Blooded Thought

Blooded Thought
Author: Herbert Blau
Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Analyzes the nature of drama and performance, linking contemporary thinking in theatrical and literary theory, politics and the sciences. Blau's essays illuminate crucial issues in today's theatre: the place of language and the dramatization of thought.

Thoughts

Thoughts
Author: Ben Carnevale
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Everyone knows how important positive thoughts are and the consequences of negative thoughts. However, we go beyond this understanding and explain my "thoughts concept" in the form of the very light "micro thoughts" to the heavier "macro thoughts." Included are topics of flowers, plants, animals, physics, astronomy, and much more. Focusing on these amazing topics will open doors to many positive thoughts. Our lives are guided by our thoughts, and our thoughts not only determine who we are but who we will become.

Toward a Contextual Realism

Toward a Contextual Realism
Author: Jocelyn Benoist
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674248481

An award-winning philosopher bridges the continental-analytic divide with an important contribution to the debate on the meaning of realism. Jocelyn Benoist argues for a philosophical point of view that prioritizes the concept of reality. The human mindÕs attitudes toward reality, he posits, both depend on reality and must navigate within it. Refusing the path of metaphysical realism, which would make reality an object of speculation in itself, independent of any reflection on our ways of approaching it or thinking about it, Benoist defends the idea of an intentionality placed in realityÑcontextualized. Intentionality is an essential part of any realist philosophical position; BenoistÕs innovation is to insist on looking to context to develop a renewed realism that draws conclusions from contemporary philosophy of language and applies them methodically to issues in the fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of the mind. ÒWhat there isÓÑthe traditional subject of metaphysicsÑcan be determined only in context. Benoist offers a sharp criticism of acontextual ontology and acontextual approaches to the mind and reality. At the same time, he opposes postmodern anti-realism and the semantic approach characteristic of classic analytic philosophy. Instead, Toward a Contextual Realism bridges the analytic-continental divide while providing the foundation for a radically contextualist philosophy of mind and metaphysics. ÒTo beÓ is to be in a context.

Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology

Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology
Author: Yiftach Fehige
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2023-10-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004685308

Did Adam have a navel? Did Adam and Eve have sex? Is God merely a fictional character, like Superman? Without thought experiments like these, the field of science and religion would be severely impoverished. Thought experiments are exercises of the imagination. Like in many other disciplines, the imagination has not received the attention it deserves in theology. This book argues that the imagination must be taken seriously as an engine for progress. It offers a theology of the imagination that is consistent with, and goes beyond, existing discussions about pluralism at the intersection of science and religion.

Theory/Theatre

Theory/Theatre
Author: Mark Fortier
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1040122094

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories. Key updates to the new edition include further perspectives and expanded content on: - Technology, audience reception and liveness - Further examinations of feminism, transgender and gender theory, as well as queer theory - Disability studies - Critical Race Theory - Decolonization - Intersectionality - Critical Phenomenology Bringing contemporary voices and examples to light, author Mark Fortier introduces the ways in which established and emerging theories can interact with theatre and performance. This is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance studies.

The Monkey's Child

The Monkey's Child
Author: Andrew E. Verity
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1496994876

ANDRAS SELF DEVELOPMENT WORKBOOK The ANDRAS workbook explores new fields of thought and feeling in human motivation, helping you to make sense of life's experiences - some of which, at times, overwhelm us. The aim is to give you an explanation of the incredible logic of the human mind and to understand why we continue to do the things we would rather not do at all. This study has immediate rewards as it is supposed that you will be using your own experiences as a reference at all times. Insights not thought of up until now will challenge many of your set ideas and your world-view. It will also motivate you in your persistency for your personal search for one of the greatest of all virtues - your search for truth. This ANDRAS workbook will give you answers to long-asked questions. By responding as truthfully as you can (even to asking people close to you for the answers) when completing the activities on the right hand pages, you will get inner satisfaction in realms philosophical, physical and metaphysical. This workbook will also give you techniques to implement change that will give you control over the day-to-day unwanted repeating patterns that consume so much energy and time. The ANDRAS workbook is based on the premise that the individual can be in control of his or her own destiny and that we create the 'reality' we call our 'fate'. Change can take place in your life by the application of free thought-power and free will-power - if you take the necessary effort to unlock that power of thought and will. The ANDRAS workbook explains how the pictures we carry in the subconscious mind creates the life in our destiny and that we can access any negative pictures and resolve the associated feeling in a symbolic process to create a chosen picture reflecting your real worth. The challenge to you is to learn HOW TO BELIEVE in those chosen pictures and let the pictures and your thoughts move in harmony on to your chosen words and then into planned action to productive achievement. Belief is the hardest part of any personal development. The ANDRAS workbook also explains the mechanics that you can apply to the processes you will learn. How you can assert influence in your outer surroundings with a strong inner sense of conviction and sound principle. This is the beginning of genuine inner knowing and you are introduced to the Wisdom Grid, which, in conjunction with the tool of Choice, will deepen your understanding of individual and collective behaviors to prompt you to communicate at a deeper and much more intuitive level - being true to yourself and the universal laws of love and grace.

The Returns of Alwin Nikolais

The Returns of Alwin Nikolais
Author: Claudia Gitelman
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780819565761

Long overdue reflections on a visionary choreographer

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau

The Very Thought of Herbert Blau
Author: Clark Lunberry
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472130927

Herbert Blau (1926–2013) was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was the leading American interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett and as a director was instrumental in introducing works of the European avant-garde to American audiences. He was also one of the most far-reaching and thoughtful American theorists of theater and performance, and author of influential books such as The Dubious Spectacle, The Audience, and Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point. In The Very Thought of Herbert Blau, distinguished artists and scholars offer reflections on what made Blau's contributions so visionary, transformative, and unforgettable, and why his ideas endure in both seminar rooms and studios. The contributors, including Lee Breuer, Sue-Ellen Case, Gautam Dasgupta, Elin Diamond, S. E. Gontarski, Linda Gregerson, Martin Harries, Bill Irwin, Julia Jarcho, Anthony Kubiak, Daniel Listoe, Clark Lunberry, Bonnie Marranca, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Richard Schechner, Morton Subotnick, Julie Taymor, and Gregory Whitehead, respond to Blau's fierce and polymorphous intellect, his relentless drive and determination, and his audacity, his authority, to think, as he frequently insisted, "at the very nerve ends of thought."

For the Good of the State

For the Good of the State
Author: Anthony Price
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147190024X

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory Two KGB rivals, General Zarubin and Professor Nikolai Andrievich Panin, confront each other on a point overlooking the British Channel. Meanwhile, Henry Jaggard of British Intelligence has two pressing problems. He knows the Soviets are mounting a defensive program against a Polish dissident group in Britain, but he cannot intervene without jeopardizing his best inside agents. And Dr David Audley, of the Intelligence R&D Department, has been playing clever politics again. Jaggard sees his opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The Professor has requested a meeting with Audley, his old adversary. And, with one of Jaggard's own men to abet him, Audley can be safely relied upon to overstep the mark in his attempts to frustrate the KGB . . .