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Book Synopsis The Power of Paradox: Impossible Conversations by : Markus Locker
Download or read book The Power of Paradox: Impossible Conversations written by Markus Locker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that all truths systems include paradoxes. Paradoxes, such as found in the sciences, philosophy and religion offer themselves as mutually shared partners in a dialogue of arguably incommensurable truths on the basis of their underlying truth. Paradoxes leap beyond the epistemic border of individual truth claims. A dialogue of truths, grounded in paradox, reaches before, and at the same time past singular truths. A paradox-based dialogue of truths elevates the communication of disciplines, such as the sciences and religion, to a meta-discourse level from which differences are not perceived as obstacles for dialogue but as complementary aspects of a deeper and fuller truth in which all truths are grounded.
Book Synopsis Paradox and Rebirth by : Prasad Ron Prasad
Download or read book Paradox and Rebirth written by Prasad Ron Prasad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of what it is to be human, Cirrus Jacobs feels an intense need for all that is missing from his life. He has decided, as a last attempt at salvation, to begin a life-changing journey which he hopes will provide clarity and bring meaning to his life. As he walks the city streets among the homeless; his path forces Cirrus to see the beauty that is around him as he wrestles with the ghosts of his past, and reflects on his life to find the doorway to his redemption. On the other side of the country is a man who has achieved every success he has set out to accomplish. He journeys with his family towards Cirrus' city, and through destiny, their lives unwillingly collide. The result is anything but predictable.
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Anthropology of Death by : Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of Death written by Antonius C. G. M. Robben and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating book. Interrogating our most common practices surrounding death, the authors ask such questions as: How does the state wrest away control over the dead from bereaved relatives? Why do many mourners refuse to cut their emotional ties to the dead and nurture lasting bonds? Is death a final condition or can human remains acquire agency? The book is a refreshing reassessment of these issues and practices, a source of theoretical inspiration in the study of death. With contributions written by an international team of experts in their fields, A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is presented in six parts and covers such subjects as: Governing the Dead in Guatemala; After Death Communications (ADCs) in North America; Cryonic Suspension in the Secular Age; Blood and Organ Donation in China; The Fragility of Biomedicine; and more. A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is a comprehensive and accessible volume and an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Anthropology of Death, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, Anthropology of the Body, and Political Anthropology. Written by leading international scholars in their fields A comprehensive survey of the most recent empirical research in the anthropology of death A fundamental critique of the early 20th century founding fathers of the anthropology of death Cross-cultural texts from tribal and industrial societies The collection is of interest to anyone concerned with the consequences of the state and massive violence on life and death
Download or read book Paradox and Rebirth written by Ron Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of what it is to be human, Cirrus Jacobs feels an intense need for all that is missing from his life. He has decided, as a last attempt at salvation, to begin a life-changing journey which he hopes will provide clarity and bring meaning to his life. As he walks the city streets among the homeless; his path forces Cirrus to see the beauty that is around him as he wrestles with the ghosts of his past, and reflects on his life to find the doorway to his redemption. On the other side of the country is a man who has achieved every success he has set out to accomplish. He journeys with his family towards Cirrus' city, and through destiny, their lives unwillingly collide. The result is anything but predictable.
Book Synopsis Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions by : Wendy Doniger
Download or read book Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions written by Wendy Doniger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebirth written by Sophie Littlefield and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a zombie-infested California, a woman must face a deadly cult to help a friend in need in this dystopian sequel to Aftertime. Civilization has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back. Yet as the first winter approaches, Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the land. And Smoke, Cass’s lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance that can end only in disaster. Now the leader of the survivalist community where Cass has planted roots needs her help. Dor wants to recover his own lost daughter, taken by the Rebuilders. Soon Cass finds herself thrust into the dark heart of an organization promising humanity’s rebirth—at all costs. Bound to two men blazing divergent paths across a savage land, Cass must overcome the darkness in her wounded heart, or lose those she loves forever.
Download or read book Dream City written by Conrad Kickert and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing two centuries of rise, fall, and rebirth in the heart of downtown Detroit. Downtown Detroit is in the midst of an astonishing rebirth. Its sidewalks have become a dreamland for an aspiring creative class, filled with shoppers, office workers, and restaurant-goers. Cranes dot the skyline, replacing the wrecking balls seen there only a few years ago. But venture a few blocks in any direction and this liveliness gives way to urban blight, a nightmare cityscape of crumbling concrete, barbed wire, and debris. In Dream City, urban designer Conrad Kickert examines the paradoxes of Detroit's landscape of extremes, arguing that the current reinvention of downtown is the expression of two centuries of Detroiters' conflicting hopes and dreams. Kickert demonstrates the materialization of these dreams with a series of detailed original morphological maps that trace downtown's rise, fall, and rebirth. Kickert writes that downtown Detroit has always been different from other neighborhoods; it grew faster than other parts of the city, and it declined differently, forced to reinvent itself again and again. Downtown has been in constant battle with its own offspring—the automobile and the suburbs the automobile enabled—and modernized itself though parking attrition and land consolidation. Dream City is populated by a varied cast of downtown power players, from a 1920s parking lot baron to the pizza tycoon family and mortgage billionaire who control downtown's fate today. Even the most renowned planners and designers have consistently yielded to those with power, land, and finances to shape downtown. Kickert thus finds rhyme and rhythm in downtown's contemporary cacophony. Kickert argues that Detroit's case is extreme but not unique; many other American cities have seen a similar decline—and many others may see a similar revitalization.
Book Synopsis Paradox Effect by : Gabriel F.W. Koch
Download or read book Paradox Effect written by Gabriel F.W. Koch and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds. Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston’s mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time. Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows—including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution—is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954. The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question. When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth...and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxes of Love by : Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Love written by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and published by The Golden Sufi Center. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of The Golden Sufi Center is to make available the teachings of the Sufi path. The heart's relationship to God is one of the greatest mysteries, for He is both far and near, both awesome and intimate. As he looks at this union's many paradoxes,
Book Synopsis Paradox and Paraconsistency by : John Woods
Download or read book Paradox and Paraconsistency written by John Woods and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world plagued by conflict one might expect that the exact sciences of logic and mathematics would provide a safe harbor. In fact these disciplines are rife with internal divisions between different, often incompatible systems. This original book explores apparently intractable disagreements in logic and the foundations of mathematics and sets out conflict resolution strategies that evade these stalemates. This book makes an important contribution to such areas of philosophy as logic, philosophy of language and argumentation theory. It will also be of interest to mathematicians and computer scientists.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard by : Richard McCombs
Download or read book The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard written by Richard McCombs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard addresses an essential problem in the philosophy of religion—the relation between faith and reason.
Download or read book Aftertime written by Sophie Littlefield and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dystopian California, a woman searches for her daughter with the help of an enigmatic outlaw in this “evocative, sensual, harrowing” zombie thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Awakening in a bleak landscape, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls enduring something terrible. With no idea of how many days or weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: her daughter, Ruthie, has vanished—along with civilization as we know it. Instead of winding through the once-lush hills, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters: people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong. In a broken, barren California, Cass will undergo a dangerous quest to get Ruthie back. Few people trust an outsider—much less one who bears the telltale scars of a Beater attack. But she finds safety with a mysterious stranger, Smoke. And she’ll need him more than ever when his ragged band of survivors learn that she and Ruthie have become the most feared, and desired, weapons in a brave new world . . .
Book Synopsis Zen Koans, Paradoxical Awakening by : Norman McClelland
Download or read book Zen Koans, Paradoxical Awakening written by Norman McClelland and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What comes to mind when you hear the word “koan”? You probably know koans as paradoxes, and you may believe that they are therefore illogical or intellectually inscrutable—and therefore not useful to the average person. Zen Koans: Paradoxical Awakenings is the tool you need to correct your perceptions of koans and become aware of the benefits of koan practice. Embracing the paradox of the koan can give deeper meaning to life, as well as leading to the Buddhist awakening to your real, non-dual nature. With an experienced Zen teacher as your guide, you can enter more deeply into the three essentials of Zen: great faith, great doubt, and great determination.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxes of Posterity by : Benjamin Hoffmann
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Posterity written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope toward the spiritual immortality promised by religious systems, literary creators seek a symbolic form of perpetuity granted to the intellectual side of their person in the memory of those not yet born while they write. In this book, Benjamin Hoffmann illuminates the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that the time has come to find a new answer to a perennial question: Why do people write? Exploring the fields of digital humanities and book history, Hoffmann describes posterity as a network of interconnected memories that constantly evolves by reserving a variable and continuously renegotiated place for works and authors of the past. In other words, the perpetual safeguarding of texts is delegated to a collectivity that is nonexistent at the moment when a writer addresses it, one whose nature is characterized by impermanence and instability. Focusing on key works by Denis Diderot, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, Giacomo Casanova, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hoffmann considers the authors’ representations of posterity, the representation of authors by posterity, and how to register and preserve works in the network of memories. In doing so, Hoffmann reveals the three great paradoxes in the quest for symbolic immortality: the paradoxes of belief, of identity, and of mediation. Theoretically sophisticated and convincingly argued, this book contends that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity. It will appeal to specialists in literature, in particular eighteenth-century French literature, as well as scholars and students of philosophy and book history.
Download or read book Catastrophism written by Sasha Lilley and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is reeling from dire economic crises and ecological disasters. Visions of the apocalypse and impending doom abound. Governments warn that no alternative exists to taking the bitter medicine they prescribe. Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse, on the left and right, in the environmental movement, and from capital and the state, and examines why the lens of catastrophe distorts our understanding of the dynamics at the heart of numerous disasters and fatally impedes our ability to transform the world. The authors challenge the belief that it is only out of the ashes that a better society may be born.
Book Synopsis Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath by : Chitra Sreedharan
Download or read book Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath written by Chitra Sreedharan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book effectively brings out the multivalence of the poetry of both Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing either the writers or their work. Although it begins by selecting and demarcating various poems by the two authors thematically, it adopts a multi-pronged approach to the two writers that dissolves all water-tight compartments, and provides a holistic view of the issues raised through the poetry, and the similarities and differences in the approaches, of the two women.
Book Synopsis Samurai Among Panthers by : Diane Carol Fujino
Download or read book Samurai Among Panthers written by Diane Carol Fujino and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki
