The Evil Imagination

Author : Roger Kennedy
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781800130272

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The Evil Imagination by Roger Kennedy Pdf

Roger Kennedy has written a masterful investigation into the concept of evil. He begins with a general view of the subject before moving into more detailed analysis. First is a review of the science of evil, including evidence from neuroscience and social psychology. This is followed by psychoanalytical studies of the individual and groups before presenting an overview of the philosophy of evil. Also included are historical and social studies which inform an understanding of evil in action. Kennedy goes on to examine the nature of genocide using a main focus on the Holocaust and of slavery. Both of these "journeys to evil" remain relevant for understanding contemporary society and issues. The Nazi past continues to disturb and resonate decades on. The politics and social fabric of Western society was reliant on slavery as a foundation of economic wealth and is haunted by its inability to process the harsh reality of slavery and its continuing after-effects. Kennedy moves from there to a discussion on the genius of Shakespeare and his encapsulation of the essential features of how evil can develop and take over a person's inner world. The book concludes with a summary of the main themes and a look at those who have resisted evil and what we can learn from them if we are to build a society that can resist the forces of evil. The book is informed by a psychoanalytic approach, with its emphasis on the power and influence of unconscious processes underlying human actions, and on the role of inner conflicting and elemental fears and anxieties often driving individual and group behaviours. It brings fresh insight to an eternal discourse.

Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137599636

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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination by Karen J. Renner Pdf

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134812608

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The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney Pdf

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781684516575

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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen Pdf

Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood. As author Anthony Esolen demonstrates in this elegantly written, often wickedly funny book, almost everything we are doing to children now constricts their imaginations, usually to serve the ulterior motives of the constrictors. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child takes square aim at these accelerating trends, in a bitingly witty style reminiscent of C. S. Lewis, while offering parents—and children—hopeful alternatives. Esolen shows how imagination is snuffed out at practically every turn: in the rearing of children almost exclusively indoors; in the flattening of love to sex education, and sex education to prurience and hygiene; in the loss of traditional childhood games; in the refusal to allow children to organize themselves into teams; in the effacing of the glorious differences between the sexes; in the dismissal of the power of memory, which creates the worst of all possible worlds in school—drudgery without even the merit of imparting facts; in the strict separation of the child’s world from the adult’s; and in the denial of the transcendent, which places a low ceiling on the child’s developing spirit and mind. But Esolen doesn’t stop at pointing out the problem; he offers clear solutions as well. With charming stories from his own boyhood and an assist from the master authors and thinkers of the Western tradition, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child is a welcome respite from the overwhelming banality of contemporary culture. Interwoven throughout this indispensable guide to child rearing is a rich tapestry of the literature, music, art, and thought that once enriched the lives of American children. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child confronts contemporary trends in parenting and schooling by reclaiming lost traditions. This practical, insightful book is essential reading for any parent who cares about the paltry thing that childhood has become, and who wants to give a child something beyond the dull drone of today’s culture.

Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781532668517

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George MacDonald's Children's Fantasies and the Divine Imagination by Colin N. Manlove Pdf

The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the wellspring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove offers explorations of MacDonald's eight shorter fairy tales and his longer stories At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Wise Woman, and The Princess and Curdie. MacDonald saw the imagination as the source of fairy tales and of divine truth together. For he believed that God lives in the depths of the human mind and "sends up from thence wonderful gifts into the light of the understanding." This makes MacDonald that very rare thing: a writer of mystical fiction whose work can give us experience of the divine. Throughout his children's fantasy stories MacDonald is describing the human and divine imagination. In the shorter tales he shows how the imagination has different regions and depths, each able to shift into the other. With the longer stories we see the imagination in relation to other aspects of the self and to its position in the world. Here the imagination is portrayed as often embattled in relation to empiricism, egotism, and greed.

Author : Paul Ricœur
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451415702

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Figuring the Sacred by Paul Ricœur Pdf

The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.

Author : Eva T. H. Brann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442273641

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The World of the Imagination by Eva T. H. Brann Pdf

In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.

Author : Richard Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134812592

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The Wake of Imagination by Richard Kearney Pdf

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Author : Hugh MACSORLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021856468

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The Judgment: Salvation: and Man's Imagination. Three Sermons, Etc by Hugh MACSORLEY Pdf

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Imagination
ISBN : PURD:32754061646547

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The Imagination by George MacDonald Pdf

Author : Chiara Tozzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003809616

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Interdisciplinary Understandings of Active Imagination by Chiara Tozzi Pdf

Based on extensive research and developed with the support of the IAAP, this fascinating new work presents the precious value of the special legacy of C.G. Jung, which he himself defined as Active Imagination, through a collection of unpublished contributions by some of the brightest Jungian analysts and renowned representatives from the worlds of Art, Culture, Physics and Neurosciences. In addition to presenting the genesis, development and results of Chiara Tozzi's research on Active Imagination, this volume explores the amplifications of Active Imagination in light of a range of disciplines. Contributors from all across the world give life to a multifaceted representation of this technique, showing the resonance that Active Imagination can have in the scientific, artistic and cultural fields, focussing on topics such as neuroscience, physics, literature, film, music, dance and painting. Spanning two volumes, which are also accessible as standalone books, this essential collection will be of great interest to Jungian analysts, psychologists, psychoanalysts, or anyone interested in discovering more about the fascinating psychotherapeutic practice of Active Imagination and its interdisciplinary uses.

Author : Charles Mosley
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973643456

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Is It Just My Imagination? by Charles Mosley Pdf

Christians are called to love God with all their hearts. In Is It Just My Imagination?, the relationship between imagination and love of God is explored. The private world of one’s imagination impacts public expressions of loving God.

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547173564

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A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare" by George MacDonald. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ray McCollum
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629115764

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The Power of God Given Imagination by Ray McCollum Pdf

God has already given you the power to create your own future…you just need to learn how to use it. The Power of God-Given Imagination awakens the dreamer within you by unveiling this incredible gift and explaining its quiet necessity in your life. No faith has ever sprouted and no prayer has ever been prayed without the use of imagination. For too long the power of imagination has been associated with New Age mysticism or the secular realm of “positive thinking.” Ray McCollum defies this trend by demonstrating that the power of the human mind and imagination belongs to the church—and God expects us to use it. Within the pages of this book, you will discover exactly what the power of imagination is, how it works, and how you can use it to both transform your personal life and transform the culture around you by releasing the kingdom of God.

Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317966739

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The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture by Karen J. Renner Pdf

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. The chapters explore a wide range of characters including Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter series, the possessed Regan in William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, the monstrous Ben in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child, the hostile fetuses of Rosemary’s Baby and Alien, and even the tiny terrors featured in the reality television series Supernanny. Contributors also analyse various themes and issues within film, literature and popular culture including ethics, representations of evil and critiques of society. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Interpretation Theory.