Doublethink Doubletalk

Author : Eva Brann
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781589881136

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Doublethink / Doubletalk by Eva Brann Pdf

"Each aphorism is a tiny well-framed picture which at once observes and questions the world’s workings with its accumulated intellectual pleasures, beauties, and quirks."—Washington Independent Review of Books "At times, aphorisms are merely witty, but they can convey and evoke sustained reflection and thought, as those of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, or Nicolás Gómez Dávila. To that list we can add Eva Brann...In the few hours spent with her, one finds a wise, slightly acerbic, good-humored teacher—one wishes for her friendship, for more time with her."—The University Bookman Philosopher Eva Brann describes the concept of “doublethink/doubletalk” as “a flanking approach toward comprehending a pervasively duplex world, a world that sometimes flashes fleeting signs of covert wholeness.” In this, her second collection of aphorisms and observations, Brann shines a light on our world—on “the way things are”—and she does it with characteristic wit and insight.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canal Zone
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020938184

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Panama Canal Treaty by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers Pdf

Author : Ashok Chopra
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789385890659

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Of Love and Other Sorrows by Ashok Chopra Pdf

Reports announcing the death of the book are now rife, but the continued relevance of the ten master writers discussed in this volume is proof to the contrary. Here we come across the dissident Czech writer Václav Havel, who later became the nation’s president; the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, with her pronounced anti-apartheid novels; the Chilean-American Isabel Allende, ‘the world’s most widely read Spanish author’; and Günter Grass, hailed as the ‘literary spokesman of his generation’. We also meet Graham Greene and Milan Kundera alongside the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, who, in his quiet way, ridiculed Islamic fundamentalism. The book is rounded off with three remarkable Latin American writers: Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez. Of Love and Other Sorrows takes the reader on a fascinating journey in the company of some of the biggest names in modern literature. This illuminating study of their lives and works will seduce readers to rediscover these masters for themselves.

Author : Eva Brann
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781589881631

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Is Equality an Absolute Good? by Eva Brann Pdf

The Declaration of Independence aimed to turn our continent from a British colony into an American nation. Yet its first, its primary claim is that we are all individually equal. What’s that got to do with national independence? Yet the Declaration’s claim of universal human equality has grown into our primary political passion. This brief book asks: What concrete, substantial good do we get out of this equality? Well, specific safety of our equality before the law. But beyond that, and the easement of our envy? Equality at work, equalizing, is a mere leveling relation. Whatever is worth having involves distinction, that’s inequality.

Author : Eugene L. Rasor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313370809

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The China-Burma-India Campaign, 1931-1945 by Eugene L. Rasor Pdf

The China-Burma-India campaign of the Asian/Pacific war of World War II was the most complex, if not the most controversial, theater of the entire war. Guerrilla warfare, commando and special intelligence operations, and air tactics originated here. The literature is extensive and this book provides an evaluative survey of that vast literature. A comprehensive compilation of some 1,500 titles, the work includes a narrative historiographical overview and an annotated bibliography of the titles covered in the historiographical section. Following an introductory historical essay and a chronology, the historiographical narrative covers land, water, underwater, air, and combined operations, intelligence matters, diplomacy, and logistics and supply. It also examines the memoirs, diaries, autobiographies, and biographies of the personnel involved. Such cultural topics as journalism, fiction, film, and art are analyzed, and existing gaps in the literature are looked at. The bibliography provides both descriptive and evaluative annotations.

Author : Eva Brann
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781589881617

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Feigning by Eva Brann Pdf

"What is the original of an image, whether beheld in the imagination or the world?" Where do the images in our imagination come from? These images, Eva Brann reminds us, are not what they themselves display. They feign or imitate or copy what they seem to stand for. Ms. Brann turns and returns to a consideration of the nature of these images using words, their etymology, and their capacity to prompt image-making in her adventure in tracking down the ultimate source of our inner images.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Canal Zone
ISBN : UVA:35007004825281

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Panama Canal Treaty (disposition of United States Territory) by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers Pdf

Author : Leopold Labedz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000950304

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The Use and Abuse of Sovietology by Leopold Labedz Pdf

"This is a work by a fighter, a thinker, and an idealist. Leo Labedz is a fighter who minces no words in his contempt for the apologists of totalitarianism. He never rests in his efforts to enlarge the scope of human freedom, and many have felt the sharp edge of his political scalpel. He is a thinker with a penetrating mind and en­cyclopedic knowledge. He is an idealist who believes in sacrificing for the just cause to which he has dedicated his life." With these words of extraordinary praise, Zbigniew Brzezinski opens this volume of critical and polemical essays by Leopold Labedz. His knowledge of Soviet affairs, as seen through the eyes of the crusaders and critics of the Modern Russian State, is peerless. Chapters, which include major studies of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, George Kennan, and Leszek Kolakowski among others, es­tablish Labedz as among the most incisive analysts of Soviet affairs as well as those who presume special expertise in this ar­cane field.Labedz's impassioned writing covers not only Sovietologists, but also the major fault lines with which totalitarian systems have been uniquely identified. His writings on the Holocaust, student revolt, European unity, and the meaning of detente, help provide a perspective with which to assess present moods and policies within the still ever-present Soviet bloc. The anthology was prepared and edited by Melvin J. Lasky, the editor of Encounter, in which many of these materials initially appeared.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3608137

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Panama
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057239048

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Panama Canal Treaty by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : B. A. Taleb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000117425920

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The Bewildered Herd by B. A. Taleb Pdf

For the first time, a work that contains all that should be known about the media's orientation of the public mind in democratic societies, why this manipulation takes place, and in what manner. The Bewildered Herd does not only analyse the media's current functions and forms in human society but it also traces and discusses the various transformations that this increasingly powerful social actor has gone through. The case study used for the purposes of this work is both unequal and unique in its nature, depth, and revelations. It compares the media's coverage in two of the world's leading democracies (The United States and France) of two of the world's most important armed conflicts and crises. It analyses both countries national, economic, cultural, and social interests as well as their respective media's coverage of these two conflicts and reveals how public perceptions are affected by this coverage and how the agendas of both the media and the political establishment is best served by this manipulation of public opinion in democratic societies. Mechanisms and tactics used in conditioning the public are extensively revealed and analysed in a manner that is so comprehensive in its approach and in its explanations.

Author : Ipek S. Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429513640

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A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche by Ipek S. Burnett Pdf

In A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence, Ipek Burnett’s penetrating cultural criticism enriched with psychoanalytical and Jungian insight offers a timely interrogation of national consciousness in the United States. Through evocative storytelling, Burnett unpacks the images and myths that run deep in the American psyche—from that of the New World, the city upon a hill, to the Manifest Destiny, the melting pot, and the pursuit of happiness. Against this backdrop, she investigates the vicious cycles of innocence and violence that have dominated American history and continue to reinforce systematic oppression in America, evident in racial and economic inequality, xenophobia, materialism, and more. Burnett’s thought-provoking analysis exposes the ways in which psychological defenses such as historical amnesia, projection, denial, and dissociation work on a collective level, helping America avoid a confrontation with these violent truths of its past and present circumstances, and its national character. With its seamless multidisciplinary approach and revealing insight, this book will be of great interest to psychologists, scholars, and students of Jungian and post-Jungian thought, depth psychology, and cultural and American studies. Eloquent and accessible, it will engage readers who strive to be self-reflective, well-informed global citizens. .

Author : Ed Brodow
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682612040

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In Lies We Trust by Ed Brodow Pdf

What politicians and the media don't want you to know. Millions of Americans at both ends of the political spectrum are angry and fed up with being lied to by politicians and the media. The emergence of “outsider” presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is proof that people are sick and tired of Washington’s culture of deception. Thumbing his nose at political correctness, negotiation expert and political commentator Ed Brodow exposes the outrageous lies that have been disseminated about the most important issues of our time. He tells the uncensored truth about the threat of Islamic extremism, global warming, the welfare entitlement system, Obamacare, racial tension and other important things that our elected representatives don’t want you to know. If you vote in national elections, the candor of In Lies We Trust will help you make decisions based on facts instead of misinformation.

Author : Matthew Feldman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838205540

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Doublespeak by Matthew Feldman Pdf

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War II, the extreme right has made strategic use of “doublespeak,” which apes the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of these tactics means taking the extreme right’s deliberately crafted slogans, symbols, and themes seriously. These essays investigate the extreme right’s attempts at “repackaging” contemporary ultranationalism to make it more palatable to mainstream European and American tastes.

Author : Jane Caputi
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1879181053

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Gossips, Gorgons and Crones by Jane Caputi Pdf

Gossips, Gorgons & Crones is the first comprehensive analysis of nuclear-age culture and the accompanying return of female Powers. Based in feminist, pre-patriarchal, and Native American philosophies, this book provides a biting critique of patriarchal practices, myths, and values, including family values.