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Author : Chukwuma Okoye
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Paradox of Being and Other Stories written by Chukwuma Okoye and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Poul Andersen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171040
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Paradox of Being written by Poul Andersen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of truth has never been more urgent than today, when the distortion of facts and the imposition of pseudo-realities in the service of the powerful have become the order of the day. In The Paradox of Being Poul Andersen addresses the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual. His approach is unapologetically universalist, and the book may be read as a call for a new way of studying Chinese culture, one that does not shy away from approaching “the other” in terms of an engagement with “our own” philosophical heritage. The basic Chinese word for truth is zhen, which means both true and real, and it bypasses the separation of the two ideas insisted on in much of the Western philosophical tradition. Through wide-ranging research into Daoist ritual, both in history and as it survives in the present day, Andersen shows that the concept of true reality that informs this tradition posits being as a paradox anchored in the inexistent Way (Dao). The preferred way of life suggested by this insight consists in seeking to be an exception to ordinary norms and rules of behavior which nonetheless engages what is common to us all.
Author : Benjamin Maiangwa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303138797X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging written by Benjamin Maiangwa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how questions about home and belonging have been framed in the discourses on race, migration, and social relationships. It does this with the aim of envisioning alternative modes of living and reimagining our political communities in ways that question the legacy of colonization and constructed identities which detract from our sense of obligation to each other and the planet. The book questions problematic categories of difference to transform human relations beyond the materialism of our global political economy. Questions addressed in the volume include: In what ways are combative colonial identities of difference manufactured within our national and global spaces of encounter? How can we expel the racialized and tribalized political identities that seek to purify and deny the complexities and sacredness of being human? How do we embrace the notion that everyone we encounter is a mirror reflecting our fears of suffering and our desires for happiness? The book is set in the context of re-emerging ultra-nationalists and anti-migrant politicians on the national and international stage, advancing various strands of extreme-right and protectionist ideology couched as redemptive-welfarist strategies. The adverse impacts of these strategies seem to be reifying a possessive idea of citizenship and identity, engendering a national fantasy that portrays communities as homogenous entities inhabiting enclosed borders. This is essentially a compendium of conversations across the intersection of the racial, national, ethnic, spiritual, and sexual boundaries in which we live.
Author : Frank Harris
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Veils of Isis, and Other Stories written by Frank Harris and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Hope
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sport Royal & Other Stories written by Anthony Hope and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Sales
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230363288
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Adoption, Family and the Paradox of Origins written by S. Sales and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins is still so questioned in contemporary adoption work. Written by an experienced practitioner in the field, this book applies, for the first time, Foucauldian methodology to analyze and understand adoption social work, making it essential reading for a wide audience in the social sciences.
Author : Renée Schatteman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040020216
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox written by Renée Schatteman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as storyteller, advocate for children’s education, activist for HIV/AIDS awareness, and champion of indigenous languages. In this book, Renée Schatteman contends that Magona’s most important contribution comes through her refusal to choose sides in the contentious debates that have polarized public discourse following apartheid. By straddling two (or more) sides of a controversy and challenging any who do harm to others (and to the nation), regardless of their position, she blurs distinctions that are assumed to be absolute, opens new avenues of understanding, and inspires alternative visions for the future. By occupying the space of paradox, she undermines the closed epistemological structures inherited from apartheid and champions the need for interdependence, truth-telling, and dialogue. Covering her creative production over three decades (which includes novels, autobiographies and biographies, short story collections, children’s books, and literature about HIV/AIDS), this book is an essential read for Magona enthusiasts as well as for researchers of African literature and postcolonial South Africa.
Author : Shiva Rahbaran
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564784886
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paradox of Freedom written by Shiva Rahbaran and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first book-length study of Nicholas Mosley, "The Paradox of Freedom" combines a discussion of the author's incredible biography with an investigation of his writing, nearly all of which is published by Dalkey Archive Press. The son of Oswald Mosley (the leader of Britain's fascistic Blackshirts), a British Lord, a Christian convert, a war veteran, a voracious reader, and an important thinker, Nicholas Mosley has, this book argues, employed all of these experiences and ideas in novels and memoirs that seek to describe the paradoxical nature of freedom: how can man be free when limiting structures are necessary? Can it be achieved, and how? The answer lies in the books themselves, in the ways telling and re-telling stories allows one to escape the seemingly logical bounderies of life and discover new meanings and possibilities. This is a much-needed companion to the work of one of Britain's most important post-War writers.
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Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, Ph.D
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0986322601
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strange Wives: The Paradox of Biblical Intermarriage written by Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, Ph.D and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional look at a controversial topic: intermarriage in the biblical period.
