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Enigmas of Identity

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069115953X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Enigmas of Identity written by Peter Brooks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity "We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it, and inventing excuses for our unpersuasive stories about it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. In particular, the book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Paying special attention to Rousseau, Freud, and Proust, Brooks also looks at the intersection of individual life stories with the law, and considers the creation of an introspective project that culminates in psychoanalysis. Elegant and provocative, Enigmas of Identity offers new insights into the questions and clues about who we think we are.

Enigmas of Identity

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400839696
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Enigmas of Identity written by Peter Brooks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From eminent critic Peter Brooks, an exploration of the modern preoccupation with identity "We know that it matters crucially to be able to say who we are, why we are here, and where we are going," Peter Brooks writes in Enigmas of Identity. Many of us are also uncomfortably aware that we cannot provide a convincing account of our identity to others or even ourselves. Despite or because of that failure, we keep searching for identity, making it up, trying to authenticate it, and inventing excuses for our unpersuasive stories about it. This wide-ranging book draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. In particular, the book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Paying special attention to Rousseau, Freud, and Proust, Brooks also looks at the intersection of individual life stories with the law, and considers the creation of an introspective project that culminates in psychoanalysis. Elegant and provocative, Enigmas of Identity offers new insights into the questions and clues about who we think we are.

Identity Economics

Author : George A. Akerlof
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083418X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Identity Economics written by George A. Akerlof and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How identity influences the economic choices we make Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities—and not just economic incentives—influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people—facing the same economic circumstances—would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration—and of Identity Economics. The authors explain how our conception of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save. Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions—at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures—and much, much more. Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity—their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be—may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well-being.

Identity

Author : Gerald Izenberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812224531
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Identity written by Gerald Izenberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European political leaders declared multiculturalism a failure just as Canada, which pioneered it, was hailing its success. Along the way the book examines Erik Erikson's concepts of psychological identity and identity crisis, which made the word famous; the turn to collective identity and the rise of identity politics in Europe and America; varieties and theories of group identity; debates over accommodating collective identities within liberal democracy; the relationship between individual and group identity; the postmodern critique of identity as a concept; and the ways it nonetheless transformed the social sciences and altered our ideas of ethics. At the same time the book is an argument for the validity and indispensability of identity, properly understood. Identity was not a concept before the twentieth century because it was taken for granted. The slaughter of World War I undermined the honored identities of prewar Europe and, as a result, the idea of identity as something objective and stable was thrown into question at the same time that people began to sense that it was psychologically and socially necessary. We can't be at home in our bodies, act effectively in the world, or interact comfortably with others without a stable sense of who we are. Gerald Izenberg argues that, while it is a mistake to believe that our identities are givens that we passively discover about ourselves, decreed by God, destiny, or nature, our most important identities have an objective foundation in our existential situation as bodies, social beings, and creatures who aspire to meaning and transcendence, as well as in the legitimacy of our historical particularity.

Enigmas

Author : Mario Perniola
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859849668
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Enigmas written by Mario Perniola and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?"

Enigmas and Riddles in Literature

Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521855101
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Enigmas and Riddles in Literature written by Eleanor Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.

Astronomical Enigmas

Author : Mark Kidger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880261
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Astronomical Enigmas written by Mark Kidger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomer Kidger has spent his career helping the general public understand the nature of the universe and astronomy. In "Astronomical Enigmas," he offers answers to the questions he is asked most frequently.

Ambrose Bierce is Missing

Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813164141
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce is Missing written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another—or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he demonstrates the use of varied techniques in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. All the major categories of historical mystery are here—ancient riddles, biographical enigmas, hidden identity, "fakelore," questioned artifacts, suspect documents, lost texts, obscured sources, and scientific challenges. Each is then illustrated by a complete case from the author's own files. Nickell's investigation of the giant Nazca drawings in Peru, for example—thought by some to provide proof of ancient extraterrestrial visitations—uses innovative techniques to reveal a very different origin. Other cases concern the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the truth about the identity of John Demjanjuk ("Ivan the Terrible" to Polish death camp victims), the fate of a lost colonial American text, the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In reaching his solutions, Nickell demonstrates a wide variety of investigative techniques—chemical and instrumental analyses, physical experimentation, a "psychological autopsy," forensic identification, archival research, linguistic analysis, folklore study, and many others. His highly readable book will intrigue the scholar and the history buff no less than the mystery lover.

Reading with Peter Brooks

Author : Rachel Bowlby
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399538403
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Reading with Peter Brooks written by Rachel Bowlby and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many decades Peter Brooks's critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many kinds, with memorable books that continue to generate new thinking. Reading for the Plot was perhaps the best known of these until Brooks published Seduced by Story (2022), a provocative calling out of the now ubiquitous cultural stress on 'stories' of all and any kind.The mini-essays in this volume build on the diverse strands of Brooks's work in their own ways, to demonstrate -and celebrate-its significance for critical thinking across a range of different disciplinary fields and institutional settings: in literary history and narrative theory; in psychoanalytic and legal studies; through interdisciplinary initiatives at Yale. There are also two longer essays by Peter Brooks himself, including one on his experience of prison teaching.

Psychoanalysis and Storytelling

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Storytelling written by Peter Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art

Author : Dawn Ades
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781941701881
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art written by Dawn Ades and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art explores the ways in which artists have sought to explain their world in terms of an alternate reality, drawn from imagination, the subconscious, poetry, nature, myth, and religion. Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, which not only introduced these movements to the American public, but also placed them in a historical and cultural context by situating them with artists from earlier centuries. Presenting works from the twelfth century to the present day, this catalogue is organized into six themes—Monsters & Demons, Dreams & Temptation, Fragmented Body, Unconscious Gesture, Super Nature, and Sense of Place. Works included range from medieval gargoyles to twentieth-century works by Louise Bourgeois, Sigmar Polke, and Pablo Picasso as well as contemporary works by Michaël Borremans, Marcel Dzama, and Raymond Pettibon. Masterworks from the likes of Piero di Cosimo, Francisco de Goya, and Titian are considered alongside those by William Blake and Odilon Redon. Time folds and temporal barriers collapse when Damiano Cappelli meets Edvard Munch, and Salvator Rosa encounters Luc Tuymans and Lisa Yuskavage. Salvador Dalí, Sherrie Levine, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Kerry James Marshall—eight centuries intersect and, as such, this wide-ranging catalogue examines affinities in intention and imagery between works executed across a broad span of time. Organized in collaboration with Nicholas Hall, a specialist in the field of Old Masters and nineteenth-century art, this fully illustrated catalogue is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in 2018. It includes new scholarship by Dawn Ades, Olivier Berggruen, and J. Patrice Marandel.

Top 15 Historical Enigmas

Author : Jade Summers
Publisher : Jade Summers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Top 15 Historical Enigmas written by Jade Summers and published by Jade Summers. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the secrets of history's greatest mysteries with "Top 15 Historical Enigmas"! 📜✨ Dive into tales that have baffled historians and captivated imaginations for centuries. From the lost city of Atlantis to the eerie disappearance of Amelia Earhart, each chapter unveils a new puzzle waiting to be solved. 🌍 Explore ancient legends and modern mysteries 🔍 Investigate unexplained phenomena and historical enigmas 💡 Perfect for history buffs and mystery lovers Get ready to embark on a journey through time and uncover the unknown. Grab your copy today and become a part of the mystery-solving adventure! 📖🔎

Reading, Writing, and Romanticism

Author : Lucy Newlyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198187110
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Reading, Writing, and Romanticism written by Lucy Newlyn and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gulf between materialist and idealist approaches this study, informed by an historical awareness of Romantic hermeneutics and its later developments, examines how readers are imagined, addressed, and figured in Romantic poetry

Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings

Author : Douglas J. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317060229
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings written by Douglas J. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significantly influencing the sociological study of religion, Hans Mol developed ideas of identity which remain thought-provoking for analyses of how religion operates within contemporary societies. Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings brings current social-religious topics into sharp focus: international scholars analyse, challenge, and apply Mol’s theoretical assertions. This book introduces the unique story of Hans Mol, who survived Nazi imprisonment and proceeded to brush shoulders with formidable intellectuals of the twentieth century, such as Robert Merton, Talcott Parsons, and Reinhold Niebuhr. Offering a fresh perspective on popular subjects such as secularization, pluralism, and the place of religion in the public sphere, this book sets case studies within an intellectual biography which describes Mol’s key influences and reveals the continuing import of Hans Mol’s work applied to recent data and within a contemporary context.

Heterogeneities

Author : Pradip Kumar Datta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189487690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Heterogeneities written by Pradip Kumar Datta and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the instability of all identities as its point of departure, this collection of essays probes the enigmas of identity politics. How does 'identitarian' politics, trying to homogenize identities around some cultural or ethnic name, deal with unstable and diverse identities? And what are the kinds of identity formations that resist identity-based projects? Drawing from theoretical perspectives on communal polarization and its relation to early nationalism, the author examines a range of seemingly dissimilar subjects, such as the teaching of Keats in a Delhi college, the Indian novel in the English language, nineteenth-century Banglasahitya, inter-community love, communalism, Tagore and globalization, and inter-disciplinarity. Some of the essays in this book are especially concerned with the recent decades that have witnessed the rise of Hindutva, and which have also marked the author's own growth from a student of English Literature at Delhi University to his later interest and scholarship in history and politics. Pradip Datta begins with his reading of Keats, the quintessential Romantic poet, under the tutelage of a teacher of English with a vernacular background, at a time that witnessed the capitalist expansion of the middle class as well as the spread of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement across the cities and towns of India. His interest in plotting the coordinates of heterogeneity and interrogating identity formations led him to travel to Ayodhya in the early 1990s and interact with kar sevaks there.This book is therefore a part of the author's ongoing attempt at examining how literary and politico-cultural representations of identities can reinforce rigid boundaries. Juxtaposing these with knowledge systems and their respective methods, Pradip Datta argues in favor of practices and spaces that facilitate exchange and reciprocity among a range of disciplines. By proposing the idea of a disciplinary 'commons', he offers the pedagogic as a model for recognizing and validating the heterogeneous elements in the formation of our identities.

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400865123
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Alan Turing: The Enigma written by Andrew Hodges and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades—all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936—the concept of a universal machine—laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program—all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.

No More Silent

Author : James Alex Walker
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3755457997
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book No More Silent written by James Alex Walker and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "No More Silent," immerse yourself in a chilling psychological thriller that delves deep into the enigmatic recesses of the human mind. This haunting tale weaves a web of suspense, secrets, and unexpected revelations that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Alicia Berenson, a talented and celebrated painter, is living a seemingly idyllic life with her devoted husband, Gabriel. But one fateful evening, her world is shattered when she shoots her husband in the face and then retreats into absolute silence. A traumatic event that seemingly defies explanation leaves those around her bewildered and desperate for answers. Enter Theo Faber, a skilled psychotherapist with a relentless determination to unravel the mystery behind Alicia's silence. As he delves into her enigmatic past, he uncovers a series of complex relationships, hidden traumas, and buried emotions. Along the way, Theo becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that blurs the lines between observer and participant and raises unsettling questions about the nature of truth and perception.