Muses, Mystics, Madness: The Diagnosis and Celebration of Mental Illness
Author: Anna Klambauer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 184888432X
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Pragmatic Magical Thinking
Author: Ari Freeman
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1801520844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reclaiming magic and magical thought in the modern, mainstream world The modern Western world has often raised its eyebrows at magic, associating it with madness and superstition. However, this ignore the fact of the matter that magic is a universal human experience which has existed in a multitude of forms across time and space. Now, in his groundbreaking book, Ari Freeman presents his argument that magic is still a human universal - we’ve just forgotten how to talk about it! Laying out clear and concise arguments, Pragmatic Magical Thinking will enlighten readers to how magic can be a practical approach to achieving real world results, drawing on evidence from science, philosophy, history and anthropology. For both beginners at magic, and the long practicing witch or wizard, Ari Freeman’s book is a breath of fresh air for the world of magical studies, inviting readers to join him in placing magic in it’s rightful place as a serious and mainstream subject of conversation and enquiry. Pragmatic Magical Thinking covers a wide and comprehensive selection of subjects in relation to your magical education. These include, but are not limited to: magic and memory, spirits, belief, magic in everyday life, science and magic, religion and magic, Kabbalist cosmology and morality.
Bede and the Cosmos
Author: Eoghan Ahern
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0429773889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bede and the Cosmos examines Bede’s cosmology—his understanding of the universe and its laws. It explores his ideas regarding both the structure and mechanics of the created world and the relationship of that world to its Creator. Beginning with On the Nature of Things and moving on to survey his writings in other genres, it demonstrates the key role that natural philosophy played in shaping Bede’s worldview, and explores the ramifications that this had on his cultural, theological and historical thought. From questions about angelic bodies and the destruction of the world at judgement day, to subtle arguments about free will and the meaning of history, Bede’s fascinating and unique engagement with the natural world is explored in this comprehensive study.
The Sense and Sensibility of Madness
Author: Doreen Bauschke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9004382380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.
Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness
Author: Irina Lyubchenko
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1848884605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Schizo’: The Liberatory Potential of Madness presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the potential of madness as a force for liberation from societies of control.
Narrating Illness: Prospects and Constraints
Author: Joanna Davidson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1848884885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume grapples with the potentials and limitations of illness narratives as diverse cultural perceptions probe into those stories from literary, textual, empirical, ethnographic, historical, and personal bases.
Consilience
Author: E. O. Wilson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-11-26
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0804154066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.
Hysteria Beyond Freud
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-03-25
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0520301978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. 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 1993.
Under the Sign of Saturn
Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-11-09
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780312420086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time.
Decadent Genealogies
Author: Barbara Spackman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1501723308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.
