Contemplating The Ancients
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Contemplating The Ancients
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Author : Audrey Spiro
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-05-27
Contemplating The Ancients written by Audrey Spiro and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-27 with Architecture categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Contemplating The Ancients
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Author : Audrey G. Spiro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Contemplating The Ancients written by Audrey G. Spiro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Art categories.
Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. "Contemplating the Ancients" introduces portraits that were never intended to be physical likenesses of their subjects and illuminates the meaning they held for the viewers for whom they were made. Spiro focusses on fourth- and fifth-century sets of almost identi- cal portraits of individuals known collectively in Chinese history as the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove. Unlike the earlier Han dynasty portraits whose messages were universal, these exemplary portraits addressed a specific elitist audience. The subjects of these portraits served as idealized representations for a largely "nouvel-arrive" aristocracy. Spiro examines the complex and sometimes ironic changes that occur when historical individuals are transformed by tradition into classical exemplars. She shows how the visual arts translate ideals of personal character into stylistic cues and how these cues, in turn, affect the values and behavior of human beings."
Contemplating With Ancient Philosophers
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Author : Ran Lahav
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-08-28
Contemplating With Ancient Philosophers written by Ran Lahav and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-28 with categories.
The book presents fourteen influential ancient philosophies, together with suggestions for contemplation exercises. This method has been developed in the group-activity of Deep Philosophy.
Portraiture
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Author : Shearer West
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-04-08
Portraiture written by Shearer West and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-08 with Art categories.
This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and gender are considered within a cultural and historical context. Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, featuring examples from African tribes to Renaissance princes, and from 'stars' such as David and Victoria Beckham to ordinary people. In the process, she shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way.
Chinese Views Of Childhood
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Author : Anne B. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1995-10-01
Chinese Views Of Childhood written by Anne B. Kenney and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Chinese in the twentieth century, intent on modernizing their country, condemned their inherited culture in part on the grounds that it was oppressive to the young. The authors of this pioneering volume provide us with the evidence to re-examine those charges. Drawing on sources ranging from art to medical treatises, fiction, and funerary writings, they separate out the many complexities in the Chinese cultural construction of childhood and the ways it has changed over time. Listening to how Chinese talked about children--whether their own child, the abstract child in need of education or medical care, the ideal precocious child, or the fictional child--lets us assess in concrete terms the structures and values that underlay Chinese life.
Action Versus Contemplation
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Author : Jennifer Summit
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-03-22
Action Versus Contemplation written by Jennifer Summit and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-22 with Philosophy categories.
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman, in 1856: “Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.” It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make an impact, or to understand the world more deeply? Aristotle argued for contemplation as the highest state of human flourishing. But it was through action that his student Alexander the Great conquered the known world. Which should we aim at? Centuries later, this argument underlies a surprising number of the questions we face in contemporary life. Should students study the humanities, or train for a job? Should adults work for money or for meaning? And in tumultuous times, should any of us sit on the sidelines, pondering great books, or throw ourselves into protests and petition drives? With Action versus Contemplation, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides. Rather, they argue for a rethinking of the very opposition. The active and the contemplative can—and should—be vibrantly alive in each of us, fused rather than sundered. Writing in a personable, accessible style, Summit and Vermeule guide readers through the long history of this debate from Plato to Pixar, drawing compelling connections to the questions and problems of today. Rather than playing one against the other, they argue, we can discover how the two can nourish, invigorate, and give meaning to each other, as they have for the many writers, artists, and thinkers, past and present, whose examples give the book its rich, lively texture of interplay and reference. This is not a self-help book. It won’t give you instructions on how to live your life. Instead, it will do something better: it will remind you of the richness of a life that embraces action and contemplation, company and solitude, living in the moment and planning for the future. Which is better? Readers of this book will discover the answer: both.
The European Magazine And London Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
The European Magazine And London Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with categories.
The God Idea Of The Ancients Or Sex In Religion
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Author : Eliza Burt Gamble
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-22
The God Idea Of The Ancients Or Sex In Religion written by Eliza Burt Gamble and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Religion categories.
"The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion" by Eliza Burt Gamble Using material from prominent books on the topic of faith and the pagan religions, Gamble was able to craft a fascinating book that looks at women, worship, and sex in regard to belief in a higher power. Gamble was a staunch feminist, a stance that is still clear in this book as she looks at the ways in which femininity played a role in the creation of religious systems around the world.
Matchsticks Contemplating Eternity
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Author : Gregory W. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2022-01-20
Matchsticks Contemplating Eternity written by Gregory W. Brown and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-20 with Religion categories.
These essays invite the reader to join the author’s quest for meaning and wonder in the natural world. After the journey out of evangelical fundamentalism recorded in Unified Field Theology, the journey continues. Through years with more darkness than anticipated, the light shines through. And darkness turns out to be the best place for discerning faint and distant lights. The natural forces studied in the search for the unified theory reveal that the creative sustaining power of the universe is real and observable through science. Humility and wonder are found responding to the size of the cosmos. The strangeness of the quanta invites us to mystery and things beyond rational comprehension accompanied by the assurance that our most basic level is as eternal as the universe. Significance appears in caring for each other, a trait which is now found in both the animal and plant world as well. Returning to traditional sources of faith, the Bible remains an amazing library of voices revealing one people’s evolution of understanding of the ultimate. Like practices of other cultures, it invites us to be still and know. Life is indeed good. We are here, together, choosing how we respond to a very real God.
Contemplating Christ
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Author : Vincent Pizzuto
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2018-03-26
Contemplating Christ written by Vincent Pizzuto and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-26 with Religion categories.
The incarnation has made mystics of us all. What if we read the gospels as if that were true? In his book Contemplating Christ,Vincent Pizzuto offers an exploration of the interior life for modern contemplatives that is as beautiful as it is compelling. With an emphasis on the gospels and Christian mystical tradition, his book explores ancient themes in new and surprising ways. Drawing on his rich experience as an academic and priest, Pizzuto gradually unfolds the Christian mystery of deification to which the whole of biblical revelation and the Christian contemplative life are ordered: through the incarnation, we have all been made “other Christs” in the world.