The Cave of Illusion
Author : Alfred Sutro
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1900
Category : English drama
ISBN :
The Allegory of the Cave
Author : Plato
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Books VII and VIII (531d–534e). Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality.
Mahabali
Author : Denvor Fernandez
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649516509
Book Description
When Mahabali, the Asura king who conquered the three worlds, reigned there was no crime or inequality. People enjoyed their fraternity and liberty to the fullest. The unhappy gods of the Sky World decide to take the help of Lord Vishnu to overthrow Mahabali. Millions of years later, a 21st-century narrator is chosen by God to tell the untold story of Mahabali’s life. Secrets soon begin to uncover. How did Mahabali create a Utopia on earth? Did Guru Sukracharya cheat him? Did he find true love? Is Mahabali still alive? Will he come again to regain his throne as the Emperor of the three worlds?
Out of the Cave
Author : Mark L. Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262046210
Book Description
From a philosopher and a neuropsychologist, a radical rethinking of certain traditional views about human cognition and behavior. Plato's Allegory of the Cave trapped us in the illusion that mind is separate from body and from the natural and physical world. Knowledge had to be eternal and absolute. Recent scientific advances, however, show that our bodies shape mind, thought, and language in a deep and pervasive way. In Out of the Cave, Mark Johnson and Don Tucker--a philosopher and a neuropsychologist--propose a radical rethinking of certain traditional views about human cognition and behavior. They argue for a theory of knowing as embodied, embedded, enactive, and emotionally based. Knowing is an ongoing process--shaped by our deepest biological and cultural values. Johnson and Tucker describe a natural philosophy of mind that is emerging through the convergence of biology, psychology, computer science, and philosophy, and they explain recent research showing that all of our higher-level cognitive activities are rooted in our bodies through processes of perception, motive control of action, and feeling. This developing natural philosophy of mind offers a psychological, philosophical, and neuroscientific account that is at once scientifically valid and subjectively meaningful--allowing us to know both ourselves and the world.
Just Spirituality
Author : Barbara Butler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1999-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0264673379
Book Description
For religion to work today there must be an awareness of the profound mystery and wonder of life, combined with an awareness of the practical and everyday living. This book discusses how the holiness, mystery and fascination with the divine can be encountered through spirituality.
The "German Illusion"
Author : Olivier Morel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright. Hélène Cixous is a poet, philosopher, and activist known worldwide for her manifesto on Écriture feminine (feminine writing) and for her influential literary texts, plays, and essays. While the themes were rarely present in her earlier writings, Germany and Jewish-German family figures and topics have significantly informed most of Cixous's late works. Born in Algeria in June 1937, she grew up with a mother who had escaped Germany after the rise of Nazism and a grandmother who fled the racial laws of the Third Reich in 1938. In her writing, Cixous refines the primitive scene of a “German” upbringing in French-occupied colonial, antisemitic Algeria. Scholar and filmmaker Olivier Morel delves into the signs and influences that “Germany,” “German,” and “Osnabrück” have exerted over Cixous's work. Featuring an exclusive interview with Hélène Cixous and stills from their travel together to Osnabrück in Morel's 2018 documentary, Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous, Morel's The “German Illusion” examines the unique literary meditation on the Holocaust sustained throughout her later texts. Morel helps us to understand an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity's genocidal history in a new way.
A Path of Light
Author : Alba Ambert
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1462002560
Book Description
We are poised at the rim of time. Before us is an expanse of timeless love, beauty, peace, harmony and joy. We have the opportunity now, at this moment, to turn towards the radiant planes of Light and step into them joyfully, fearlessly and with open arms. We can, with the mystical teachings of this book, open our hearts and allow the Light, in all of its splendor, to penetrate every particle of our being and guide us to divine union. The five transformative stages leading to enlightenment, as discussed in this book, bring you to a clear understanding of the nature of awakening, purification, transcendence, surrender and union with the Creator. This journey is a Path of Light that opens and awakens your heart to the Truth of who you are.
Empire of Illusion
Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307398587
Book Description
Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
Object-Oriented Feminism
Author : Katherine Behar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1452952094
Book Description
The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses—like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism—that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from the inside-out position of being an object too, with all of its accompanying political and ethical potentials. This volume places OOF thought in a long history of ongoing feminist work in multiple disciplines. In particular, object-oriented feminism foregrounds three significant aspects of feminist thinking in the philosophy of things: politics, engaging with histories of treating certain humans (women, people of color, and the poor) as objects; erotics, employing humor to foment unseemly entanglements between things; and ethics, refusing to make grand philosophical truth claims, instead staking a modest ethical position that arrives at being “in the right” by being “wrong.” Seeking not to define object-oriented feminism but rather to enact it, the volume is interdisciplinary in approach, with contributors from a variety of fields, including sociology, anthropology, English, art, and philosophy. Topics are frequently provocative, engaging a wide range of theorists from Heidegger and Levinas to Irigaray and Haraway, and an intriguing diverse array of objects, including the female body as fetish object in Lolita subculture; birds made queer by endocrine disruptors; and truth claims arising in material relations in indigenous fiction and film. Intentionally, each essay can be seen as an “object” in relation to others in this collection. Contributors: Irina Aristarkhova, University of Michigan; Karen Gregory, University of Edinburgh; Marina Gržinić, Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts; Frenchy Lunning, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Timothy Morton, Rice University; Anne Pollock, Georgia Tech; Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University; R. Joshua Scannell, CUNY Graduate Center; Adam Zaretsky, VASTAL.
Imperial Illusions
Author : Kristina Kleutghen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295805528
Book Description
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions
