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Book Beyond Desire  Classic Reprint

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  • Author : Sherwood Anderson
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-11-21
  • ISBN : 9780331568875
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire Classic Reprint written by Sherwood Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beyond Desire Neil bradley wrote letters to his friend Red Oliver. Neil said he was going to marry a woman in Kansas City. She was a revolutionist and Neil did not know when he first met her whether he was quite one or not. He said: It's like this, Red. You remember the empty feeling we had when we were in school together. I don't think you had it much when you were out here, but I did. I had it all the time I was in college and after I came home. I can't talk to Father and Mother about it much. They wouldn't under stand. It would hurt them. I guess, Neil said, that all of us younger men and women with any life in us have it now. Neil spoke in his letter of God. That was a bit strange, Red thought, coming from Neil. He must have got that from his woman. We can't hear His voice or feel Him in the land, he said. He thought perhaps the earlier men and women in America had something he and Red had missed. They had God, whatever that had meant to them. The early New Englanders, who had been so intellectually domi nant and who had influenced so much the thought of the whole country must have thought they had God really. If they had, what they had, it had come down to Neil and Red in some way pretty much weakened and washed out. Neil thought that. Religion, he said, was now an old gown, grown thin and with all the colors washed out of it. People still wore the old gown but it did not warm them any more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Women and Desire

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  • Author : Polly Young-Eisendrath
  • Publisher : Chiron Publications
  • Release : 2023-02-08
  • ISBN : 1685031234
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Women and Desire written by Polly Young-Eisendrath and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Young-Eisendrath´s Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted was first published by Harmony Books in 1999. Since then, it has become a classic read for those readers– to use a cinematographic expression – who want to use analytical psychology to shed light on what women want. This book, when first published, was described (and still is) as “provocative and vital.” More than 20 years after its publication, this book still shows effectively “how to break out of this double bind so that” women “can encounter the challenges of choice and responsibility for our own desires.” The author “wisely uses mythological and personal stories to help us take control of our sexual, relational, material, and spiritual lives.” Therefore, “If you feel confused, resentful, or trapped in a life that does not seem to be fully yours, then you can find a clear path to your true self, once and for all, with the help of Women and Desire.” This book is the second of the series titled Jungianeum: Re-Covered Classics in Analytical Psychology curated by Stefano Carpani.

Book Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Pierre La Mure
  • Publisher : New York Random House [1955]
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Pierre La Mure and published by New York Random House [1955]. This book was released on 1955 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Men Beyond Desire

Download or read book Men Beyond Desire written by David Greven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and comes up with some startling findings. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven makes the claim that American men, eschewing both marriage and male friendship, strive to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Examining the work of traditional authors - Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Cooper, Irving, Stowe - Greven discovers highly untraditional and transgressive representations of desire and sexuality. Objects of desire from both women and other men, the inviolate males discussed in this study overturn established gendered and sexual categories, just as this study overturns archetypal assumptions about American manhood and American literature.

Book Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Emma Holly
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780425207864
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Emma Holly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To avoid an unwanted marriage, Merry Vance comes up with a scandalous scheme to break the rules of English society by posing nude for Nicholas Craven, London's most notorious artist, in Beyond Seduction, and in Beyond Innocence, to save his scandalous brother from ruin, Edward Burbrooke arranges a marriage between him and a beautiful orphan, but his plans to use the marriage to save his family are threatened by his own growing passion for his brother's betrothed. Original.

Book Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Mark W. Hatcher MD
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2011-09-09
  • ISBN : 1462046266
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Mark W. Hatcher MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few decades have seen remarkable technological growth in the delivery of modern medicine. Pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and surgical interventions have transformed the way in which health is perceived and medicine is practiced. The modern patient has become so dependent upon these therapies and interventions that they take a passive interest in their health. For author Dr. Mark W. Hatcher, this is a symptom of a culture in crisisdoctors treat disease instead of fostering health. Using real-life examples from a busy emergency room, he investigates this health-care crisis and reevaluates what it means to be healthy. In Beyond Desire: Rediscovering Health and Wellness, Hatcher examines the assumptions upon which the modern medical world is founded, explores the healing methods that have been practiced for centuries by healers around the world, and proposes a strategy for health that focuses on the importance of the mind and spirit in achieving and maintaining health. Beyond Desire shows how the practices of meditation, yoga, tai chi, acupuncture, proper eating, and selfless service are the true pathways to healing and rediscovering health and wellness.

Book Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Gwynne Forster
  • Publisher : Kimani Press
  • Release : 2008-09-01
  • ISBN : 1426821913
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Gwynne Forster and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Ross is thrilled when she is appointed junior high school principal in Caution Point, N.C. But her promotion will only be a pipe dream if the board of education discovers that she's pregnant—and single. She never expected her baby's father to desert her, but explanations won't satisfy a small town's rumor mill. A husband is what she needs, and handsome music engineer Marcus Hickson looks like the answer to her problem. Embittered by his ex-wife's selfish and cruel behavior, Marcus told himself he'd never marry again. That is, until doctors inform him that his injured daughter needs immediate surgery, and Amanda—financially independent because of her inheritance—offers to pay the medical bills if he'll be her husband. Desperate, Marcus agrees, as long as their "arrangement" is strictly business. But days and nights under the same roof soon ignite mutual desire. Now Marcus and Amanda's marriage of convenience has become an affair of the heart…and a deception that endangers everything they hold dear.

Book Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Damian Jason Alexander Franklin
  • Publisher : EBL Books
  • Release : 2023-10-09
  • ISBN : 1524328820
  • Pages : 495 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Damian Jason Alexander Franklin and published by EBL Books. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond Desire" is a captivating young adult novel that explores the challenges and complexities of friendship, love, and healing in the face of loss. When Jason transfers to a new high school for his senior year, he finds solace and companionship in his new friends, Tommy and Jessica, both of whom are haunted by their own pasts. As their friendship deepens, tensions escalate with others, and Jason discovers he must fight to protect his relationships and confront the painful secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Filled with heart, resilience, and the power of connection, "Beyond Desire" is a compelling coming-of-age story that will resonate with readers of all ages. In "Beyond Desire," Jason"s transfer to a new high school for his senior year leads him down a path filled with friendship, romance, and the challenges of navigating the baggage his new friends carry. As he builds a relationship with Tommy and Jessica, both haunted by their own pasts, tensions spike and Jason finds himself fighting to protect his friendships and his blossoming romance with Jessica. But as secrets and bullies threaten to tear them apart, Jason must do everything he can to shield his friends from their grief before he suffers another heartbreaking loss.

Book Love Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Rakhi Verma
  • Publisher : Notion Press
  • Release : 2019-07-31
  • ISBN : 1645875989
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Love Beyond Desire written by Rakhi Verma and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Beyond Desire is a unique love story. It’s about a girl who falls in love with her best friend, Arman when she is in school. It’s a story of long-lost lovers who finally meet after nine years, and their love is still strong as it was before. It's a story with hope, passion, emotional confusion, emotional outburst, fun, mystery, happiness, admiration, love and desire, along with beautiful poems and songs to keep you entertained. Rhia knows that love is not being together forever, but it is to remember the moments together forever. Keeping this in mind, Rhia moves ahead in her life by managing personal and work life. It’s been nine years since Arman left her, and Rhia manages her life just fine with a dream job and her own place, finally free from family drama. She turned her life and took control of it, but the only part of her life that she couldn’t control was love. She couldn’t love anyone because she is heartbroken. As she had found and lost her love on the same day, and when Arman left her forever without even a goodbye, but with just two letters both addressed to her, one ‘To My Best Friend’ and other ‘To My Girlfriend’ and a ring, which she still holds as a reminder – a proof of broken love. Rhia and her friends are enjoying the wedding celebration at Mumbai’s luxurious hotel. Everything is great, and everyone is enjoying it until she sees Arman. He steps through the gate after long nine years along with his 3-year-old son, leaving her shocked and speechless. They are about to spend three days together under the same roof, and she is all worried, angry and pleased, again all at the same time. She wants to know why he left without a goodbye; it’s all she wants to know. So, will she finally get answers? Will Arman finally say why he left her, and why he kissed her if he was about to leave?

Book Beyond Desire

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  • Author : Thea Devine
  • Publisher : Brava
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780758205506
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Thea Devine and published by Brava. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her sister disappears, Alexandra de Lisle is forced to join forces with her late father's protg, an opportunistic archaeologist named Ryder Culhane, in order to get her back.

Book Beyond Scandal and Desire

Download or read book Beyond Scandal and Desire written by Lorraine Heath and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At birth, Mick Trewlove, the illegitimate son of a duke, was handed over to a commoner. Despite his lowly upbringing, Mick has become a successful businessman, but all his wealth hasn’t satisfied his need for revenge against the man who still won’t acknowledge him. What else can Mick do but destroy the duke’s legitimate son—and woo the heir’s betrothed into his own unloving arms . . . Orphaned and sheltered, Lady Aslyn Hastings longs for a bit of adventure. With her intended often preoccupied, Aslyn finds herself drawn to a darkly handsome entrepreneur who seems to understand her so well. Surely a lady of her station should avoid Mick Trewlove. If only he weren’t so irresistible . . . As secrets are about to be exposed, Mick must decide if his plan for vengeance is worth risking what his heart truly desires.

Book Cargo Cult

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  • Author : Lamont Lindstrom
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2019-03-31
  • ISBN : 0824878957
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Cargo Cult written by Lamont Lindstrom and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is not captivated by tales of Islanders earnestly scanning their watery horizons for great fleets of cargo ships bringing rice, radios and refrigerators - ships that will never arrive? Of all the stories spun about the island peoples of Melanesia, tales of cargo cult are among the most fascinating. The term cargo cult, Lamont Lindstrom contends, is one of anthropology's most successful conceptual offspring. Like culture, worldview and ethnicity, its usage has steadily proliferated, migrating into popular culture where today it is used to describe an astonishing roll-call of people. It's history makes for lively and compelling reading. The cargo cult story, Lindstrom shows, is more significant than it at first appears, for it recapitulates in summary form three generations of anthropological theory and Pacific studies. Although anthropologists' enthusiasm for the notion of cargo cult has waned, it now colors outsiders' understanding of Melanesian culture, and even Melanesians' perceptions of themselves. The repercussions for contemporary Islanders are significant: leaders of more than one political movement have felt the need to deny that they are any kind of cargo cultist. Of particular interest to this history is Lindstom's argument that accounts of cargo cult are at heart tragedies of thwarted desire, melancholy anticipation and crazy unrequited love. He makes a convincing case that these stories expose powerful Western scenarios of desire itself—giving cargo cult its combined titillation of the fascinating exotic and the comfortably familiar.

Book Beyond Desire

Download or read book Beyond Desire written by Richard Himmel and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Desire

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  • Author : Jonathan Dollimore
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-05-05
  • ISBN : 1786615029
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Desire written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the gay subcultures of late twentieth-century New York, Brighton and Sydney, Dollimore weaves a candid, nuanced narrative of life in a newly liberated and hedonistic world, soon to be devastated by AIDS. Effortless blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore’s unique voice relates a life haunted and torn by loss, and the at once intensely personal yet universal experience of suffering and longing.

Book The God Who May Be

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  • Author : Richard Kearney
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2001-10-03
  • ISBN : 9780253109163
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The God Who May Be written by Richard Kearney and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy.... and [he] joins hands with its fundamental project, asking the question 'what'or who'comes after the God of metaphysics?'" -- John D. Caputo Engaging some of the most urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that instead of thinking of God as 'actual,' God might best be thought of as the possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws on the work of Ricoeur, Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and others to provide a surprising and original answer to who or what God might be. For Kearney, the intersecting dimensions of impossibility propel religious experience and faith in new directions, notably toward views of God that are unforeseeable, unprogrammable, and uncertain. Important themes such as the phenomenology of the persona, the meaning of the unity of God, God and desire, notions of existence and différance, and faith in philosophy are taken up in this penetrating and original work. Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College, Dublin. He is author of many books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, The Wake of Imagination, and The Poetics of Modernity.

Book Evolution of Desire

Download or read book Evolution of Desire written by Cynthia L Haven and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Girard (1923–2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era—a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a “mimetic theory” of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writers as Milan Kundera and J. M. Coetzee, and earned him a place among the forty “immortals” of the Académie Française. Too often, however, his work is considered only within various academic specializations. This first-ever biographical study takes a wider view. Cynthia L. Haven traces the evolution of Girard’s thought in parallel with his life and times. She recounts his formative years in France and his arrival in a country torn by racial division, and reveals his insights into the collective delusions of our technological world and the changing nature of warfare. Drawing on interviews with Girard and his colleagues, Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard provides an essential introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most controversial and original minds.

Book The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise written by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the pair not yet and no longer. Non-obvious parallels between different thinkers are drawn, and the argumentation is organized around philosophical figures relevant in the sequence desire – excess –pause (rupture, break) – recuperation (surprise). The works of Levinas, Žižek, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Ricoeur are interpreted and positioned according to the proposed template of desire - excess - pause. The consideration of limit experiences involves authors fascinated by transgression, and the question of whether excess is immanent or transcendent. This discussion considers works by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Žižek, and Foucault. The analysis of surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard, and Seel. The provocative argument elaborated in this work is that surprise starts with indifference. Furthermore, the argument is that surprise begins where the concept reaches its ending, hence that the limit of speculative thinking at its ending is the limit of aesthetics at its beginning. The work of Hegel, Schelling and Jaspers are discussed in order to argue for the beginning of aesthetics there where knowledge ends. Philosophical thematic is contextualized via sections on artists such as Duchamp and Mondrian, and on some films, provoking interest of aestheticians working in art history and cultural studies departments.