The Futilitarians

Author : Anne Gisleson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780316393898

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The Futilitarians by Anne Gisleson Pdf

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York Times "Gisleson writes with wit, warmth, and a spiritual devotion to books...Her search for purpose and connection amid chaos and loss permeates even the most heart-wrenching moments of The Futilitarians--and it's what turns the book from a meditation on reading to a celebration of being." --Jason Heller, NPR Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and watched cancer take the life of her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own trauma, losing his partner and the mother of his son to cancer in her early thirties. "How do we keep moving forward," Anne asks, "amid all this loss and threat?" The answer: "We do it together." While forging their happiness, Anne and Brad found that their friends had been suffering their own crises: loved ones gone, rocky marriages, jobs lost or gained. Together they formed what they called the Existential Crisis Reading Group, jokingly dubbed "the Futilitarians." From Epicurus to Tolstoy, from Cheever to Amis, they read and talked about the questions that dogged them most. In the year after her father's death, these living-room gatherings in post-Katrina New Orleans helped Anne blaze a trail out of her well-worn grief and finally share the untold story of her family. Written with wisdom, soul, and a playful sense of humor, The Futilitarians is a guide to living curiously and fully.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280338

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

Author : Gene Marshall
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146208365X

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The Road from Empire to Eco-Democracy by Gene Marshall Pdf

An examination of Social Awakenment, History-Long Vision, Holistic Social Understanding & Strategies of Transformation As viewed by five United States Citizens in 2011 Lead author Gene Marshall with coauthors, Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan Richard Though vast changes are necessary, we believe humanity can find a vision and plan of action that is both satisfying and realistic. Our aim is to fertilize the fruitful imagination and courage it will require to walk this Road to Eco-Democracy. Wise, insightful, forthright, systemic, and clearly written, with moments of special brilliance. The framing of The Forces of Transformation and The Role and Limitations of Electoral Politics are particularly distinctive and useful contributions. David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning From Empire to Earth Community, and When Corporations Rule the World I hope The Road is read and discussed by groups of friends and neighbors across the country. Sidestepping the political stalemates of the day, the authors name the basic problems facing our society, explain why taking the long view is crucial (but largely missing), and propose the processes by which we might create an eco-democracy. Charlene Spretnak, author of Relational Reality, The Resurgence of the Real, and States of Grace I was enormously cheered by The Road from Empire to Eco-Democracy, which sets out a comprehensive menu of todays myths and why they must be revisited. In contrast, these days Im often depressed, not so much by the disasters unfolding before eyes, but rather by un-integrated, non-systemic band-aid solutions, which have become public policy staples. The Road neither trivializes the challenges nor tumbles into the trap of simplistic solutions. Yet beware, the many proposals in the book are neither trivial nor easy. David Sanborn Scott, Ph.D., Vice-President (for Americas) International Hydrogen Association, Founding Director, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, Univ. of Victoria, Canada, author of Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052000621

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Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:30000128738824

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063091693

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Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, at Washington, D.C. by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1532 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112100648903

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Ramesh Ponnuru
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781621571261

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The Party of Death by Ramesh Ponnuru Pdf

Is the Democratic Party the “Party of Death”? If you look at their agenda they are. IT’S NOT JUST abortion-on-demand. It’s euthanasia, embryo destruction, even infanticide—and a potentially deadly concern with “the quality of life” of disabled people. If you think these issues don’t concern you—guess again. The Party of Death is roaring into the White House! In The Party of Death, Ponnuru details how left-wing radicals, using abortion as their lever, took over the Democratic Party—and how they have used their power to corrupt our law and politics, abolish our fundamental right to life, and push the envelope in ever more dangerous directions. In The Party of Death, Ponnuru reveals: How Hillary Clinton could use the abortion issue (but not in the way you think) Why the conventional wisdom about Roe v.Wade is a lie How the party of death—a coalition of special interests ranging from Planned Parenthood to Hollywood—came to own the Democratic Party How the mainstream media promotes the party of death Why Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, and other leading liberals gave up being pro-life How liberals use animal rights to displace human rights The Democratic presidential candidate who said that infanticide is a mother’s “choice” How doctors—and other health care professionals—are being coerced, by law, into violating their consciences The ultrasound revolution: why there’s hope to stop the party of death Ponnuru’s shocking exposé shows just how extreme the Party of Death has become as they seek to destroy every inconvenient life, demand fealty to their radical agenda, and punish anyone who defies them.

Author : Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805766928

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Robert Southey by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch Pdf

Author : William F. Schulz
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Humanism, Religious
ISBN : 1558964290

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Making the Manifesto by William F. Schulz Pdf

Author : Peter Maurin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608990627

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Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Pdf

I first met Peter in December, 1932, when George Shuster, then editor of The Commonweal, later president of Hunter College, urged him to get into contact with me because our ideas were so similar, both our criticism of the social order and our sense of personal responsibility in doing something about it. It was not that "the world was too much with us" as we felt that God did not intend things to be as bad as they were. We believed that "in the Cross was joy of Spirit." We knew that due to original sin, "all nature travailleth and groaneth even until now," but also believed, as Juliana of Norwich said, that "the worst had already happened," i.e., the Fall, and that Christ had repaired that "happy fault."In other words, we both accepted the paradox which is Christianity . . . Peter's teaching was simple, so simple, as one can see from these phrased paragraphs, these Easy Essays, as we have come to call them, that many disregarded them. It was the sanctity of the man that made them dynamic. Although he synopsized hundreds of books for all of us who were his students, and that meant thousands of pages of phrased paragraphs, these essays were his only original writings, and even during his prime we used them in the paper just as he did in speaking, over and over again. He believed in repeating, in driving his point home by constant repetition, like the dropping of water on the stones which were our hearts. -- Dorothy Day

Author : Neil Vallelly
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912685905

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Futilitarianism by Neil Vallelly Pdf

A proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future. If maximizing utility leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, as utilitarianism has always proposed, then why is it that as many of us currently maximize our utility--by working endlessly, undertaking further education and training, relentlessly marketing and selling ourselves--we are met with the steady worsening of collective social and economic conditions? In Futilitarianism, social and political theorist Neil Vallelly eloquently tells the story of how neoliberalism transformed the relationship between utility maximization and the common good. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary examples, from self-help literature and marketing jargon to political speeches and governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vallelly coins several terms--including "the futilitarian condition," "homo futilitus," and "semio-futility"--to demonstrate that in the neoliberal decades, the practice of utility maximization traps us in useless and repetitive behaviors that foreclose the possibility of collective happiness. This urgent and provocative book chimes with the mood of the time by at once mapping the historical relationship between utilitarianism and capitalism, developing an original framework for understanding neoliberalism, and recounting the lived experience of uselessness in the early twenty-first century. At a time of epoch-defining disasters, from climate emergencies to deadly pandemics, countering the futility of neoliberal existence is essential to building an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.

Author : Frank G. Novak Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134813780

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Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes by Frank G. Novak Jr. Pdf

I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done. The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in both of us, Geddes and I, linked together, intellectual and emotional, might still conquer the world. For lack of this, he will be imperfectly articulate and I, perhaps, will have nothing to say. These two comments by Lewis Mumford, written at either end of his largely epistolary relationship with Patrick Geddes, frame an astonishing correspondence between two of our century's greatest thinkers on Western civilisation. Mumford was the versatile New York cultural critic, famous for his writings on architecture, the city and technology. His master, Geddes, was the Scots biologist, sociologist and planner, the professor of things in general. The letters reveal much about the intellectual culture of the first half of the Twentieth Century as they chart an extraordinary Anglo-American relationship between very different men; this friendship, initially of master and disciple, even father/son, was based on a shared intellectual quest, and inspired the work of both. All that exists of those letters, and much previously unpublished material besides, has been meticulously collected and edited by Frank G. Novak Jnr..

Author : T. R. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512067

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New Orleans by T. R. Johnson Pdf

A comprehensive literary history of New Orleans, one of the most storied cities in the world.

Author : Jeff Herman
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608685844

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Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 28th edition by Jeff Herman Pdf

If you want to get published, read this book! Jeff Herman's Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resource is used by publishing insiders everywhere and has been read by millions all over the world. Jeff Herman's Guide is the writer's best friend. It reveals the names, interests, and contact information of hundreds of agents and editors. It presents invaluable information about 245 publishers and imprints, lists independent book editors who can help you make your work more publisher-friendly, and helps you spot scams. Jeff Herman's Guide unseals the truth about how to outsmart the gatekeepers, break through the barriers, and decipher the hidden codes to getting your book published. Countless writers have achieved their highest aspirations by following Herman's outside-the-box strategies. If you want to reach the top of your game and transform rejections into contracts, you need this book! Comprehensive index lists dozens of subjects and categories to help you find the perfect publisher or agent.