Download or read book Asian Nietzsche A Book for All Civilizations written by Christopher Porto and published by Christopher Porto . This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asian Nietzsche, I have attempted to re-create the “philosophical conversation” and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions of the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation.
Download or read book Asian Nietzsche a Book for All Civilizations written by Christopher Portosa Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ASIAN NIETZSCHE: A BOOK FOR ALL CIVILIZATIONS, BOOK 1, I have attempted to re-create the "philosophical conversation" and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation. It is conventional wisdom today that "China" and "Asia" are ascendant. But why? And are they? Is it simply due to economic growth and appropriate economic policies cultivating economic growth? From the standpoint of Japan - and especially Japanese right - it is "about time" that China, India, and the Asian tigers are catching up with the economy, technology, and society of Japan (and also Western civilization). However, this is only economic progress. I thus raise the question: Can traditional and culturally conservative Asian, "Confucian," "Hindu," and "Islamic" societies ever actually compete with Western societies and Japan culturally and technologically - especially in terms of innovation, creativity, and originality at its highest levels? Also by Christopher Stevens: Paradoxes of the Drug War & Paradoxes of the Holocaust, https://www.createspace.com/4647898
Download or read book Asian Nietzsche a Book for All Civilizations written by Christopher Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ASIAN NIETZSCHE: A BOOK FOR ALL CIVILIZATIONS, BOOK 1, I have attempted to re-create the "philosophical conversation" and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation.It is conventional wisdom today that "China" and "Asia" are ascendant. But why? And are they? Is it simply due to economic growth and appropriate economic policies cultivating economic growth? From the standpoint of Japan - and especially Japanese right - it is "about time" that China, India, and the Asian tigers are catching up with the economy, technology, and society of Japan (and also Western civilization). However, this is only economic progress. I thus raise the question: Can traditional and culturally conservative Asian, "Confucian," "Hindu," and "Islamic" societies ever actually compete with Western societies and Japan culturally and technologically - especially in terms of innovation, creativity, and originality at its highest levels?Also by Christopher Stevens: Paradoxes of the Drug War & Paradoxes of the Holocaust, https://www.createspace.com/4647898Contents of ASIAN NIETZSCHE include: 1: STEVE JOBS & INNOVATION,(OR, WHY DOES COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PRODUCE A "STEVE JOBS")2: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE SOCIAL SCIENTIST3: DO ASIANS LACK A CAPACITY FOR HIGH-LEVEL INNOVATION & CREATIVITY "by force of circumstances beyond their control"?4: "Conversations don't have to be so linear and phallologocentric!": ON THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY IN THE DAYS OF THE SAMURAI5: DID HEINRICH HEINE ORDER CHINESE?6: WHO IS SHINTARO ISHIHARA?7: WHY DID THE SHOGUN'S "SHUNGA" DEPICT WOMEN AS ENJOYING SEX AS MUCH AS MEN?8: "Do you really take all of this cultural stuff seriously? Isn't it the age of genes, bio-engineering, and the double-helix?!"9: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE "REBELLIOUS JEW", OR WHY WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN "REBEL JEW" - A METAPHYSICAN, THEOLOGIAN & PHILOSOPHER - EXCOMMUNICATED AS AN ATHEIST?10: ASPECTS & ORIGINS OF A "SKEPTICAL ANIMUS"11: WHY WEREN'T JEWS A TRIBE OF LITERATE, "UNCREATIVE ANTS" LIKE THE JAPANESE?12: A TRIBE OF PRODUCTIVE ANTS OR NOT?13: ON THE SOURCES OF CREATIVITY: CULTURAL DIFFUSION, GLOBALIZATION, & ORIENTALISM14: NO MONETS IN MONET'S HOUSE!15: "JAZZ IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD" & JAZZ IN THE AGE OF THE "GREAT GATSBY"16: WHY IS JELLY ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS MORE CULTURALLY WESTERN AND EUROPEAN THAN ANY ALBUM OF THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - OR ROCK, COUNTRY, OR BLUE-GRASS?17: A KIND OF YIN & YANG18: WHO ARE THE ROMAN-HA?19: A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME, AND A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME20: WHEN JAPAN ALMOST BECAME CHRISTIAN, OR, WHY THE MADONNA & LADY GAGA OF THE 1600s WORE CHRISTIAN CROSSES21: WANG YANG MING & THE UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION
Download or read book ASIAN NIETZSCHE a BOOK for ALL CIVILIZATIONS written by Christopher Portosa and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my new book, Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations (Part 1), I have attempted to re-create the "philosophical conversation" and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions of the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation.Contents include: 1: STEVE JOBS & INNOVATION (OR, WHY DOES COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PRODUCE A "STEVE JOBS")2: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE SOCIAL SCIENTIST 3: DO ASIANS LACK A CAPACITY FOR HIGH-LEVEL INNOVATION & CREATIVITY "by force of circumstances beyond their control"?4: "Conversations don't have to be so linear and phallologocentric!": ON THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY IN THE DAYS OF THE SAMURAI5: DID HEINRICH HEINE ORDER CHINESE? 6: WHO IS SHINTARO ISHIHARA? 7: WHY DID THE SHOGUN'S "SHUNGA" DEPICT WOMEN AS ENJOYING SEX AS MUCH AS MEN? 8: "Do you really take all of this cultural stuff seriously? Isn't it the age of genes, bio-engineering, and the double-helix?!"9: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE "REBELLIOUS JEW", OR WHY WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN "REBEL JEW" - A METAPHYSICAN, THEOLOGIAN & PHILOSOPHER - EXCOMMUNICATED AS AN ATHEIST?10: ASPECTS & ORIGINS OF A "SKEPTICAL ANIMUS"11: WHY WEREN'T JEWS A TRIBE OF LITERATE, "UNCREATIVE ANTS" LIKE THE JAPANESE?12: A TRIBE OF PRODUCTIVE ANTS OR NOT? 13: ON THE SOURCES OF CREATIVITY: CULTURAL DIFFUSION, GLOBALIZATION, & ORIENTALISM14: NO MONETS IN MONET'S HOUSE! 15: "JAZZ IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD" & JAZZ IN THE AGE OF THE "GREAT GATSBY"16: WHY IS JELLY ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS MORE CULTURALLY WESTERN AND EUROPEAN THAN ANY ALBUM OF THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - OR ROCK, COUNTRY, OR BLUE-GRASS? 17: YIN & YANG - OF THE SHOGUN AND THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC18: WHO ARE THE ROMAN-HA? 19: A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME, AND A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME 20: WHEN JAPAN ALMOST BECAME CHRISTIAN, OR, WHY THE MADONNA & LADY GAGA OF THE 1600s WORE CHRISTIAN CROSSES21: WANG YANG MING & THE UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION Author's Notes: In my new book Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations (Part I), "jazz is more important or more culturally significant than blues," but it also demonstrates that "blues is more important than jazz or as important as jazz." This is because writing is work, writing is labor. This is my view and, obviously, the view of people around the world. It is also because of the high-level of the book in my view, and potentially, readers in the US and around the world. The innovative artist, James Koenig, made the basic image of the cover art for Christopher Portosa; however, the concept of the design of the cover art is by Christopher Portosa (inspired by a famous Japanese print). The color highlighting is also by Christopher Portosa. I thank James Koenig for his innovative work on the cover image. On "the Wave" Cover Art: Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 by Christopher Porto.
Download or read book Asian Nietzsche a Book for All Civilizations written by Christopher Portosa and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my new book, Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations, Book 1, I have attempted to re-create the "philosophical conversation" and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions of the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation.Contents include: 1: STEVE JOBS & INNOVATION (OR, WHY DOES COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PRODUCE A "STEVE JOBS")2: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE SOCIAL SCIENTIST 3: DO ASIANS LACK A CAPACITY FOR HIGH-LEVEL INNOVATION & CREATIVITY "by force of circumstances beyond their control"?4: "Conversations don't have to be so linear and phallologocentric!": ON THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY IN THE DAYS OF THE SAMURAI5: DID HEINRICH HEINE ORDER CHINESE? 6: WHO IS SHINTARO ISHIHARA? 7: WHY DID THE SHOGUN'S "SHUNGA" DEPICT WOMEN AS ENJOYING SEX AS MUCH AS MEN? 8: "Do you really take all of this cultural stuff seriously? Isn't it the age of genes, bio-engineering, and the double-helix?!"9: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE "REBELLIOUS JEW", OR WHY WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN "REBEL JEW" - A METAPHYSICAN, THEOLOGIAN & PHILOSOPHER - EXCOMMUNICATED AS AN ATHEIST?10: ASPECTS & ORIGINS OF A "SKEPTICAL ANIMUS"11: WHY WEREN'T JEWS A TRIBE OF LITERATE, "UNCREATIVE ANTS" LIKE THE JAPANESE?12: A TRIBE OF PRODUCTIVE ANTS OR NOT? 13: ON THE SOURCES OF CREATIVITY: CULTURAL DIFFUSION, GLOBALIZATION, & ORIENTALISM14: NO MONETS IN MONET'S HOUSE! 15: "JAZZ IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD" & JAZZ IN THE AGE OF THE "GREAT GATSBY"16: WHY IS JELLY ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS MORE CULTURALLY WESTERN AND EUROPEAN THAN ANY ALBUM OF THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - OR ROCK, COUNTRY, OR BLUE-GRASS? 17: A KIND OF YIN & YANG18: WHO ARE THE ROMAN-HA? 19: A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME, AND A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME 20: WHEN JAPAN ALMOST BECAME CHRISTIAN, OR, WHY THE MADONNA & LADY GAGA OF THE 1600s WORE CHRISTIAN CROSSES21: WANG YANG MING & THE UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION Author's Notes: In my new book Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations (Part I), "jazz is more important or more culturally significant than blues," but it also demonstrates that "blues is more important than jazz or as important as jazz." This is because writing is work, writing is labor. This is my view and, obviously, the view of people around the world. It is also because of the high-level of the book in my view, and potentially, readers in the US and around the world.
Download or read book Asian Nietzsche a Book for All Civilizations written by Christopher Porto and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my new book, Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations, Book 1, I have attempted to re-create the "philosophical conversation" and - partly by means of humor and surprising references to popular culture, sex, and lingerie - make accessible to contemporary audiences discussions of the comparative study of ideas, religions, nations, and civilizations. This includes an inquiry into the origins of fundamental or revolutionary creativity as compared to the far more common phenomenon across societies and world history, namely, relative cultural stasis or a lack of fundamental creativity and innovation.Contents include: 1: STEVE JOBS & INNOVATION (OR, WHY DOES COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY BELIEVE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PRODUCE A "STEVE JOBS")2: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE SOCIAL SCIENTIST 3: DO ASIANS LACK A CAPACITY FOR HIGH-LEVEL INNOVATION & CREATIVITY "by force of circumstances beyond their control"?4: "Conversations don't have to be so linear and phallologocentric!": ON THE SURPRISING ORIGINS OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY IN THE DAYS OF THE SAMURAI5: DID HEINRICH HEINE ORDER CHINESE? 6: WHO IS SHINTARO ISHIHARA? 7: WHY DID THE SHOGUN'S "SHUNGA" DEPICT WOMEN AS ENJOYING SEX AS MUCH AS MEN? 8: "Do you really take all of this cultural stuff seriously? Isn't it the age of genes, bio-engineering, and the double-helix?!"9: EINSTEIN'S FAVORITE "REBELLIOUS JEW", OR WHY WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN "REBEL JEW" - A METAPHYSICAN, THEOLOGIAN & PHILOSOPHER - EXCOMMUNICATED AS AN ATHEIST?10: ASPECTS & ORIGINS OF A "SKEPTICAL ANIMUS"11: WHY WEREN'T JEWS A TRIBE OF LITERATE, "UNCREATIVE ANTS" LIKE THE JAPANESE?12: A TRIBE OF PRODUCTIVE ANTS OR NOT? 13: ON THE SOURCES OF CREATIVITY: CULTURAL DIFFUSION, GLOBALIZATION, & ORIENTALISM14: NO MONETS IN MONET'S HOUSE! 15: "JAZZ IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD" & JAZZ IN THE AGE OF THE "GREAT GATSBY"16: WHY IS JELLY ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS MORE CULTURALLY WESTERN AND EUROPEAN THAN ANY ALBUM OF THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - OR ROCK, COUNTRY, OR BLUE-GRASS? 17: A KIND OF YIN & YANG18: WHO ARE THE ROMAN-HA? 19: A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME, AND A WO-MA-N WITH NO NAME 20: WHEN JAPAN ALMOST BECAME CHRISTIAN, OR, WHY THE MADONNA & LADY GAGA OF THE 1600s WORE CHRISTIAN CROSSES21: WANG YANG MING & THE UNITY OF THOUGHT AND ACTION Author's Notes: In my new book Asian Nietzsche: A Book for All Civilizations (Part I), "jazz is more important or more culturally significant than blues," but it also demonstrates that "blues is more important than jazz or as important as jazz." This is because writing is work, writing is labor.
Download or read book Nietzsche and Asian Thought written by Graham Parkes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche's work has had a significant impact on the intellectual life of non-Western cultures and elicited responses from thinkers outside of the Anglo-American philosophical traditions as well. These essays address the connection between his ideas and ph
Download or read book Asian Nietzsche written by Christopher Porto and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Nietzsche: A Book For All Civilizations Note: I have been in bad health, and there are editing mistakes in the text. Please excuse any editing mistakes, irregularities, or limited inconsistencies in the text. I look forward to comments and criticisms on the text -- vehement, vicious, and otherwise.
Download or read book Liberation as Affirmation written by Ge Ling Shang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Ge Ling Shang provides a systematic comparison of original texts by Zhuangzi (fourth century BCE) and Nietzsche (1846–1900), under the rubric of religiosity, to challenge those who have customarily relegated both thinkers to relativism, nihilism, escapism, pessimism, or anti-religion. Shang closely examines Zhuangzi's and Nietzsche's respective critiques of metaphysics, morals, language, knowledge, and humanity in general and proposes a conception of the philosophical outlooks of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche as complementary. In the creative and vital spirit of Nietzsche, as in the tranquil and inward spirit of Zhuangzi, Shang argues that a surprisingly similar vision and aspiration toward human liberation and freedom exists—one in which spiritual transformation is possible by religiously affirming life in this world as sacred and divine.
Download or read book American Nietzsche written by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality, the Enlightenment faith in reason, and the idea of human equality. Despite that, for more than a century Nietzsche has been a hugely popular—and surprisingly influential—figure in American thought and culture. In American Nietzsche, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen delves deeply into Nietzsche's philosophy, and America’s reception of it, to tell the story of his curious appeal. Beginning her account with Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read fervently, she shows how Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the turn of the twentieth century, and how they continued alternately to invigorate and to shock Americans for the century to come. She also delineates the broader intellectual and cultural contexts within which a wide array of commentators—academic and armchair philosophers, theologians and atheists, romantic poets and hard-nosed empiricists, and political ideologues and apostates from the Left and the Right—drew insight and inspiration from Nietzsche’s claims for the death of God, his challenge to universal truth, and his insistence on the interpretive nature of all human thought and beliefs. At the same time, she explores how his image as an iconoclastic immoralist was put to work in American popular culture, making Nietzsche an unlikely posthumous celebrity capable of inspiring both teenagers and scholars alike. A penetrating examination of a powerful but little-explored undercurrent of twentieth-century American thought and culture, American Nietzsche dramatically recasts our understanding of American intellectual life—and puts Nietzsche squarely at its heart.
Download or read book Nietzsche in China written by Lixin Shao and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More about China than about Nietzsche, this study shows how Nietzsche's thought has been interpreted by Chinese scholars of Western philosophy through the 20th century. Nietzsche becomes a foil for the cultural and political agendas of his Chinese enthusiasts, who range from Mao Zedong to certified fascists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Nietzsche and Asian Thought written by North American Nietzsche Society and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Nietzsche Really Said written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history. Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords in contemporary culture. More people than ever are reading and discussing his writings. But Nietzsche's ideas are often overshadowed by the myths and rumors that surround his sex life, his politics, and his sanity. In this lively and comprehensive analysis, Nietzsche scholars Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins get to the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy, from his ideas on "the will to power" to his attack on religion and morality and his infamous Übermensch (superman). What Nietzsche Really Said offers both guidelines and insights for reading and understanding this controversial thinker. Written with sophistication and wit, this book provides an excellent summary of the life and work of one of history's most provocative philosophers.
Download or read book Ritual and Deference written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-06-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.
Download or read book Chinese Nationalism in Perspective written by C. X. George Wei and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wei and Liu argue that Chinese nationalism is a multifaceted concept. At different historical moments and under certain circumstances, it had different meanings and interacted with other competing motives and interests. The authors of this timely volume, all of whom are of Chinese origin and bi-national education, have produced a balanced and non-culture-bound work of scholarship. It contains diverse, provocative, and in-depth analysis of both historical and recent case studies that can shed light on the contemporary incarnation of Chinese nationalism. This interdisciplinary anthology looks at variants of Chinese nationalism upheld and contended by social groups, classes, and power-holders from the past to the present. The authors argue that nationalism can be supported by both patriotic and group- or party-oriented interest calculations. Forms of Chinese nationalism can result from situational as well as ideological conditions.
Download or read book The Uniqueness of Western Civilization written by Ricardo Duchesne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After challenging the multicultural effort to “provincialize” the history of Western civilization, this book argues that the roots of the West’s exceptional creativity should be traced back to the uniquely aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers.
Download or read book The Decline of the West written by Oswald Spengler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.
