[PDF] Freedom And The Body eBook

Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 184708687X

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Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing old certainties. She offers a lucid account of him as a thinker whose persistent aim was to challenge the self-evidence and seeming inevitability of our current experiences, practices and institutions by showing their historical development and, therefore, contingency. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Foucault's writings - his books, essays, lectures and interviews - including the major works History of Madness,The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.

Author : M. Shawn Copeland
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506463266

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The achievement of our humanity comes about only through immersion in concrete, visceral, embodied relational experience, yet for many human beings, that achievement is stamped by the struggle against oppression in history, society, and religion. In this incisive and important work, distinguished theologian M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates with rare insight and conviction how Black women's historical experience and oppression cast a completely different light on our theological ideas about being human. Copeland argues that race, embodiment, and relations of power reframe not only theological anthropology but also our notions of discipleship, church, Eucharist, and Christ. Enfleshing Freedom is a work of deep moral seriousness, rigorous speculative skill, and sharp theological reasoning. This new edition incorporates recent theological, philosophical, historical, political, and sociological scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.

Author : Body Memory Recall
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category :
ISBN : 9780615328515

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The innate ability to suppress stressful experiences has become more than a mechanism to survive, it has become an unconscious habit. As a result a person can accumulate years, even a lifetime of stressful memories in their body a phenomenon known as body memory. In Freedom From Body Memory we join Jonathan Tripodi on his eighteen year journey to uncover the secrets of body memory and how one's unconscious hold on the past is the invisible source of pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and repetitive life experiences. From his personal story - My Awakening to Body Memory in Part I through the fascinating science and case studies in Part II, Jonathan illuminates a healing path that is missed in traditional medicine and therapy that ultimately transforms body memory and accumulated stress which in turn enables individuals to manifest positive changes in their body and life that were previously considered impossible.

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 150360232X

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Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.

Author : Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139500090

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Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.

Author : Rakel Chafir
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781735317717

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RELEASE WEIGHT, AND STEP FULLY INTO YOUR MOST POWERFUL,CONFIDENT SELF.Free Your Body takes you on the journey that will transform your relationship to foodand body image forever.These seven steps deliver what fitness programs and diet books lack-freedom. Inplace of willing, forcing, fighting, and dieting your way to your goals and dreams, it'stime to work your way through the emotional, physical, and psychological blocks thatare keeping you from the body your desire and the freedom you deserve. You have thetools and the permission to rewire your brain to optimize you own ability to fulfill yourdeepest desires and feel forever fit.DUMP THE DIET BOOKS. They are holding your back.THROW AWAY THE SCALE.CHOOSE YOURSELF. It's the key that unlocks all the rest.

Author : Olivia Laing
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0393608786

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"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Author : Christophe Bouton
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810130157

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Christophe Bouton's Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time. Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy's reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later), Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton's is the first major work of its kind since Bergson's Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton's "mystery of the future," in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.

Author : Christian Welzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107034701

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This is the first study to demonstrate the role of cultural change in the global rise of freedoms. In multiple ways, the author illustrates how emerging "emancipative values" intertwine technological and institutional changes into a single trend toward human empowerment. The author interprets his broad and far-reaching findings from societies around the world in a new and coherent framework: the evolutionary theory of emancipation.