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Book Cage of Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew C. Willford
  • Publisher : NUS Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9789971693916
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Cage of Freedom written by Andrew C. Willford and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom and Confinement in Modernity

Download or read book Freedom and Confinement in Modernity written by A. Kordela and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead.

Book Freedom and the Cage

Download or read book Freedom and the Cage written by Leslie Topp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the “caged freedom” that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven such buildings established in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy between the late 1890s and World War I. In the last two decades of the Habsburg Empire, architects of asylums began to abandon traditional corridor-based plans in favor of looser formations of connected villas, echoing through design the urban- and freedom-oriented impulse of the progressive architecture of the time. Leslie Topp considers the paradoxical position of designs that promoted an illusion of freedom even as they exercised careful social and spatial control over patients. In addition to discussing the physical and social aspects of these institutions, Topp shows how the commissioned buildings were symptomatic of larger cultural changes and of the modern asylum’s straining against its ideological anchorage in a premodern past of “unenlightened” restraint on human liberty. Working at the intersection of the history of architecture and the history of psychiatry, Freedom and the Cage broadens our understanding of the complexity and fluidity of modern architecture’s engagement with the state, with social and medical projects, and with mental health, psychiatry, and psychology.

Book Get Out of the Cage

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  • Author : Adam Oakley
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2014-12-23
  • ISBN : 9781505246025
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Get Out of the Cage written by Adam Oakley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often we can feel trapped in thoughts, trapped in identity, trapped in conditioning. It can seem as if we are trapped in the cage of our own minds. This book points you out of this, to show you that both the cage and the person who feels trapped in it, are not real. This book also looks at some of the insane ways we have been taught to approach life and to function in the world, and how to be free of these conditioned behaviours. The content within each chapter is split into passages, each passage being a pointer in itself. You may feel inclined to only read a single passage, and pause to allow time for the words to sink in before moving on. This book is very useful for contemplative or meditative reading. Once you understand what is meant by the cage (simply the conditioned, personal mind that creates suffering) - this book becomes a helpful guide in that as well as being able to read it conventionally from cover to cover - you can pick it up and read any passage at random. Rather than being a book that teaches you anything to remember, it is a tool to point you back towards who you really are before conditioning took over. May this book help you realise your inherent freedom, and allow you to function sanely, effectively and happily in the world.

Book Kingdom of Cages

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  • Author : Sarah Zettel
  • Publisher : Aspect
  • Release : 2009-05-30
  • ISBN : 0446559776
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Kingdom of Cages written by Sarah Zettel and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As humanity faces extinction, Chena and Teal Trust are chosen to immigrate as part of the "Eden Project" devised by the brilliant ecologists of Pandora, a planet closely matching Earth. Once they arrive, the Trusts quickly learn the scientists don't want new blood--only raw DNA. When Chena's mother is killed, Chena and Teal vow to fight the system that killed her. (June)

Book Freedom in a Cage

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  • Author : Brenda S. Jackson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-07
  • ISBN : 9781933972329
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Freedom in a Cage written by Brenda S. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know that it is possible to experience spiritual freedom even if you have been incarcerated for 20 or more years? Do you know that there is a relationship between spiritual freedom and a positive communication environment for inmates, where communication is usually guarded? Dr. Brenda S. Jackson explores the reality of spiritual freedom that exists for those in captivity. Despite common expressions of distrust, violence, and hostile communication in prison environments, Dr. Jackson provides a refreshing look into the lives of those who experience true freedom through trust, peace, and harmonious communications in contrast to their surroundings. If you or someone you love is incarcerated, this book will encourage you to embrace the same truth that the Apostle Paul of the bible experienced first hand. It is possible to experience Freedom in a Cage!

Book Cages of Freedom and Other Stories

Download or read book Cages of Freedom and Other Stories written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Troublemakers

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  • Author : Carla Shalaby
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2017-03-07
  • ISBN : 1620972379
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Troublemakers written by Carla Shalaby and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young "problem children" In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children—Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus—Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight—for educators and parents alike—into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands—despite good intentions—work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society.

Book Freedom from Spiritual Cages

Download or read book Freedom from Spiritual Cages written by Fresh Word and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cage of Freedom

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  • Author : Andrew Clinton Willford
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780472069569
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Cage of Freedom written by Andrew Clinton Willford and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic look at rituals across class and status among Malyasian Tamils

Book A Cage Called Freedom

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  • Author : Paul P. S. Berg
  • Publisher : Atmosphere Press
  • Release : 2020-03
  • ISBN : 9781647646097
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book A Cage Called Freedom written by Paul P. S. Berg and published by Atmosphere Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Slater has always held what he thought to be progressive beliefs - racial equality, gender equality, religious equality, and so on. How could he have expected that three decades of uninterrupted rule by the left-wing Progressive Party would make him feel so trapped? In the modern "Progressive World," there is no tolerance for intolerant views. When intolerance is an arrestable offence, however, and society collectively assumes that people of a certain race, a certain gender, and a certain age are inherently intolerant, to what lengths will Professor Slater go to protect his right to free speech? Maika Perez-Okpik was born into the "Progressive World," benefitting from all the rights afforded to young homosexual women of colour. When Maika is fired from her job due to a realignment of her company's "Equality Quota," however, she begins to question how free and progressive her society really is. Through her introduction to an underground network of deplorables, Maika is confronted by the reality that her entire livelihood might be challenged by revolutionaries threatening to topple the system. "A Cage Called Freedom" is a cautionary tale, warning against extremism and identity politics and advocating for responsible political discourse. It attempts to demonstrate how one person's utopia is another's dystopia, and how the corruptibility of power knows no ideology.

Book Cages   Paintings by Sandra Chevrier

Download or read book Cages Paintings by Sandra Chevrier written by Sandra Chevrier and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Chevrier is an illustrator, painter and street artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. By mixing watercolour paintings and trompe l'oeil comic book collage she crafts beautiful, hyper-realistic mixed-media portraits.Sandra, who calls herself a "gaze collector," creates these hyperrealistic paintings of women in a manner that allows for reinterpretation and recontextualization of the superhero mask. By covering these images with a collage of comic book prints, using scenes from Superman and Batman to conceal the faces of these idealized women, Chevrier discovers new "fragile heroes," promoting the idea that vulnerability often underlies heroism. Titled "Cages," these mixed-media works encourage viewers to consider how the modern woman--like these superheroes--might also be surrounded by expectations of effortless perfection.

Book Freedom from the Free Will

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2016-08-30
  • ISBN : 1438462417
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Freedom from the Free Will written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of confinement in order to laugh at his heroes' futile attempts to express their will. In this way, Kafka emerges as a critic of the free will and as a proponent of a different kind of freedom: one focused within the confines of one's experience and mediated by one's circumstances. Vardoulakis contends that his sense of humor is the key to understanding Kafka as a political thinker. Laughter, in this account, is the tool used to deconstruct power. By placing Kafka in dialogue with philosophy and political theory, Vardoulakis shows that Kafka can give us invaluable insights into how to be free—and how to laugh.

Book The Cage

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Weissman
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791481190
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Cage written by David Weissman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hume argued that is does not entail ought; that we cannot infer necessity or obligation from any description of actual states of affairs. His philosophical heirs continue to argue that nothing outside ourselves constrains us. The Cage maintains, contrary to Humean tradition, that reality is a set of nested contexts, each distinguished by intrinsic norms. Author David Weissman offers an innovative exploration of these norms intrinsic to human life, including practical affairs, morals, aesthetics, and culture. In this critical examination of character formation and the conditions for freedom, Weissman suggests that eliminating context (because of regarding it as an impediment to freedom) impoverishes character and reduces freedom. He concludes that positive freedom—the freedom to choose and to act—has no leverage apart from the contexts where character forms and circumstances provide opportunities to express one's thoughts, tastes, or talents.

Book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.

Book The Freedom of the Cage

Download or read book The Freedom of the Cage written by David Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empty Cages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Regan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2005-07-07
  • ISBN : 0742578216
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Empty Cages written by Tom Regan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shocking expose dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates portrayed by the media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of human treatment favored by animal exploiters, and explain why exisiting laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty.