Helga, Egon, Paul und Max haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind zwangseingewiesene Patienten einer geschlossenen psychiatrischen Klinik und des Lebens überdrüssig. Doch die Vier haben ein großes Ziel für den Silvesterabend festgelegt: Noch vor dem Neujahrsbeginn möchten sie alle sterben. Ein Ausbruchsplan und eine Idee zum gemeinsamen Selbstmord sind geschmiedet. Doch so sehr sie sich auch bemühen - das Leben scheint ihre Pläne immer wieder zu durchkreuzen. Nichtsahnend stolpern die vom Leben gezeichneten Antihelden in allerlei absurde Situationen und müssen erkennen, dass selbst das Sterben nicht so leicht ist wie gedacht.
Jeder von uns steht im Leben vor Herausforderungen, sei es in Beziehungen, im Beruf oder bei persönlichen Kämpfen. In diesem Buch teile ich 17 authentische Geschichten aus meinem eigenen Leben keine Fiktion, sondern real erlebte Situationen, in denen ich gegen Widerstände ankämpfte und dabei wichtige Lektionen lernte. Diese Geschichten sind nicht nur eine Quelle der Inspiration, sondern auch ein praktischer Leitfaden für alle, die das Gefühl haben, festzustecken. Ob du nach Lösungen für alltägliche Probleme suchst oder einfach nur neue Hoffnung und Perspektiven brauchst, dieses Buch bietet dir beides. Du wirst sehen, dass es möglich ist, selbst aus den schwierigsten Momenten etwas Positives zu schöpfen und wie du mit neuen Ideen und Hoffnung gestärkt aus jeder Herausforderung hervorgehen kannst.
Auf Zugreisen kreuzt das eigene Leben ständig doch nur für kurze Momente die Leben anderer. Wenige Minuten oder Stunden verbringt man zusammen - im Schweigen oder sich Unterhaltend, nebeneinander oder gegenüber, auf Distanz bedacht oder überraschender Nähe. Manche hilfsbereit und einem die Tasche tragend, andere von Verspätungen bis zur Unhöflichkeit genervt. Lokführerdurchsagen, die einen zum Lachen bringen und Ticketkontrolleure, die streng mit jemandem schimpfen, der seinen Ausweis nicht dabei hat. Je anstrengender die Zugreise, desto größer werden die Extreme: von gemeinsamem auf-dem-Boden-sitzen, Essen teilen und miteinander Lebensgeschichten austauschen, bis hin zu Fremden die sich gegenseitig angiften, um noch in den überfüllten Zug zu passen. Doch so oder so: wenn man den Zug verlässt, trennen sich die Lebenswege wieder. Dies ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten von Zugreisen und den Menschen, die auf diesen meinen Lebensweg gekreuzt haben.
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.
Geeky girl meets famous boy . . . what could go wrong? Tuesday Cooper is happy being normal -doing her a-levels and indulging in her twin obsessions: buying weird vintage clothes in charity shops and writing her beloved music blog (which nobody ever reads). Her love for music started when she was thirteen and had a massive crush on Jackson Griffith, teen rock god and SUPER HOT LOVE OF HER LIFE. Now Tuesday's eighteen and has moved on to fancying boys in real life and Jackson went off the celebrity radar years ago. So it can't be him that's messaging her on her blog, can it? From one girl's computer to the pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, this is a love story for anyone who has ever wished that someone would sing a love song just for them. Dreams can come true . . .
Western thought is surging, on the rebound from centuries of a merely background interest. Life is presenting crucial challenges to the human mind in science, technology, culture and social existence; challenges which reach the core of existence, human destiny, and the very meaningfulness - the human significance of life itself. The compartementalized sciences fall short of responding to this challenge, and present day philosophy by and large renounced its vocation of carrying the torch of reason. In this post-modern darkness, the Phenomenology of Life and of the Human Condition excavate and bring to light the Logos of Life in its entire harmonizing interplay. In the present collection, which continues the long and winding itinerary of our previous probings, we first uncover the new field of the ontopoiesis of life by means of the self-individualisation of life, the key to its labyrinth (Tymieniecka). A network of the ontopoietic itineraries manifest life in its innumerable perspectives: the constructive scanning (chronos and Kairos) are treated specifically by Eva Syristova, M. Bielawka, F. Bosio, and M.A. Cecilia. Individualising dynamisms of passions and the tying of the communal order by G. Bucher, R. Sweeney, A. Polis, A. Zvie Bar-On and others. The life-struggle for the light of the spirit by L. Sundararajan, I.R. Owen etc. The deep springs of mundaneity in human existence (moral sense, empathy, communication) by A. Luse, A. Ales Bello, J. Cibulka, J. Sivak, etc. The life of the spirit (historicity) by M. Sancipriano, M. Cekic, H. Rodríguez Piñeiro, S. Rinofner-Kreidl and others.
Friedrich Hölderlin's only novel, Hyperion (1797-99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters. Confronting and commenting on his own past, with all its joy and grief, the narrator undergoes a transformation that culminates in the realisation of his true vocation. Though Hölderlin is now established as a great lyric poet, recognition of his novel as a supreme achievement of European Romanticism has been belated in the Anglophone world. Incorporating the aesthetic evangelism that is a characteristic feature of the age, Hyperion preaches a message of redemption through beauty. The resolution of the contradictions and antinomies raised in the novel is found in the act of articulation itself. To a degree remarkable in a prose work of any length, what it means is inseparable from how it means. In this skilful translation, Gaskill conveys the beautiful music and rhythms of Hölderlin's language to an English-speaking reader.
When sixteen-year-old Eva and her boyfriend witness a terrible crime, Eva loses her diary as the couple escapes the scene, so when she later meets an understanding stranger, Eva must question whether he is a kindred soul or something darker.
Scarlet awoke in a forest without her memory, two years ago. Her life was a mystery, then she meets Gabriel and Tristan Archer. She is drawn to both of them, Gabriel seems so familiar, and she is attracted Tristan, both of them are convinced she is cursed to die.
