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Book The Floating Ideas of Nature

Download or read book The Floating Ideas of Nature written by Charles Varlo and published by London : Printed for the author. This book was released on 1796 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Guide of Reason  Or Floating Ideas of Nature  Etc

Download or read book The Guide of Reason Or Floating Ideas of Nature Etc written by Charles VARLO and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tao of Philosophy

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  • Author : Alan Watts
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 1999-10-15
  • ISBN : 1462916732
  • Pages : 117 pages

Download or read book Tao of Philosophy written by Alan Watts and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tao of Philosophy is a literary adaptation of talks selected to introduce the new "Love of Wisdom" series by Alan Watts to today's audiences. The following chapters provide rich examples of the way in which the philosophy of the Tao is as contemporary today as it was when it flourished in China thousands of years ago. Perhaps most significantly, these selections offer modern society a clearer understanding of what it will take for a successful reintegration of humans in nature.

Book The Veil of Isis

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  • Author : Pierre Hadot
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780674023161
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Veil of Isis written by Pierre Hadot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst. From these kaleidoscopic exegeses and usages emerge two contradictory approaches to nature: the Promethean, or experimental-questing, approach, which embraces technology as a means of tearing the veil from Nature and revealing her secrets; and the Orphic, or contemplative-poetic, approach, according to which such a denuding of Nature is a grave trespass. In place of these two attitudes Hadot proposes one suggested by the Romantic vision of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schelling, who saw in the veiled Isis an allegorical expression of the sublime. "Nature is art and art is nature," Hadot writes, inviting us to embrace Isis and all she represents: art makes us intensely aware of how completely we ourselves are not merely surrounded by nature but also part of nature.

Book Next Nature

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  • Author : K.M. Mensvoort
  • Publisher : Actarbirkhauser
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9788492861538
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book Next Nature written by K.M. Mensvoort and published by Actarbirkhauser. This book was released on 2011 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_17 Flap copy

Book Floating Coast  An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Download or read book Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait written by Bathsheba Demuth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 AHA John H. Dunning Prize Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Nature, NPR, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews "A monument to a people and their land… an allegory of the world we have created." —Sven Beckert, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of Cotton: A Global History Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before American and European colonization. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to bring) to a finite planet.

Book The End of Nature

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  • Author : Bill McKibben
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2014-09-03
  • ISBN : 0804153442
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The End of Nature written by Bill McKibben and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. His new introduction addresses some of the latest environmental issues that have risen during the 1990s. The book also includes an invaluable new appendix of facts and figures that surveys the progress of the environmental movement. More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalog of scientific prediction, this classic, soulful lament on Nature is required reading for nature enthusiasts, activists, and concerned citizens alike.

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

Download or read book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation written by David Whitley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitley's compelling study complicates our understanding of the classic Disney canon by focusing on the way images of the natural world are mediated within popular art for children. He examines a range of Disney's feature animations, from Snow White to Finding Nemo to show that, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of their times.

Book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation

Download or read book The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation written by David S. Whitley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Whitley's compelling study complicates our understanding of the classic Disney canon by focusing on the way images of the natural world are mediated within popular art for children. He examines a range of Disney's feature animations, from Snow White to Finding Nemo, to show that, even as the films communicate the central ideologies of their times, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that underlie these dominant values.

Book Nature Got There First

Download or read book Nature Got There First written by Phil Gates and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inventions inspired by Nature"--Jacket.

Book The Essential John Dewey  20  Books in One Edition

Download or read book The Essential John Dewey 20 Books in One Edition written by John Dewey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 1187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Essential John Dewey: 20+ Books in One Edition". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: German Philosophy and Politics Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition Studies in Logical Theory Interpretation of Savage Mind Ethics The Problem of Values Soul and Body Logical Conditions of a Scientific Treatment of Morality The Evolutionary Method As Applied To Morality The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy Nature and Its Good: A conversation Intelligence and Morals The Experimental Theory of Knowledge The Intellectualist Criterion for Truth A Short Catechism Concerning Truth Beliefs and Existences Experience and Objective Idealism The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism "Consciousness" and Experience The Significance of the Problem of Knowledge Essays in Experimental Logic Reconstruction in Philosophy Does Reality Possess Practical Character? Criticisms of John Dewey The Chicago School John Dewey's Logical Theory The Pragmatic Theory of Truth as Developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey John Dewey (1859-1952) is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the founders of functional psychology. His ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

Book The Making of Personality

Download or read book The Making of Personality written by William Tudor Jones and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of national biography

Download or read book Dictionary of national biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: