Presence And Absence

Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781935744658

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In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish Pdf

Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award “What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity.” —Saadi Yousef “There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish’s poetry.” —Anton Shammas One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish’s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Through these lyrical meditations on love, longing, Palestine, history, friendship, family, and the ongoing conversation between life and death, the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell.

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230085

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“Presence and Absence is a book of importance for all who are actively engaged in the philosophical enterprise, whatever their differing persuasions. It shows philosophy to be flourishing in the midst of its own self-proclaimed signs of morbidity.” – The Review of Metaphysics “A splendid, provocative and profound work, this book explores the manifold ways in which the contrast of presence and absence operate to establish the possibility of human discourse and truthfulness...belongs in every philosophy collection.” – Choice “Quite simply a superb book, which deserves more than one careful reading. A fresh, unified treatment of a grand philosophical theme, the theme of the connections between thought, truth, and being.” – Man and World “A thoughtful book about thoughtfulness and truthfulness and their ontological conditions. Simply put, this is a book that will reward its careful reader a hundredfold, for Sokolowski is a speaker who says things in ways that are provocative, exciting, and invariably insightful.” – Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology “Has few peers in phenomenological literature.” – International Philosophical Quarterly “[Sokolowski is] an original thinker of the first rank, who has significantly furthered the path of phenomenological philosophy. As well as being an exciting synthesis, a thinking of the previously unthought in predecessors, and a ground-breaking movement, this work is written with a sensitivity to language and its graceful use that one would hope for from one exploring its richness and power.” – Human Studies

Author : Sofia Pantouvaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human beings in art
ISBN : 9004374140

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Author : Ingolf U. Dalferth
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3161502051

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The Presence and Absence of God by Ingolf U. Dalferth Pdf

Safeguarding the distinction between God and world has always been a basic interest of negative theology. But sometimes it has overemphasized divine transcendence in a way that made it difficult to account for the sense of God's present activity and experienced actuality. Criticisms of the Western metaphysics of presence have made this even more difficult to conceive. On the other hand, there has been a widespread attempt in recent years to base all theology on (religious) experience; the Christian church celebrates God's presence in its central sacraments of baptism and Eucharist; process thought has re-conceptualized God's presence in panentheistic terms; and some have argued that God might be poly-present, not omnipresent. But what does it mean to say that God is present or absent? For Jews, Christians, and Moslems alike God is not an inference, an absentee entity of which we can detect only faint traces in our world. On the contrary, God is present reality, indeed the most present of all realities. However, belief in God's presence cannot ignore the widespread experience of God's absence. Moreover, there is little sense in speaking of God's absence if it cannot be distinguished from God's non-presence or non-existence. So how are we to understand the sense of divine presence and absence in religious and everyday life? This is what the essays in this volume explore in the biblical traditions, in Jewish and Christian theology and philosophy, and in contemporary philosophy of religion.

Author : Adele Anderson,Sofia Pantouvaki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882638

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Presence and Absence: The Performing Body by Adele Anderson,Sofia Pantouvaki Pdf

This volume collects research and critical explorations of the performing body by scholars and practitioners in visual and performing arts, textile, fashion and experimental design research, scenography and costume design, dance and performance history. Authors examine performativity of the body, its materiality, immateriality, and virtuality, and investigate experiences of embodiment. They reenvision the body as a site for representation, exploring the absent body in performance and as performance through time and space. Contributors bring a broad variety of contemporary approaches, from live performance to mediated performance, from installation art to performance art, and from experimental fashion to theatre and dance. They discuss issues of process and meaning-making and practices from concept and interpretation to creative production and reception. The volume expands possibilities for the role of the body in performance, while also challenging roles and hierarchies of existing performance practice.

Author : Mikkel Bille,Frida Hastrup,Tim Flohr Soerensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441955296

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An Anthropology of Absence by Mikkel Bille,Frida Hastrup,Tim Flohr Soerensen Pdf

In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything from organ donation, to funerary rituals, to prisoners of war, The Archaeology of Absence is written at an important intersection of archaeological and anthropological study. Divided into three sections, this volume uses the "presence" of absence to compare cultural perceptions of: material qualities and created memory, the mind/body connection, temporality, and death. This rich text provides a strong theoretical framework for anthropologists and archaeologists studying material culture.

Author : John F. Kutsko
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781575060415

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Between Heaven and Earth by John F. Kutsko Pdf

How is Yahweh to be differentiated from other deities? What is Yahweh's relationship to Israel in exile?".

Author : Rhys Dafydd Jones,James Robinson,Jennifer Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317568919

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The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence by Rhys Dafydd Jones,James Robinson,Jennifer Turner Pdf

What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines these and other questions relating to the role of absence and presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce ideas about space, society, and belonging. Between Absence and Presence contains six empirically-focussed chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around the world. These studies examine how particular groups’ relationships with places and spaces are characterized by experiences that are neither wholly present nor wholly absent. Each author demonstrates the variety of ways in which absence and presence are experienced – through silence, forgetting, concealment, distance, and the virtual – and constituted – through visual, aural, and technological. Such accounts also raise philosophical questions about representation and belonging: what must remain absent, and what is allowed to be present? Who decides, and how? Whose voices are heard? Recognizing the complexity of these questions, Between Absence and Presence provides a significant contribution in reconciling theorizations of absence with everyday life. This book was published a sa special issue of Space and Polity.

Author : H.A. Durfee,David F.T. Rodier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0792305116

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Phenomenology and Beyond: The Self and Its Language by H.A. Durfee,David F.T. Rodier Pdf

It has been a constant intention of the series of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS IN PHILOSOPHY to present to the philosophical reader books which probed the frontiers of contemporary philosophy. That intention remains true of the following volume, which offers an international dialogue regarding the phenomenological program and succeeding movements. Early in this Series we tried, as well, to initiate philosophical discussion across serious boundaries and barriers which have characterized contemporary reflection. That theme also continued in the original essays presented herein. With the publication of this fifth volume in the Series we have crossed something of a minor milestone in our endeavor, and are appreciative of the kind welcome with which we have been received by the readers. We wish to thank sincerely the contributors to this volume for their helpful and willing cooperation. We also wish to thank Ms. Irmgard Scherer for her translation of Professor Apel's paper, as well as Professor Apel himself for reviewing this translation. We are also pleased to thank the Office of the Dean of the College Of Arts And Sciences and especially Dean Betty T. Bennett, for a grant for typing, as well as Ms. Mary H. Wason for her fine typing skills and her kind cooperation.

Author : Richard Widerkehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1936657309

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In the Presence of Absence by Richard Widerkehr Pdf

"Richard Widerkehr's In the Presence of Absence is a book of loss and recovery, grief and wonder. These are poems informed with clarity and compassion, and a quiet lyricism in confronting the mortal world, the death of parents, and life-threatening illness." --Joseph Stroud. author of Of This World: New and Selected Poems

Author : Victor Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781349182022

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The End of Art Theory by Victor Burgin Pdf

Art theory', understood as those forms of aesthetics, art history and criticism which began in the Enlightenment and culminated in 'high modernism', is now at an end. These essays, examining the interdependencies of advertising, film, painting and photography, constitute a call for a 'new art theory' - a practice of writing whose end is to contribute to a general 'theory of representations': an understanding of the modes and means of symbolic articulation of our forms of sociality and subjectivity.

Author : Luc M Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798708218278

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The Absence of The Presence by Luc M Victor Pdf

The Absence of God's Presence will create the presence of someone or something else in your life. The content of this book reveals God's Presence, who you are, what power you have, how to activate your faith and help you understand the power within versus the power without. This workbook will refuel your faith life and fill up your emptiness, as it will also challenge you to recognize what life you were made to live. After reading this book, you will change for the better; just like it happened for Peter after Jesus called him to become a fisher of man. This is the book you have been waiting for that you didn't know existed. It carries keys that will unlock doors before you and bring newness of life to you, as you follow its instructions.

Author : Silvija Jestrovic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030432904

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Performances of Authorial Presence and Absence by Silvija Jestrovic Pdf

This book takes Roland Barthes’s famous proclamation of ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to investigate concepts of authorial presence and absence on various levels of text and performance. By offering a new understanding of ‘the author’ as neither a source of unquestioned authority nor an obsolete construct, but rather as a performative figure, the book illuminates wide-ranging aesthetic and political aspects of ‘authorial death’ by asking: how is the author constructed through cultural and political imaginaries and erasures, intertextual and intertheatrical references, re-performances and self-referentiality? And what are the politics and ethics of these constructions?

Author : Tom Montgomery Fate
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807000984

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Cabin Fever by Tom Montgomery Fate Pdf

“If Tom Montgomery Fate has not found the secret formula for the deliberate, balanced life, he is a chief disciple of the search.”—Chicago Tribune Try to imagine Thoreau married, with a job, three kids, and a minivan. This is the sensibility—serious yet irreverent—that suffuses Cabin Fever, as the author seeks to apply the hermit-philosopher’s insights to a busy modern life. Tom Montgomery Fate lives in a Chicago suburb, where he is a husband, father, professor, and active member of his community. He also lives in a cabin built with the help of friends in the Michigan woods, where he walks by the river, chops wood, and reads Thoreau by candlelight. Fate seeks a more attentive, deliberate way of seeing the world and our place in it, not only in the woods but also in the context of our relationships and society. In his search for “a more deliberate life” amid a high-tech, material world, Fate invites readers into an interrogation of their own lives, and into a new kind of vision: the possibility of enough in a culture of more.

Author : Danielle Drozdzewski,Shanti Sumartojo,Emma Waterton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811640193

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Geographies of Commemoration in a Digital World by Danielle Drozdzewski,Shanti Sumartojo,Emma Waterton Pdf

This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds. It interrogates the role of power in representations of memory and shows how experiences of commemoration sit within, alongside and in contrast to its official normative forms. The book charts how memories, places and experiences of commemoration play out and have, or have not, changed in and through a digital world. Key to the book’s exploration is a new epistemology of memory, underpinned by an embodied research approach.