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Author : Daniel Goleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780684831077
A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments.
Author : Anthony S. Abbott
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817312022
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
Author : VERNON. LEE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033735981
Author : ERNEST. BECKER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788164261
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.
Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Pragmatism
ISBN : UCAL:$B192130
Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021106623
Author : Mike W. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Self-deception
ISBN : UCAL:B4243839
This book systematically explores the moral issues surrounding self-deception. While many articles and books have been written on the concept of self-deception in recent years, Martin's gives much greater emphasis to self-deception as a significant topic for both ethical theory and applied ethics. "Self-deception is . . . perplexing from a moral point of view. It seems tailor-made to camouflage and foster immorality. . . . Does all self-deception involve some guilt, and is it among the most abhorrent evils. as some moralists and theologians have charged? Or is it only wrong sometimes, such as when it has bad consequences? Could it on occasion be permissible or even desirable to deceive ourselves, just as we are sometimes justified in deceiving other people? Are self-deceivers perhaps more like innocent victims than perpetrators of deceit, and as such deserving of compassion and help? Or, paradoxically, are they best viewed with ambivalence: culpable as deceivers and simultaneously innocent as victims of deception?" (from the introduction) Martin develops a conception of self-deception as the purposeful evasion of acknowledging to oneself truths or one's view of truth. He details a systematic framework for understanding the main moral perspectives and traditions concerning self-deception that have emerged in western philosophy. In so doing, he clarifies related concepts like sincerity, authenticity, honesty, hypocrisy, weakness of will, and self-understanding. Ranging across traditions both philosophical (Kant, Kierkegaard, and Sartre) and non-philosophical (Freud, Eugene O'Neill, and Henrik Ibsen), Martin shows why self-deception is as morally complex as any other major form of behavior. The appeal of this book is broad. The volume will challenge professional philosophers and psychologists, yet it is organized and written to be accessible to students in courses on ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of literature. Martin's numerous literary examples should also interest literary critics.
Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Pragmatism
ISBN : WISC:89094554631
Author : Max Simon Nordau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015003476291
Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061969942
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
Author : Allon White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003821830
Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography. This kind of reading left the author dangerously isolated and exposed in the midst of a newly sophisticated public. Within this general cultural perspective, the book traces the private anxieties that led George Meredith, Joseph Conrad and Henry James to conceal themselves within their complex and resistant fictions. It discusses opacity in the texts themselves – embarrassment and shame in Meredith; ‘engimas’ in Conrad; and the fear of vulgarity and knowledge in Henry James.
Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022671170
A series of studies examining different varieties of recent obscurantism. Written by Vernon Lee, an esteemed scholar and philosopher, this book offers a thought-provoking analysis of the different ways in which lies can be used to obscure the truth. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Nick Lane
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847658807
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades. The answer, he argues, lies in energy: how all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a bolt of lightning. In unravelling these scientific enigmas, making sense of life's quirks, Lane's explanation provides a solution to life's vital questions: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all? This is ground-breaking science in an accessible form, in the tradition of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel.
Author : David Livingstone Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781466821507
Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since Eve told God, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." Our seemingly insatiable appetite for stories of deception spans the extremes of culture from King Lear to Little Red Riding Hood, retaining a grip on our imaginations despite endless repetition. These tales of deception are so enthralling because they speak to something fundamental in the human condition. The ever-present possibility of deceit is a crucial dimension of all human relationships, even the most central: our relationships with our very own selves. Now, for the first time, philosopher and evolutionary psychologist David Livingstone Smith elucidates the essential role that deception and self-deception have played in human--and animal--evolution and shows that the very structure of our minds has been shaped from our earliest beginnings by the need to deceive. Smith shows us that by examining the stories we tell, the falsehoods we weave, and the unconscious signals we send out, we can learn much about ourselves and how our minds work. Readers of Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker will find much to intrigue them in this fascinating book, which declares that our extraordinary ability to deceive others--and even our own selves--"lies" at the heart of our humanity.
Author : Vernon 1856-1935 Lee
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373518634
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