The Otherness Factor

The Otherness Factor
Author: Arlene F. Marks
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770531351

"I know where the Angel of Death plague originated, and so does every other ‘patient’ who left Thrygg that day..."Fourteen years ago, Thryggian scientists permitted a mass escape of test subjects from their laboratory on Thrygg, including Abner Dedrick, the youngest member of the powerful Forrand-Dedrick family on Earth. These patients all thought they’d been receiving an unapproved longevity treatment. In fact, they’d been infected with a bio-engineered virus and their escape was the first step in a horrific experiment.Now the day of reckoning is approaching. The plague unleashed on the galaxy by the Thryggians has finally been brought under control and they’re on trial for this and other scientific crimes. The viral strain Abner was carrying has wiped out an entire Human colony. Only his young daughter Lania and his voice log – a damning piece of evidence if brought before the tribunal – have survived. Aboard the Earth ship that rescues Lania is Ixbeth Minegar, a lone alien who becomes convinced that Lania is part of a prophecy that could spell life or death for Ixbeth’s entire race.The Thryggians are not going down quietly. They’ve broken planetary confinement and are determined to find and eliminate any evidence against them, even if it means entering Earth space and destroying Earth ships. Fortunately, the one carrying Abner Dedrick’s log has an alien or two up its sleeve...

Melancholy and the Otherness of God

Melancholy and the Otherness of God
Author: Alina N. Feld
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0739166034

An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.

The Self and The Other

The Self and The Other
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1977-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789027707598

Hegel's Phenomenology

Hegel's Phenomenology
Author: Ardis B. Collins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0773540601

How Hegel proves the truth of logic by examining the dynamics of lived experience.

Narrative and Identity

Narrative and Identity
Author: Athena E. Gorospe
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004158553

Using key features of Ricoeur's narrative theory, this creative Asian re-reading of Moses' reverse migration in Exodus 4: 18-26 charts the way for a multi-dimensional OT hermeneutic which explores the theme of identity formation in light of the liminal experience of migration.

Hegel on the Modern World

Hegel on the Modern World
Author: Hegel Society of America. Meeting
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791424032

This book relates Hegel to later philosophers and philosophies.

The Triune God and the Charismatic Movement

The Triune God and the Charismatic Movement
Author: Jim Purves
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 159752753X

All emotion and no theology? Or a fundamental challenge to reappraise and realign our Trinitarian theology in the light of Christian experience? This study of Charismatic renewal as it found expression within Scotland at the end of the twentieth century evaluates the use of Patristic, Reformed, and contemporary models of the Trinity in explaining the workings of the Holy Spirit.

Human Factors of a Global Society

Human Factors of a Global Society
Author: Tadeusz Marek
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1124
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466572876

During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business. Contemporary HF is clearly shifting towards addressing the human-centered design paradigm for much larger and complex societal systems, the effectiveness of which is affected by recent advances in engineering, scien

A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness

A Psychoanalytic Exploration On Sameness and Otherness
Author: Anne-Marie Schlösser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000731553

In dialogue with the most famous myth for the origin of different languages – The Tower of Babel – A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? provides a series of timely reflections on the themes of sameness and otherness from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. How are we dealing with communication and its difficulties, the confusion of tongues and loss of common ground within a European context today? Can we move beyond Babel? Confusion and feared loss of shared values and identity are a major part of the daily work of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Bringing together an international range psychoanalytic practitioners and researchers, the book is divided into six parts and covers an array of resonant topics, including: language and translation; cultural identity; families and children; the cyber world; the psychotherapeutic process; and migration. Whereas the quest for unity, which underpins the myth of Babel, leads to mystification, simplification, and the exclusion of people or things, multilingual communities necessitate mutual understanding through dialogue. This book examines those factors that further or threaten communication, aiming not to reduce, but to gain complexity. It suggests that diversification enriches communication and that, by relating to others, we can create something new. As opposed to cultural and linguistic homogeneity, Babel is not only a metaphor for mangled communication, alienation, and distraction, it is also about the acceptance or rejection of differences between self and other. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalytic psychotherapists and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds.