[PDF] Startling Strangeness eBook

Author : Richard M. Liddy
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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In the introduction to Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, Bernard Lonergan writes of the "startling strangeness" that overtakes someone who really understands what the act of "insight" is all about. The present work is about that experience in the life of Richard Liddy as he wrestled with Insight in the 1960s. Liddy was Lonergan's student in Rome during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and in this work he recounts his encounter with Lonergan and with Insight. He includes memories of other Lonergan students as well as witnesses to the "startling strangeness" the reading of Insight engenders.

Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Koan
ISBN : 0195117484

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Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. This innovative religious practice is one of the most distinctive elements of this tradition, which originated in medieval China and spread to Japan and Korea. Perhaps no dimension of Asian religous has attracted so much interest in the West, and its influence is apparent from beat poetry to deconstructive literary critisism. The essays collected in this volume, all previously; unpublished, argue that our understanding of the koan tradition has been severely limited. The authors try to undermine stereotypes and problematic interpretations by examining previously unrecognized factors in the formation of the tradition, and by highlighting the rich complexity and remarkable; diversity of koan practice and literature.

Author : Jeffrey A. Allen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1532688768

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In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the book examines four works: Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions, René Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Bernard Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and Peter Weir’s The Truman Show. The main argument of this book is that all four works contain and induce conversion. That is, all four works feature an individual who abandons a world view and starts over, and all four works exhort their engager to do the same. This book also explores the works’ requirement of cognitive imitation, wherein a person replicates the mental activities of the individual who has a conversion in the work, and of private engagement, wherein a person reads or views the work while alone. The book concludes with an argument for the educational value of the four works that appropriates Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134652305

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In Science Fiction Adam Roberts offers a clear and critically engaging account of the phenomenon illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8027200172

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This carefully crafted ebook of "Robert Louis Stevenson: Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Island Studies" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. Table of Contents: An Inland Voyage (1878) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Edinburgh - Picturesque Notes (1879) The Old and New Pacific Capitals (1882) The Amateur Emigrant (1895) Across the Plains (1892) The Silverado Squatters (1883) A Mountain Town in France (1896) The Island Literature: A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) In the South Seas (1896)

Author : Frank Kendon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 1950-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521054753

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The Small Years is, simply, one man's account of what it meant to him to be a child.

Author : David Baker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0472120425

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In Show Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved—and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The opening essays offer contemplations on the “environment” of poetry from thoughts on physical places and regions as well as the inner aesthetic environment. Next, Baker looks at the highly distinctive achievements and styles of poets ranging from George Herbert and Emily Dickinson through poets writing today. Finally, he takes joy in reading individual poems—from the canonical to the contemporary; simply and closely.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 8280 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8026836596

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.