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Author : Michael Pakaluk
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872201139
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Author : Janice Anne Fiamengo
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776606453
The most recent installment of the Reappraisals series, which examines the range of meanings associated with animals in the Canadian literary imagination.
Author : Jennifer Whiting
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199967919
In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting uses Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology.
Author : Roger J. Woolger
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-23
Category : Personality
ISBN : 185538311X
The author, a Jungian psychotherapist, recounts his personal journey to enlightenment. Based on his own experiences with hypno-regression he explains how past-life therapy has helped people deal with an amazing array of problems, including depression, phobias, illness and violences, through forgiveness, positive affirmations and by learning to die. It contains many case histories.
Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271038659
Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena they generate (language, history, action, art) can be viewed as just as "real" as the physical nature from which they are emergent, while not being reducible to it. The book starts off with a review of prominent philosophies of art over the past half-century, focusing especially on Beardsley, Goodman, and Danto, so as to highlight the need for carefully distinguishing between the metaphysical and epistemological features of physical nature and human culture. The second part of the book builds on the first part's analyses of artworks to propose a theory of selves as "self-interpreting texts." Selves and Other Texts aims to develop new ways of understanding the conceptual inseparability of our analysis of physical nature and our analysis of ourselves.
Author : Rosanne Wasserman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1891305042
These poems are what happens when a poet goes on walkabout but never goes away from her family, her library, her home. The Phone in the Kitchen, A Perfect Sleeping Night, Dishes, and just Getting Dressed in the Morning provide runways for some wild flights of language and imagery in these surreal, ironic, tender poems that call upon voices from memories, mermaids, Manhattan, the Merchant Marine, and the great tradition of poets in dreams and in the world.
Author : Dan Zahavi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199590681
Dan Zahavi engages with classical phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and a range of empirical disciplines to explore the nature of selfhood. He argues that the most fundamental level of selfhood is not socially constructed or dependent upon others, but accepts that certain dimensions of the self and types of self-experience are other-mediated.
Author : Veronica Thompson,Manijeh Mannani
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781926836492
As critic Diana Brydon has argued, contemporary Canadian writers are "not transcending nation but resituating it." Drawing together themes of gender and sexuality, trauma and displacement, performativity, and linguistic diversity, Selves and Subjectivities constitutes a thought-provoking response to the question of what it means to be a Canadian"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139441865
This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle's searching examination of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Lorraine Pangle argues that the difficulties surrounding this discussion are soon dispelled once one understands the purpose of the Ethics as both a source of practical guidance for life and a profound, theoretical investigation into human nature. The book also provides fresh interpretations of works on friendship by Plato, Cicero, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne and Bacon. The author shows how each of these thinkers sheds light on central questions of moral philosophy: is human sociability rooted in neediness or strength? is the best life chiefly solitary, or dedicated to a community with others? Clearly structured and engagingly written, this book will appeal to a broad swathe of readers across philosophy, classics and political science.
Author : John Keene
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224352
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
Author : Luna Dolezal,Danielle Petherbridge
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438466217
Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights. Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, criminality, and medicalized forms of subjectivity affect perception and social interaction. Grounded in practical, everyday experiences, this book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of individuals intercorporeality and sociality.
Author : Rebecca Earle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351939287
This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material. The contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight, viewing letters as texts which can reveal information, not only about their writers and readers, but about the wider historical context in which they were written. Topics covered include the mercantile letter, diplomatic correspondence, and what these epistolary forms suggest about the rise of a polite, literate culture in the eighteenth century; the experience of immigration from Europe to America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the relationship through the letter; and the working of gender in the epistolary form. Rebecca Earle provides an overview of how the study of letter-writing can open up new avenues of historical as well as literary investigation. This, together with contributions form leading international scholars, makes Epistolary Selves an essential text for those researching the letter genre.
Author : Galen Strawson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191570377
What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It's not clear that we even know what we're asking about when we ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes very naturally to us, and it seems rather important, but it's also extremely puzzling. As for the word 'self'—it's been taken in so many different ways that it seems that you can mean more or less what you like by it and come up with almost any answer. Galen Strawson proposes to approach the (seeming) problem of the self by starting from the thing that makes it seem there is a problem in the first place: our experience of the self, our experience of having or being a self, a hidden, inner mental presence or locus of consciousness. He argues that we should consider the phenomenology (experience) of the self before we attempt its metaphysics (its existence and nature). And when we have considered what it's like for human beings (assuming we can generalize about ourselves), we need to consider what it might be like for other possible creatures: what's the very least that might count as experience of oneself as a self? This, he proposes, will give us a good idea of what we ought to be looking for when we go on to ask whether there is such a thing-an idea worth following wherever it leads. It leads Strawson to conclude that selves, inner subjects of experience, do indeed exist. But they bear little resemblance to traditional conceptions of the self.
Author : Lion Koenig,Bidisha Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317530558
The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the ‘West’ and the ‘rest’, ‘us’ and ‘them’ and ‘self’ and ‘other’. Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the ‘Other’ as opposed to the ‘Self’ from philosophy and cultural studies to the social sciences, this book explores how the structural asymmetries existing between Western discourses and the realities of the non-Western world manifest themselves in the ideas, institutions and socio-political practices of India and China, and in how far they shape the social scientist’s understanding of their discipline in general. It provides a counter-narrative by revealing the relativity of geographies, and by showing that the conventional presentation of core elements of the Asian socio-political set-up as ‘aberrations’ from the Western models fails to acknowledge their inherent strategic character of adapting Western concepts to meet local requirements. Drawing on multiple disciplines, concepts and contexts in India and China, the book makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of politics, as well as to International and Asian Studies.
Author : Dorinne K. Kondo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226450445
"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature."—Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist "Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish identities."—Nancy Rosenberger, Journal of Asian Studies