In The Presence Of Absence

Author : Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744658
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Presence of Absence written by Mahmoud Darwish and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award “What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity.” —Saadi Yousef “There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish’s poetry.” —Anton Shammas One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish’s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Through these lyrical meditations on love, longing, Palestine, history, friendship, family, and the ongoing conversation between life and death, the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell.

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 081323008X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presence and Absence written by Robert Sokolowski and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Presence and Absence is a book of importance for all who are actively engaged in the philosophical enterprise, whatever their differing persuasions. It shows philosophy to be flourishing in the midst of its own self-proclaimed signs of morbidity.” – The Review of Metaphysics “A splendid, provocative and profound work, this book explores the manifold ways in which the contrast of presence and absence operate to establish the possibility of human discourse and truthfulness...belongs in every philosophy collection.” – Choice “Quite simply a superb book, which deserves more than one careful reading. A fresh, unified treatment of a grand philosophical theme, the theme of the connections between thought, truth, and being.” – Man and World “A thoughtful book about thoughtfulness and truthfulness and their ontological conditions. Simply put, this is a book that will reward its careful reader a hundredfold, for Sokolowski is a speaker who says things in ways that are provocative, exciting, and invariably insightful.” – Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology “Has few peers in phenomenological literature.” – International Philosophical Quarterly “[Sokolowski is] an original thinker of the first rank, who has significantly furthered the path of phenomenological philosophy. As well as being an exciting synthesis, a thinking of the previously unthought in predecessors, and a ground-breaking movement, this work is written with a sensitivity to language and its graceful use that one would hope for from one exploring its richness and power.” – Human Studies

Author : Luc M Victor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absence of The Presence written by Luc M Victor and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Absence of God's Presence will create the presence of someone or something else in your life. The content of this book reveals God's Presence, who you are, what power you have, how to activate your faith and help you understand the power within versus the power without. This workbook will refuel your faith life and fill up your emptiness, as it will also challenge you to recognize what life you were made to live. After reading this book, you will change for the better; just like it happened for Peter after Jesus called him to become a fisher of man. This is the book you have been waiting for that you didn't know existed. It carries keys that will unlock doors before you and bring newness of life to you, as you follow its instructions.

Author : Richard Widerkehr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936657308
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Presence of Absence written by Richard Widerkehr and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Widerkehr's In the Presence of Absence is a book of loss and recovery, grief and wonder. These are poems informed with clarity and compassion, and a quiet lyricism in confronting the mortal world, the death of parents, and life-threatening illness." --Joseph Stroud. author of Of This World: New and Selected Poems

Author : John F. Kutsko
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060418
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Heaven and Earth written by John F. Kutsko and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2000 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is Yahweh to be differentiated from other deities? What is Yahweh's relationship to Israel in exile?".

Author : Mikkel Bille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441955291
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthropology of Absence written by Mikkel Bille and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything from organ donation, to funerary rituals, to prisoners of war, The Archaeology of Absence is written at an important intersection of archaeological and anthropological study. Divided into three sections, this volume uses the "presence" of absence to compare cultural perceptions of: material qualities and created memory, the mind/body connection, temporality, and death. This rich text provides a strong theoretical framework for anthropologists and archaeologists studying material culture.

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0670881465
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Author : Pamela Petro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1956763767
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Field written by Pamela Petro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”

Author : Jonathan Wyatt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462096228
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On (Writing) Families written by Jonathan Wyatt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we with—and without—families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent-child relationships—and familial relationships in general—made and (not) maintained? Informed by narrative, performance studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, contributors to this collection use autoethnography—a method that uses the personal to examine the cultural—to interrogate these questions. The essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, openness and secrecy, remembering and forgetting, accountability and forgiveness, life and death. Throughout, family relationships are framed as relationships that inspire and inform, bind and scar—relationships replete with presence and absence, love and loss. An essential text for anyone interested in autoethnography, personal narrative, identity, relationships, and family communication.

Author : Sofia Pantouvaki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004374140
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presence and Absence written by Sofia Pantouvaki and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: