Present Concerns
Title | Present Concerns PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Staples Lewis |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780156027854 |
"Where God gives the gift, the 'foolishness of preaching' is still mighty. But best of all is a team of two: one to deliver the preliminary intellectual barrage, and the other to follow up with a direct attack on the heart." An inveterate scholar, throughout his lifetime C.S. Lewis wrote on any number of topics. While his most famous essays concern his thoughts on Christianity, he was also interested in literature, masculinity, domestic life, and war. In the nineteen essays collected inPresent Concerns, he touches on all of these and more. Though wide-ranging, these essays all share one thing: C.S. Lewis's characteristic pragmatism and persuasiveness. Many of the essays included were written between 1940 and 1945, and so pertinently reflect on the issues raised by World War II: democratic values, the need for a new chivalry, and the cynicism of the modern soldier, all of which remain relevant today. "Lewis gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth."--Madeleine L'Engle
Current Issues, Problems, and Concerns in Curriculum Development
Title | Current Issues, Problems, and Concerns in Curriculum Development PDF eBook |
Author | National Institute of Education (U.S.). Curriculum Development Task Force |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 102 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Curriculum planning |
ISBN |
The Interwoven Sources of Dreams
Title | The Interwoven Sources of Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Barcaro |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2018-03-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0429921144 |
The subject of this book is the study of dreaming from a specific point of view, one that provides useful and enlightening results: the analysis of the complex patterns of links among the memory sources of dreams. The significance of these patterns is logical and emotional at the same time. This approach is interdisciplinary: it directly involves the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, linguistics, computer science, mathematics (graph theory), history of psychology, literature, and motion pictures. However, no specific advanced expertise in any of these fields is required for understanding the various contents. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 is dedicated to theories and methodologies regarding dream functions and dream interpretations: these theories and methodologies are considered in the perspective of their implications for the study of links among dream sources. Some meaningful examples of dreams, or metaphors or dreams, that can be found in poetry or motion pictures, are also considered.
Detaining Time
Title | Detaining Time PDF eBook |
Author | Eric P. Levy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-10-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474292054 |
Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed and probing close readings, enriched by thorough yet engaging explication and application of prominent philosophical theories of time. Philosophy is here employed not as a rigid model to which literature is forced to conform, but instead as a lens through which elements crucial to the literary texts can be isolated and clarified, even as they concern ideas different from those expounded in philosophy. The literary texts treated include Hamlet, Hard Times, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, a wide range of Beckettian works, and Enduring Love – texts distinguished by their challenging, relentless, original, and dramatic depiction of the struggle with temporality. The philosophies of time covered include those of Aristotle, Kant, Bergson, John McTaggart, C.D. Broad, Edmund Husserl and Gilles Deleuze.
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies
Title | The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies PDF eBook |
Author | Sor-hoon Tan |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 2016-08-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 147258032X |
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies presents a new understanding of the changing methods used to study Chinese philosophy. By identifying the various different approaches and discussing the role, and significance of philosophical methods in the Chinese tradition, this collection identifies difficulties and exciting developments for scholars of Asian philosophy. Divided into four parts, the nature of Chinese philosophical thought is illuminated by discussing historical developments, current concerns and methodological challenges. Surveying recent methodological trends, this research companion explores and evaluates the methodologies that have been applied to Chinese philosophy. From these diverse angles, an international team of experts reflect on the considerations that enter their methodological choices and indicate new research directions. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies is an important contribution to the education of the next generation of Chinese philosophers.
Thinking Past a Problem
Title | Thinking Past a Problem PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Preston King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1135298904 |
Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".
The Theory of Difference
Title | The Theory of Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas L. Donkel |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2001-03-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791449288 |
Key readings by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Derrida and Irigaray.