No Ordinary Life: Short Personal Essays
Author | : O. Paul Mortensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781005985844 |
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Author | : O. Paul Mortensen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781005985844 |
Author | : Eileen Younghusband |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Women soldiers |
ISBN | : 9780956115690 |
Author | : Loretta J. Dunbar |
Publisher | : America Star Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781448952595 |
Author | : Johnson, Kelley |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-09-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1847428975 |
What does it mean to live a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? What happens when we make a good life the centre of our consideration of people with intellectual disabilities? These questions are explored through a re-examination of ideas from philosophy and social theory, and through personal life stories. This important and timely book provides an analysis and critique of current policies and underpinning ideologies in relation to people with intellectual disabilities and explores ways in which a good life may be made more attainable.
Author | : Ben Highmore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2010-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136905235 |
This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.
Author | : Rudolf Steiner |
Publisher | : Health Research Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780787314095 |
Author | : Sandy Knauer |
Publisher | : Charles C. Thomas Publisher |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
Sandra Knauer offers hopefulness for healing in families suffering with abuse issues and treating sexual abuse in a multi-generational setting."--BOOK JACKET.