Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays

Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays
Author: Charles William Johns
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2015-11-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1782798765

An ontological and epistemological framework and foundation for the psychological symptom 'neurosis'.

Neurosis and Assimilation

Neurosis and Assimilation
Author: Charles William Johns
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319475428

This book deals with the possibility of an ontological and epistemological account of the psychological category 'neurosis'. Intertwining thoughts from German idealism, Continental philosophy and psychology, the book shows how neurosis precedes and exists independently from human experience and lays the foundations for a non-essentialist, non-rational theory of neurosis; in cognition, in perception, in linguistics and in theories of object-relations and vitalism. The personal essays collected in this volume examine such issues as assimilation, the philosophy of neurosis, aneurysmal philosophy, and the connection between Hegel and Neurosis, among others. The volume establishes the connection between a now redundant psycho-analytic term and an extremely progressive discipline of Continental philosophy and Speculative realism.

Unsupported Assertions

Unsupported Assertions
Author: Hugh Hood
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780887845055

"This, his third collection of essays, following The Governor's Bridge Is Closed (1973) and Trusting the Tale (1973), shows Hugh Hood to be a virtuoso writer of belles lettres as well as of novels and short stories."

Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
Author: Robert Mayhew
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780739115787

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is still remembered and enjoyed today as the philosopher's first best-selling novel. In this unique study of The Fountainhead, Dr. Robert Mayhew brings together historical, literary, and philosophical essays that analyze the novel's style, its use of humor, and its virtues of productivity, independence, and integrity. The essays make extensive use of previously unpublished material from the Ayn Rand Archives, offering a new collection of material to explore and consider. This book leads through the creation, publication, and reception of the 1943 novel that made Rand famous. Mayhew's collection of essays offers an insightful and critical perspective on the much regarded novel, and is a necessary read for anyone interested in Ayn Rand and great American literature.

Witches

Witches
Author: Sam George-Allen
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 161219835X

A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the "cool girl" or the "catty workplace" Covens. Girl Bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support. In Witches, Sam George-Allen explores how wherever women gather, magic happens. Female farmers change the way we grow our food. Online beauty communities democratize skin-care rituals. And more than any other demographic, it's teen girls that shape our culture. Patriarchal societies have long been content to champion boys' clubs, while viewing groups that exclude men as sites of rivalry and suspicion. This deeply personal investigation takes us from our workplaces to our social circles, surveying our heroes, our outcasts, and ourselves, in order to dismantle the persistent and pernicious cultural myth of female isolation and competition . . . once and for all.

The Invention of Solitude

The Invention of Solitude
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571266746

'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.

The Dancer and the Dance

The Dancer and the Dance
Author: Chan Sin-wai
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443869821

The Dancer and the Dance is a collection of thirteen essays in translation studies. Unlike many similar collections that have appeared in the past decades, it is the product of theory integrated with practice; in it, the authors have steered clear of theorizing in a vacuum, making sure that their findings tally with what actually happens in translation; there is no attempt at putting forward hypotheses based on mere speculation. As translation theorists and/or translators whose specialties cover translation studies, linguistics, cultural studies, computer-aided translation, Chinese literature, English literature, comparative literature, and creative writing, the thirteen authors have taken up the challenge of unravelling the mystery of what, in I. A. Richards’s words, “may very probably be the most complex type of event yet produced in the evolution of the cosmos.” Impossible as the task may have seemed, they have all succeeded, each in his/her own way, in tracing out many warp and weft threads, as well as hitherto undiscovered patterns in the vast, gorgeous, and mysterious tapestry woven by God after Babel.

The Dancer and the Dance

The Dancer and the Dance
Author: Michael Wasserman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666736015

Can a seeker also be a skeptic? Can one believe without renouncing the responsibility to doubt? These eight essays argue that the answer is yes. They make the case that the most authentic way to search for meaning today is not to suppress our skepticism but to intensify it, not to give up our doubts but to sharpen them. In a bitterly-polarized world, these essays offer a middle way. They insist that we need not choose between religious searching and critical thinking. At the far side of skepticism, the two paths converge.