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Author : Andrew O. Fort
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Self and Its States written by Andrew O. Fort and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Wittmann
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546086
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Altered States of Consciousness written by Marc Wittmann and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long been ignored by mainstream science, or considered crazy fantasies. Recent research, however, has located the neural underpinnings of these altered states of mind. In this book, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann shows how experiences that disturb or widen our everyday understanding of the self can help solve the mystery of consciousness. Wittmann explains that the relationship between consciousness of time and consciousness of self is close; in extreme circumstances, the experiences of space and self intensify and weaken together. He considers the emergence of the self in waking life and dreams; how our sense of time is distorted by extreme situations ranging from terror to mystical enlightenment; the experience of the moment; and the loss of time and self in such disorders as depression, schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Dostoyevsky reported godly bliss during epileptic seizures; neurologists are now investigating the phenomenon of the epileptic aura. Wittmann describes new studies of psychedelics that show how the brain builds consciousness of self and time, and discusses pilot programs that use hallucinogens to treat severe depression, anxiety, and addiction. If we want to understand our consciousness, our subjectivity, Wittmann argues, we must not be afraid to break new ground. Studying altered states of consciousness leads us directly to the heart of the matter: time and self, the foundations of consciousness.
Author : Patricia Townsend
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429620942
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Creative States of Mind written by Patricia Townsend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to be an artist? Drawing on interviews with professional artists, this book takes the reader inside the creative process. The author, an artist and a psychotherapist, uses psychoanalytic theory to shed light on fundamental questions such as the origin of new ideas and the artist’s state of mind while working. Based on interviews with 33 professional artists, who reflect on their experiences of creating new works of art, as well as her own artistic practice, Patricia Townsend traces the trajectory of the creative process from the artist’s first inkling or ‘pre-sense’, through to the completion of a work, and its release to the public. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, particularly the work of Donald Winnicott, Marion Milner and Christopher Bollas, the book presents the artist’s process as a series of interconnected and overlapping stages, in which there is a movement between the artist’s inner world, the outer world of shared ‘reality’, and the spaces in-between. Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process fills an important gap in the psychoanalytic theory of art by offering an account of the full trajectory of the artist’s process based on the evidence of artists themselves. It will be useful to artists who want to understand more about their own processes, to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in their clinical work, and to anyone who studies the creative process.
Author : Gary Greenberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791420461
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Self on the Shelf written by Gary Greenberg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self on the Shelf examines the cultural and philosophical determinants of popular recovery books. Greenberg argues that this literature can be read as documents of the prevailing understanding of the self in American society. The construction of the self promoted by recovery literature is seen as a nihilistic one insofar as it denies the significance of what continental philosophy calls the Other. In this sense the self-help books are correct in their assertion that we have lost sight of how to love, but their proposed solution shows up as a recapitulation and strengthening of the conditions that gave rise to this situation in the first place. Greenbergs critique provides a commentary on the difficulties that face our culture in achieving any sense of meaningful community, and on the way that this problem surfaces in a highly popular discourse.
Author : Anna Moltchanova
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048126916
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book National Self-Determination and Justice in Multinational States written by Anna Moltchanova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substate nationalism, especially in the past fifteen years, has noticeably affected the political and territorial stability of many countries, both democratic and democratizing. Norms exist to limit the behavior of collective agents in relation to individuals; the set of universally accepted human rights provides a basic framework. There is a lacuna in international law, however, in the regulation of the behavior of groups toward other groups, with the exception of relations among states. The book offers a normative approach to moderate minority nationalism that treats minorities and majorities in multinational states justly and argues for the differentiation of group rights based on how group agents are constituted. It argues that group agency requires a shared set of beliefs concerning membership and the social ontology it offers ensures that group rights can be aligned with individual rights. It formulates a set of principles that, if adopted, would aid conflict resolution in multinational states. The book pays special attention to national self-determination in transitional societies. The book is intended for everyone in political philosophy and political science interested in global justice and international law and legal practitioners interested in normative issues and group rights
Author : Maren Behrensen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783485817
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The State and the Self written by Maren Behrensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a person the same person over time? This book provides an ‘externalist’ metaphysical account of personal identity and its ethical implications.
Author : Charles Gray Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ground and Goal of Human Life written by Charles Gray Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674257049
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Sources of the Self written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor’s goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.
Author : Andreas Schedler
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555877743
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (777 download)
Download or read book The Self-restraining State written by Andreas Schedler and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.
Author : Brian Black
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480526
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Character of the Self in Ancient India written by Brian Black and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book is an elegant exploration of the Upanisads, often considered the fountainhead of the rich, varied philosophical tradition in India. The Upaniṣads, in addition to their philosophical content, have a number of sections that contain narratives and dialogues—a literary dimension largely ignored by the Indian philosophical tradition, as well as by modern scholars. Brian Black draws attention to these literary elements and demonstrates that they are fundamental to understanding the philosophical claims of the text. Focusing on the Upanisadic notion of the self (ātman), the book is organized into four main sections that feature a lesson taught by a brahmin teacher to a brahmin student, debates between brahmins, discussions between brahmins and kings, and conversations between brahmins and women. These dialogical situations feature dramatic elements that bring attention to both the participants and the social contexts of Upanisadic philosophy, characterizing philosophy as something achieved through discussion and debate. In addition to making a number of innovative arguments, the author also guides the reader through these profound and engaging texts, offering ways of reading the Upaniṣads that make them more understandable and accessible.
Author : Wolfgang H. Müller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319325809
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book The State of Deformation in Earthlike Self-Gravitating Objects written by Wolfgang H. Müller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth continuum mechanics analysis of the deformation due to self-gravitation in terrestrial objects, such as the inner planets, rocky moons and asteroids. Following a brief history of the problem, modern continuum mechanics tools are presented in order to derive the underlying field equations, both for solid and fluid material models. Various numerical solution techniques are discussed, such as Runge-Kutta integration, series expansion, finite differences, and (adaptive) FE analysis. Analytical solutions for selected special cases, which are worked out in detail, are also included. All of these methods are then applied to the problem, quantitative results are compared, and the pros and cons of the analytical solutions and of all the numerical methods are discussed. The book culminates in a multi-layer model for planet Earth according to the PREM Model (Preliminary Earth Model) and in a viscoelastic analysis of the deformation problem, all from the viewpoint of rational continuum theory and numerical analysis.
Author : Maivân Lâm
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004478728
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book At the Edge of the State: Indigenous Peoples and Self Determination written by Maivân Lâm and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on issues raised by the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, this study reveals the obstacles to self-determination for these peoples in all parts of the world. The author argues, using both legal and social theory, that the right of self-determination can be available to indigenous peoples, and proposes measures that the UN might institute to oversee the realization of this right. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Author : Eduardo Granzotto
Publisher : Editora Dialética
ISBN 13 : 6525200903
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Right of Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors written by Eduardo Granzotto and published by Editora Dialética. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the product of the author's master's thesis, defended in 2019 at King's College, in the International Peace and Security programme of the Department of War Studies. [...] In light of the new contemporary threats to international peace and security and their impact on jus ad bellum rules, the author questions whether the Unable or Unwilling Doctrine(UoU), used as an argument for the use of force in the recent fight against the 'Islamic State' in Syria, has a legal basis in the context of self-defence against non-state actors. He then goes on to explore practical ways in which the doctrine's application can be improved. [...] In the King's College's Department of War Studies, the examiners described the author's thesis as an exceptional piece of scholarly work, absorbing from its first line and reported that the author demonstrates a striking comprehension of complex legal questions, in addition to providing coherent, insightful, and very sophisticated arguments. Professor Granzotto's clever, perceptive, and opportune master's thesis led to a rich and particularly persuasive book, which reflects the thoughts of a mature, though young scholar ___ for whom we must predict the continuity of a superb career. "
Author : William Pepperell Montague
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ways of Knowing written by William Pepperell Montague and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Mathiesen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533018960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The 4 States of Consciousness written by Michael Mathiesen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Forewords by Albert Einstein - Recently Discovered - Electrons that become 'Entangled' learn about a partner Electron and never forget. Is this the first level of Consciousness in the universe? The author - Scientist, Michael Mathiesen believes it is and has penned an easy to understand explanation of the latest Particle Physics that shows how we are all 'FOOLED' by the smallest things in the universe on a daily basis - even minute by minute. If you have ever wondered why it is so difficult to overcome your "FATE" - this may be the book for you. The book is the most intense and detailed explanation of how the universe is formed that you will ever encounter. However, at the same time, the concepts are made extremely easy to understand. Albert Einstein said: "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." In other words, when you strip out all of the abstract mathematical junk about how things work, the basic concepts are easy to understand for anyone, not only Einstein and this author proves Einstein correct by showing how easy it is. When you fully understand the 4 States of Consciousness, your life becomes your own. Until you learn about the 4 states, your life will continue along at the mercy of random events. Do you feel it's time to take control of your life on an even higher plane of existence? If so, this may be the book for you. However, you should read this book only if you are curious about the basic foundation of the universe - how it's made - and why it is made the way it is. The author makes the case nicely that the entire reason the universe is made the way it is - is exclusively to support life. AND - You are included. If you are interested in your life and how it goes, this is the book for you. If you have no interest in life on Earth and in the universe as a whole, would like more information about the Creator, then this is NOT the book for you. It all starts at the Electronic State of Consciousness, literally, the electrons that are at home in your brain and make up your 'mind'. This moves up to the Rotational State of Consciousness, the energy created by billions upon billions of electrons that swirl about to form the atoms that make up your own life and the life of all other things. This moves up to the Vibrational State of Consciousness, the atoms revolving around each other to form the molecules that are the fundamental building blocks of all the mechanisms of you. The Vibrational State of Consciousness resonates throughout the universe in the form of 'Music'. When you feel it, you're there. All of this culminates in the 4th and highest state of Consciousness - the Feedback Loop. You know the 'Feedback Loop' as your ego. The 'I', the self. When you sense the world around you and make judgments about it, react to it, plan for the events in your life, doing whatever comes naturally every day, this is the 'Feedback Loop' where your own reactions to the trials in your life everyday is recorded. The 'Feedback' you give to the Source is what it's all about and why you were placed on this planet at this particular time. Giving greater and greater feedback, brings its own rewards. The proof of the theory is that predictions made by the theory are shown by others. Take the Final Proof challenge and apply these concepts in your own life. My prediction is that your life will improve beyond your wildest dreams. If so, all we ask is that you publish your own results in the form of a review. Learn how we're all part of the Feedback Loop, the 4th and highest state of Consciousness.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The United States and Non-self-governing Territories written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kay B. Warren
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786743
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America written by Kay B. Warren and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are responding to state violence and pro-democracy social movements by asserting their rights to a greater measure of cultural autonomy and self-determination. This volume's rich case studies of movements in Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil weigh the degree of success achieved by indigenous leaders in influencing national agendas when governments display highly ambivalent attitudes about strengthening ethnic diversity. The contributors to this volume are leading anthropologists and indigenous activists from the United States and Latin America. They address the double binds of indigenous organizing and "working within the system" as well as the flexibility of political tactics used to achieve cultural goals outside the scope of state politics. The contributors answer questions about who speaks for indigenous communities, how indigenous movements relate to the popular left, and how conflicts between the national indigenous leadership and local communities play out in specific cultural and political contexts. The volume sheds new light on the realities of asymmetrical power relations and on the ways in which indigenous communities and their representatives employ Western constructions of subjectivity, alterity, and authentic versus counterfeit identity, as well as how they manipulate bureaucratic structures, international organizations, and the mass media to advance goals that involve distinctive visions of an indigenous future.
