Uncanny Rest

Author : Alberto Moreiras
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478023654

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Uncanny Rest by Alberto Moreiras Pdf

In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.

Author : Phillip Cole
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748626854

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Myth of Evil by Phillip Cole Pdf

A philosophical history of the concept of evil in western culture. 'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just like us, talks like us, and is just like us.' The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction: the belief that human beings cannot commit acts of pure evil, that they cannot inflict harm for its own sake, and the evidence that pure 'evil' truly is a human capacity. Acts of horror are committed not by inhuman 'monsters', but by ordinary human beings. This contradiction is clearest in the apparently 'extreme' acts of war criminals, terrorists, serial murderers, sex offenders and children who kill. Phillip Cole delves deep into our two, cosily established approaches to evil. There is the traditional approach where evil is a force which creates monsters in human shape. And there is the 'enlightened' perspective where evil is the consequence of the actions of misguided or mentally deranged agents. Cole rejects both approaches. Satan may have played a role in its evolution, but evil is really a myth we have created about ourselves. And to understand it fully, we must acknowledge this. Drawing on the philosophical ideas of Nietzsche, Arendt, Kant, Mary Midgley and others, as well as theology, psychoanalysis, fictional representations and contemporary political events such as the global 'war on terror', Cole presents an account of evil that is thorough and thought-provoking, and which, more fundamentally, compels us to reassess our understanding of human nature.

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 071905561X

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The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The uncanny," where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar. As a concept and a feeling, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Nicholas Royle offers a detailed historical account of the emergence of the uncanny, together with a series of close readings of different aspects of the topic. Following a major introductory historical and critical overview, there are chapters on the death drive, déjà-vu, "silence, solitude and darkness," the fear of being buried alive, doubles, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy, and madness, as well as more "applied" readings concerned, for example, with teaching, politics, film, and religion. This is a major critical study that will be welcomed by students and academics but will also be of interest to the general reader.

Author : Sunka Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791453499

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Mail-Orders by Sunka Simon Pdf

Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.

Author : Walther Ziegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783750498853

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Schopenhauer in 60 Minutes by Walther Ziegler Pdf

Author : Gregers Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000710137

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Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis by Gregers Andersen Pdf

Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term’s descriptive power and that it has developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and has consequently lost its true significance. Aware of the prospect of ecological collapse as well as our apparent inability to avert it, we face geophysical changes of drastic proportions that severely challenge our ability to imagine the consequences. This book argues that this crisis of imagination can be partly relieved by climate fiction, which may help us comprehend the potential impact of the crisis we are facing. Strictly assigning "climate fiction" to fictions that incorporate the climatological paradigm of anthropogenic global warming into their plots, this book sets out to salvage the term’s speculative quality. It argues that climate fiction should be regarded as no less than a vital supplement to climate science, because climate fiction makes visible and conceivable future modes of existence within worlds not only deemed likely by science, but which are scientifically anticipated. Focusing primarily on English and German language fictions, Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis shows how Western climate fiction sketches various affective and cognitive relations to the world in its utilization of a small number of recurring imaginaries, or imagination forms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and literary and culture studies more generally.

Author : Harry Stack Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136439360

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The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry by Harry Stack Sullivan Pdf

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1955 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Author : Hugh Sykes-Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521309097

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Wordsworth and the Worth of Words by Hugh Sykes-Davies Pdf

In this book Hugh Sykes Davies addresses Wordworth's major poetry from the perspectives of language, Freud, Coleridge and the Romantic Imagination. A remarkable combination of analytic and empathic intelligence, this book should earn a place among the few essential studies of the poet.

Author : David G. Shepherd
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9051834500

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Bakhtin : Carnival and Other Subjects by David G. Shepherd Pdf

Author : Marilyn Reizbaum
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804734739

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James Joyce’s Judaic Other by Marilyn Reizbaum Pdf

How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce’s writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural studies and from Jewish cultural studies, arguing that in Joyce the emblematic figure of otherness is "the Jew.” The work of Emmanuel Levinas, Sander Gilman, Gillian Rose, Homi Bhabha, among others, is brought to bear on the literature, by Jews and non-Jews alike, that has forged the representation of Jews and Judaism in this century. Joyce was familiar with this literature, like that of Theodor Herzl. Joyce sholarship has largely neglected even these sources, however, including Max Nordau, who contributed significantly to the philosophy of Zionism, and the literature on the "psychobiology” of race--so prominent in the fin de siècle--all of which circulates around and through Joyce’s depictions of Jews and Jewishness. Several Joyce scholars have shown the significance of the concept of the other for Joyce’s work and, more recently, have employed a variety of approaches from within contemporary deliberations of the ideology of race, gender, and nationality to illuminate its impact. The author combines these approaches to demonstrate how any modern characterization of otherness must be informed by historical representations of "the Jew” and, consequently, by the history of anti-Semitism. She does so through a thematics and poetics of Jewishness that together form a discourse and method for Joyce’s novel.

Author : Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820488100

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Beauty and the Abject by Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti Pdf

Original Scholarly Monograph

Author : Maria Truglio
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487586690

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Beyond the Family Romance by Maria Truglio Pdf

Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature and Freud’s theories, with a particular focus on each author’s interrogation of origins. Through close readings and historical contextualization, themes of regression, memory, and other manifestations of ‘origins’ are analyzed, moving Pascoli’s poetry beyond the biographical strictures that have hitherto confined it. Truglio’s post-structuralist readings question the dichotomy between ‘safety within the home’ and the ‘threatening outside world,’ revealing the ambivalences with which images of the home are fraught in Pascoli’s poetry. In addition to the sustained comparison with Freud’s writing, Beyond the Family Romance explores parallels between Pascoli’s work and such writers as Tarchetti, Boito, Poe, and Invernizio. Rethinking the concept of the fanciullino (‘little child’), Truglio shows that Pascoli’s poetry enacts a symbiosis between the logic of the rational modern adult and the mythic vision of the child.

Author : Patrick Lin,Keith Abney,Ryan Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190652975

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Robot Ethics 2.0 by Patrick Lin,Keith Abney,Ryan Jenkins Pdf

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the robotics industry and broader society, we need to not only press ahead on a wide range of issues, but also identify new ones emerging as quickly as the field is evolving. For instance, where military robots had received much attention in the past (and are still controversial today), this volume looks toward autonomous cars here as an important case study that cuts across diverse issues, from liability to psychology to trust and more. And because robotics feeds into and is fed by AI, the Internet of Things, and other cognate fields, robot ethics must also reach into those domains, too. Expanding these discussions also means listening to new voices; robot ethics is no longer the concern of a handful of scholars. Experts from different academic disciplines and geographical areas are now playing vital roles in shaping ethical, legal, and policy discussions worldwide. So, for a more complete study, the editors of this volume look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of the views as represented in this cutting-edge volume are provocative--but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106011011332

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Parkett by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Mabry
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784983215

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The Art of Rest by Adam Mabry Pdf

Discover the secret to real, realistic, non-rules-based rest For some of us, resting seems like a waste of time-it means we're missing out on other things. For others, rest seems like a luxury-there's simply too much to do. And for almost all of us, we crave rest, but don't always know how to. This warm, realistic, humorous book shows us the huge spiritual, emotional and physical rewards of rest. It shows us how rest gives us time to spend with God and remember his grace. Discover how rest fuels our joy and confidence in God's sovereignty as we learn to depend on him, and not our own efforts, and are refreshed by the power of the Holy Spirit. Adam Mabry shows us how rest helps us make space for relationships, shared experiences and moments to remember; how it liberates us from the pressure of self-reliance; how it gives us a chance to think and reflect; and how it stops us from burning out. Finally, this book casts a realistic vision for rest that is less rule and more rhythm-less onerous restriction and more liberating art form. Adam Mabry helps us to learn the 'art of rest' with some practical suggestions. The world never stops. But we need to. And as Christians we can by having faith to hit pause and experience the rich rewards of God-given rest.