From Narcissism To Nihilism

Author : Anthony Archdeacon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000531589
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Narcissism to Nihilism written by Anthony Archdeacon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship. In early modern literature, there were expressions of humanistic self-congratulation that sometimes verged on narcissism, and at the same time expressions of self-doubt and anxiety that verged on nihilism. The themes of self-love and self-negation had a long history in western thought, and this book shows how the medieval treatments of the themes developed into something distinctive in the sixteenth century. The two themes, either individually or combined, encompass such topics as poverty, unrequited love, transgressive sexuality, sexual violence, suicidality, self-worth, authorship, religious penitence, martyrdom, courtly ambition and tyranny. Archdeacon uses over 100 texts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to show how the early modern writer existed in a culture of contrary forces pulling towards either self-affirmation or self-erasure. Writers attempted to negotiate between the polarised extremes of self-love and self-negation, realising that they are fundamental to how we respond to each other, our selves and the world.

Author : Karl Markus Abenheimer
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narcissism, Nihilism, Simplicity and Self written by Karl Markus Abenheimer and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack R Ernest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471674822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remarks On Existential Nihilism written by Jack R Ernest and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the A5 sized version of this print book. This is a self-help book and follow up to my other self-help book "Remarks On Existential Therapy." If you liked that book you will like this book. This set of remarks on the subject of Existential Nihilism and Existential Sociology discusses numerous topics. Labels, Narcissism and Conformity are all made reference to. It makes reference as to how society influences who we are. It discusses both Existential Psychology, Philosophy, Social Psychology, Buddhism and Stoicism. It also discuses methods to improve ones life and it serves as a guide to obtain Existential Maturity. The theory is based on the works of Erving Goffman, RD Laing, Irvin Yalom and Rollo May. It is approximately a 150 pages long and is written in the form of easy to understand remarks. This is the fourth edition of these notes.

Author : Jack R Ernest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781291076240
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remarks On Existential Nihilism written by Jack R Ernest and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth and final edition of this book. Please buy this edition with the green cover that comes to 129 pages. This set of remarks on the subject of Existential Nihilism and Existential Sociology discusses numerous topics. Labels, Narcissism and Conformity are all made reference to. It makes reference as to how society influences who we are. It discusses both Existential Psychology, Philosophy, Social Psychology, Buddhism and Stoicism. It also discuses methods to improve ones life and it serves as a guide to obtain Existential Maturity. The theory is based on the works of Erving Goffman, RD Laing, Irvin Yalom and Rollo May. It is approximately a 129 pages long and is written in the form of easy to understand remarks.

Author : Nolen Gertz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537176
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nihilism written by Nolen Gertz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters. When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, “an ideology of nothing. “ Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to distinguish what is meaningful from what is meaningless. In this addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Gertz traces the history of nihilism in Western philosophy from Socrates through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Although the term “nihilism” was first used by Friedrich Jacobi to criticize the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Gertz shows that the concept can illuminate the thinking of Socrates, Descartes, and others. It is Nietzsche, however, who is most associated with nihilism, and Gertz focuses on Nietzsche's thought. Gertz goes on to consider what is not nihilism—pessimism, cynicism, and apathy—and why; he explores theories of nihilism, including those associated with Existentialism and Postmodernism; he considers nihilism as a way of understanding aspects of everyday life, calling on Adorno, Arendt, Marx, and prestige television, among other sources; and he reflects on the future of nihilism. We need to understand nihilism not only from an individual perspective, Gertz tells us, but also from a political one.

Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783896755896
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics Without Truth written by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Vaknin
Publisher : Narcissus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders written by Sam Vaknin and published by Narcissus Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion/church, or politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership".

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009266705
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century written by Jon Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, expansive book reaching beyond philosophy to literature and the history of ideas with strong appeal to diverse readers.

Author : Juhani Pallasmaa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394200684
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of the Skin written by Juhani Pallasmaa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EYES OF THE SKIN Explore the relationship between architecture and the sensory experience with the fourth edition of this groundbreaking work First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense—sight—so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, the subject is all the more pressing and topical since the first edition’s publication. Juhani Pallasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms has led to the overall impoverishment of our built environment, often diminishing the emphasis on the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire, engage and be wholly life enhancing. For a student reading this text for the first time, The Eyes of the Skin is a revelation. It provides a fresh, compelling insight into architectural culture which continues to inspire more than a quarter-century after its initial publication. The fourth edition of The Eyes of the Skin also features: The author’s latest views on the emphasis of place, unfocused perception and existential experience Updates and clarifications throughout, to reinforce how our sense of self in the world remains our most important sense with the greatest architectural impact An updated Foreword that touches on the current understanding of the seminal importance of the existential sense The Eyes of the Skin is a must-read for all architecture students, who will find its insights transformative.

Author : Bhimeswara Challa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man’s Fate and God’s Choice written by Bhimeswara Challa and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stagnate as a 'creepy caterpillar' or transform into a 'beauteous butterfly'-this path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests-is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: What is man's rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we so self-righteously self-destructive? Are we a doomed species? Or 'divine' beings struggling to overcome the hubris of the human intellect? Is God getting weary of mankind? How should we synergize human effort and Divine Grace? The book posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a cathartic change at the deepest levels. That requires diluting the dominance of the mind and reawakening the long-dormant intelligence of the human heart. To meet that challenge, we need minimum numbers, a 'critical mass' to create self-sustained momentum for transformation through consciousness change. And every single human of this generation should behave in such a way that he or she is that single person whose transformation could make the decisive species-scale difference. The book offers a menu of ideas and an agenda of action. This book could be itself become an input to mobilize that very 'critical mass' it advocates for human transformation. Well-planned and cohesively written, the book is noteworthy for its delightful blend of information and arguments, and reveals the depth of the author’s understanding of the human predicament... This is a closely argued and thought-provoking book... The Hindu, 13 Sept 2011 [This book] is a gripping exposition on human nature and self-transformation without preference to religion... Challa has critically provided a foundational argument for a deeper discussion of philosophical and practical ideals concerning self-transformation... harmonizing the head and the heart is the way for humans to function as spiritual beings. Recommended by the USR. The US Review of Books [The author] reflects upon the crisis of contemporary civilizations and outlines a blueprint for a new world order based on progressive spiritual values and change of human consciousness. The strength of this treatise is the sweep of Challa’s reach and his treatment of a vastly complex set of issues that bedevil humankind today... India International Center Quarterly, Summer 2012 As a thinker and erudite scholar, [the author] has made a profound study of the world situation and the moral decadence of man... [This book] deserves to be on the shelves of university, college and public libraries... Triveni Magazine, July–Sept 2011 It is difficult to pigeon-hole this book as... a ‘prophetic discourse’, a ‘journey into the human mind’, a ‘guide for human survival’, a ‘spiritual treatise’. It is an amalgam of all these and more... the volume reaches out to those who are already uneasy about the way we on this earth are progressing. The Book Review, India, June 2013