Download or read book Ruminations Volume 4 Gloria Selected Philosophical Historical and Ideological Papers written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and other short works on Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Burke, Stepelevich, Schopenhauer, Plotinus, Mary Walker, Edgar Bauer, mental imagery, the principle of sufficient reason, special collections librarianship, psychiatry, time, contract bridge, etc.
Download or read book Ruminations Selected Philosophical Historical and Ideological Papers Volume 1 Part 2 The Finite written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s I have pursued three separate but overlapping and sometimes simultaneous careers: (1) philosopher / writer / teacher / historian of the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914; (2) editor / translator / photographer / publisher / biographer / encyclopedist; (3) cataloging librarian / rare books and special collections librarian / historian of medicine. Somehow these three vocations have garnered me some acclaim, even an entry in Who's Who in America. Each of them has resulted in some published or presented works. Because these works have been scattered in a wide variety of venues, some of which have gone out of print or have otherwise become generally unavailable - and of course with the oral presentations being gone as soon as they are given - I have thought it wise to select, epitomize, and bring them together in one place - here. Thus, what follows in these volumes is what I consider to be the most important of my shorter works. All translations are my own unless otherwise indicated.
Download or read book On Causality written by Joseph Geyser and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of Das Prinzip vom zureichenden Grunde (1929) as The Principle of Sufficient Ground and Das Gesetz der Ursache (1933) as The Law of Cause. Geyser's work is typical of early twentieth-century German Neo-Scholasticism, as we discern in this excerpt from his 1929 Introduction: "What I find lacking in myself is that I have not been the framer of a great system of philosophy born from the Catholic idea. Despite all my skirmishes with modern philosophy, I have remained fundamentally hooked on Neo-Thomism and I appear sometimes more intent on Neo-Thomistic apologetics than on the construction of a system derived from factual problems themselves. In that respect, it is well-established that I take up so much space in my books with polemics against the views of others that I thereby concede the preeminence of these others. Only systems can overcome systems." As a non-systematic Catholic Aristotelian philosopher, Geyser welcomed dialogue with not only his contemporary fellow Neo-Scholastics, such as Pedro Descoqs, Theodor Droege, Lorenz Fuetscher, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Joseph Gredt, Adolf Heuser, Bernhard Jansen, Caspar Nink, Franz Sawicki, Artur Schneider, Franz Maria Sladeczek, and Heinrich Straubinger, who are present here in abundance, but also noteworthy precedessors such as Aquinas, Kant, Hume, and Wolff. In his 1933 Foreword he offers this self-assessment: "I am prepared for criticism. Criticism is a useful thing if it is careful to pursue knowledge impartially. Criticism must be rejected if it presumes to have said something great or if it reproaches a philosopher for a philosophy which just takes part in the fate of all true life, namely, existing within relentless movement and development. Certain and fully known truth is, in philosophical questions of every sort, a star shining very far away."
Download or read book A Few of My Lives written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four lighthearted autobiographical essays: My Life as a Sports Fan A Boyhood in North Bay, Ontario My Life as a Bridge Player How I Became a Librarian
Download or read book Ruminations Volume 2 Dawns and Departures written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and other short works on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, socialism, Stirner, Feuerbach, Karl Schmidt, art, religion, popular music, suicide, games, humor, and general culture.
Download or read book Ruminations Selected Philosophical Historical and Ideological Papers Volume 1 Part 1 The Infinite written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s I have pursued three separate but overlapping and sometimes simultaneous careers: (1) philosopher / writer / teacher / historian of the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914; (2) editor / translator / photographer / publisher / biographer / encyclopedist; (3) cataloging librarian / rare books and special collections librarian / historian of medicine. Somehow these three vocations have garnered me some acclaim, even an entry in Who's Who in America. Each of them has resulted in some published or presented works. Because these works have been scattered in a wide variety of venues, some of which have gone out of print or have otherwise become generally unavailable - and of course with the oral presentations being gone as soon as they are given - I have thought it wise to select, epitomize, and bring them together in one place - here. Thus, what follows in these volumes is what I consider to be the most important of my shorter works.
Download or read book Ruminations Volume 3 The Frozen Landscape Selected Philosophical Historical and Ideological Papers written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays , poems, and other short works on Heidegger, Nietzsche, the ontological argument, Hegel, Schopenhauer, logic, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of art, socialism, metaphysics, and the principle of sufficient reason
Download or read book Freud and Beyond written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation since Freud's death in 1939. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make the full scope of twentieth century psychoanalytic thinking—from Harry Stack Sullivan to Jacques Lacan; D.W. Winnicott to Melanie Klein—available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at last.
Download or read book The Light of Knowledge written by Francis Cody and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.
Download or read book The Content Analysis Guidebook written by Kimberly A. Neuendorf and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content analysis is a complex research methodology. This book provides an accessible text for upper level undergraduates and graduate students, comprising step-by-step instructions and practical advice.
Download or read book Essais nouveaux en l honneur de son 200e anniversaire written by Eric von der Luft and published by Mellen Poetry Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a bicentennial trilingual anthology of essays on Arthur Schopenhauer by 20 late-20th-century Schopenhauer scholars.
Download or read book Spiritual Envy written by Michael Krasny and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides direction for believers and non-believers on understanding their own questions about faith, religion, God, and human responsibility.
Download or read book The Phantom Image written by Patrick R. Crowley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.
Download or read book Misquoting Jesus written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.
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