Arts Of Living

Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452954493

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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson Pdf

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Author : Kurt Spellmeyer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791487211

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Arts of Living by Kurt Spellmeyer Pdf

Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century: globalization, the degradation of the environment, the widening chasm between rich and poor, and the clash of cultures.

Author : Ravi Shankar
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 8179923681

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Celebrating Silence by Ravi Shankar Pdf

This book collects excerpts from many of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar s talks. The journey for this collection began in New Delhi and ended in Rishikesh, India, and included many passages around the world.In this book, Sri Sri discusses topics rangi

Author : William Hart
Publisher : Pariyatti
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928706205

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The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka by William Hart Pdf

Author : T. J. Demos
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478012252

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Beyond the World's End by T. J. Demos Pdf

In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah's cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio. Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of aesthetics and politics, as exemplified in the Standing Rock #NoDAPL campaign and the Zad's autonomous zone in France, are creating the imaginaries that will be crucial to building a socially just and flourishing future.

Author : Dr Stephen Jacobs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472412683

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The Art of Living Foundation by Dr Stephen Jacobs Pdf

The Hindu-derived meditation movement, The Art of Living (AOL) founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore, has grown into a global organization which claims presence in more than 150 countries. Stephen Jacobs presents the first comprehensive study of AOL as an important transnational movement and an alternative global spirituality. Exploring the nature and characteristics of spirituality in the contemporary global context, Jacobs considers whether alternative spiritualities are primarily concerned with individual wellbeing and can simply be regarded as another consumer product.

Author : Kurt Spellmeyer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 079145648X

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Arts of Living by Kurt Spellmeyer Pdf

Argues that higher education needs to abandon the “culture wars” if it hopes to address the major crises of the century.

Author : Ravi Shankar (Sri Sri),Regina Bönsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Meditation
ISBN : 938143106X

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The Art Of Stress-Free Living (with Cd) by Ravi Shankar (Sri Sri),Regina Bönsel Pdf

Author : Bernhard Schmitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319453248

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Art-of-Living by Bernhard Schmitz Pdf

This volume examines the questions of what constitutes a good life and how one can achieve happiness and well-being, and analyses different ways in which people can strive for a good life. First, it presents an overview on important concepts in psychology that are related to living a good life. Then, a new approach is introduced: the concept of art-of-living as a holistic way to reach happiness. Empirical studies are reported involving a questionnaire for measuring art-of-living, and the validity of the questionnaire is demonstrated with respect to a wide range of concepts. In addition, the volume provides results from empirical studies, showing that, and how, art-of-living and happiness can be enhanced. Several intervention studies are described in detail, which have been performed with different groups of subjects, including pupils, university students and employees. Also, results of interviews are summarized, which were held with people who had been nominated as exemplary artists-of-living. The volume concludes with a description of art-of-living in autobiographies, and presents suggestions for further research with respect to art-of-living.

Author : Tadeusz Nowicki
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504309721

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Art of Living by Tadeusz Nowicki Pdf

We all desire a good and balanced life full of freedom, wellness, and fulfillment. But how do we acquire understanding and the timeless wisdom needed to help us attain that goal? Tadeusz Nowicki is a thoughtful truth-seeker who has made it his passion to study life and share his extraordinary findings with the world. In a fascinating study of lifes conditions and human nature, Nowicki shares his perspectives on ancient and modern wisdom, the purpose and secrets of life, the processes of the mind, unhealthy lifestyle habits, eco-sustainability issues, and the future of humanity in an effort to help inquisitive thinkers find order and meaning in their own lives. Included are introspective questions that prompt reflection, carefully researched facts, and valuable resources that will help anyone find contentment and inspiration while on their own unique journeys through life. Art of Living shares wisdom that encourages others to embrace the essence of human nature and become open-minded travelers passionate about finding their own truths.

Author : Crispin Sartwell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791423603

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The Art of Living by Crispin Sartwell Pdf

This is a multicultural philosophy of art applied to common American and European experience and discussed in relation to Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Native American, and African traditions.

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520224902

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The Art of Living by Alexander Nehamas Pdf

In this wide-ranging, brilliantly written account, Nehamas provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.

Author : Dominic Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137322227

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The Art of Living by Dominic Johnson Pdf

Across a series of 12 in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. From uses of body modification and physical extremity, to the creation of all-encompassing personae, to performance pieces lasting months or years, these artists have provoked and explored the vital limits between art and life. Their discussions with Johnson give us a glimpse of their artistic motivations, preoccupations, processes, and contexts. Despite the diversity of art forms and experiences featured, common threads weave between the interviews: love, friendship, commitment, death and survival. Each interview is preceded by an overview of the artist's work, and the volume itself is introduced by a thoughtful critical essay on performance art and oral history. The conversational tone of the interviews renders complex ideas and theoretical propositions accessible, making this an ideal book for students of theatre and performance, as well as for artists, scholars and general readers.

Author : Jan Baars
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421406466

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Aging and the Art of Living by Jan Baars Pdf

In this deeply considered meditation on aging in Western culture, Jan Baars argues that, in today’s world, living longer does not necessarily mean living better. He contends that there has been an overall loss of respect for aging, to the point that understanding and "dealing with" aging people has become a process focused on the decline of potential and the advance of disease rather than on the accumulation of wisdom and the creation of new skills. To make his case, Baars compares and contrasts the works of such modern-era thinkers as Foucault, Heidegger, and Husserl with the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and other Ancient and Stoic philosophers. He shows how people in the classical period—less able to control health hazards—had a far better sense of the provisional nature of living, which led to a philosophical and religious emphasis on cultivating the art of living and the idea of wisdom. This is not to say that modern society’s assessments of aging are insignificant, but they do need to balance an emphasis on the measuring of age with the concept of "living in time." Gerontologists, philosophers, and students will find Baars' discussion to be a powerful, perceptive conversation starter. -- W. Andrew Achenbaum, author of Older Americans, Vital Communities

Author : Roberta Katz,Sarah Ogilvie,Jane Shaw,Linda Woodhead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226823966

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Gen Z, Explained by Roberta Katz,Sarah Ogilvie,Jane Shaw,Linda Woodhead Pdf

An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world. Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them? And what can we learn from them? Gen Z, Explained is the authoritative portrait of this significant generation. It draws on extensive interviews that display this generation’s candor, surveys that explore their views and attitudes, and a vast database of their astonishingly inventive lexicon to build a comprehensive picture of their values, daily lives, and outlook. Gen Z emerges here as an extraordinarily thoughtful, promising, and perceptive generation that is sounding a warning to their elders about the world around them—a warning of a complexity and depth the “OK Boomer” phenomenon can only suggest. ​ Much of the existing literature about Gen Z has been highly judgmental. In contrast, this book provides a deep and nuanced understanding of a generation facing a future of enormous challenges, from climate change to civil unrest. What’s more, they are facing this future head-on, relying on themselves and their peers to work collaboratively to solve these problems. As Gen Z, Explained shows, this group of young people is as compassionate and imaginative as any that has come before, and understanding the way they tackle problems may enable us to envision new kinds of solutions. This portrait of Gen Z is ultimately an optimistic one, suggesting they have something to teach all of us about how to live and thrive in this digital world.