Imagining Lives
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The Life Of Imagination
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Author : Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-30
The Life Of Imagination written by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with Philosophy categories.
Imagination allows us to step out of the ordinary but also to transform it through our sense of wonder and play, artistic inspiration and innovation, or the eureka moment of a scientific breakthrough. In this book, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei offers a groundbreaking new understanding of its place in everyday experience as well as the heights of creative achievement. The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Gosetti-Ferencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ecology. She demonstrates how imagination arises from our material engagements with the world and at the same time endows us with the sense of an inner life, how it both allows us to escape from reality and aids us in better understanding it. Drawing from philosophy, cognitive science, evolutionary anthropology, developmental psychology, literary theory, and aesthetics, Gosetti-Ferencei engages a spectacular range of examples from ordinary thought processes and actions to artistic, scientific, and literary feats to argue that, like consciousness itself, imagination resists reductive explanation. The Life of Imagination offers a vital account of transformative thinking that shows how imagination will be essential in cultivating a future conducive to human flourishing and to that of the life around us.
Imagining Everyday Life Engagements With Vernacular Photography
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Author : Tina Campt
language : en
Publisher: Steidl/The Walther Collection
Release Date : 2020-06-18
Imagining Everyday Life Engagements With Vernacular Photography written by Tina Campt and has been published by Steidl/The Walther Collection this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-18 with categories.
As a crucial extension of its ongoing investigation of vernacular photography, the Walther Collection has collaborated with key scholars and critical thinkers in the history of photography, women's studies, queer theory, Africana studies, and curatorial practice to interrogate vernacular's theoretical limits, as well as to conduct case studies of a striking array of objects and images, many from the collection's holdings.
Very Good Lives
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Author : J. K. Rowling
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2015-04-14
Very Good Lives written by J. K. Rowling and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-14 with Self-Help categories.
J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.
Imagining The Course Of Life
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Author : Nancy Eberhardt
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Imagining The Course Of Life written by Nancy Eberhardt 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 2006-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt illustrates how indigenous theories of the life course are connected to local constructions of self and personhood. In the process, she draws our attention to contrasting models in the Euro-American tradition and invites us to reconsider how we think about the trajectory of a human life. Moving beyond the entrenched categories that can hamper our understanding of other views, Imagining the Course of Life demonstrates the real-life connections between the "religious" and the "psychological." Eberhardt shows how such beliefs and practices are used, sometimes strategically, in people's constructions of themselves, in their interpretations of others' behavior, and in their attempts at social positioning. Individual chapters explore Shan ideas about the overall course of human development, from infancy to old age and beyond, and show how these ideas inform people's understanding of personhood and maturity, gender and social inequality, illness and well-being, emotions and mental health.
90 Years In Singapore
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Author : Irene Lim
language : en
Publisher: Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd
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90 Years In Singapore written by Irene Lim and has been published by Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Irene Lim writes vividly about her life, family and friends over a period of 90 years. Except for a few years spent in Bukit Mertajam, Penang during the Japanese Occupation, Irene’s account is also a small Singapore Story.
On Not Being Someone Else
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Author : Andrew H. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-09
On Not Being Someone Else written by Andrew H. Miller 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 2020-06-09 with Philosophy categories.
A captivating book about the emotional and literary power of the lives we might have lived had our chances or choices been different. We each live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children—every decision precludes another. But what if you’d gone the other way? It can be a seductive thought, even a haunting one. Andrew H. Miller illuminates this theme of modern culture: the allure of the alternate self. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, Jane Hirshfield to Carl Dennis, storytellers of every stripe write of the lives we didn’t have. What forces encourage us to think this way about ourselves, and to identify with fictional and poetic voices speaking from the shadows of what might have been? Not only poets and novelists, but psychologists and philosophers have much to say on this question. Miller finds wisdom in all these sources, revealing the beauty, the power, and the struggle of our unled lives. In an elegant and provocative rumination, he lingers with other selves, listening to what they say. Peering down the path not taken can be frightening, but it has its rewards. On Not Being Someone Else offers the balm that when we confront our imaginary selves, we discover who we are.
Re Imagining A Politics Of Life
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Author : Leonie Ansems de Vries
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-10-30
Re Imagining A Politics Of Life written by Leonie Ansems de Vries and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Political Science categories.
The prominence and variety of global movements of resistance indicates that the idea of politics as governance is contested. However, the political canon continues to reinforce a narrow definition of politics according to liberal principles and practices. This book develops a new theory of political life that includes, and highlights, the interconnectedness of forces of order, disorder, governance, resistance, violence and difference. Using the concept of the milieu— both a mechanism of governance and a force of difference and transformation—this book stages an encounter between the modern political and international thought of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant and the contemporary philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. The writings of Foucault and Deleuze will serve to explore and contextualize the milieu and will function to highlight the complex mobility and relationality of notions of politics, life, governance and resistance.
Life Beside Itself
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Author : Lisa Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-08-23
Life Beside Itself written by Lisa Stevenson 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 2014-08-23 with Social Science categories.
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend’s newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth.
Skate Life
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Author : Emily Chivers Yochim
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010
Skate Life written by Emily Chivers Yochim and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.
An in-depth look at skateboarding culture by a promising young scholar
Living Before Dying
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Author : Janette Davies
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2017-08
Living Before Dying written by Janette Davies and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08 with Social Science categories.
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.