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The Contradiction of Solitude

Author : A. Meredith Walters
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781508808725
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Contradiction of Solitude written by A. Meredith Walters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may notice me, but you will never know me. I prefer it that way. I am the daughter of a monster. Born from blood and lies. Dead before I have truly lived. But Elian tells me that I'm different. He tells me that I'm beautiful. That I'm an enigma wrapped in irresistibly complicated skin. Elian says that he loves me. These words terrify me. I can't trust love. Or hope. Or truth. Because I fear the beast inside. It threatens to drown Elian and his sweet, unconditional love. It's a beast that will destroy everything.

Words and Witnesses

Author : Naaman K. Wood
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1683072421
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Words and Witnesses written by Naaman K. Wood and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should Christians address specific problems, controversies, and crises in communication today? By looking at influential Christian thinkers throughout history, we can identify wisdom that enriches us today in practical ways. Words and Witnesses explores various influential Christian thinkers and theologians from across church history in order to expand our contemporary conversations in communication studies and media theory. Individual chapters written by contributing scholars focus on major Christian thinkers, starting with Athanasius, St. Augustine, and John Chrysostom, moving through the Middle Ages to address figures such as Anselm, Nicholas of Cusa, Teresa of Lisieux, and arriving in the present with reflections on the work of John Howard Yoder, C. S. Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Kuyper, and Desmond Tutu, among others. Each chapter delves into how the contemporary church, and scholars of media, can turn to these influential Christian thinkers as resources for addressing specific problems in communication today. By analyzing church practices, doctrine, and biblical texts this book provides the church with resources and inspiration to communicate in distinctly Christian ways.

Thinking Through Loneliness

Author : Diane Enns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350279765
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Loneliness written by Diane Enns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the peculiar paradox of loneliness: I am unseen yet I feel exposed, as though my most internal suffering were on public display, as though I am disclosing to the world the vulnerability it does not want to see." By reflecting on the experience of loneliness through the author's own life, the narratives of others and analyses from Arendt to Berardi, Thinking Through Loneliness explores the ambiguities of being alone. It seeks to defy the reductionist tendencies of the current loneliness experts, looking beyond loneliness as a collective health crisis to consider what it tells us about our great need for one another and what happens when we fail to meet this need. Our social needs vary, however; to investigate loneliness is to inquire into the contradictions of the human condition-we are alone and together, separate and attached-which gives rise to the need for individuality on the one hand, and for intimacy on the other. To be lonely is to suffer from an unfulfilled desire to be close to others. But we can also suffer from an unfulfilled desire to be separate from others. Diane Enns explores how loneliness might be an inescapable dimension of human existence, but also the collective symptom of social failure. The lonely are not to blame for their distress; they are witnesses to the failure of our contemporary social world, dramatically transformed in recent decades by digital technology, and changes in how we work, love, socialize, and live together in households, neighbourhoods and cities. Enns argues it is crucial to recognise the structural conditions-economic, political, institutional, technological-that give rise to the isolation that produces loneliness. Only then can we work to undermine these conditions, preserving all that is best about human social life.

Solitude Awakens: The Heart Forest Mountain Way

Author : Joseph Randolph Bowers
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1925034119
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Solitude Awakens: The Heart Forest Mountain Way written by Joseph Randolph Bowers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystic, teacher, and therapist Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers reveals the secrets of solitary life, contemplation, and enlightenment. Like a master weaver and guru Dr Bowers teaches the reader how to experience relief from suffering and how to attain awakening in freedom, mindfulness, and true joy. Seekers on the way will want to learn how to create your own 'rule of life' and how to nurture life-long vow practices that grow with you and that match your values and aspirations. Be forewarned, this knowledge of the ages can change you forever. Made for the western mind this is a modern secular synergy of Christian, Franciscan, Buddhist, Hindu, Mi'kmaq First Nation, Science, and Zen traditions. 'Solitude Awakens: The Heart Forest Mountain Way' is like a modern Lotus Flower Sutra of the Bodhisattva of Compassion in a clear and practical wisdom.

Philosophy and Its Others

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438400977
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Its Others written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious, and the ethical, without losing any of its own distinctive voice. He develops an original and constructive position between these extremes: the Hegelian extreme which reduces the plurality of others to a dialectical totality and the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive options that celebrate plurality, but without a proper sense of the connectedness of philosophy and its others.

Cosmic Solitude

Author : CAN BARTU H.
Publisher : CBF Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Solitude written by CAN BARTU H. and published by CBF Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth, a tiny and dazzling speck in the vast cosmic canvas, is not just our home but a cradle of human curiosity, scientific exploration, and boundless wonder. Inhabiting this small planet, we are not mere witnesses to the grandeur of the universe; we are intrepid explorers who tirelessly venture beyond our terrestrial boundaries. Our quest leads us from the enigmatic birth and expansion of the universe to the hunt for habitable worlds and the complexities of interstellar communication. It reminds us of the ethical considerations surrounding potential encounters with extraterrestrial life and the responsible use of cosmic resources. This book encapsulates the captivating narrative of our journey, revolving around the fundamental question: "Are we alone in the universe?" The odyssey begins with a profound exploration of the birth and expansion of the universe, an event that unfolds from the cataclysmic Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets. Yet, our journey extends far beyond our planetary confines. It takes us to the tantalizing Goldilocks zone, where the conditions for life may exist beyond Earth. We peer into the vast expanse of exoplanets, each with its unique story waiting to be uncovered. As cosmic pioneers, we confront the intricacies of interstellar communication. We send signals into the cosmic void, hoping for a response that bridges the unfathomable distances separating us from potential extraterrestrial civilizations. These exchanges, transcending our imagination, symbolize the pinnacle of our pursuit. Our expedition is not an individual undertaking but a collective odyssey uniting us as seekers of truth, understanding, and communion with the cosmos. As we traverse the limitless expanse of space, we recognize that our exploration is an eternal journey—a testament to the boundless human spirit and an enduring tribute to our intrinsic desire to comprehend the universe enveloping us. Thank you for embarking on this journey with us. Now, let us together dive into the depths of the cosmos, explore its mysteries, and seek answers to the questions that propel us forward on this enchanting adventure.

Recoding Metaphysics

Author : Giovanna Borradori
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810108003
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Recoding Metaphysics written by Giovanna Borradori and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy presents for the first time in English the work of many leading Italian contemporary thinkers. It suggests a third way in the hitherto almost exclusively French and German discussion of the deconstructive critique of poststructuralism on one hand, and the emancipatory convictions of post-Marxist discourse on the other. Each essay attempts to establish the validity of this third way, some by developing the concept of "weak thought" through rigorous analysis of Marxism and a reinterpretation of Nietzsche's nihilism and Heidegger's existentialism, and others by developing alternative critiques to postructuralist thinking.

Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401207844
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.

From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care

Author : Stephen Buetow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000645398
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care written by Stephen Buetow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness – a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death. Arguing that social connection is not the only answer, it explores pathways for transforming loneliness to healthy solitude. The first part of the book draws on the humanities and arts, including psychology, philosophy, and literature to analyse the common, and potentially serious, problem of loneliness. It makes the case that the condition is less a deficiency than a state of self-disconnection that modernity feeds through social forces. The second part of the book looks at how person-centred health care can help educate persons to transform loneliness into healthy solitude. It provides an analysis of self-connection and spiritual connection, discussing how these forms of contact can mitigate risks associated with both lack of social connection, and social connection itself, such as self-disconnection and rejection by others. It goes on to demonstrate that connection to the self and spirit can make aloneness a resource and facilitate access to benefits of connecting with others. This thought-provoking book provides students, scholars, and practitioners from a range of health and social care backgrounds with a new way of thinking about, researching, and practising with lonely people.

Being Interior

Author : Nicholas D. Paige
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235777
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Being Interior written by Nicholas D. Paige and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography came into being when we began to see the self differently.

The art of Anatole France

Author : Dushan Bresky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111718085
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The art of Anatole France written by Dushan Bresky and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The art of Anatole France".

Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433104268
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy written by Michael A. Peters and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of creative work. It documents how these profound shifts have brought to the forefront forms of knowledge production based on the commons and driven by ideas, not profitability per se; and have given rise to the notion of not just 'knowledge management' but the design of 'creative institutions' embodying new patterns of work.

Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real

Author : Arka Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501341170
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real written by Arka Chattopadhyay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett's prose works. Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett's prose works, including How It Is, Company, Worstward Ho, Malone Dies and Enough to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise.

Political Theories of Narcissism

Author : Takamichi Sakurai
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643909772
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Political Theories of Narcissism written by Takamichi Sakurai and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the psychoanalytic concept of narcissism contribute to enhancing the disciplinary quality and features of political theory? This book tries to portray the foundations of democracy as both a universal value and a system of values embedded in specific cultural systems of meaning from its psychoanalytic perspective. This cross-disciplinary normative attempt makes possible the constructive dialogue between contemporary Western and Japanese culture by focusing on how the psychological foundations of democracy are treated within a common disciplinary framework in two different sociocultural contexts. In light of the integration of the psychiatrically mythical idea, the book argues that the key subjects of political theory are to identify the sources of totalitarian and fascist orientations in seemingly democratic practice, and to deal with them in psychoanalytically diagnostic and remedial terms.

Heidegger and Jaspers on Nietzsche

Author : R.L. Howey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940102443X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Heidegger and Jaspers on Nietzsche written by R.L. Howey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENERAL PROBLEMS IN NIETZSCHE INTERPRETATION Every philosopher presents special problems of interpretation. With Nietzsche these problems are especially crucial. The very richness of Nietzsche's thought and expression becomes a trap for the incautious or imaginative mind. Perhaps the greatest temptation for the in terpreter of Nietzsche is to attempt to "systematize" his thought into a consistent whole. Any such attempt necessarily results in distortion, for there is a fluidity in Nietzsche's thought which does not lend itself to strict categorization. This is not to deny that there are certain organic patterns in his philosophy. These patterns emerge, however, as Jaspers correctly insists, only upon careful, critical comparison of pertinent passages drawn from the entire corpus of Nietzsche's works. No single passage can be taken as a definitive statement of Nietzsche's views of any particular subject. Frequently, by presenting two or three especially relevant quotations from the author being considered, the correctness of his interpretation. With Nietz a critic can support sche, however, such a procedure is inadequate, for in many cases other passages can be found which will support an alternative, if not oppo site, interpretation. Nor is this difficulty alleviated by vast compi lations of relevant passages, for then one could gain just as much, and quite likely more, from re-reading Nietzsche's works themselves.

Bertrand Russell

Author : Ray Monk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684828022
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Bertrand Russell written by Ray Monk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell's avant-garde philosophy of free love combined with his principled pacificism would make him an icon of the international Left in the 1960s.".

The Essence of Nihilism

Author : Emanuele Severino
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786136
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Nihilism written by Emanuele Severino and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation Between 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The “fundamental incompatibility” identified between his thought and Christian doctrine ejected him from his position as Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of Nihilism, published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and it established Severino’s preeminent position within the the constellation of contemporary philosophy. In this groundbreaking and classic book—now for the first time available in English—Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of “the greatest folly,” that is, of the belief that “things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing.” According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has resulted in a conviction that there is a radical “nothingness” to existence. In turn, this justifies the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction. To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all “return to Parmenides.” Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes nihilism’s “path of night”, and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent thing.