The Human Evasion
Author: Celia Green
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
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Evasion
Author: Glynn Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781989674192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captain on the run from the horrors of his past A girl on the run from the trap of her present A ship that will bring them together Captain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki was once a nova fighter pilot for a nation he truly believed in. Betrayal and failure sent him into exile and flight. Now owner-operator of the freelance star freighter Evasion, he treks the edge of human space, taking cargos that lead him ever onward-but there are lines he will not cross. When those lines are challenged, EB makes enemies of the most powerful crime syndicate for a hundred light-years. When one of their victims stows away on his ship, he finds himself pursued by an enemy with assets everywhere he turns. Caught between the devil and the deep dark void, EB has run out of places to run-but in a child looking to him for salvation, he may have found something to fight for! CONTENT WARNING: This novel deals with themes and details of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
The American Evasion of Philosophy
Author: Cornel West
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1989-05-09
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0299119637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West’s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West’s "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author’s conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture. "West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation."—The Nation "The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation—appreciative yet far from uncritical—of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement."—Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wisconsin Project on American Writers Frank Lentricchia, General Editor
Reflecting on the Inevitable
Author: Peter J. Adams
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0190945001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Death studies have, over the last twenty years, witnessed a flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying. But, despite its importance, a specific focus on the nature of personal mortality has attracted surprisingly little attention. This book breaks new ground by bringing together available ideas and research on the meaning of one's own death. Its content is organized around the question of how an ongoing relationship might be possible when the threat of consciousness coming to an end points to an unthinkable and unspeakable nothingness. The book then argues that, despite this threat, an ongoing relationship with one's own death is still possible by means of conceptual devices that help shape personal mortality into a relatable object. Four of these devices, or 'enabling frames', are examined: essential structures, passionate suffusion, point-of-transition and self-generative process. While each frame conceptualizes mortality differently, they share a capacity to move it from unintelligibility to something we can think and speak about, thereby enabling us to maintain an ongoing engagement. The final chapters explore ways in which pursuing a relationship with our own deaths could become a normal and acceptable activity throughout our lives"--
Evasion
Author: CrimethInc
Publisher: Crimethinc
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780970910110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eagerly awaited second offering from the CrimethInc. collective offers up a collection of stories, anecdotes from in and around the margins of drop-out culture. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were to be lived. Life serves the risk taker... Guaranteed to be a best-seller. Snap em up while you can.
Lucid Dreaming
Author: Celia Green
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780415112390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this unique introduction, the authors explore the nature of lucid dreaming, relate it to other experiences such as out-of-body experiences and examine how lucid dreams can be used for therapeutic purposes.
Admirable Evasions
Author: Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 1594037884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures. Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind. Admirable Evasions also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.
The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice
Author: Ronald R. Sundstrom
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008-10-09
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0791477622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the challenge that the so-called browning of America poses for any discussion of the future of race and social justice. In the philosophy of race there has been little reflection about how the rapid increase in the Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race populations affects the historical demands for racial justice by Native Americans and African Americans. Ronald R. Sundstrom examines how recent demographic shifts bear upon central questions in race theory and social and political philosophy, including color blindness, interracial intimacy, and the future of race. Sundstrom cautions that rather than getting caught up in romantic reveries about the browning of America, we should remain vigilant that longstanding claims for racial justice not be washed away.
Satire Or Evasion?
Author: James S. Leonard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780822311744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRanging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Human Manifesto
Author: Vincent L. Scarsella
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1934937800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Human Manifesto is the ultimate self-help book! In it, you will learn why you and your fellow man do the things you do -- that cultures offer hero systems enabling their members to construct life immortality elusions, or LIES, that allow them to confront and repress the stark reality of death. You will also learn how a culture can be established that motivates human beings to act in ways that improve the quality of life for their fellow man, enhance the prospect of eternal survival or the human species, and reach a better if not complete comprehension of the true nature of God and the Cosmos. Based on the writings of Ernest Becker, especially his 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning The Denial of Death, The Human Manifesto promotes the establishment of a revolutionary cultural system, the Genuine Hero System, that can both satisfy the personal psychological need to repress the stark reality of death while also resulting in a peaceful, enlightened and advanced society. The Human Manifesto argues that unless such a system is adopted, the human species will continue to be motivated to destructive or trivial behavior that falls far short in enabling individuals to attain genuine happiness and fulfillment. Indeed, unless the radical changes it espouses are realized, the species will fail to reach its highest spiritual, intellectual and technological potential. Humanity will never reach the stars and worse, as Becker feared, will be doomed to extinction.
