On The Threshold Of Beauty

Author : Kees Tazelaar
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic music
ISBN : 9462080658

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On the Threshold of Beauty by Kees Tazelaar Pdf

On the Threshold of Beauty' is an exciting and detailed reconstruction of the emergence of electronic music in the Netherlands. Author Kees Tazelaar, composer and head of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, grippingly relates its turbulent history from the earliest beginnings. This history begins around 1930 with the studio of the Philips Physics Laboratory and the plans for the Philips pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels. The goal was a lightand- sound demonstration for the general public, but the involvement of Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varèse gave this project a highly avant-garde turn. The result, Poème électronique, was considered by many to be much more experimental than the music of the research laboratory. In 1960 Philips divested itself of the studio. It was absorbed into a new studio at Utrecht University, where Gottfried Michael Koenig became artistic director in 1964. Tazelaar also looks in detail at the influence wielded by the Contact Organization for Electronic Music during this period. -- Publisher.

Author : Tiffany Mosher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636766498

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Beauty Beyond the Threshold by Tiffany Mosher Pdf

Travel. Inspiration. Motherhood... and Depression. 264 million people worldwide suffer from depression. For anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, finding joy in life, living with purpose, or even just bad days, Beauty Beyond the Threshold, How International Volunteering Saved My Life is a story of hitting rock bottom; one woman's journey to recovery and self-discovery. Readers will go on adventures through heartache, loss, and despair as well as find themselves repairing homes in Puerto Rico and North Carolina, building schools in remote villages in Nepal, laughing with generous people, crying tears of joy, and reflecting on their own lives. Beauty Beyond the Threshold brings hope to those who are feeling sad, depressed, and anxious. There is so much beauty beyond the threshold and the path to discover it is by taking that first step outside of your comfort zone.

Author : Kaja Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317795971

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The Threshold of the Visible World by Kaja Silverman Pdf

In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498241540

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The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being by William Desmond Pdf

This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer's dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss's creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.

Author : John O'Donohue
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385525640

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To Bless the Space Between Us by John O'Donohue Pdf

From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives. John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life. O’Donohue looks at life’s thresholds—getting married, having children, starting a new job—and offers invaluable guidelines for making the transition from a known, familiar world into a new, unmapped territory. Most profoundly, however, O’Donohue explains “blessing” as a way of life, as a lens through which the whole world is transformed. O’Donohue awakens readers to timeless truths and shows the power they have to answer contemporary dilemmas and ease us through periods of change.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781532617102

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The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being by William Desmond Pdf

This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity. Beauty seems bland and lacks the more visceral thrill of the ugly, indeed the excremental. We crave what disrupts and provokes us, not what gives delight or even consoles. By contrast, attention is given to how beauty arouses enigmatic joy in us, and we enjoy an elemental rapport with it as other. Surprised by beauty, our breath is taken away, but we are more truly there with the beautiful when we are taken outside of ourselves. We are first receivers of the gift of surprise and only then perceivers and conceivers. My attention to the passion of being stresses a patience, a receptivity to what is other. What happens is not first our construction. There is something given, something awakening, something delighting, something energizing, something of invitation to transcendence. The theme is amplified in diverse reflections: on life and its transient beauty; on soul music and its relation to self; on the shine on things given in creation; on beauty and Schopenhauer’s dark origin; on creativity and the dynamis in Paul Weiss’s creative ventures; on redemption in Romanticism in the thought of Stanley Cavell; on theater as a between or metaxu; on redeeming laughter and its connection with the passion of being.

Author : Aidan Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 0852447825

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Beauty, Spirit, Matter by Aidan Hart Pdf

Author : Sonja Zuba
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527518650

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Reaffirming the Importance of Beauty by Sonja Zuba Pdf

This book argues that beauty challenges us to find meaning in its object, to make critical comparisons, and to examine our own lives and emotions in the light of what we find. The book examines the importance of beauty not only in terms of art and aesthetics, but also within the context of the current post-religious age. It engages with the philosophical works of Roger Scruton and William Desmond, and endorses and addresses many important discussions surrounding art and beauty found in the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. It also takes seriously the role of poetry and painting to explore the theme that runs through this research: the idea that beauty is rationally found. Meditations on the art of Manet, Van Gogh, Delacroix, Rembrandt, and other artists, together with the voices of several poets, show us that beauty cannot be reduced to aesthetics only. Irreducible to philosophy, religion, or aesthetics, the notion of beauty is deeply examined in all its forms and spiritual meaning.

Author : Heather Widdows
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691197142

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Perfect Me by Heather Widdows Pdf

How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199229758

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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton Pdf

"First published in hardback as Beauty, 2009"--T.p. verso.

Author : Melannie Svoboda
Publisher : Twenty-Third Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1627855416

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The Grace of Beauty by Melannie Svoboda Pdf

In a world beset by the ugliness of war, greed, and injustice, we all need to seek, find, and let our hearts rest in the experience of beauty Not the beauty found in fashion magazines, but the true beauty, "ever ancient, ever new," sought by St. Augustine and countless philosophers, artists, musicians, poets, and holy people throughout the centuries. This beautiful book explores the mystery, power, and grace of the beauty our souls seek, the kind of beauty that evokes a whispered "Wow!" or heartfelt, "Thank you, God!" Our experience of beauty says Sr. Melannie, "has the power to realign our mind and heart toward the Source of all Beauty, our Beloved God." Book jacket.

Author : mrs. Alexander Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600064274

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A professional beauty by mrs. Alexander Fraser Pdf

Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735234468

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On Beauty by Zadie Smith Pdf

In this loose retelling of Howard's End, Zadie Smith considers the big questions: Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kippses, the confusions—both personal and political—of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.

Author : Cynthia Jean Hahn
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271050782

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Strange Beauty by Cynthia Jean Hahn Pdf

"A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lisa Smartt
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608684601

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Words at the Threshold by Lisa Smartt Pdf

What Our Last Words Reveal About Life, Death, and the Afterlife A person’s end-of-life words often take on an eerie significance, giving tantalizing clues about the ultimate fate of the human soul. Until now, however, no author has systematically studied end-of-life communication by using examples from ordinary people. When her father became terminally ill with cancer, author Lisa Smartt began transcribing his conversations and noticed that his personality underwent inexplicable changes. Smartt’s father, once a skeptical man with a secular worldview, developed a deeply spiritual outlook in his final days — a change reflected in his language. Baffled and intrigued, Smartt began to investigate what other people have said while nearing death, collecting more than one hundred case studies through interviews and transcripts. In this groundbreaking and insightful book, Smartt shows how the language of the dying can point the way to a transcendent world beyond our own.