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Searching for Unmediated Truth

Author : Gregg Hoffmann
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595367186
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Unmediated Truth written by Gregg Hoffmann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran reporter Garrett Hartmann considers journalism a calling and despises the fact that he has become part of a media industry manic on infotainment, commercialism, spin, and hype. He's also gone through a bitter divorce and lost his dearest friend and mentor. Something is missing, but Garrett isn't quite sure what-or how to find it. In many ways, his plight is typical of modern man: living in a "mediated" world and feeling detached from the environment, other living things, loved ones-and even himself. Garrett craves something real. After hearing about the Tasmanian tiger, the strange animal that has officially been extinct for decades, Garrett travels to Tasmania in search of not only the tiger, but the unmediated truth. But the Tasmanian wilderness and corrupt men with their own agendas stand in his way. Will Garrett find his truth, or does fate have other plans for him?

Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times

Author : Martin H. Levinson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595842127
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times written by Martin H. Levinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these times of rapid change and constant upheaval, can we learn to think and communicate more effectively-at home, in school, on the job, and as citizens in the larger world? This book, which is based on the formulations of "general semantics," says yes, yes, and yes! Topics in it include practical ways to improve your thinking ability, emotional self-management, creativity, and analysis of important social issues. "Buyer beware: Reading this book could result in serious improvements in your approach to self, to others, and to the ways you interact with the world." -Andrea Johnson, President, Institute of General Semantics "This book provides a highly practical guide for problem-solving, decision-making, interpersonal relations, and personal fulfillment." -Steve Stockdale, Executive Director, Institute of General Semantics "Sensible Thinking for Turbulent Times brings the great ideas of general semantics into the 21st century in a clear and accessible manner." -Lance Strate, President, Media Ecology Association "Martin Levinson has done an excellent job of applying sensible thinking to current problems. Our culture needs this book." -Gregg Hoffmann, author of Searching for Unmediated Truth "This book offers a sound approach to the problems of everyday living. Highly recommended." -Judith Feld, M.D., President, Western Chapter New York Psychiatric Society

Medialogies

Author : David R. Castillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628923598
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Medialogies written by David R. Castillo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars, combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis, relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work is crucial to understanding reality in the information age.

Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The search for self, identity and community

Author : Lucy Huskinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317628578
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The search for self, identity and community written by Lucy Huskinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we make sense of ourselves within a world of change? In Analytical Psychology in a Changing World, an international range of contributors examine some of the common pitfalls, challenges and rewards that we encounter in our efforts to carve out identities of a personal or collective nature, and question the extent to which analytical psychology as a school of thought and therapeutic approach must also adapt to meet our changing needs. The contributors assess contemporary concerns about our sense of who we are and where we are going, some in light of recent social and natural disasters and changes to our social climates, others by revisiting existential concerns and philosophical responses to our human situation in order to assess their validity for today. How we use our urban environments and its structures to make sense of our pathologies and shortcomings; the relevance of images and the dynamic forms that underpin our experience of the world; how analytical psychology can effectively manage issues and problems of cultural, religious and existential identity – these broad themes, and others besides, are vividly illustrated by striking case-studies and unique personal insights that give real lucidity to the ideas and arguments presented. Analytical Psychology in a Changing World will be essential reading for Jungian and post-Jungian scholars and clinicians of depth psychology, as well as sociologists, philosophers and any reader with a critical interest in the important cultural ideas of our time.

A Search for God

Author : Carmine G. Barba
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 141202482X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Search for God written by Carmine G. Barba and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should the act of creation by God be taken, i.e., can it be considered, in a light other than that of religion? Indeed, is it even possible to view it in terms of facts and knowledge, rather than one of faith? Virtually all organized religions assume the existence of God as the creator of the universe and all things in it. This belief has always taken the form of faith (and reason), i.e., it is an act of faith and not necessarily one of knowledge, which is in effect an assumption of belief, rather than one based on scientific fact, and unless this belief is brought into the realm of science, we can never be certain, beyond any doubt that God does indeed exist. This author explains how scientific principles can enter into the explanation of God's existence and how the Act of Creation itself comes out of the hiddenness of God's root source of energy and into the open realm of 3-dimensionality.

Political Emotions

Author : Thom Brooks
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303091092X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Political Emotions written by Thom Brooks and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere? Our societies are characterized by difference and contestation. Cultivating political emotions can appear counterproductive to stability and peace. But there is an increasing recognition that emotions can be harnessed to empower community cohesion and social justice – and new ideas about how our political emotions can foster a decent public sphere and overcome intolerance are urgently needed. In Political Emotions: Towards a Decent Public Sphere, leading theorists consider the limits and prospects of cultivating our emotions that support social justice. All examine this topic from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives breaking new ground and yielding new understandings. Issues explored include adaptive preferences, capabilities, civil religion, compassion, conscience, dignity, feminism, imagination, multicultural citizenship, perfectionism, political liberalism, public sentiments, sympathy and much more in a wide-ranging exploration of key themes in contemporary political philosophy – and Martha C. Nussbaum’s significant contributions to it in particular - that should be of interest to anyone working in these broad areas.

Reconfiguring Truth

Author : Steven C. Ward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847682607
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring Truth written by Steven C. Ward and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as "reality" and "truth" with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory, Ward forges a path through the impasse of the modernism vs. postmodernism debate. Reconfiguring Knowledge is an important work for social scientists and theorists, philosophers, historians, and scholars of science and technology.

The Invention of the Newspaper

Author : Joad Raymond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199282340
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of the Newspaper written by Joad Raymond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

Westward Dharma

Author : Charles S. Prebish
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234901
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Westward Dharma written by Charles S. Prebish and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-04 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like seeds on the wind, Buddhist teachings continue to reach new lands. This outstanding book brings to light, in rich detail, the current flowering of Buddhism in the West. Long a world religion, Buddhism is now a global one."—Kenneth Kraft, author of The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism "Westward Dharma deserves a place on the growing bookshelf of contemporary Buddhist studies. Prebish and Baumann broaden our horizons from North America to the wider Western world, exploring key aspects of Buddhism's most recent geographical and cultural expansion."—Paul David Numrich, coauthor of Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America.

FutureNatural

Author : George Robertson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415070140
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book FutureNatural written by George Robertson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature'. Recent developments in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics are discussed.We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.F uturenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature' - its past, present and future. Contributors discuss the impact on our daily life of recent developments in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics. Increasingly, scientific theories and models have been taken up as cultural metaphores that have material effects in transforming 'ways of seeing' and 'structures of feeling'.The book addresses the issue of whether political and cultural debates about the body and the environment can take place without reference to 'nature' or the 'natural'. This collection considers how we might 'think' a future developing from emergent scientific theories and discourses. What cultural forms may be produced when new knowledges challenge and undermine traditional ways of conceiving the 'natural' ?

In Search of April Raintree

Author : Beatrice Mosionier
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
ISBN 13 : 1774920085
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book In Search of April Raintree written by Beatrice Mosionier and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories. Some memories are elusive, fleeting, like a butterfly that touches down and is free until it is caught. Others are haunting. You'd rather forget them, but they won't be forgotten. And some are always there. No matter where you are, they are there, too. In this moving story of legacy and reclamation, two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless in a broken system, April and Cheryl are separated and placed in different foster homes. Despite the distance, they remain close, even as their decisions threaten to divide them emotionally, culturally, and geographically. As one sister embraces her Métis identity, the other tries to leave it behind. Will the sisters’ bond survive as they struggle to make their way in a society that is often indifferent, hostile, and violent? The first edition of In Search of April Raintree, published in 1984, has since touched many generations of readers, becoming a Canadian school classic. In this edition, ten critical essays accompany one of the best-known texts by an Indigenous author in Canada.

Education - An Anatomy of the Discipline

Author : John Furlong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136157328
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Education - An Anatomy of the Discipline written by John Furlong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields of study; they also have a political life, they are argued for, supported, challenged and debated. Nowhere is this more true than in the discipline of education. In this authoritative text, Furlong describes the history as well as the current state of the discipline of education in universities. He also explores the range of national and global changes that have helped to shape the discipline in recent years. Education’s final ‘arrival’ in the university sector coincided with major changes in universities themselves. Today, universities are very diverse institutions: they no longer have a sense of essential purpose and have largely accepted their loss of autonomy, especially in education where government intervention is particularly strong. If education is now fully integrated into universities, then, like the system as a whole, it urgently needs to find a voice, set out a vision for itself, and state what its purpose should be within a university in the modern world. The book therefore brings together four vitally important topics: -the changing nature of the university -the academic and scholarly study of education as a field -the professional education and training of teachers -the nature and organisation of educational research. Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline will occupy a central place in contemporary literature about education; although based on evidence from British universities, its implications are important across the world. The book will be invaluable reading for all professionals working in university departments and faculties of education as well as those with an interest in the changing role of the university in contemporary society.

ECRM2008-Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research Methods

Author : Ann Brown
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
ISBN 13 : 1906638039
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book ECRM2008-Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Research Methods written by Ann Brown and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Red Land, Red Power

Author : Sean Kicummah Teuton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822342410
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Red Land, Red Power written by Sean Kicummah Teuton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA new interpretation of the literature of the Red Power movement that reconceives the role of identity in the political empowerment of Native Americans./div

With what Persuasion

Author : Scott Forrest Crider
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103124
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book With what Persuasion written by Scott Forrest Crider and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are a number of book-length studies of rhetoric in Shakespeare's plays, With What Persuasion discerns a distinctly Shakespearean ethics of the art of rhetoric in them. In this interdisciplinary book, Scott F. Crider draws upon the Aristotelian traditions of poetics, rhetoric, and ethics to show how Shakespeare addresses fundamental ethical questions that arise during the public and private rhetorical situations Shakespeare represents in his plays. Informed by the Greek, Roman, and English poetic and rhetorical traditions, With What Persuasion offers close readings of a selection of plays - Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Henry the 5th, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, and The Winter's Tale - to answer universal questions about human speech and association, answers that refute a number of contemporary literary and rhetorical theory's assumptions about language and power. Crider argues that this Shakespearean ethics could assist us in our own historical moment as we in the liberal, multicultural West try to refound, without coercion, ethical principles to bind us to one another.

Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children

Author : Francis X. Clooney SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725213214
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children written by Francis X. Clooney SJ and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-02-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children' introduces readers to the spiritual riches of Hindu India. Jesuit author Francis Clooney brings a wealth of scholarship and personal immersion in the thought and life of India to a wide range of students and seekers. In seven chapters Clooney draws on aspects of Indian religious life, both ancient and modern. They include the creation myths and the discovery of the self; realization of the self in theology and meditative traditions; the self-awareness of Gautama; the quest for direct experience of God in devotions to Krishna; the mystery of God in the traditions of Shiva; the cult of the great Goddess; and the spirituality of Mohandas Gandhi and Mahasweta Devi. Clooney offers insights into how people live out these traditions today, continually raising points for comparative reflection, inviting readers to bring their own insights into consideration. 'Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children' provides a fascinating introduction to deep and ancient traditions that will challenge and enrich the quest for the spiritual self.

Think Like an Archipelago

Author : Michael Wiedorn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467044
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Think Like an Archipelago written by Michael Wiedorn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a career spanning more than fifty years as a writer, scholar, and public intellectual, Édouard Glissant produced an astonishingly wide range of work, including poems, novels, essays, pamphlets, and theater. In Think Like an Archipelago, Michael Wiedorn offers a fresh interpretation of Glissant's work as a cohesive and explicitly philosophical project, paying particular attention to the last two decades of his career, which have received much less attention in the English-speaking world despite their remarkable productivity. Focusing his study on the idea of paradox, Wiedorn argues that it is fundamental to Caribbean culture and thought, and at the heart of Glissant's philosophy. The question of difference has long played a central role in the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, however to think differently, Glissant suggests focusing elsewhere: on the post-plantation societies of the Caribbean, and the Americas more broadly. For Glissant, paradoxical lessons drawn from the natural and cultural realities of the Caribbean can point to new ways of thinking and being in the world: in other words, to the creation of what Glissant calls a "new category of literature," and in turn to the attainment of his utopian political vision. Thinking through such paradoxes, Wiedorn demonstrates, can offer new perspectives on the old questions of totality, alterity, teleology, and the potential of philosophy itself.