Author: Paul Horgan
Publisher:
Published: 2023-04-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781685952051
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In early-twentieth-century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the "grown-ups" and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power from Richard's reflection that "children are artists who see and enact through simplicity what their elders have lost through experience. The loss of innocence is a lifelong process-the wages of original sin." As each pivotal event manifests, Richard must meet it with courage as much as faith, hope, and love, in order to safeguard his dignity and reach that maturity of stature for which he longs. Told with a rare lyrical power and an unaffected poignancy, Things As They Are achieves a unity of robust realism and profound spiritual acuity which makes it clearly deserving of its place "among the most beautiful and moving American novels" (David McCullough).
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0199385157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the objective field is either perceived or can be perceived. Nothing in the subjective field is perceived nor can be perceived precisely because the events in the subjective field consist of the perceivings, whether veridical or not, of the events in the objective field. Searle begins by criticizing the classical theories of perception and identifies a single fallacy, what he calls the Bad Argument, as the source of nearly all of the confusions in the history of the philosophy of perception. He next justifies the claim that perceptual experiences have presentational intentionality and shows how this justifies the direct realism of his account. In the central theoretical chapters, he shows how it is possible that the raw phenomenology must necessarily determine certain form of intentionality. Searle introduces, in detail, the distinction between different levels of perception from the basic level to the higher levels and shows the internal relation between the features of the experience and the states of affairs presented by the experience. The account applies not just to language possessing human beings but to infants and conscious animals. He also discusses how the account relates to certain traditional puzzles about spectrum inversion, color and size constancy and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiments. In the final chapters he explains and refutes Disjunctivist theories of perception, explains the role of unconscious perception, and concludes by discussing traditional problems of perception such as skepticism.
Author: Amy Carmichael
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book caused a stir when it was first published because, for what was the first time, it revealed the true and often harsh facts about caste and Hinduism in southern India. The author wrote it in the hope that missionaries would consider their evangelistic work in a more realistic light.
Author: Michael Jackson
Publisher:
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780253330369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this timely collection of essays, thirteen contemporary ethnographers demonstrate the importance of phenomenological and existential ideas for anthropology. In emphasizing the link between the empirical and the experiential, these ethnographers also explore the relationship between phenomenology and other theories of the lifeworld, such as existentialism, radical empiricism, and critical theory. Empiricism, and Anthropological Critique by Michael Jackson; Honor and Shame by Lila Abu-Lughod; Struggling Along by Robert Desjarlais; The Cosmology of Life Transmission by Ren Devisch; Reflections on a Cut Finger: Taboo in the Umeda Conception of the Self by Alfred Gell; Space and Sociality in a Dayak Longhouse by Christine Helliwell; In Defiance of Destiny: The Management of Time at a Cretan Funeral by Michael Herzfeld; Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman; Hand Drumming: An Essay in Practical Knowledge by Shawn Lindsay; On Dying and Suffering in Iqwaye Existence by Jadran Mimica; If Not the Words: Shared Practical Activity and Friendship in Fieldwork by Keith Ridler; and After the Field by Jim Wafer.
Author: William Godwin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780140432565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deals with the misdeeds of Tyrrel, a tyrannical country squire, who comes into conflict with Falkland, a neighbouring squire of a seemingly more benevolent disposition. When Tyrrel knocks Falkland down in public and Tyrrel is later found murdered, suspicion falls on Falkland.
Author: Tim O'Brien
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0547420293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author: Mary Panzer
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781597110143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An album of journalistic photography from 1955 to 2005.