Philosophy
epub |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:Majid Fakhry

However, for al-Ghazali humans occupy a pre-eminent position upon the ladder of creation; for God created them in His image and likeness and made them the epitome of the whole ...
( Category: Islam April 16,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-05 | Author:Quintus Curtius [Curtius, Quintus]

As I said above, you just have to fight through plateaus. Keep plowing forward, keep up the daily grind. Remember that the people who succeed in learning are the ones ...
( Category: Philosophy April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Jacques Rancière [Rancière, Jacques]

Politicized art – Barring a few exceptions, you avoid the concept of commitment. Do you reject this notion because of the false dichotomy it presupposes between art for art’s sake ...
( Category: Philosophy April 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Körner, Axel;

Turning Gustavo into Riccardo Although audiences and critics accepted Verdi’s music as an authentic description of “creoles,” “negroes,” and the colonial administration of New England, the history of the plot’s ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sigmund Freud

Partial Drives and Erogenous Zones If we put together what we have learned from our investigation of the positive and negative perversions, it seems reasonable to trace them back to ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-29 | Author:Patton, Paul;

Becoming-Minor and Becoming-Animal In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari develop a version of their ontology of becoming in the form of a theory of multiplicities or machinic assemblages. Ultimately, ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Khalip, Jacques; Agamben, Giorgio; Casarino, Cesare

SEVEN Three Theses on the Life-Image (Deleuze, Cinema, Bio-politics) CESARE CASARINO I. The life-image is what the time-image becomes under a fully realized regime of bio-political production. In his two-volume ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 15,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Norman Fischer & Susan Moon [Fischer, Norman]

Yes. In the widest sense, as I’ve just been saying, “Zen” is an attitude and a feeling about life that you can “practice” in any way you want. In the ...
( Category: Buddhism April 15,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2003-09-10 | Author:Francine Prose

Of course, once-pious Christians knew what awaited them as a consequence of overeating, they realized how important it was to watch their diets, how carefully they had to control their ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Altman, William H. F.

If we apply “always” (ἀεί) to “the things that are,” we will elevate the dianoetic Gathering—which merely describes the intrinsically human but unconscious transition from many sense perceptions into the ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:M. Andrew Holowchak

There is…an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as ...
( Category: Historical April 15,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-02-22 | Author:Richard Shusterman & Richard Shusterman [Shusterman, Richard]

II Since the most bitter and damaging indictments of popular art are directed not at its aesthetic status but at its pernicious socio-cultural and political influence, one might object that ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Carlson, A. Licia; Costello, Peter R.; Russon, John

3. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by D. A. Landes. New York: Routledge, 2012. Merleau-Ponty’s discussions of the “intentional arc” and the “figure-background” structure of perception in Phenomenology of ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Étienne Balibar

Towards historicity This is the second sense of the ‘dialectic’ in Marx, which refines the first. The capitalist mode of production – the ‘basis’ of which is also ‘revolutionary’ – ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-15 | Author:Sosa, Ernest.

E. HOW KNOWLEDGE ALSO MATTERS: A FURTHER DIMENSION 1. Finally, we shall explore a further way in which knowledge can be crucial for the proper value of much that matters ...
( Category: Philosophy April 15,2018 )