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Author: Katharina T. Kraus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 110883664X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.
Author: Ciano Aydin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-21
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1000357961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who and what we are and influencing who we ought to be. How should we adequately understand, evaluate and appreciate this development? Tackling this question requires going beyond the persistent and stubborn inside-outside dualism and recognizing that what we consider our "inside" self is to a great extent shaped by our "outside" world. Inspired by various philosophers – especially Nietzsche, Peirce and Lacan –this book shows how the values, goals and ideals that humans encounter in their environments not only shape their identities but also enable them to critically relate to their present state. The author argues against understanding technological self-formation in terms of making ourselves better, stronger and smarter. Rather, we should conceive it in terms of technological sublimation, which redefines the very notion of human enhancement. In this respect the author introduces an alternative, more suitable theory, namely Technological Sublimation Theory (TST). Extimate Technology will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of technology, philosophy of the self, phenomenology, pragmatism, and history of philosophy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003139409, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author: Jean-Pierre Boulé
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781571817426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psycho-social analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre with an emphasis on his masculinity. It sets out to contextualize Sartre in terms of his psycho-sexual formation and processes of self-constitution in view of his childhood. The main period under detailed study is 1905-1945, before Sartre became the Sartre. It concentrates on his early childhood, his teenage years in La Rochelle, the years at the Ecole Normale, and the first few years of his adulthood, with specific attention on the war years. An analysis of Sartre's relationships follows, with Simone de Beauvoir and other women and men (including love and sex), before a postscript covering the period 1973-1980. This essay is not a reductive account. It tells the story of Jean-Paul Sartre, from the inside out, so that the achievements of one of the major intellectuals of the 20th Century can be measured against his own internal struggles.
Author: Capel Lofft
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-09-24
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 3385613094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1837.
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Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781402043536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Raisborough
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011-01-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230242951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBe the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self.
Author: Edwin Paxton HOOD
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ross Simonini
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1612196683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis debut novel--told in interviews--spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement. In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the personality movement, an integrative approach to radical self-transformation. Mayah, the movement's architect and celebrity advocate, adopts a curious, wild child named Masha Isle. A guinea-pig for the movement, and the key to its future, Isle is the subject of the eight interviews that comprise this book. As the interviewer's objectivity disintegrates--even as the movement's legitimacy becomes increasingly suspect--he becomes obsessed with Masha. And all of that is thrown into question when tragedy strikes. The stunning debut of a new literary talent, and a fascinating take on the cult of personality: about celebrities need to destroy and recreate themselves to stay relevant, public personalities coming to belong to everyone, and about our need to see everyone as a kind of celebrity.
Author: Niki Kasumi Clements
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2020-05-31
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0268107874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life. Cassian’s late ancient texts, written in the context of social, cultural, political, doctrinal, and environmental change, contribute to an ethics for fractured selves in uncertain times. In response to this environment, Cassian’s practical asceticism provides a uniquely frank picture of human struggle in a world of contingency while also affirming human agency in ways that signaled a challenge to followers of his contemporary, Augustine of Hippo. Niki Kasumi Clements brings these historical and textual analyses of Cassian’s monastic works into conversation with contemporary debates at the intersection of the philosophy of religion and queer and feminist theories. Rather than focusing on interiority and renunciation of self, as scholars such as Michel Foucault read Cassian, Clements analyzes Cassian’s texts by foregrounding practices of the body, the emotions, and the community. By focusing on lived experience in the practical ethics of Cassian, Clements demonstrates the importance of analyzing constructions of ethics in terms of cultivation alongside critical constructions of power. By challenging modern assumptions about Cassian’s asceticism, Sites of the Ascetic Self contributes to questions of ethics, subjectivity, and agency in the study of religion today.
Author: Robert Michael Kurz
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1606965565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'What if we had a new generation of children that were literally formed in prayer?' In Formation Generation, Robert Michael Kurz shows you how to partner with God while your baby is actually being formed in the womb. In this easy reading book, Robert guides you week by week through the actual physical formation times of the trimesters that occur in every healthy pregnancy and shows you what you could be praying for your pre-born child. You will learn how to give your child the best possible head start in this life they could possibly have both physically and spiritually, and how you can make the most of their formative weeks. A must read for those who wish to learn the most powerful way to start raising up a whole new generation of godly children. Robert Michael Kurz is the world's leading authority on formation prayer. A graduate of SCC, he is a pastor, missionary, loving husband, and father of two children. Robert specializes in training people in intercession and praying for the pre-born. He was named one of the Top 50 Authors of Idaho in 2011.
