Such Nonsense!
Author: Carolyn Wells
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
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The Owl and Her Shoes...and other such nonsense
Author: Antony Mitchell-Waite
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1291394214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Owl and Her Shoes is a nonsense tale told in rhyming verse about an owl named Josie-Marie who flies away to buy some shoes. Also includes other nonsense rhyming verses, and pictures that children can colour in.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
Author: Symon Hill
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1906523290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion is a term which is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is also a loaded word that has a different meaning for each person. Religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue and narrow-mindedness. Today, thanks to the globalisation of communications, more people than ever before belong to a different religious community than their parents. This No-Nonsense Guide considers how religion has shaped culture.
Necessary Nonsense
Author: Irving Massey
Publisher: Cognitive Approaches to Cultur
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780814213797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the cognitive possibilities of nonsense, literary and philosophical, from Kant to Carroll, from examinations of Asperger's to the waking state.
Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy
Author: Stephen E. Kidd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1107050154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.
In Praise of Nonsense
Author: Winfried Menninghaus
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0804783063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant's move. Menninghaus shows parergonality and "nonsense" to be two key features in the spread of the arabesque from architecture and the fine arts to philosophy and finally to literature. On the one hand, comparative readings of the parergon in Enlightenment aesthetics, Kant, and Schlegel reveal the importance of this term for establishing the very notion of a self-reflective work of art. On the other hand, drawing on Kant's posthumous anthropological notebooks, Menninghaus extrapolates an entire Kantian theory of what it means to produce nonsense and why the Critique of Judgment defines genius precisely through the power (as well as the dangers) of doing so. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." Menninghaus's close reading of this capricious narrative reveals a specifically Romantic—as opposed, say, to a Victorian or dadaistic—type of nonsense. Benjamin's as well as Propp's, Lévi-Strauss's, and Meletinskij's oppositions of myth and fairy tale lend additional credit to a Romantic poetics that inaugurates "universal poetry" while performing a bizarre trajectory through arabesque ornament, nonsense, parergonality, and the fairy tale.
Such Nonsense!
Author: Carolyn Wells
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 233
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Author: Josephine Gabelman
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0718847342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is within all theological utterances something of the ridiculous, perhaps more so in Christianity, given its proclivity for the paradoxical and the childlike. Few theologians are willing to discuss how consent to the Christian doctrine often requires a faith that goes beyond reason. There seems to be a fear that the association of theology with the absurd will give fuel to the sceptic's refrain: 'You can't seriously believe in all that nonsense.' Josephine Gabelman considers the legitimacy of the sceptic's objection and explores the possibility that an idea can be contrary to rationality and also true and meaningful using the systematic analysis of central stylistic features of literary non sense such as Lewis Carroll's Alice stories. Gabelman sets up a nonsense theology by considering the practical and evangelical ramifications of associating Christian faith with nonsense literature and, conversely, the value of relating theological principles to the study of literary nonsense.Ultimately, Gabelman says, faith is always a risk and a strictly rational apologetic misrepresents the nature of Christian truth.
Nonsense on Stilts
Author: Massimo Pigliucci
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0226667871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one of science’s best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link can been consistently disproved. And about 40 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated, despite near consensus in the scientific community that manmade climate change is real. Why do people believe bunk? And what causes them to embrace such pseudoscientific beliefs and practices? Noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this entertaining exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science, and—borrowing a famous phrase from philosopher Jeremy Bentham—the nonsense on stilts. Presenting case studies on a number of controversial topics, Pigliucci cuts through the ambiguity surrounding science to look more closely at how science is conducted, how it is disseminated, how it is interpreted, and what it means to our society. The result is in many ways a “taxonomy of bunk” that explores the intersection of science and culture at large. No one—not the public intellectuals in the culture wars between defenders and detractors of science nor the believers of pseudoscience themselves—is spared Pigliucci’s incisive analysis. In the end, Nonsense on Stilts is a timely reminder of the need to maintain a line between expertise and assumption. Broad in scope and implication, it is also ultimately a captivating guide for the intelligent citizen who wishes to make up her own mind while navigating the perilous debates that will affect the future of our planet.
