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Unattainable Earth,

Author : Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987-09-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0880011025

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Begun in the winter of 1955 and completed in the spring of 1956, Treatise on Poetry is a brilliant meditative poem fully expressive of the powers that have made Milosz one of our greatest writers. Expertly translated, the poem is divided into four parts -- Europe at the turn of the century, the condition of Polish culture between the two world wars, the harsh reality of World War II, and the role of the poet in the postwar world. Here Milosz addresses the failure of early-20th-century Polish poetry. With vast historical sweep and in language that enables readers to see "as if in a flash of summer lighting", Milosz offers a fascinating account of the mysterious art of poetry.

The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, Volume 8

Author : Naichen Chen
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9798887471914

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Sakyamuni Buddha taught Great Prajna Paramita in sixteen assemblies in four locations over twenty-two years. It was recorded posthumously by his disciples in six hundred fascicles of approximately five million words and is regarded as the largest canon in Buddhism. The Sanskrit original was translated into Chinese by Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang) during the seventh century (from 660 through 663). This text is now available in English. The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra is important not only because of its extensive teaching, but because it explains what the great bodhisattva, the great bodhisattva path of cultivation, and the great bodhisattva vehicle are. It depicts, manifests, and provides guidance on how one should learn to become a bodhisattva—and eventually a Buddha—transcending self-interest to reach a state of emptiness, selflessness, and nonattachment. Regardless of where you are on the path to enlightenment, you will be nourished by its parables and dialogues.

Beyond the Word

Author : Sitakant Mahapatra
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120811089

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The essays in this anthology seek to look at the multiple gestures of tradition in relation to our own times and in som doing they have a relevance for the continuing debate on modern and post modern era.

The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, Volume 1

Author : Naichen Chen
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781627874571

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praj·na: transcendental wisdom pa·ra·mi·ta: ferrying over to the other shore; perfection The Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra are essential reading for those who practice Buddhism. Over the past thirteen centuries, however, the larger work to which they belong has been available only in Chinese. Now, for the first time, English speakers can access the first twenty fascicles of The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, regarded as the largest canon in Buddhism. The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra demonstrates how one can become a bodhisattva -- and eventually a Buddha -- transcending self-interest to reach a state of emptiness, selflessness, and nonattachment. Regardless of where you are on the path to enlightenment, you’ll be nourished by the parables and dialogues within.

Making Poems

Author : Todd F. Davis,Erin Murphy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781438431758

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Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

Existentia Hermeneutica

Author : Andrzej Wiercinski
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911513

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Existentia hermeneutica is phronetic existence with the aim of cultivating practical wisdom in human life: It comes from life, influences life, and transforms life. Understanding what is happening in life requires reaching the hermeneutic truth, which is the truth of understanding. The experience of hermeneutic truth calls for personal commitment and existential response, and, thus, expresses the hermeneutic moral imperative. Referring to Heidegger’s phenomenological analytics of Dasein, Gadamer emphasizes that understanding is not only one of the human capabilities, but a way of Dasein’s being-in-the-world.

Hermeneutic Rationality

Author : Maria Luísa Portocarrero,Luis António Umbelino,Andrzej Wierciński
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783643115492

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Hermeneutic Rationality by Maria Luísa Portocarrero,Luis António Umbelino,Andrzej Wierciński Pdf

The problem of the limits of reason is by no means a privileged subject of an academic discourse. By reducing reality to what can be conceived of within the paradigms of the scientific laboratory, manipulative despotism, which positivistic notion of objectivism has established, creates in a human being a unilateral conscience of the world and of oneself; a conscience that dominates today our understanding of existence in its manifold senses of Being and the world we live in. This way of thinking, based on a powerful and skillful technique aimed at controlling human life in all its dimensions, intends to impose this limiting positivistic horizon on human beings in the name of Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite. Hermeneutic rationality resists the claims of modern science and promotes the culture of hospitality toward the world as it shows itself in its complexity. Maria Luisa Portocarrero, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Professor of Philosophy, specializing in the phenomenological hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. Luis Antonio Umbelino, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Professor of Philosophy and Artistic Studies. Andrzej Wiercinski, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, specializing in Practical Philosophy/Philosophical Hermeneutics.

Czesław Miłosz

Author : Czesław Miłosz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578068282

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Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) felt that part of his role as a poet and critic was to bear witness to bloodshed and terror as well as to beauty. He survived the Soviet invasion of his beloved Lithuania, escaped to Nazi-occupied Warsaw where he joined the Socialist resistance, then witnessed the Holocaust and the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto. After persecution and censorship triggered his defection in 1951, he found not relief but the anguish of solitude and obscurity. In the years of loneliness and labor, Miłosz continued writing poems and essays, learning to love his privacy and preoccupations and enjoying the devotion of his students at the University of California, Berkeley. International fame came like lightning when Miłosz won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Czesław Miłosz: Conversations collects pieces from a wide range of sources over twenty-five years and includes an unpublished interview between Miłosz and his friend and fellow Nobel Laureate poet Joseph Brodsky. This volume acquaints us with a man whose work, life, and thought defy easy characterization. He is a sensualist with a scholar's penchant for history, as likely to celebrate Heraclitus as the hooks on a woman's corset. He is a devout but doubting Catholic, and a thinker tinged with a heretical sensibility. Cynthia L. Haven is a literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Her work also has been published in Civilization, the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Cortland Review.

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

Author : Eric Karpeles
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681372853

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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski by Eric Karpeles Pdf

A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.

Half the House

Author : Rachel Berghash
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611394818

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Rachel Berghash’s lyrical, impressionistic memoir charts her relationship with her homeland during a lifelong journey of self-discovery, beginning with a child’s-eye view of the city’s sacred mysteries, her family’s religious orthodoxy, and the underlying

Hermeneutics of Education

Author : Andrzej Wiercinski
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783643911506

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A hermeneutics of education pays special attention not to educational structures, but the central role of conversation in the educational process. The key issue is the formation of the person as a unique reality of being and acting while supporting intersubjective understanding. The polyphony of understanding places the human search for meaning within the horizon of incompleteness and allows for both, spontaneity and rigor, in order to reach an understanding of what is happening to us and in us when we understand. Reflection on education is always inseparable from educational practice.

Parametric Design of Interplanetary and Orbital Trajectories with Examples for Mars 1973, 1975, and 1977 Opportunities

Author : John F. Newcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Interplanetary missions
ISBN : UIUC:30112106879429

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Parametric Design of Interplanetary and Orbital Trajectories with Examples for Mars 1973, 1975, and 1977 Opportunities by John F. Newcomb Pdf

A method for parametrically studying the general interplanetary trajectory design problem is discussed; the method couples the design of interplanetary trajectories with the resulting planetary orbits obtainable from various launch and arrival opportunities. The procedure is applied to the trajectories which could be launched to Mars in the years 1973, 1975, and 1977, and for those opportunities, a set of parametric charts for use in designing Mars missions is included. The important mission parameters are presented and discussed, and launch windows are established which maximize payload in planetary orbit for a coplanar periapsis deboost.

A Child Even in Arms of Stone

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Children
ISBN : 8126007699

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The Book Is An Anthology Of Poems On And About Children, Poems That Sing Of Love For This ýUnattainable Earthý As Milosz Puts It. In These Poems Celebrating The Ineluctable Childhood, Children Speaks Of Their Dreams And Their Aspirations As In TagoreýS Poems. The Poems Presented In This Anthology Compel Us To Sit Back And Consider Once Again As To How To Make This Planet Safe For Children And Hand It Over To Them.

Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth

Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476687216

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Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth by Allen A. Debus Pdf

During the 2010s, science fiction's immortal adversaries King Kong and Godzilla, representing our conflicts per Carl Sagan's "dream dragons" analogy, made comebacks in American cinema. The blockbuster Kaiju resurged onto the screen, depicting these protectors of an Earth plagued by mankind's hubris and folly. With Earth's future hanging in the balance, their climactic 2021 staging settled a score between the two giant monsters, resolving Toho's classic 1963 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. As formidable creatures emerging from Time's Tomb on Mother Earth, metaphorical Kong and Godzilla are considered here in light of new millennial environmentalism's stark reality. This book, nostalgic in tone, explores the meaning of Kong and Godzilla as planetary saviors--titanic protectors of a theoretical "living Earth" Gaia--defending the globe from a prehistoric plague of adversaries.

Language of the Earth

Author : Frank H. T. Rhodes,Richard O. Stone
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483161662

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Language of the Earth by Frank H. T. Rhodes,Richard O. Stone Pdf

Language of the Earth is a collection of essays that provides a particular category of and describes the current content in each area of earth science. The book reviews various aspects of geological knowledge, including the characters, motives, and attitudes of certain individuals who have made contributions in this field. Case studies of eyewitness accounts of geological phenomena include the Turtle Mountain slide, the Lisbon earthquake, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the eruption of the Oraefajokull in 1727. The text also discusses some geological controversies such as the footprints in red sandstone, as well as geological philosophies concerning estimates of time since the Earth has existed. The book cites 3000-year old Chinese records chronicling earthquake activity; it also discusses earthquakes and the hypothesis of continental drift. The text then explains the many ways in which geology can relate to the person—in his approach to his work, the personal touch. Geology is shown in terms of its relation to prose, poetry, and sometimes, humor, as in the discovery of the "petrified woman." This book can offer a light and entertaining respite for geologists, historians, students or professors of the earth sciences, and for general readers interested in personal accounts of some geological discoveries.