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Author : James Hogg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Suicide's Grave written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226790002
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Walter Benjamin's Grave written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology’s—and indeed today’s—most distinctive writers, Michael Taussig, visited Benjamin’s grave in Port Bou. The result is “Walter Benjamin’s Grave,” a moving essay about the cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin’s border travails, and the circumstances of his demise. It is the most recent of eight revelatory essays collected in this volume of the same name. “Looking over these essays written over the past decade,” writes Taussig, “I think what they share is a love of muted and defective storytelling as a form of analysis. Strange love indeed; love of the wound, love of the last gasp.” Although thematically these essays run the gamut—covering the monument and graveyard at Port Bou, discussions of peasant poetry in Colombia, a pact with the devil, the peculiarities of a shaman’s body, transgression, the disappearance of the sea, New York City cops, and the relationship between flowers and violence—each shares Taussig’s highly individual brand of storytelling, one that depends on a deep appreciation of objects and things as a way to retrieve even deeper philosophical and anthropological meanings. Whether he finds himself in Australia, Colombia, Manhattan, or Spain, in the midst of a book or a beach, whether talking to friends or staring at a monument, Taussig makes clear through these marvelous essays that materialist knowledge offers a crucial alternative to the increasingly abstract, globalized, homogenized, and digitized world we inhabit. Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin’s grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the twentieth century’s greatest cultural critic.
Author : Sarah Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989697293
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Every Cradle Is a Grave written by Sarah Perry and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to the emergence of sentient beings like us. Today, however, people no longer "just happen"; they are created by the voluntary acts of other people. This book examines several questions about the ethics of human existence. Is it a good thing, for humans, that humans "happened"? Is it ethical to keep making new humans, now that reproduction is under our control? And given that a person exists (through no fault or choice of his own), is it immoral or irrational for him to refuse to live out his natural lifespan? Sarah Perry answers these questions in the negative--not out of misanthropy, but out of empathy for human suffering and respect for human autonomy. "Every Cradle Is a Grave undertakes a difficult task-to write on discomforting matters from a perspective that is socially unsanctioned. Strange as it may seem to some of us, there are scads of volumes that praise the abuses we endure in our lives. Such works have always been well thumbed, though they are only prayer-books for the purpose of worshiping misery. Sarah Perry is more honest and less perverse on the subject of suffering, treating pain as both a philosophical and a practical problem to which, it is admitted, there is no ultimate solution. Nonetheless, in her view there still remains intelligence and compassion as a means for confronting the insoluble. That is what makes this book as much a necessity as it is a rarity." --Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy against the Human Race Meaning. Value. Birth. Death. Sanctity. These subjects and others are reexamined through the lens of suicide rights and procreation ethics in Sarah Perry's Every Cradle Is a Grave. If you're at all fond of asking the truly Big Questions, this is the read you've been waiting for. Why are we here, and why do we stay? Prepare to have your assumptions dissected and turned on their heads. It's a bumpy ride, but then, so is this little journey we're on as we spin aimlessly around a sun that's destined to burn out, just as surely as each individual life will one day fall back down into the mud from which all life arises. Asking the hard questions is one thing, but hearing answers that might shake us to the core can be something else again. --Jim Crawford, author of Confessions of an Antinatalist "In this eminently rational, clear and serious book, Sarah Perry is courageous and strong enough to confront the forbidden truths of human life. Every Cradle Is a Grave should be mandatory reading for anyone who plans to have children." -Mikita Brottman, author of Thirteen Girls
Author : James Hogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published anonymously in 1824, this gothic mystery novel was written by Scottish author James Hogg. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner was published as if it were the presentation of a century-old document. The unnamed editor offers the reader a long introduction before presenting the document written by the sinner himself.
Author : Ruth Teichroeb
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flowers on My Grave written by Ruth Teichroeb and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lester Desjarlais, a young Ojibwa boy, took his own life, what began as a routine inquiry into yet another Native suicide grew into a wide-ranging examination not only of his community but of the larger society which failed to save him. The 1991 inquest into his death, scheduled to last a day, broadened into one of the longest in Manitoba's history -- uncovering a tragic story of abuse, family suffering, and finally, tragedy. The author of this book, a journalist for the Winnipeg Free Press, covered the inquest.
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Grave of the Suicide; the Parting Kiss; and Other Poems. By Maria Sophia written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kayla Stoecklein
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400217687
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Fear Gone Wild written by Kayla Stoecklein and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pastor's wife's shattering yet ultimately hopeful story of her husband's death by suicide, her journey to understand mental illness, and the light she found in the darkness. On August 25, 2018, Kayla Stoecklein lost her husband, Andrew--megachurch pastor of Inland Hills Church in Chino, California--to suicide. In the wake of the tragedy, she embarked on a brave journey to better understand his harrowing battle with mental illness and, ultimately, to overcome the stigma of suicide. Fear Gone Wild is her intimate account of all that led to that tragic day, including her husband's panic attacks and debilitating bouts of anxiety and depression. Despite their deep faith in God and the countless prayers of many believers, Andrew was never healed of his illness. Turning to Scripture for answers, she discovered that God uses wilderness experiences to prepare His children--including Jesus--for his greater purpose and to work miracles inside our souls. With a clear-eyed acknowledgment of how misguided and misinformed she was about mental illness, Kayla Stoecklein shares her story in hopes that anyone walking through the wilderness of mental illness will be better equipped for the journey and will learn to put their hope in Jesus through it all.
Author : John Mackay Wilson
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Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland written by John Mackay Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Jütte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297652
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Body written by Robert Jütte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present That the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte asks, should a historian bother with the Jewish body in particular? And is the "Jewish body" as much a concept constructed over the course of centuries by Jews and non-Jews alike as it is a physical reality? To comprehend the notion and existence of a Jewish body, he contends, one needs to look both at the images and traits that have been ascribed to Jews by themselves and others, and to the specific bodily practices that have played an important role in creating the identity of a religious and cultural community. Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, often for anti-Jewish purposes. He examines the techniques for caring for the body that Jews acquire in childhood from parents and authority figures and how these have changed over the course of a more than 2000-year history, most of it spent in exile. From consideration of traditional body stereotypes, such as the so-called Jewish nose, to matters of gender and sexuality, sickness and health, and the inevitable end of the body in death, The Jewish Body explores the historical foundations of the human physis in all its aspects.
Author : Rocellus Sheridan Guernsey
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet written by Rocellus Sheridan Guernsey and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Uganda
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Uganda written by Uganda and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. H. Piercy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Facts and Fancies, Or Hallucinations written by B. H. Piercy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Schwenck Gilbert
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Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs written by William Schwenck Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Tope
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466869356
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Grave Concerns written by Rebecca Tope and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Peaceful Repose Cemetery, Drew Slocombe is determined to revolutionize the entire death industry and make cheap, ecologically sound burials a popular choice. Unfortunately, Drew's gravedigger has just discovered that their cemetery has one too many corpses. The body of an elderly woman has been occupying the field for months before Drew opened for business. The police don't appear to be particularly concerned by the death, and seem to think that the body is that of a vagrant. But for Drew, things don't add up: even if the woman died a natural death, someone was obviously responsible for burying her. The mystery deepens when Genevieve Slater turns up at Drew's door. Drew has always fought an illicit attraction to Genevieve--an attraction that hasn't faded with time. But it's Drew's reputation for amateur detective work that Genevieve is now interested in. With reasons of her own for not wanting to contact the police, she wants to hire Drew to prove that the body is that of her missing mother. Drew realizes helping her might get him in trouble with the law, but, for a man looking to escape both money worries and marriage problems, Genevieve proves impossible to resist in Grave Concerns, a captivating West Country mystery from Rebecca Tope.
Author : Padraig O'Malley
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807002094
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Biting at the Grave written by Padraig O'Malley and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Alcalde written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Westcott
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book A Social Treatise written by Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
