A Requiem To The Vitality Of Life

Author : Echo Klaproth
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098030704

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A Requiem to the Vitality of Life by Echo Klaproth Pdf

During two of the most difficult seasons of her life, Echo's family was blessed by the care provided from hospice teams. As a result of those seasons, that care, hospice became her calling, and she joined a nonprofit organization, first as a volunteer and then as their chaplain. It is through her observations over several years and the collective presence and ways so many chose to live out their life or to caregive and support another human being as he or she finished their time here on earth that she came to a better understanding of the vitality of life. She said, "It's them and their stories that I shall always be grateful for and remember. This then is a collection of reminiscences about the process of not only living out but finishing life that's been humbly recorded in prose and poetry in their honor." Heaven awaits after the winding and dangerous road of untold suffering, unanswered questions, unmet dreams, and unfulfilled hopes. "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord."

Author : Byron Almén,Edward Pearsall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253112194

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Approaches to Meaning in Music by Byron Almén,Edward Pearsall Pdf

Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture. Contributors are Byron Almén, J. Peter Burkholder, Nicholas Cook, Robert S. Hatten, Patrick McCreless, Jann Pasler, and Edward Pearsall.

Author : Brian Hisao Onishi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031480270

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Weird Wonder in Merleau-Ponty, Object-Oriented Ontology, and New Materialism by Brian Hisao Onishi Pdf

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power for the constitution of the world and the organization of meaning. To do this, he appeals to both fiction (speculative and Weird fiction in particular) and quantum physics. More specifically, he argues that the focus of Weird fiction on impossible experiences and a feeling of something just beyond the limits of one’s grasp dramatizes the speculative reach beyond the limits of our understanding. But more than a tool for knowledge acquisition, wonder is an organizing property of objects. Like the collapse of superposition in quantum physics, reality is constituted when objects reveal themselves to other objects and thereby organize themselves into complex objects. Since no relation is exhaustive, the capacity to wonder remains at a material level, and the possibility of reorganization is ever present. Ultimately, Onishi argues for a speculative eco-phenomenology with wonder as an engine for a Weird environmental ethics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131041951

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School Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Education
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU07716478

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School Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506497822

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Bonhoeffer for the Church by Matthew D. Kirkpatrick Pdf

Bonhoeffer for the Church offers an accessible but comprehensive introduction to Bonhoeffer's life and thought for those in ministry or interested in understanding their life in community better. In making Bonhoeffer accessible for the church, Kirkpatrick also reveals Bonhoeffer's astonishing message to the church.

Author : Peter Marboe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064903506

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On the Mozart Trail by Peter Marboe Pdf

Author : Linda A. Westervelt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826211372

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Beyond Innocence, Or, The Altersroman in Modern Fiction by Linda A. Westervelt Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Linda A. Westervelt defines an important yet previously unidentified and therefore unnamed type of novel, the altersroman, or age novel. Fictions focusing on a protagonist's confrontation with mortality toward the end of middle age are likely to become ever more prominent in a Western world in which the average age of the population increases and more people reach late middle age and old age. Working from a diverse sample of modern literature, Westervelt analyzes the variety of responses to the life evaluation. Some characters achieve a level of affirmation that allows renewal, redirection, or simply peace, while others confront feelings of disgust or despair that so little time is left them. Her altersromane are books about seeking wisdom, though not everyone of this age becomes wise. The use of the term altersroman highlights the fact that the altersroman is a classification comparable to but also clearly distinguishable from the bildungsroman, wherein characters make the transition from youth to adulthood. Westervelt contrasts her older protagonists' characteristics with the equivalent characteristics in the bildungsroman through an examination of Don Quixote, part 2, as well as six American novels: The Ambassadors, by Henry James; The Professor's House, by Willa Cather; The Mansion, by William Faulkner; The Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner; A Book of Common Prayer, by Joan Didion; and Jazz, by Toni Morrison. These seven works, though remarkably different, share the common features of the altersroman. Westervelt articulates the traits clearly, rests them on the psychological literature, and then shows in depth how the characteristics of the altersroman can enrich and more deeply inform our reading of a significant subset of modern literature that previously went unheralded. Readers can use Westervelt's analysis to identify altersromane in literature other than their own, and she begins this process by identifying exemplars written in other languages. Beyond Innocence, or the Altersroman in Modern Fiction introduces readers to the altersroman as a tool for classification and analysis and demonstrates the power and utility of that tool. It offers a meaningful and enriching complement to the more established category of the bildungsroman.

Author : Alfred I. Tauber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804788304

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Requiem for the Ego by Alfred I. Tauber Pdf

Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent mental states through word and symbol to an agent surveying its own cognizance. By discarding the subject-object divide as a model of the mind, they dethroned Freud's depiction of the ego as a conceit of a misleading self-consciousness and a faulty metaphysics. Freud's inquisitors, while employing divergent arguments, found unacknowledged consensus in identifying the core philosophical challenges of defining agency and describing subjectivity. In Requiem, Tauber uniquely synthesizes these philosophical attacks against psychoanalysis and, more generally, provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of the major developments in mid-20th century philosophy that prepared the conceptual grounding for postmodernism.

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781848366770

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The Rough Guide to Classical Music by Rough Guides Pdf

The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. Both a CD buyer's guide and a who's who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. For novices and experts alike, the fully updated fifth edition features contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann and Widor, the 19th century organ composer of 'Toccata' wedding fame, as well as dozens more works added for existing composers. You'll find an new 'Top 10's' section with accessible introductory listings including the Top 10 operas and the Top 10 symphonies plus new essay boxes on topics such as "Baroque - a style or a period?" and "The clarinet comes of age". The Rough Guide to Classical Music features fresh and incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and reissues as well as more than 150 illustrations of composers and performers, including a rare archive of photos.

Author : Dipesh Chakrabarty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400828654

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Provincializing Europe by Dipesh Chakrabarty Pdf

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.

Author : Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373810

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Geontologies by Elizabeth A. Povinelli Pdf

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and Nonlife and the figures of the Desert, the Animist, and the Virus. Geontologies examines this formation of power from the perspective of Indigenous Australian maneuvers against the settler state. And it probes how our contemporary critical languages—anthropogenic climate change, plasticity, new materialism, antinormativity—often unwittingly transform their struggles against geontopower into a deeper entwinement within it. A woman who became a river, a snakelike entity who spawns the fog, plesiosaurus fossils and vast networks of rock weirs: in asking how these different forms of existence refuse incorporation into the vocabularies of Western theory Povinelli provides a revelatory new way to understand a form of power long self-evident in certain regimes of settler late liberalism but now becoming visible much further beyond.

Author : Baxendale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00100856

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Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact by Baxendale Pdf

Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008452545

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Froude's Life of Carlyle by James Anthony Froude Pdf

Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135672423

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Walt Whitman and Modern Music by Lawrence Kramer Pdf

Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a CD recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.