How Non Being Haunts Being

Author : Corey Anton
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781683932857

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How Non-being Haunts Being by Corey Anton Pdf

How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences. Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Bergson, Kenneth Burke, Terrence Deacon, Lynn Margulis, R. D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Douglas Harding, and E. M. Cioran. He discloses the moral possibilities liberated through death acceptance by showing how living beings, who are of space not merely in it, are fundamentally on loan to themselves. A heady multidisciplinary work, How Non-being Haunts Being explores how absence, incompleteness, and negation saturate life, language, thought, and culture. It details how meaning and moral agency depend upon forms of non-being, and it argues that death acceptance in no way inevitably slides into nihilism. Thoroughgoing death acceptance, in fact, opens opportunities for deeper levels of self-understanding and for greater compassion regarding our common fate. Sure to provoke thought and to stimulate much conversation, it offers countless insights into the human condition.

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780671867805

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Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.

Author : Arthur Broomfield
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443863001

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The Empty Too by Arthur Broomfield Pdf

This engaging and often controversial study of Beckett’s works argues that, for Beckett, pure language is reality. Taking its title from a sentence in Worstward Ho, this rigorous reading of Beckett’s key texts claims that what we perceive in the existential world can never be proved to exist, while language survives scrutiny, and will ‘go on’ to become the real, once it has been divested of its connection to the corporeal. This book draws on the major philosophers to support this thesis, but in so doing argues that Beckett’s thinking surpasses all of theirs, because Beckett’s art is his philosophy and his philosophy is his art. For Beckett, pure language is beyond the text, it is the unpresentable presence, Hamm’s ‘life to come’.

Author : William Slocombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135489281

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Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern by William Slocombe Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alison Pullen,Carl Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136746246

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The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations by Alison Pullen,Carl Rhodes Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on ‘ethico-politics’ - where ethics informs political action. It draws connections between ethics and politics in and around organizations and the workplace, examines cutting-edge areas and sets the scene for future research. Through a wealth of international and multidisciplinary contributions this volume considers the broad range of ways in which ethics and politics can be conceived and understood. The chapters look at various ethical traditions, as well as the discursive deployment of ethical terminology in organizational settings, and they also examine large scale political structures and processes and how they relate to different forms of politics which affect behaviour in organizations. These many possibilities are united by a focus on how ethics can be used to inform and justify the exercise of power in organizations. This collection will be a valuable reference source for students and researchers across the disciplines of organizational studies, ethics and politics.

Author : Tabitha Hart,Gerry Philipsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781683932949

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Contending with Codes in a World of Difference by Tabitha Hart,Gerry Philipsen Pdf

Whenever and wherever people communicate, they contend with powerful and sometimes hidden systems of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct, i.e, speech codes. Adding to thirty years of cultural communication research, this ground-breaking volume presents readers with a new set of original, fieldwork-based case studies that examine speech codes in on- and offline settings around the world. Most importantly, Contending with Codes in a World of Difference culminates with a newly updated, expanded, and re-energized version of speech codes theory, well-suited to the contemporary study of communication and culture. Co-edited by Dr. Gerry Philipsen, the originator of speech codes theory, and Dr. Tabitha Hart, a fellow speech codes scholar, this edited collection is filled with examples, stories, and transcripts illustrating how to locate speech codes in a cultural arena; how to discern what speech codes reveal about local culture; what happens when multiple speech codes are in play; and how people resist, challenge, negotiate, or reconcile contending speech codes. Offering theoretical and methodological guidance for researchers and practical insight for students, practitioners, and laypeople, this book is essential for anyone interested in learning more about the art of contending with speech codes in a world of difference.

Author : David A. McEntire
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000890280

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The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security by David A. McEntire Pdf

The Distributed Functions of Emergency Management and Homeland Security outlines the roles and responsibilities of various individuals and agencies involved in homeland security and all aspects of emergency management. Each chapter focuses on the practical and applied aspects of a range of public servants in various departments and the organizations that they represent. Rather than presenting a theoretical exploration alone, the book examines the practical knowledge and hands-on skills related to various functions and how their decisions and actions play into the larger framework of safety and security —in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Every professional has a unique and integral part to play in fulfilling their roles and obligations, whether it be in relation to prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response or recovery operations. Personnel that frequently come to mind in such scenarios include emergency managers, geographers and land-use planners, EMTs and paramedics, fire fighters, police officers, public health officials, nurses, public administrators, and public information officers. And while these individuals are integral to homeland security and emergency management, there are other professionals that also perform essential duties that—while they aren’t first-to-mind—are vital to efforts relating to terrorism and disasters; this includes pilots in the aviation sector, the military, attorneys, psychologists, and forensic professionals serving in pathology, DNA, and dentistry roles. Chapters provide a holistic rendering of the homeland security and emergency management landscape to present all these various professional capabilities and contributions. This includes how current functions are coordinated as well as how future efforts might change relative to a more proactive, all-hazards and holistic approach. As such, the book will be a useful resource for students and practitioners to understand the dynamic professions—and various disciplines and fields—that impact disaster and terrorism preparedness and response capabilities.

Author : Jacques Léon Salvan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Ontology
ISBN : UCSC:32106009291821

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To be and Not to be by Jacques Léon Salvan Pdf

This book is a short, simplified explanation of Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et Ie neant. (Being and Nothingness). The persistent curiosity of the reading public about a movement which became popular some twenty years ago and is now affecting psychoanalysis and theology, seems to indicate that our age is far from having exhausted the subject, or even assimilated its basic elements. Existentialism is at once the sternest and most hopeful of philosophies. "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself…In fashioning myself I fashion man… When a man commits himself to anything, fully realizing that he is not only choosing what he will be, but is thereby at the same time a legislator deciding for the whole of mankind- in such a moment a man cannot escape from the sense of complete and profound responsibility." The import of our acts, whether casually littering a national park with rubbish or actively defying a directive of the Supreme Court, measured by existentialist philosophy assumes personal as well as global significance. In an age which has not done with the throes of adjustment, whether labelled segregation or apartheid, some of the existentialist reverence for man as the measure ought to be examined by thoughtful people of good will everywhere.

Author : David Bohm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134750504

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On Dialogue by David Bohm Pdf

Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renewed sense of purpose.

Author : Ronald Grimsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : UOM:39076005289249

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Existentialist Thought by Ronald Grimsley Pdf

Author : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402067068

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A Legacy for Living Systems by Jesper Hoffmeyer Pdf

Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.

Author : Kate Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192539762

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Sartre on Sin by Kate Kirkpatrick Pdf

Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and did so by connecting consciousness with nothingness. Focusing on Being and Nothingness, Kate Kirkpatrick demonstrates that Sartre's concept of nothingness (le néant) has a Christian genealogy which has been overlooked in philosophical and theological discussions of his work. Previous scholars have noted the resemblance between Sartre's and Augustine's ontologies: to name but one shared theme, both thinkers describe the human as the being through which nothingness enters the world. However, there has been no previous in-depth examination of this 'resemblance'. Using historical, exegetical, and conceptual methods, Kirkpatrick demonstrates that Sartre's intellectual formation prior to his discovery of phenomenology included theological elements-especially concerning the compatibility of freedom with sin and grace. After outlining the French Augustinianisms by which Sartre's account of the human as 'between being and nothingness' was informed, Kirkpatrick offers a close reading of Being and Nothingness which shows that the psychological, epistemological, and ethical consequences of Sartre's le néant closely resemble the consequences of its theological predecessor; and that his account of freedom can be read as an anti-theodicy. Sartre on Sin illustrates that Sartre' s insights are valuable resources for contemporary hamartiology.

Author : Andrew Cutrofello
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415242088

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Continental Philosophy by Andrew Cutrofello Pdf

Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction looks at the development of the tradition, tracing it back from Kant to the present day.

Author : Ann van Sevenant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015062549855

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Sexual Outercourse by Ann van Sevenant Pdf

Apart from a few considerations on love, marriage or sexuality, lovemaking has been the object of little philosophical interest in the past. Sexual Outercourse. Philosophy of Lovemaking guides the reader through the history of philosophy (Plato, Augustine, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault, Levinas, Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray, Nancy) and wishes to offer a real contribution to the question of sexual love by developing a philosophy of lovemaking for which a new language is needed. This book studies existing theories of love and sexuality, explores the experience of intimate closeness and draws the attention to what, in a most secret way, runs its course between lovers. Rather than studying the presupposed nature of lovemaking, the accent is on how people make love and wish to make love, and on how they might choose to relate to the sexual relation.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas,Romand Coles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621890386

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Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary by Stanley Hauerwas,Romand Coles Pdf

In Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, theologian Stanley Hauerwas and political theorist Romand Coles reflect about possibilities and practices of radical democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care for the radical ordinary. They seek to shift political and theological imaginations beyond the limits of contemporary political formations (such as global capitalism, the mega-state, and empire), which they argue are based upon both the denial and production of death. Hauerwas and Coles call us to a revolutionary politics of "wild patience" that seeks transformation through attentive practices of listening, relationship-building, and a careful tending to places, common goods, and diverse possibilities for flourishing. Both authors translate back and forth across--as well as dwell in the tensions between--the languages of radical democracy and of trial, cross, and resurrection. Engaging each other through a variety of genres--from essays, to letters, to cowriting and dialogue--Hauerwas and Coles seek to enact a politics that is evangelical in its radical receptivity across strange differences and that cultivates power in relation to vulnerability. The authors argue that there is a strong relation between hope and imagination, as well as between imagination and the encounter with and memory of those who have lived with receptive generosity toward the radical ordinary. Hence, throughout this book they think extensively in relation to specific lives and practices: from Ella Baker and the early Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizing efforts for beloved community and civil rights, to L'Arche communities founded by Jean Vanier, to contemporary faith-based radical democratic organizing efforts in dozens of cities by the Industrial Areas Foundation. Pushing and pulling each other into new and insightful journeys of political imagination, this conversation between a radical Christian and a radical democratic trickster spurs us toward a politics that acknowledges, tends to, and enacts the powers of the radical ordinary.