A Lover's Deceit

A Lover's Deceit
Author: Raquel Eldridge & Shawnte’ Henderson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-01-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1467831395

Three years have passed since we last checked in with Ramona Shaw and Cheyenne Morris, and it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Drama is dished up thick and heavy in the lives of the best friends and the people around them. Ramona and her live-in girlfriend, Leslie, experience a three-year itch and their relationship is called to task as Ramona realizes her life might be far too complicated to be stuck in a relationship box. She begins to pursue other romantic endeavors that surprise everyone but Cheyenne and an event takes place that will change her life forever. The Lewis’s, Cheyenne and Keith, are blissfully in love! Their daughter is growing up healthy and happy and business couldn’t be better for this power couple, but past heartaches surface to test their trust and commitment. Will their marriage survive? Darius and his fiancée, Amber Schneider, are expecting their first child and riding the blissful waves of love and joy as their family is on verge of formation...but will this rebound relationship last? Darius begins to doubt his desire to marry Amber, but will Amber be easily disengaged from the man who’s child she is about to give birth to? Tawny Coleman is on a mission and once complete, a lot of powerful people’s careers will be over and a wealthy career of her own will be launched. She’s been spending a lot of time with superstar rapper, Duane “DJ N-Sane” Jackson, but he no longer is the focus of her attention. She taking notes and taking names for what will become the biggest blockbuster tell-all book of the century.

Love, Self-Deceit and Money

Love, Self-Deceit and Money
Author: Koen Stapelbroek
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2008-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442691719

"Love drives and gives life to the commerce of mankind." Thus, the sixteen year old Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) presented his project to understand the sociable nature of man. This observation, a reflection of his own position on the relation between trade and virtue, hinted at what the mature works of Galiani, one of the most noteworthy economists and wits in eighteenth-century Italy, would eventually yield. In Love, Self-Deceit, and Money, Koen Stapelbroek reconstructs the Early Neapolitan Enlightenment debate on the morality of market societies, a debate that hinged on the preservation of Naples' independent statehood in a global arena of commercial and military competition. Galiani rejected the moralizing and mercantile ideas of his contemporaries regarding the dangers threatening Naples, and, in his Della moneta (1751), he justified the systems set in place by the Neapolitan government. With reference to early, previously unstudied lectures on self-deceptive 'Platonic love,' Koen Stapelbroek examines Galiani's role in the wider debate, arguing that his early moral philosophical and historical work suggests a great deal about his political-economic stance, including his assertion that money is the ultimate ordering principle in the universe. As a study of one of the most idiosyncratic minds of the Enlightenment period, Love, Self-Deceit, and Money shows how diverse ideas of the development of individual passions into social dispositions, commerce, and reform politics dovetailed seamlessly in the intellectual climate of eighteenth-century Europe.

Deception

Deception
Author: Robert W. Mitchell
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780887061073

Mitchell and Thompson have compiled the first interdisciplinary study of deception and its manifestations in a variety of animal species. Deception is unique in that it presents detailed explorations of the broadest array of deceptive behavior, ranging from deceptive signaling in fireflies and stomatopods, to false-alarm calling by birds and foxes, to playful manipulating between people and dogs, to deceiving within intimate human relationships. It offers a historical overview of the problem of deception in related fields of animal behavior, philosophical analyses of the meaning and significance of deception in evolutionary and psychological theories, and diverse perspectives on deception--philosophical, ecological, evolutionary, ethological, developmental, psychological, anthropological, and historical. The contributions gathered herein afford scientists the opportunity to discover something about the formal properties of deception, enabling them to explore and evaluate the belief that one set of descriptive and perhaps explanatory structures is suitable for both biological and psychological phenomena.

Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine

Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine
Author: Michael J. McNeal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-07-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135034530X

By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the “eternal-feminine” and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas. It brings together a diverse group of scholars to critically engage with Nietzsche's use of late-19th-century gender stereotypes and the ways in which they served his critique of values, including his use of “woman” as a trope for truth. Among other subjects, the contributors consider the role of psychology in Nietzsche's thought, his concern with style, self-creation, and advocacy of perfectionism, his views on romantic love and marriage, and his aim of revaluing all values to instigate a distant philosophy of the future. They investigate parallels between Nietzsche's thought and Shaktism, his relation to Goethe and Stendahl, and his influence on Beauvoir, Butler, and Dohm. With the inclusion of two seminal essays on Nietzsche and women by Lawrence J. Hatab and Kelly Oliver, the volume also illustrates some of the ways in which scholarship on these subjects has evolved over the last four decades. Providing fresh insights into these inter-related subjects, Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine highlights the enduring relevance of his thought and its still-underappreciated potential for re-thinking both the bases for and aims of feminism and other emancipatory movements.

In Favor of Deceit

In Favor of Deceit
Author: Ellen B. Basso
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816550018

In stories ranging from subtle creation myths to derisive, off-color tales, the Kalapalo Indians of central Brazil demonstrate a fascination with deception and its many functions. In myths about tricksters and dupes, they explore the ambiguity of human experience, showing how important to human understanding is a sense of illusion, paradox, and contradiction. Ellen Basso's new study of these stories considers their relationship to other kinds of Kalapalo activities involving deception and features a unique collection of South American Indian narratives translated directly from performances by master storytellers in their original Carib language. Combining an ethnopoetic, performance-focused approach to storytelling with an action-oriented psychology, Basso arrives at an ethnographic understanding of Kalapalo trickster myths and Kalapalo ideas about deception. The commentary on the translations considers matters of theme, discourse, narrative progression, and performance context. The dialogical, interactive nature of Kalapalo storytelling, the development of characters through their conversations with one another, and the many ways storytelling and ordinary life enrich one another are examined to reveal the complex psychology of trickster myths and the special tricksterish quality of day-to-day Kalapalo behavior.

The Tragic and the Ecstatic

The Tragic and the Ecstatic
Author: Eric Thomas Chafe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0195346521

During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer's ideas, especially those regarding music's metaphysical significance, resonated with patterns of thought that had long been central to Wagner's aesthetics, and Wagner described the entry of Schopenhauer into his life as "a gift from heaven." Chafe argues that Wagner's Tristan and Isolde is a musical and dramatic exposition of metaphysical ideas inspired by Schopenhauer. The first part of the book covers the philosophical and literary underpinnings of the story, exploring Schopenhauer's metaphysics and Gottfried van Strassburg's Tristan poem. Chafe then turns to the events in the opera, providing tonal and harmonic analyses that reinforce his interpretation of the drama. Chafe acts as an expert guide, interpreting and illustrating most important moments for his reader. Ultimately, Chafe creates a critical account of Tristan, in which the drama is shown to develop through the music.

Cervantes' Los Trabajos de Persiles Y Sigismunda

Cervantes' Los Trabajos de Persiles Y Sigismunda
Author: Maria Alberta Sacchetti
Publisher: Tamesis
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781855660779

Multidimensional characters, contrasting perspectives and ironic manipulations produce a kind of 'generic hybridisation' which exposes the fallacies of this type of romance fiction."--Jacket.

Mozart

Mozart
Author: SimonP. Keefe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351557912

This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas, including biography, vocal music, instrumental music and performance. Written by leading researchers from Europe and North America, these previously published articles and book chapters are representative of both the most frequently discussed and debated issues in Mozart studies and the challenging, exciting nature of Mozart scholarship in general. The volume is essential reading for researchers, students and scholars of Mozart's music.