[PDF] Other Banalities eBook

Author : Jon Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 113544885X

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Melanie Klein is one of the few analysts whose body of work has inspired sociologists, philosophers, religious scholars, literary critics and political theorists, all attracted to the cross-fertilisation of her ideas. Other Banalities represents a long over-due exploration of her legacy, including contributions from acclaimed interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners. The contributors situate Klein within the history of the psychoanalytic movement, investigate her key theoretical and clinical advances, and look at how her thought has informed contemporary perspectives in the behavioural sciences and humanities. Topics covered range from Klein’s major psychological theories to clinical pathology, child development, philosophy, sociology, politics, religion, ethics and aesthetics. This volume reflects the auspicious future for Kleinian revivalism and demonstrates the broad relevance of Kleinian thought. It will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Author : Elizabeth K. Minnich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1442275979

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How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred, fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides, slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation. “Extensive evil,” her term for systematic horrific harm-doing, is actually carried out, not by psychopaths, but by people like your quiet next door neighbor, your ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters for extensive evil, nor enough saints for extensive good. In periods of extensive evil, people little different from you and me do its work for no more than a better job, a raise, the house of the family “disappeared” last week. So how can there be hope? The seeds of such evils are right there in our ordinary lives. They are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing and so protecting ourselves from responsibility for the worst and the best of which humans are capable, we can prepare to say no to extensive evil—to act accurately, together, and above all in time, before great harm-doing has become the daily work of ‘normal’ people.

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Page : 850 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1913
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The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910

Author : Simon Dunmore
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408109271

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Competition for acting work is fierce, and although talent is important, actors need all the help they can get. Now in its fourth edition, this practical, comprehensive guide contains invaluable information and advice to enable actors to make the most of: drama schools; audition speeches and sight-readings; letters, CVs and photographs; finding and working with an agent; auditions for musicals; the fringe; interviews; TV, commercials and films; voice-overs; the Internet; Equity. The author, an experienced director, has drawn on his own knowledge and also on the experience of numerous other professionals to produce a book that has become the standard work of reference for actors of all ages.

Author : Seymour R. Kesten
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815625933

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"Decades before the communes of the sixties, nineteenth-century radicals set up isolated colonies where they hoped to insulate themselves from a corrupt mainstream America. Throughout the country experimental utopian settlements promised to fulfill the lives of ordinary citizens through abundance, equality, and free education. Utopian Episodes tells why these early, freethinking rebels could never fully achieve their goals, but how their legacy has become an integral part of today's movement for social reform." "Seymour Kesten focuses on three of the most renowned colonies: New-Harmony, Indiana; Brook Farm, Massachusetts; and Icarian Communities in Iowa and Illinois. Many more experimental groups are also discussed, including Alphadelphia in Michigan, Fruitlands and Hopedale in Massachusetts, Ohio Phalanx, and La Reunion (now Dallas, Texas)." "Unlike other studies on similar groups, Kesten's book gives us a unique insider's view into the day-to-day lives of these American radicals and thus provides a study of the human spirit. He lets us see utopian life through the eyes of those who knew it firsthand. A look at individuals' activities, work, dress, and food brings us into the realm of their souls. He draws on rare memoirs and early accounts (some published here for the first time) by well-known participants, including A. Bronson Alcott, Horace Greeley, and George Ripley, as well as relatively unknown colonists, such as Albert Brisbane, John Dwight, Elijah Grant, and Amelia Russell." "The book spans the rebirth of an intellectual movement and explores the newspapers, literature, poetry, and music of its social consciousness. Education for the masses was the essence of the utopian process, for it alone, they believed, would regenerate a civic-minded, compassionate society. Ultimately, they would eradicate evil, which was the goal of every colony."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Dumitru Balmez
Publisher : Dumitru Balmez
Page : pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :

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Dear Reader, This is my story and I truly believe that my experience and my research over losing weight, done during years, could help many others to find the exit from this bad dream of being oversized. For the ones thinking that there is no way out (I’m sure it may be a lot and even you may be one of them), I can tell you that it is possible and that it is not so tough at all to do it. This is my story without being a boring diary. It it is neither a miracle diet program nor a list of recipes. You can find them everywhere, you will follow them and you will give up after a while. Instead, it contains a lot of practical advice from my personal life and experience, that guided me toward a new life, since I decided to change something. Because it is not only about losing weight for good, it is about a profound transformation of our lives. It is about why we are fat and finding the right motivation to change this, the way we eat, why and how we exercise, what else to change and why, everything explained in a very accessible style. My book is not only for adult persons. I would be happy if my book will help parents with oversized children or children themselves, reading this book. Childhood is the foundation of our lives and children needs our help and guidance for have a happy and healthy (physical and mental) life from the very beginning. Because it is easier and better to correct something earlier but prevention is the best. Reading the book is not the end of our relationship. On the last page of the book you will have my contact info and we can keep in touch. Being a member of our community can be helpful and supporting. Dumitru Balmez

Author : Steven L. Davis
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1623498023

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Setting out to create a collection of J. Frank Dobie’s writing that “brings him alive and makes him relevant to current generations of readers,” Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie’s most vital writings. Dobie’s stories and essays here are meticulously edited to “prune away some of the brushy undergrowth” and bring Dobie’s folksy, erudite voice bounding back to life. The result is The Essential J. Frank Dobie, a treasury that introduces new readers to Dobie—and reminds older ones that Dobie captured priceless social history while producing some of the most fascinating, best-informed writing about Texas. Dobie bore eloquent witness to the passing of ancient pastoral lifeways and was decades ahead of his time in championing civil rights and protecting the environment. Davis, a Dobie biographer, has found the stories only the master himself could tell—those enriched by his matchless personal adventures, from Mexico to wartime Europe to the remote outback, where he joined wandering seekers on their quests for lost treasures. Featuring previously published works as well as writing that has never before appeared in book form, The Essential J. Frank Dobie will intrigue, inform, and delight readers: both those who know Dobie’s work as an old acquaintance and those who are meeting him for the first time in these pages. As Davis concludes, “the spirit of Dobie is as alive as ever. May you be nourished by it." All of the author's royalties from The Essential J. Frank Dobie will go to the J. Frank Dobie Library Trust to help small Texas libraries purchase books.