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The Paradox of Vantage Point

Author : Indrani Singha Majumdar
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Vantage Point written by Indrani Singha Majumdar and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''Fact is stranger than fiction'' - This falls true for Anwesha Nair- a writer on temporary leave to complete her half-written book. All hell breaks loose when she has to, under unavoidable circumstances, share her room with a eunuch. Yes, that's true. But, this eunuch is not like what normal people assume them to be. He is different. The friction and anomaly between them is apparent. Enters Vikram, the happy go lucky guy, with the simple philosophy of ''let's eat and have fun''. How are these 3 different entities going to stay together? Will there ever be a bond of friendship between them? How easy it is to address eunuch as your acquaintances in real life, forget friends? How far will you go in your trial to overcome the angst and be a better human being? The Paradox of Vantage Point is the journey of Anwesha Nair, Raghubir Kishor and Vikram Madane from being compassion-deficient to acquiring a deeper analysis of life. It is their story of surviving the battle and ultimately painting the canvas of life with positivity and gleefulness.

A Brief History of the Paradox

Author : Roy Sorensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190289317
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Paradox written by Roy Sorensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Ockham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox, looking for, and sometimes finding, a way out. Filled with illuminating anecdotes and vividly written, A Brief History of the Paradox will appeal to anyone who finds trying to answer unanswerable questions a paradoxically pleasant endeavor.

The Paradoxical Ascent to God

Author : Rachel Elior
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438401981
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxical Ascent to God written by Rachel Elior and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the Habad Hasidism movement, an influential part of the Hasidic Movement, which originated in the eigteenth century. Habad was founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1813) who established a Hasidic community in Belorussia and who set forth the new Habad doctrine in a book entitled Tanya (Likutey Amarim). This doctrine expounded the mystical ideas underlying the quest for God. Its essential innovation lay in the formulation of a religious outlook which concentrated upon perceiving the divinity: its essence, its nature, the stages of its manifestation, its characteristics, its perfection, its differing wills, its processes, the significance of its revelation and the possibilities of its perception. This conception generated a profound transformation of religious worship and was the cause of great controversy throughout the Jewish world.

On Paradox

Author : Elizabeth S. Anker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023600
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book On Paradox written by Elizabeth S. Anker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the humanities to its appeal as an incisive tool for exposing and dismantling hierarchies. Tracing the ascent of paradox in theories of modernity, in rights discourse, in the history of literary criticism and the linguistic turn, and in the transformation of the liberal arts in higher education, Anker suggests that paradox not only generates the very exclusions it critiques but also creates a disempowering haze of indecision. She shows that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problematic: it engrains a startling homogeneity of thought while undercutting the commitment to social justice that remains a guiding imperative of theory. Rather than calling for a wholesale abandonment of such reasoning, Anker argues for an expanded, diversified theory toolkit that can help theorists escape the seductions and traps of paradox.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory

Author : George Musser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592577026
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory written by George Musser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear explanations of quantum mechanics, Einstein's theories of relativity, and how string theory unites them.

The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

Author : James R. Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135893705
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings by : James R. Atkinson

Download or read book The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings written by James R. Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics such as, God, the meaning of life, reality, the eternal and the solipsistic self.

Rethinking Neoliberalism

Author : Sanford F. Schram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351736485
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Neoliberalism written by Sanford F. Schram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world. For decades now, neoliberalism has been in the process of becoming a globally ascendant default logic that prioritizes using economic rationality for all major decisions, in all sectors of society, at the collective level of state policymaking as well as the personal level of individual choice-making. Donald Trump's recent presidential victory has been interpreted both as a repudiation and as a validation of neoliberalism’s hegemony. Rethinking Neoliberalism brings together theorists, social scientists, and public policy scholars to address neoliberalism as a governing ethic for our times. The chapters interrogate various dimensions of debates about neoliberalism while offering engaging empirical examples of neoliberalism’s effects on social and urban policy in the USA, Europe, Russia, and elsewhere. Themes discussed include: Relationship between neoliberalism, the state, and civil society Neoliberalism and social policy to discipline citizens Urban policy and how neoliberalism reshapes urban governance What it will take politically to get beyond neoliberalism. Written in a clear and accessible style, Rethinking Neoliberalism is a sophisticated synthesis of theory and practice, making it a compelling read for students of Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology, Geography, Urban Planning, Social Work and related fields, at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.

The Vantage Point

Author : Hilda Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Vantage Point written by Hilda Morris and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Good, the True, the Beautiful

Author : Mark J. Boone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725268892
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Good, the True, the Beautiful written by Mark J. Boone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. David K. Naugle is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the area of Christian worldview formation. As Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Dallas Baptist University, he has drawn accolades and admiration. This collection in his honor demonstrates that intellectual pursuits are inherently spiritual, that no area of life is separate from the lordship of Christ, and that true Christian faith is in fact the deep fulfillment of the human experience. On topics ranging from linguistics to gardening and everything in between, these essays represent the depth and breadth of the idea that all goodness is God's goodness, all truth is God's truth, and all beauty is God's beauty.

Taming Your Crocodiles Practices

Author : Hylke Faber
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486848817
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Taming Your Crocodiles Practices written by Hylke Faber and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to implement leadership practices into everyday life, deepen your appreciation for the adventure of life and leadership, connect with your calling, and turn your fears into growth practices.

The Paradox of Political Philosophy

Author : Jacob Howland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847689767
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Political Philosophy written by Jacob Howland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Socrates' trial as played out in the Apology, Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Cratylus, Sophist, and Statesman. Finding that the heart of the dialogues is the rivalry between the characters of the Stranger of Elea and Socrates, the author devotes a chapter to each dialogue and explores the Stranger of Elea's criticism that the uncompromising pursuit of knowledge conflicts with the task of weaving together humans into a political community. The melding of the arguments of Socrates and the Stranger of Elea, the author suggests, is the best path to understanding Plato's political philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life

Author : Moshe Farjoun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019256238X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life written by Moshe Farjoun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contradictions permeate and propel organizational life - including tensions between reaching globally while focusing locally; competing while also cooperating; performing reliably while experimenting, taking risks, and learning; or granting autonomy while constraining freedom. These tensions give organizational members pause, but also spur them to take action; they may be necessary for preserving the social order, but are also required to transform it. Drawing on the Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life examines how contradictions fuel emergent, dynamic systems and stimulate novelty, adaption, and transformations. It uses conceptual and empirical studies to offer insight into how process theorizing advances understanding of organizational contradictions; to shed light on how dialectics, paradoxes, and dualities fuel persistence and transformation; and to explore the convergence and divergence of dialectics, paradox, and dualities. Taken together, it offers key insights to inform persistent, contradictory dynamics in organizations and organizational studies.

Distortion

Author : Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315317524
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Distortion written by Nigel Rapport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or habitus and its animation in contemporary contexts. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences as a phenomenon in its own right. This volume argues for the key importance of distortion as a concept in the social sciences, and attempts to refine it as a concept. Each chapter examines distortion in the context of an ethnographic case study, examining how its conceptualization can further comprehension of a particular ethnographic situation. It is contended that distortion is an account of the emergent or revolutionary nature of human life, an emergence that can be attached to particular antecedent conditions in a processual or temporal way yet is a transformation of the essential nature of those conditions. Coming to terms with distortion adds significantly to the social-scientific appreciation of human activity and creativity, of conscious experience, of the nature of social interaction and exchange, and of the complexity of social milieu. Distortion should be essential reading on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social theory, contemporary issues and methodologies, communication, sociality, materiality, and intersectionality.

The Conditions of Hospitality

Author : Thomas Claviez
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823251470
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Conditions of Hospitality written by Thomas Claviez and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays devoted to the concept of hospitality from different disciplinary perspectives such as philosophy, politics, anthropology, aesthetics, ethics, and translation studies.

Emergency Politics

Author : Bonnie Honig
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830966
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Emergency Politics written by Bonnie Honig and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A more democratic response to political emergencies This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of the rule of law or demanding that law rather than force be used to resolve conflicts with enemies. But are these the only options? Or are there more democratic ways to respond to invocations of emergency politics? Looking at how emergencies in the past and present have shaped the development of democracy, Bonnie Honig argues that democracies must resist emergency's pull to focus on life's necessities (food, security, and bare essentials) because these tend to privatize and isolate citizens rather than bring us together on behalf of hopeful futures. Emphasizing the connections between mere life and more life, emergence and emergency, Honig argues that emergencies call us to attend anew to a neglected paradox of democratic politics: that we need good citizens with aspirational ideals to make good politics while we need good politics to infuse citizens with idealism. Honig takes a broad approach to emergency, considering immigration politics, new rights claims, contemporary food politics and the infrastructure of consumption, and the limits of law during the Red Scare of the early twentieth century. Taking its bearings from Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and other Jewish thinkers, this is a major contribution to modern thought about the challenges and risks of democratic orientation and action in response to emergency.

The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox

Author : BA Bosserman
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903935
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox written by BA Bosserman and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox' grapples with the question of how one may hold together the ideals of systematic theology, apologetic proof, and theological paradox by building on the insights of Cornelius Van Til. Van Til developed an apologetic where one presupposes that the Triune God exists, and then proves this Christian presupposition by demonstrating that philosophies that deny it are self-defeating in the specific sense that they rely on principles that only the Trinity, asthe ultimate harmony of unity and diversity, can furnish. A question raised by Van Til's trademark procedure is how he can evade the charge that the apparent contradictions of the christian faith render it equally self-defeating as non-Christian alternatives. This text argues that for Van Til, Christian paradoxes can be differentiated from genuine contradictions by the way that their apparently opposing elements discernibly require one another, even as they present our minds with an irresolvable conflict. And yet, Van Til failed to sufficiently vindicate the central Christian paradox-the doctrine of the Trinity-along the lines required by his system. Hence, the present text offers a unique proof that God can only exist as the pinnacle of unity-in-diversity, and as the ground of a coherent Christian system, if He exists as three, and only three, divine persons.

Political Ideologies

Author : Paul Wetherly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198727852
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Political Ideologies written by Paul Wetherly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Political Ideologies provides a broad-ranging introduction to both the classical and contemporary political ideologies. Adopting a global outlook, it introduces readers to ideologies' increasingly global reach and the different national versions of these ideologies. Importantly, ideologies are presented as frameworks of interpretation and political commitment, encouraging readers to evaluate how ideologies work in practice, the problematic links between ideas and political action, and the impact of ideologies. Regular learning features encourage readers to think critically about ideologies, and view them as competing and contestable ways of interpreting the world. A unique 'stop and think' feature calls for readers to reflect on their own ideological beliefs." -- Provided by publisher.