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Human Embrace

Author : Ronald L. Hall
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271043091

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Starting from S&øren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity. All three thinkers follow a &"logic of paradox&" in showing how success in the human quest to be human depends crucially on the struggle humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to pursue alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called &"living existentially&" can be achieved only after confronting and refusing the possibilities of living in &"aesthetic,&" &"ethical,&" or even &"religious&" denial of one's true humanity. By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall reveals the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our own age and its cogency as an interpretation of the human predicament.

Posthuman Suffering and the Technological Embrace

Author : Anthony Miccoli
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780739126332

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Posthuman Suffering investigates the core assumptions of posthumanist discourse via philosophy, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and close textual and filmic readings of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Steven Spielberg's film, AI: Artificial Intelligence, bringing the more ontological and epistemological implications of posthumanism to the forefront. In the age of technology our own limitations are legitimized as unique to the human condition.

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

Author : Matthea Harvey
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938584589

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Comic, elegaic, and always formally intricate, using political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophic story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a single day, a year, or an entire life.

A Tight Embrace

Author : Marco Zoppi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538146248

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This book provides various examples showing how Europe and Africa can be conceptualized and researched as a single macro-area connected by interrelated, global and multilevel dynamics. What types of relations characterize Europe and Africa today? The nature of the connections is neither clear nor unilinear: rather, they appear dialectical, multifaceted and pointing in different directions. This edited book explores narratives, contemporary dynamics and historical legacies demonstrating the long-standing relations between the continents, suggesting that the entangled Euro-African relations in multiple fields should be intended as a permanent condition for any analyses. The authors provide various evidence of the fact that the two continents are deeply part of shared but uneven structures of global wealth and power. Within those structures, certain dynamics are constantly produced and reproduced, yet new opportunities to subvert existing relations have also emerged recently. Hence, instead of proposing conceptual premises holding Africa and Europe as separate regions that get in touch at specific moments in time, be it colonialism, the Cold War, globalization, migration, this book critically considers that each of the matters explored is anything but an episode in a more complex, intertwined story that ultimately represents the explanatory framework for present Euro-African relations.

Human Hours

Author : Catherine Barnett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781555978662

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Winner of the Believer Book Award The triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award Catherine Barnett’s tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are “accursed,” that are limited—and unanswered—by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow—or at least measure—time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover’s breaths; by remembering a father’s space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.

Theories of Human Social Action

Author : Charles V. Willie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1882289080

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Creating Human Nature

Author : Benjamin Gregg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108897525

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Human genetic enhancement, examined from the standpoint of the new field of political bioethics, displaces the age-old question of truth: What is human nature? This book displaces that question with another: What kind of human nature should humans want to create for themselves? To answer that question, this book answers two others: What constraints should limit the applications of rapidly developing biotechnologies? What could possibly form the basis for corresponding public policy in a democratic society? Benjamin Gregg focuses on the distinctly political dimensions of human nature, where politics refers to competition among competing values on which to base public policy, legislation, and political culture. This book offers citizens of democratic communities a broad perspective on how they together might best approach urgent questions of how to deal with the socially and morally challenging potential for human genetic engineering.

Complexity's Embrace

Author : Oonagh E. Fitzgerald,Eva Lein
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781928096658

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An unprecedented political, economic, social, and legal storm was unleashed by the United Kingdom's June 2016 referendum to leave the European Union and the government's response to the vote. After decades of strengthening European integration and independence, Brexit necessitates a deep understanding of its international law implications on both sides of the English Channel in order to chart the stormy seas of negotiating and advancing beyond separation. In Complexity's Embrace, international law practitioners and academics from the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and the United States look beyond the rhetoric of "Brexit Means Brexit" and "no agreement is better than a bad agreement" to explain the challenges that need to be addressed in the diverse fields of trade, financial services, insolvency, intellectual property, environment, and human rights. The authors in this volume articulate, with unvarnished clarity, the international law implications of Brexit, providing policy makers, commentators, the legal community, and civil society with critical information they need to participate in negotiating their future within or outside Europe. Complexity's Embrace explores the many unprecedented questions about the UK's future trading arrangements. Contributors include Thomas Cottier, Armand de Mestral, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, David A. Gantz, Markus Gehring, Valerie Hughes, Matthias Lehmann, Eva Lein, Dorothy Livingston, Richard Macrory, Luke McDonagh, Marc Mimler, Howard P. Morris, Gabriel Moss, Helen Mountfield, Federico M. Mucciarelli, Joe Newbigin, Colm O’Cinneide, Damilola S. Olawuyi, Christoph G. Paulus, Maziar Peihani, Freedom-Kai Phillips, Stephen Tromans, Diana Wallis, and Dirk Zetzsche.

Freedom's Embrace

Author : J. Melvin Woody
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271042532

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To be free is to escape all limitations and obstacles&—or so we think at first. But if we probe further, we discover that freedom embraces its own necessities, a set of conditions without which it could not exist. Freedom's Embrace explores these necessities of freedom. J. Melvin Woody surveys competing conceptions of freedom and traces debates about the nature and reality of freedom to confusions about knowledge, humanity, and nature that are rooted in some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern Western thought. The preemption of freedom as an exclusively human privilege with all nature relegated to mechanical necessity is a fatal error that renders both humanity and nature equally unintelligible. What distinguishes human beings from other animals is not freedom but the use of symbols, which vastly extends the range of available options and enables us to envision freedom as an ideal by which customary institutions and norms may be judged and transformed. By carefully surveying its necessary conditions and limitations, Woody reconciles the salient competing conceptions of freedom and weaves them together into a richer and broader theory that resolves old controversies and opens the way toward an ethics of freedom that can meet the challenges of relativism and nihilism that arise from recognizing the historicity and malleability of culture.

Theories of Human Communication

Author : Stephen W. Littlejohn,Karen A. Foss,John G. Oetzel
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478647102

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For over forty years, Theories of Human Communication has facilitated the understanding of the theories that define the discipline of communication. The authors present a comprehensive summary of major communication theories, current research, extensions, and applications in a thoughtfully organized and engaging style. Part I of the extensively updated twelfth edition sets the stage for how to think about and study communication. The first chapter establishes the foundations of communication theory. The next chapter reviews four frameworks for organizing the theories and their contributions to the nature of inquiry. Part II covers theories centered around the communicator, message, medium, and communication with the nonhuman. Part III addresses theories related to communication contexts—relationship, group, organization, health, culture, and society. “From the Source” contributions from theorists provide insight into the inspirations, motivations, and goals behind the theories. Online instructor’s resource materials include sample syllabi, key terms, exam questions, and text graphics. The theories include those important for their continuing influence in the field as well as emerging theories that encourage thinking about issues in new ways. For a reasonable price, readers are able to explore the patterns, trends, trajectories, and intricacies of the landscape of communication theory and will have an invaluable resource for future reference.

The Embrace of Hope

Author : Kate Fuglei
Publisher : Barbera Foundation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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“Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.”—Frank Capra Crossing the Atlantic Ocean was going to be the biggest adventure of Frank Capra’s life, but the five-year-old Sicilian boy’s dreams were soon hobbled by the cramped steamship’s unsanitary conditions. Feverish and weak, Frank suffered the seemingly endless nightmare through rolling seas torn from his family and frightened in the isolated sick bay. Emerging from the darkness into a new world, Frank craned his neck to see the torch atop Lady Liberty’s reaching arm. Awestruck, his heart swelled with a hope and gratitude that came to define his life and his work. Frank Capra’s movies celebrated the individual’s power to define their own destiny through hard work and selflessness. Today, It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and other classics elicit nostalgia for an America that was, and continue to inspire audiences with the deep-rooted sense of patriotism and optimism held by their creator.

Dare to Be Different: Embrace Not Giving a F*ck!

Author : Shu Chen Hou
Publisher : KOKOSHUNGSAN®
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Are you tired of living your life based on what others think? Do you long to break free from societal expectations and embrace your true, authentic self? If so, it's time to throw caution to the wind, stop giving a f*ck about others' opinions, and start living life on your own terms. In the ebook "Dare to Be Different: Embrace Not Giving a F*ck!", we delve deep into the art of embracing your individuality and throwing off the shackles of societal conformity. This isn't your typical self-help guide that tiptoes around sensitive subjects and sugarcoats the truth. No, this book is for those who are ready to unleash their inner rebel and rewrite the rules of their lives. "Dare to Be Different: Embrace Not Giving a F*ck!" is not for the faint of heart. It's for those who are ready to break free from the chains of conformity, unleash their true potential, and live life on their own terms. So, if you're ready to defy societal norms, embrace your authentic self, and create a life that truly lights you up, then this ebook is your roadmap to liberation. Say goodbye to mediocrity and hello to a life of freedom, authenticity, and fulfillment. It's time to unleash your inner rebel and dare to be different. Embrace the power of not giving a f*ck and start living life on your own terms today!

Conversations with Scripture

Author : Jay Sidebotham
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819229922

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This book guides readers into conversation with Paul’s letter to the Romans. The author helps readers listen to what that letter said to the people to whom it was written and to hear what it says to us today. Readers will bring their own reflections, personal concerns, and questions to the table as we let this letter challenge us with meaning—letting it read the reader. The thesis of this book is that the letter has demonstrated transforming power to renew lives and the church through a focus on worship; a rigorous assessment of the human condition, especially the failure of human religiosity; a claim of transforming power in the ongoing life of Christ; an expansive vision of who is included in God’s life and love; a call to practical application and proclamation of the gospel.

Exploring Humanity

Author : Mihai I. Spariosu,Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847000167

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The old humanistic model, aiming at universalism, ecumenism, and the globalization of various Western systems of values and beliefs, is no longer adequate – even if it pleads for an ever-wider inclusion of other cultural perspectives and for intercultural dialogue.In contrast, it would be wise to retain a number of its assumptions and practices – which it incidentally shares with humanistic models outside the Western world. We must now reconsider and remap it in terms of a larger, global reference frame. This anthology does just that, thus contributing to a new field of study and practice that could be called »intercultural humanism«.

Not God

Author : Ernest Kurtz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781592859023

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A fascinating, account of the discovery and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures. The most complete history of A.A. ever written. Not God contains anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of A.A.'s early figures. A fascinating, fast-moving, and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics Anonymous.