Holding Fast To An Image Of The Past

Author : Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608463338
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Fast to an Image of the Past written by Neil Davidson and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davidson discusses how Marxism can retain a sense of historical tradition without becoming fossilized.

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545510198
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold Fast written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NYT bestselling author Blue Balliett, the story of a girl who falls into Chicago's shelter system, and from there must solve the mystery of her father's strange disappearance. Where is Early's father? He's not the kind of father who would disappear. But he's gone . . . and he's left a whole lot of trouble behind.As danger closes in, Early, her mom, and her brother have to flee their apartment. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to move into a city shelter. Once there, Early starts asking questions and looking for answers. Because her father hasn't disappeared without a trace. There are patterns and rhythms to what's happened, and Early might be the only one who can use them to track him down and make her way out of a very tough place.With her signature, singular love of language and sense of mystery, Blue Balliett weaves a story that takes readers from the cold, snowy Chicago streets to the darkest corner of the public library, on an unforgettable hunt for deep truths and a reunited family.

Author : Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608463559
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Fast to an Image of the Past written by Neil Davidson and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davidson explores classic themes in historical materialism as he explains: the moments of transition from the dominance of one mode of production to another; the process of social revolution which accompany these transitions; and the problem of nationalism, both as a theoretical challenge to Marxism's capacity for historical explanation and as a practical obstacle to socialist consciousness.

Author : Eli Friedlander
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674063023
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Eli Friedlander and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp of his "unclassifiable" genius. Eli Friedlander argues that Walter Benjamin's corpus of writings must be recognized as a unique configuration of philosophy with an overarching coherence and a deep-seated commitment to engage the philosophical tradition. Friedlander finds in Benjamin's early works initial formulations of the different dimensions of his philosophical thinking. He leads through them to Benjamin's views on the dialectical image, the nature of language, the relation of beauty and truth, embodiment, dream and historical awakening, myth and history, as well as the afterlife and realization of meaning. Those notions are articulated both in themselves and in relation to central figures of the philosophical tradition. They are further viewed as leading to and coming together in The Arcades Project. Friedlander takes that incomplete work to be the central theater where these earlier philosophical preoccupations were to be played out. Benjamin envisaged in it the possibility of the highest order of thought taking the form of writing whose contents are the concrete time-bound particularities of human experience. Addressing the question of the possibility of such a presentation of philosophical truth provides the guiding thread for constellating the disparate moments of Benjamin's writings.

Author : Henry W. Pickford
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823245403
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Semblance:Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art written by Henry W. Pickford and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust. The book's principal aim is to move beyond the familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness of alternative theories of meaning and understanding from the Anglophone analytic tradition. The book takes as its starting point the claim that Holocaust artworks must fulfill at least two specific yet potentially reciprocally countervailing desiderata: they must meet aesthetic criteria (lest they be, say, merely historical documents) and they must meet historical criteria (they must accurately represent the Holocaust, lest they be merely artworks). I locate this problematic within the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, as a version of the conflict between aesthetic autonomy and aesthetic heteronomy, and claim that Theodor W. Adorno's "dialectic of aesthetic semblance" describes the normative demand that a successful artwork maintain a dynamic tension between these dual desiderata. While working within a framework inspired by Adorno, the book further claims that certain concepts and lines of reasoning from contemporary philosophy best explicate how individual artworks fulfill these dual desiderata, including the causal theory of names, the philosophy of tacit knowledge, analytic philosophy of quotation, Sartre's theory of the imaginary, work in the epistemology of testimony, and Walter Benjamin's theory of dialectical images. Individual chapters provide close readings of lyric poetry by Paul Celan (including a critique of Derridean deconstruction), Holocaust memorials in Berlin, texts by the Austrian quotational artist Heimrad Bäcker, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah and Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus. The result is a set of interpretations of Holocaust artworks that, in their precision, specificity and clarity, inaugurate a dialogue between contemporary analytic philosophy and contemporary art.

Author : Susan Cole
Publisher : White Bird Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1633635384
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Fast written by Susan Cole and published by White Bird Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At once a captivating life story made up of a rich history, and a beautiful reflection on loves lost. Tender, moving, and highly readable.” —Torre DeRoche Author of Love with a Chance of Drowning “This book is one part “Hero’s Journey” and two parts love story; an alchemy of high adventure and keen insights that will take your breath away and expand your capacity to love. Empowering, entertaining, and most of all inspiring. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I know you will too.” —Brian Luke Seaward Author of Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water HOLDING FAST: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss is Susan’s story of leaving everything behind to follow her husband’s lifelong dream of sailing away. Blond, blue-eyed, irreverent John bursts into Susan’s life in her twenties with a dream of sailing off. Susan dreams of settling down and doesn’t want to go. A three-year voyage with their young daughter to the Caribbean profoundly changes their lives. A gripping adventure story and an inspirational memoir of finding our power in the unlikeliest of places.

Author : Matthew Everhard
Publisher : Matthew Everhard
ISBN 13 : 1934453102
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold Fast the Faith written by Matthew Everhard and published by Matthew Everhard. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthermore, confessions and creeds serve to help assure that the doctrinal faith that we articulate today has not subtly changed over time, subject to the warping influence of secular society. Creeds stand as ancient landmarks denoting the "location" of believers' hearts in history. Noting where one deviates from an ancient creed gives a person a distinct idea about where his or her own theological convictions stand in relation to other believers throughout history. Perhaps this also helps us to discover what direction we are moving. Are we moving closer to Christ? To God's Word? To the heart of God Himself? Or are we moving further away? The confession that I will be recommending to you in this volume is the standard-bearing creed in the Presbyterian or Reformed branch of Christianity. Influenced heavily by the thinking of Reformation theologian John Calvin (1509-1564), the Westminster Confession (1647) is a confessional exemplar of Reformed theology.2 The Westminster Confession of Faith is the premiere example of theological intellectualism absorbed in the beauty of the sovereignty of God. The Westminster Confession, and Calvin before it for that matter, were both completely committed to the theological concept that God is sovereign over the entire universe. Therefore, as you study this Confession you will undoubtedly encounter the Living God as ruler of the cosmos, the world, the events of your life, and hopefully your heart.

Author : Henry T. Hudson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595419003
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold Fast The Form of Sound Words written by Henry T. Hudson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Dr Henry T. Hudson is a collection of studies that first appeared in serial form in his monthly Bible study mailings. They are selections from his written dialogue with various pastors over the last ten years. Apart from the first four, which are inserted by way of emphasizing the authority of Holy Scripture, the rest focus, as the subtitle declares, on reviewing and refining dispensational thinking in areas such as: Biblical prophecy, the Kingdom of God, and the nature of the mystery that was revealed to the Apostle Paul. While accepting and advocating the pragmatic value of the dispensational approach to the Bible, Dr. Hudson is never-the-less of the opinion that some of the deductive reasoning associated with this approach has allowed questionable premises to dictate faulty interpretations. In consequence, there are chinks in the armor.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. [By A. F. Bayford.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William A. Kahn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583919361
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding Fast written by William A. Kahn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Holding Fast the stresses faced by caregiving organizations are identified and appropriate strategies for tackling these to create a resilient, effective organization are discussed.