The Infrahuman

Author : Noam Pines
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438470681
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infrahuman written by Noam Pines and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity. The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish writers in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed figures of animals in pejorative depictions of Jews and Jewish identity. Such depictions are disturbing because they sometimes rival common anti-Semitic stereotypes, and have often been explained away as symptoms of Jewish self-hatred. In this book, Noam Pines shows how animality emerged in Jewish literature not as a biological or conceptual category, but as a theological figure of exclusion from a state of humanity and Christianity alike. By framing the human-animal question in theological terms rather than in racial-biological terms, writers such as Heinrich Heine, S. Y. Abramovitsh, Hayim Nachman Bialik, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Franz Kafka, S. Y. Agnon, and Paul Celan subjected the pejorative designations of Jewish identity to literary elaboration and to philosophical negotiation. Noam Pines is Assistant Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Author : Gerrit Smith Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Reprints written by Gerrit Smith Miller and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. S. Clarke
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487040
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude written by D. S. Clarke and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings have thoughts, sensations, and feelings and think that at least some of this mental life is shared with domestic and wild animals. But, are there reduced degrees of mentality found in mosquitoes, bacteria, and even more primitive natural bodies? Panpsychists think so and have defended this belief throughout the history of philosophy, beginning with the ancient Greeks and continuing into the present. In this bold, challenging book, D. S. Clarke outlines reasons for accepting panpsychism and defends the doctrine against its critics. He proposes it as an alternative to the mechanistic materialism and humanism that dominate present-day philosophy.

Author : Carrie Conners
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149683951X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laugh Lines written by Carrie Conners and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry argues that humor is not a superficial feature of a small subset, but instead an integral feature in a great deal of American poetry written since the 1950s. Rather than viewing poetry as a lofty, serious genre, Carrie Conners asks readers to consider poetry alongside another art form that has burgeoned in America since the 1950s: stand-up comedy. Both art forms use wit and laughter to rethink the world and the words used to describe it. Humor’s disruptive nature makes it especially whetted for critique. Many comedians and humorous poets prove to be astute cultural critics. To that end, Laugh Lines focuses on poetry that wields humor to espouse sociopolitical critique. To show the range of recent American poetry that uses humor to articulate sociopolitical critique, Conners highlights the work of poets working in four distinct poetic genres: traditional, received forms, such as the sonnet; the epic; procedural poetry; and prose poetry. Marilyn Hacker, Harryette Mullen, Ed Dorn, and Russell Edson provide the main focus of the chapters, but each chapter compares those poets to others writing humorous political verse in the same genre, including Terrance Hayes and Anne Carson. This comparison highlights the pervasiveness of this trend in recent American poetry and reveals the particular ways the poets use conventions of genre to generate and even amplify their humor. Conners argues that the interplay between humor and genre creates special opportunities for political critique, as poetic forms and styles can invoke the very social constructs that the poets deride.

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Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9789715740807
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics written by and published by Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Nelson Tuttle
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820428666
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crowd is Untruth written by Howard Nelson Tuttle and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century. Kierkegaard was the first to anticipate and delineate this phenomenon philosophically. Heidegger appropriated much from Kierkegaard, but recast the mass into the fundamental ontology of Das Man. Moreover, his work was informed by Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism and the will of power. Finally, the masses are considered from the vision of Ortega y Gasset's philosophy of human life. This book relates all four of these thinkers into a philosophical perspective upon the nature of the mass.

Author : David Farrier
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781388121
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Asylum written by David Farrier and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry.

Author : Larry T. Reynolds
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780930390655
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interactionism written by Larry T. Reynolds and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactionism: Exposition and Critique offers a balanced overview of symbolic interactionism from its earliest precursors to its latest proponents and critics.

Author : Zoltan Torey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261219
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Consciousness written by Zoltan Torey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself. In The Crucible of Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that separates the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal awareness, and he maps its neural and linguistic underpinnings. And he argues, controversially, that the neural technicalities of reflective awareness can be neither algorithmic nor spiritual—neither a computer nor a ghost in the machine. The human mind is unique; it is not only the epicenter of our knowledge but also the outer limit of our intellectual reach. Not to solve the riddle of the self-aware mind, writes Torey, goes against the evolutionary thrust that created it. Torey proposes a model that brings into a single focus all the elements that make up the puzzle: how the brain works, its functional components and their interactions; how language evolved and how syntax evolved out of the semantic substrate by way of neural transactions; and why the mind-endowed brain deceives itself with entelechy-type impressions. Torey first traces the language-linked emergence of the mind, the subsystem of the brain that enables it to be aware of itself. He then explores this system: how consciousness works, why it is not transparent to introspection, and what sense it makes in the context of evolution. The “consciousness revolution” and the integrative focus of neuroscience have made it possible to make concrete formerly mysterious ideas about the human mind. Torey's model of the mind is the logical outcome of this, highlighting a coherent and meaningful role for a reflectively aware humanity.

Author : D. S. Clarke
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484823
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panpsychism written by D. S. Clarke and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of readings in panpsychism, spanning two millennia.