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Hell Is Other People
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Author : Michael Uhrin
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2000-08
Hell Is Other People written by Michael Uhrin and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with Pittsburgh (Pa.) categories.
The most common and universal problem of life never changes--things are not always what they appear to be." This is the first sentence of the initial short story entitled "Hell Is Other People." It introduces one of the eternal problems of the human condition. Humanity´s perennial struggle to understand lived experience produces literature. And yet how many readers have fully responded to the crisis of contemporary existence that has acquired particular cogency in our post-industrial culture? "Hell Is Other People" communicates the quality of the absurd in keeping with the deeper concerns of the American literary canon. Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner and Richard Wright make up the tradition that informs this remarkable book. All who value the past, and who have come to know the pathos and duplicity of life in our time, will deeply appreciate the inner workings of this timeless world. Book Review: Much like industrial music uses post-modern sampling to manipulate the sounds of the bygone Machine Age, Pittsburgher Michael Uhrin's writing is a cogent example of "industrial literature." The short stories in his collection Hell Is Other People all relate to the gloriously wealthy industrial era of Pittsburgh yet employ the postmodern conceit of "sampling" a title from Jean-Paul Sartre and incorporating influences from other prominent 20th century Industrial Age authors. Faulkner and Dreiser are mentioned on the back cover, but the surreal and melancholy nature of some of Uhrin's stories, fraught with social commentary, could just as easily suggest Poe or even Vonnegut. Not to be tackily classist, Uhrin's various tales include a spectrum of protagonists both rich and poor, smart andsimple, cultured and boorish. All set in western Pennsylvania, most involve some sort of troubled individual who either ultimately finds hope or a final humiliation among the decay of Pittsburgh's manufacturing might. Because many of the stories are rather short, Uhrin focuses on character analysis and background description rather than any far-reaching plot, and for the most part, this formula works well. In the course of this collection, we meet Tony, a tortured returnee from World War II who can't get the Nazi concentration camp horrors out of his head and pays the highest price. We meet Emily, a widow defending her rural homestead against the encroachment of yuppie real estate developers. There's Mr. Dobresczech, the immigrant laborer, who loses his hand in a mill accident, and Billy Toricht, a beer-drinking, car-stealing loser from the down-and-out area of Duquesne. These imagined individuals populate the world of Uhrin's mid-20th century Pittsburgh, from the mill towns of Homestead, Duquesne and Braddock to the upscale homes and book club intelligentsia of Squirrel Hill and Edgewood. The predicaments in which these characters find themselves are usually absorbing; the details of their fictitious names are illuminating. Uhrin calls the embattle Russian husband "Mr. Pravda" (a legacy of the Communist era?) and an ex-con who fins gainful employment in a McKeesport factor "J. Capek" (perhaps a robotic reference to Karel Capek's R.R.R.?). Not to meniton the poor little rich girl whose vast are inheritance is carried off by a fast-talking, amorous Frenchman. Her name? Frances McMammon" (not Mellon). Such a theory, however would be disproven by Uhrin's brief but powerful essay "Boulevard of the Allies" in which Pittsburgh itself is the character. It unfolds a sweeping panorama of the dusty churches and shady parks and stately cemeteries where the retired, elderly penionners spend the remainder of their aimless lives, while their wives continue making the weekly shopping trek Downtown on the PAT bus. Here Uhrin elevates the status of Pittsburgh's industrial era to near heroic proportions, speaking of the "great me
Huis Clos
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Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-01-20
Huis Clos written by Jean-Paul Sartre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-20 with categories.
The full French text of Sartre's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.
Understanding Existentialism
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Author : Dr. Jack Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Understanding Existentialism written by Dr. Jack Reynolds and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Philosophy categories.
Understanding Existentialism provides an accessible introduction to existentialism by examining the major themes in the work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and de Beauvoir. Paying particular attention to the key texts, Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, Phenomenology of Perception, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex, the book explores the shared concerns and the disagreements between these major thinkers. The fundamental existential themes examined include: freedom; death, finitude and mortality; phenomenological experiences and 'moods', such as anguish, angst, nausea, boredom, and fear; an emphasis upon authenticity and responsibility as well as the denigration of their opposites (inauthenticity and Bad Faith); a pessimism concerning the tendency of individuals to become lost in the crowd and even a pessimism about human relations more generally; and a rejection of any external determination of morality or value. Finally, the book assesses the influence of these philosophers on poststructuralism, arguing that existentialism remains an extraordinarily productive school of thought.
Hell Is Other People
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Author : Danielle Bellwood
language : en
Publisher: Danielle Bellwood
Release Date : 2021-04-09
Hell Is Other People written by Danielle Bellwood and has been published by Danielle Bellwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-09 with Fiction categories.
Gillian wants nothing more than to be left alone. Arlo can’t stand to be ignored. Two polar opposites, they’ve been tossed into a reality where they are forced to keep bumping into each other over and over again for all eternity. Can they learn to make the most of their situation or will they continue to suffer in a Hell where the only torture is other people?
The Reality Of Others
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Author : Gary Cox
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-05-07
The Reality Of Others written by Gary Cox and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Philosophy categories.
‘Hell is other people!’ So said the great French existentialist philosopher, novelist and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre. The Reality of Others explores Sartre’s infamous maxim in detail—when, where and why he said it, what he really meant by it, and what it means for us today. In comprehensively answering that crucial question, author Gary Cox provides an in-depth account of what Sartre and other philosophers and psychologists have said about the human condition, the nature of the self, and the intricate ways in which that nature shapes the interpersonal dynamics of our relationships with others. A genuine guide to lowering the temperature of our interactions with others, the book offers invaluable philosophical advice on how to establish more amicable, constructive and productive human relations, both with the people we know intimately and with the strangers we have to deal with each day. Ultimately, the key to not seeing hell in others lies in being calm, rational, moderate and authentic in our own person, while always treating others with consideration and respect—especially when they are making it most difficult for us to do so.
The Good Place And Philosophy
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Author : Steven A. Benko
language : en
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-17
The Good Place And Philosophy written by Steven A. Benko and has been published by Open Court Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Philosophy categories.
The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife. Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she understands must be mistake, since she has been anything but good. In the surprise twist ending to Season One, it is revealed that this is really the Bad Place, but the demon who planned it was frustrated, because the characters didn’t torture each other mentally as planned, but managed to learn how to live together. In ,i>The Good Place and Philosophy, twenty-one philosophers analyze different aspects of the ethical and metaphysical issues raised in the show, including: ● Indefinitely long punishment can only be justified as a method of ultimately improving vicious characters, not as retribution. ● Can individuals retain their identity after hundreds of reboots? ● Comparing Hinduism with The Good Place, we can conclude that Hinduism gets things five percent correct. ● Looking at all the events in the show, it follows that humans don’t have free will, and so people are being punished and rewarded unjustly. ● Is it a problem that the show depicts torture as hilarious? This problem can be resolved by considering the limited perspective of humans, compared with the eternal perspective of the demons. ● The Good Place implies that even demons can develop morally. ● The only way to explain how the characters remain the same people after death is to suppose that their actual bodies are transported to the afterlife. ● Since Chidi knows all the moral theories but can never decide what to do, it must follow that there is something missing in all these theories. ● The show depicts an afterlife which is bureaucratic, therefore unchangeable, therefore deeply unjust. ● Eleanor acts on instinct, without thinking, whereas Chidi tries to think everything through and never gets around to acting; together these two characters can truly act morally. ● The Good Place shows us that authenticity means living for others. ● The Good Place is based on Sartre’s play No Exit, with its famous line “Hell is other people,” but in fact both No Exit and The Good Place inform us that human relationships can redeem us. ● In The Good Place, everything the humans do is impermanent since it can be rebooted, so humans cannot accomplish anything good. ● Kant’s moral precepts are supposed to be universal, but The Good Place shows us it can be right to lie to demons. ● The show raises the question whether we can ever be good except by being part of a virtuous community.
No Exit
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Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
language : en
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Release Date : 1958
No Exit written by Jean-Paul Sartre and has been published by Concord Theatricals this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Drama categories.
Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in Hell. The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit. The irony of this Hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of Hell. It is an eternal torment.
No Exit And Three Other Plays
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Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-07-15
No Exit And Three Other Plays written by Jean-Paul Sartre and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Drama categories.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
What We Owe To Each Other
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Author : T. M. Scanlon
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-15
What We Owe To Each Other written by T. M. Scanlon and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-15 with Philosophy categories.
How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.
Hell Is Other People And Other Essays
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Author : Sebastian Vilangiyil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Hell Is Other People And Other Essays written by Sebastian Vilangiyil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Belief and doubt categories.