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Humanistic Existentialism

Author : Hazel Estella Barnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803252295
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Humanistic Existentialism written by Hazel Estella Barnes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click for larger cover scan Humanistic Existentialism The Literature of Possibility Paper: 1959, X, 419, CIP.LC 59-11732 ISBN: 0-8032-5229-3 Price: $29.95 University of Nebraska Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This study in humanistic existentialism is highly informative as well as entertaining. It is a scholarly, detailed analysis of the literary art, the philosophical ideas, and the psychologies of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. It is also a competent effort to explain the positive implications for the theory of freedom and possibility which lie half buried under this literature of nothingness, alienation, and absurdity. . . . Miss Barnes makes thoroughly enjoyable reading of a subject-matter which might have seemed forbidding."--Herbert W. Schneider, Journal of Philosophy. "Recommended unqualifiedly as the most thorough and reliable exposition of the works of Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir to have appeared in this country."--Willard Colston, Chicago Sun-Times. "Those who want a real understanding of existentialism instead of the usual superficial generalizations are certain to gain it from this book."--Walter Kaufmann, The American Scholar. "The book captures much of the forlorn dark grandeur of the existentialist vision of the human condition."--Yale Review. "The philosophy of Sartre is presented accurately and with rare elegance and simplicity. . . . The section on psychoanalysis compares Sartre to Freud, then to Horney and Fromm, then to the phenomenologists. The treatment is fair-minded and careful."--Robert Champigny, L'Esprit Crateur.

The Realm of Possibility

Author : David Levithan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307490033
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Realm of Possibility written by David Levithan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of linked poems from David Levithan, the author of the New York Times bestseller Every Day and the groundbreaking classic Boy Meets Boy and the co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green), will introduce you to a world of unforgettable and emotionally resonant voices. Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us. Enter The Realm of Possibility and meet a boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield; a girl who loves the boy who wears all black; a boy with the perfect body; and a girl who writes love songs for a girl she can’t have. These are just a few of the captivating characters readers will get to know in this intensely heartfelt new novel about those ever-changing moments of love and heartbreak that go hand-in-hand with high school. David Levithan plumbs the depths of teenage emotion to create an amazing array of voices that readers won’t forget. So, enter their lives and prepare to welcome the realm of possibility open to us all. Love, joy, and these stories will linger. A MARGARET A. EDWARDS AWARD WINNER AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK FOR THE TEEN AGE “Luminous . . . each voice sings with hope, humor and possibility.” —Time Out New York Kids

That's a Possibility!

Author : Bruce Goldstone
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805089985
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book That's a Possibility! written by Bruce Goldstone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines colorful photographs and interactive examples in an introduction to the science and math of probability that provides comprehensive explanations about games of chance and various easy-to-understand scenarios. By the author of Great Estimations.

The Physics of Possibility

Author : Michael Tondre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941466
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Possibility written by Michael Tondre and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Physics of Possibility traces the sensational birth of mathematical physics in Victorian literature, science, and statistics. As scientists took up new breakthroughs in quantification, they showed how all sorts of phenomena—the condition of stars, atoms, molecules, and nerves—could be represented as a set of probabilities through time. Michael Tondre demonstrates how these techniques transformed the British novel. Fictions of development by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and others joined the vogue for alternative possibilities. Their novels not only reflected received pieties of maturation but plotted a wider number of deviations from the norms of reproductive adulthood. By accentuating overlooked elements of form, Tondre reveals the novel’s changing identification with possible worlds through the decades when physics became a science of all things. In contrast to the observation that statistics served to invent normal populations, Tondre brings influential modes of historical thinking to the foreground. His readings reveal an acute fascination with alternative temporalities throughout the period, as novelists depicted the categories of object, action, and setting in new probabilistic forms. Privileging fiction’s agency in reimagining historical realities, never simply sanctioning them, Tondre revises our understanding of the novel and its ties to the ascendant Victorian sciences.

The Literature of Possibility

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1473645042
Total Pages : 1931 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Possibility written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 1931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, individuals have strived for "the good life:" the ability to provide for oneself and one's family, make meaningful contributions to society, and enjoy culture and nature, among other happy pursuits. The wisdom to achieve this great life is contained in The Literature of Possibility, a digital collection featuring a new introduction that brings Tom Butler-Bowdon's 50 Classics series

Explore the Literature of Possibility (Trailer)

Author : Tom Butler-Bowden
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857889967
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Explore the Literature of Possibility (Trailer) written by Tom Butler-Bowden and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom to achieve "the good life" is contained in The Literature of Possibility, a digital collection.

The Possibility of You

Author : Pamela Redmond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451616430
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Possibility of You written by Pamela Redmond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Pamela Redmond delivers a beautifully written novel about three generations of women in New York City and the experiences that shape and connect them to each other. The Possibility of You weaves together three interlocking stories involving three women dealing with issues of pregnancy and motherhood at key moments in history of the last century: On the brink of the First World War and the dawn of the modern age; as the liberalism of the ’60s and ’70s gave way to Reagan’s 1980s; and during the autumn of Barack Obama’s election. Contemporary heroine Cait, an African-American journalist raised by white adoptive parents, goes on a search for her birth mother inspired by her own unplanned pregnancy. Orphan Billie travels from her hippie upbringing in San Francisco to discover the upscale New York grandmother she never knew existed. And Irish nanny Bridget loses the boy she cares for and loves in the 1916 polio epidemic, only to try and replace him with a child of her own. Delving into the complex emotions that lie at the heart of unplanned pregnancy, motherhood, and the definition of family, this sweeping inter-generational saga illuminates the struggles of these very different women—and shows how the search for belonging is a connection that remains universal.

Architectures of Possibility

Author : Lance Olsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935738190
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Architectures of Possibility written by Lance Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Architectures of Possibility" theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such traditional writing gestures as temporality, scene, and characterization; offers various suggestions for generating writing that resists, rethinks, and challenges authors to push their work into self-aware and surprising territory.

Don DeLillo

Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134391064
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Don DeLillo written by Peter Boxall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and economic concerns for the fist time. Providing a lucid and nuanced reading of DeLillo's ambivalent engagement with American and European culture, as well as with modernism and postmodernism, and globalization and terrorism, this fascinating volume interrogates the critical and aesthetic capacities of fiction in what is an age of global capitalism and US cultural imperialism.

Measures of Possibility

Author : Domhnall Mitchell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558494626
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Measures of Possibility written by Domhnall Mitchell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author confronts the thorny question of whether any set of editing practices can adequately represent in print the distinctive characteristics of Emily Dickinson's writing".--BOOKJACKET.

Group Agency

Author : Christian List
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199591563
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Group Agency written by Christian List and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer original arguments, grounded in cutting-edge work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them.

Possibility of Being

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206518
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Possibility of Being written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibility of Being is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1857-l926). The title (taken from one of the Sonnets to Orpheus, ''Ibis is the Creature") reflects the central concern of both Rilke's life and art: the achievement of "being," which this most spiritual yet least doctrinaire of modern German poets defined as "the experiencing of the completest possible inner intensity.''

Finite and Infinite Games

Author : James Carse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451657293
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Finite and Infinite Games written by James Carse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There are at least two kinds of games,” states James Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.” Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end. What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives? Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything from how an actress portrays a role, to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil, to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory. But infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander. Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.

Inheriting Possibility

Author : Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452954437
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Inheriting Possibility written by Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the dominant social scientific paradigm limited our understanding of the impact of inherited economic resources, social privilege, and sociocultural practices on multigenerational inequality? In what ways might multiple forces of social difference haunt quantitative measurements of ability such as the SAT? Building on new materialist philosophy, Inheriting Possibility rethinks methods of quantification and theories of social reproduction in education, demonstrating that test performance results and parenting practices convey the impact of materially and historically contingent patterns of differential possibility. Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román explores the dualism of nature and culture that has undergirded theories of inheritance, social reproduction, and human learning and development. Research and debate on the reproduction of power relations have rested on a premise that nature is made up of fixed universals on which the creative, intellective, and discursive play of culture are based. Drawing on recent work in the physical and biological sciences, Dixon-Román argues that nature is culture. He contends that by assuming a rigid nature/culture binary, we ultimately limit our understanding of how power relations are reproduced. Through innovative analyses of empirical data and cultural artifacts, Dixon-Román boldly reconsiders how we conceptualize the processes of inheritance and approach social inquiry in order to profoundly sharpen understanding and address the reproducing forces of inequality.

The Possibility of Angels

Author : Keith Bosley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Possibility of Angels written by Keith Bosley and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Worlds of Possibility

Author : Charles S. Chihara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of Possibility written by Charles S. Chihara and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modal realism is the philosophical doctrine that there exist many possible worlds, of which the actual world is just one. This volume offers a critical exposition of the theory.

Brutes Or Angels

Author : James T. Bradley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317880
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Brutes Or Angels written by James T. Bradley and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With stem cell research, Dolly the cloned sheep, in vitro fertilization, age retardation, and pharmaceutical mind enhancement, humankind is now faced with decisions that it has never before had to consider. The thoughtfulness, or lack of it, that we bring to those decisions will largely determine the future character of the living world. Brutes or Angels will facilitate informed choice making about the personal use of biotechnologies and the formulation of public policies governing their development and use. Ten biotechnologies that impact humans are considered: stem cell research, embryo selection, human genomics, gene therapies, human reproductive cloning, age retardation, cognition enhancement, the engineering of nonhuman organisms, nanobiology, and synthetic biology. With deft and assured use of metaphors, analogies, diagrams, and photographs, James T. Bradley introduces important biological principles and the basic procedures used in biotechnology. Various ethical issues--personhood, personal identity, privacy, ethnic discrimination, distributive justice, authenticity and human nature, and the significance of mortality in the human life cycle--are presented in a clear and unbiased manner. Personal reflection and group dialogue are encouraged by questions at the end of each chapter, making this book not only a general guide to better informed and nuanced thinking on these complex and challenging topics but also an appropriate text for bioethics courses in university science departments and for adult education classes." -- Publisher's description.