Being. Section three, which deals specifically with Balthasar's soteriology, demonstrates how because of his mission to save a sinful world the form of Jesus has to undergo suffering and death and become apparently 'formless'. While indicating that the main lines of Balthasar's theology are rooted in tradition, the book also illustrates the radicalness of his approach. His dialogue with theologians and philosophers, both ancient and modern, is discussed and evaluated throughout.

Beauty Will Save the World

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Author : Brian Zahnd
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1616385855
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Beauty Will Save the World written by Brian Zahnd and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahnd issues a challenge to Christians to discover new vitality through re-envisioning, reimagining, and reforming the church according to the pattern of the cruciform. Using stories from the lives of St. Francis of Assisi and from his own life, he teaches believers to stay on the journey to discover the kingdom of God in a fuller, richer way.

Saving Beauty from the Beast

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Author : Vicki Crompton
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316141314
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Saving Beauty from the Beast written by Vicki Crompton and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice for dealing with teen dating abuse, from stalking to physical assault, discussing the warning signs of an unhealthy relationship, steps that friends and parents can take, and ways to intervene effectively.

Saving Hope

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Author : Margaret Daley
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426714289
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Saving Hope written by Margaret Daley and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyatt Sheridan, a Texas Ranger, is drawn into a case that will test his faith and investigative skills. As he searches for a missing teen, he uncovers a ring that lures young girls into a life of prostitution. The case becomes personal when his daughter and the woman he loves are threatened. Will he discover the mastermind behind the ring before evil tears them from his life?

Saving Face

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Author : Heather Laine Talley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147984005X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Saving Face written by Heather Laine Talley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world. In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography, participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are "repaired:" face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile,. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status. Talley delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face.

The Scent of Time

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Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509516085
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Scent of Time written by Byung-Chul Han and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

Truth & Beauty

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Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061754811
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Truth & Beauty written by Ann Patchett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind. This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty and being uplifted by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.

Saving Cicadas

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Author : Nicole Seitz
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1418580988
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Saving Cicadas written by Nicole Seitz and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving novel of unconditional love and the freedom of letting go, this story follows the haunting journey of a single mother from South Carolina who discovers she's pregnant again. When single mother Priscilla Lynn Macy learns she's having another child unexpectedly, she packs the family into the car to escape. Eight-year-old Janie Doe and Rainey Dae, her seventeen-year-old sister with special needs, embark on the last family vacation they'll ever take with Poppy and Grandma Mona in the back seat. The trip seems aimless until Janie realizes they are searching for the father who left them years ago. When they can't find him, they make their way to Forest Pines, SC. Priscilla hasn't been to her family home in many years and finds it a mixed blessing of hope, buried secrets, and family ghosts. Through eyes of innocence, Janie learns the hard realities of life and the difficult choices grownups make. And she must face disturbing truths about the people she loves in order to carry them in the moments that matter most. Part road trip, part mystery, and completely unexpected, Saving Cicadas picks you up in one place and puts you down someplace else entirely. It's an eloquent reminder that life is a miracle—and even the smallest soul is a gift. Haunting contemporary southern fiction Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Nicole Seitz: The Inheritance of Beauty, A Hundred Years of Happiness, and Trouble the Water

Good Entertainment

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Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537508
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Good Entertainment written by Byung-Chul Han and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty and the entertainment value of moralistic literature; Heidegger's idea of the thinker as a man of pain; Kafka's hunger artist and the art of negativity, which takes pleasure in annihilation; and Robert Rauschenberg's refusal of the transcendent. The history of the West, Han tells us, is a passion narrative, and passion appears as a killjoy. Achievement is the new formula for passion, and play is subordinated to production, gamified. And yet, he argues, at their core, passion and entertainment are not entirely different. The pure meaninglessness of entertainment is adjacent to the pure meaning of passion. The fool's smile resembles the pain-racked visage of Homo doloris. In Good Entertainment, Han explores this paradox.

Saving Gideon

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Author : Amy Lillard
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433677520
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Saving Gideon written by Amy Lillard and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disillusioned Dallas socialite breaks down on the outskirts of an Amish community and begins to find herself thanks to the widowed young man who rescued her but has lost his own faith in God.

Saving God

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Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830443
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Saving God written by Mark Johnston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and persuasive case for abandoning old religions and still believing in God In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the "undergraduate atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Each monotheistic religion has its characteristic ways of domesticating True Divinity, of taming God's demands so that they do not radically threaten our self-love and false righteousness. Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, Johnston shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spiritually debilitating. A central claim of the book is that supernaturalism is idolatry. If this is right, everything changes; we cannot place our salvation in jeopardy by tying it essentially to the supernatural cosmologies of the ancient Near East. Remarkably, Johnston rehabilitates the ideas of the Fall and of salvation within a naturalistic framework; he then presents a conception of God that both resists idolatry and is wholly consistent with the deliverances of the natural sciences. Princeton University Press is publishing Saving God in conjunction with Johnston's forthcoming book Surviving Death, which takes up the crux of supernaturalist belief, namely, the belief in life after death. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

The Mirror of Beauty

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Author : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759932
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Beauty written by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.

The Saving Name of God the Son

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Author : Jean Ann Sharpe
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
ISBN 13 : 1932350306
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The Saving Name of God the Son written by Jean Ann Sharpe and published by Bethlehem Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For all ages, read-aloud ages 3-up"--P. [4] of cover.