Thinking in Constellations
Thinking in Constellations

Author: Nassima Sahraoui

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-07-27

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1527515672

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With his powerful thought image of the constellation, Walter Benjamin provides a method for the core practices of the Humanities: reading, writing, and thinking. This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how thinking in constellations with Walter Benjamin leads us towards a new understanding of the critical task of the Humanities today: it goes beyond disciplinary boundaries and challenges assumptions of linearity, coherence, and progression inherent in our scholarly praxis. The volume brings some of the most articulate young voices in international Benjamin scholarship together, and takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering wide-ranging fields of knowledge – quantum physics, postcolonial studies, natural philosophy, psychoanalysis, film theory, literature, and the arts. Benjamin’s texts are re-considered in light of thinkers and poets, such as Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Gottfried E. Leibniz, W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, or Carlos Martínez Rivas. The critical potential of constellations in Benjamin’s work and beyond will be of the highest interest for researchers and students in all areas of the Humanities.

Constellations of the Night Sky
Constellations of the Night Sky

Author: Bruce LaFontaine

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-05-19

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780486426488

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Large, double-page illustrations introduce stargazers of all ages to 22 major constellations, among them Aquarius, the water bearer; Orion, the hunter; Gemini, the twins; as well as Canis Major, Taurus, and Leo. Accompanying text relates mythological story behind each constellation's name and identifies its principal stars.

The Constellations Handbook
The Constellations Handbook

Author: Galactic Galactic Hunter

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781722675653

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Learning the constellations is difficult. Remembering them is even harder. Have you ever wanted to look up to the night sky, name any pattern of stars and be able to tell their stories? This book groups the constellations in a logical order, so that the reader can easily learn them by their origin, and see how their stories interact with one another as a group. The last pages of this book include an index of all 88 constellations, each with a slot where you can write your own personal tips and tricks in order to memorize them with ease. The Constellations Handbook is not just another guide listing all the constellations from A to Z and their location, it is the perfect companion for stargazing, and a learning journey through the ages.

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Author: Jacques Khalip

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0823271056

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Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, which puts both “contemporary” and “romanticism” in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions by an international roster of distinguished scholars working in and out of romanticism—from deconstruction to new historicism, from queer theory to postcolonial studies, from visual culture to biopolitics—this volume makes good on a central tenet of Benjamin’s conception of history: These critics “grasp the constellation” into which our “own era has formed with a definite earlier one.” Each of these essays approaches romanticism as a decisive and unexpired thought experiment that makes demands on and poses questions for our own time: What is the unlived of a contemporary romanticism? What has romanticism’s singular untimeliness bequeathed to futurity? What is romanticism’s contemporary “redemption value” for painting and politics, philosophy and film?

Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Author: Graeme Gilloch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0745666663

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The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines. This book provides a lucid introduction to Benjamin's oeuvre through a close and sensitive reading not only of his major studies, but also of some of his less familiar essays and fragments. Gilloch offers an original interpretation of, and fresh insights into, the continuities between Benjamin's always demanding and seemingly disparate texts. Gilloch's book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in social theory, literary theory, cultural and media studies and urban studies who are seeking a sophisticated yet readable overview of Benjamin's work. It will also prove rewarding reading for those already well-versed in Benjaminian thought.

Find the Constellations
Find the Constellations

Author: Hans Augusto Rey

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1954

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780395244180

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Describes stars and constellations throughout the year and ways of identifying them.

The Little Book of Stars
The Little Book of Stars

Author: James B. Kaler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0387216219

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The Little Book of Stars answers, in the clearest language, the questions anyone might have about our heavenly canopy. How are stars born? How do they die? Why do they shine? How long do they shine? Is our star, the Sun, dying? How can you tell time from the stars? Or navigate? What are the measures of stars? Can we ever travel to other stars? In this engagingly written and concise book, the second in the Little Book series, noted astronomer James B. Kaler shows us "the significance that the stars have had in human life, how we have used them to tell our stories, and how we use them to find who and where we are."

Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations
Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations

Author: C. E. Thompson

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Published: 1999-01-25

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9780448412528

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Now in an affordable paperback edition comes this super informative guide exploring the night sky with glow-in-the-dark illustrations, eight maps, and fascinating retellings of the legends behind the constellations. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Constellation Myths
Constellation Myths

Author: Eratosthenes

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0198716982

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This translation brings together ancient classical texts derived from Eratosthenes' handbook of astral mythology, Hyginus' guide to astronomy, and Aratus's astronomical poem Phaenomena to provide a complete collection of Greek astral myths.

Integrating Psychodrama and Systemic Constellation Work
Integrating Psychodrama and Systemic Constellation Work

Author: Ronald Anderson

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2011-10-15

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0857004247

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Systemic Constellation Work is a rapidly growing experiential healing process that is being embraced by a variety of helping professionals, both traditional and alternative, worldwide. This book explores the history, principles and methodology of this approach, and offers a detailed comparison with psychodrama - the original mind-body therapy - explaining how each method can enhance the other. Constellation work is based on the notion that people are connected by unseen energetic forces and suggests that the psychological, traumatic and survival experiences of our ancestors are genetically passed forward to the next generation and may live within us. Using insightful case studies from a variety of client groups, this book shows how Systemic Constellation Work can expand the possibilities of psychodrama techniques, and can be successfully integrated with psychodramatic enactment, guided imagery, ritual, concretization and other methods of healing and personal growth. This book will be essential reading for students and practitioners of psychodrama and Constellation work, as well as counselors, mental health professionals, experiential therapists, creative and expressive arts therapists and alternative practitioners looking to widen their knowledge of mind-body therapies.