The Vital Lie

Author : Anthony S. Abbott
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817312021
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vital Lie written by Anthony S. Abbott and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.

Author : Daniel Goleman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684831074
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Lies, Simple Truths written by Daniel Goleman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened by intriguing case histories and experiments.

Author : ERNEST. BECKER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788164269
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Denial of Death written by ERNEST. BECKER and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Lies written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Lies written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : VERNON. LEE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033735985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VITAL LIES, written by VERNON. LEE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Livingstone Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312310400
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Lie written by David Livingstone Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker will find much to intrigue them in this fascinating book, which declares that our extraordinary ability to deceive others - and even our selves - 'lies' at the heart of our humanity.

Author : David Farris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061748439
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lie Still written by David Farris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent physician debuts as a gifted storyteller in Lie Still, a dazzlingly suspenseful and compulsively readable trip through the dark underbelly of the OR -- where reputations, careers, and lives are on the line. In a sleepy, small-town Arizona hospital, a thirteen-year-old boy lies in a coma after inexplicably suffering a cardiac arrest. His doctors are perplexed. Although emotionally disturbed Henry Rojelio was a frequent visitor to the emergency room -- often for bouts of asthma, but usually just for attention -- no one ever anticipated a battle with death. Surgical resident Malcolm Ishmail began his medical career months before at a busy Phoenix hospital -- a far cry from the small ER deep in the silent heart of the desert, where Henry Rojelio lies. There, Malcolm fell into a secret, exhausting affair with one of his professors, Dr. Mimi Lyle, a beautiful, charismatic brain surgeon who had subtle difficulties in the operating room. In a moment of weakness "Dreamy Mimi" confessed to him her failings as a neurosurgeon; Malcolm reported her to his superiors . . . and promptly lost his job. Now, miles away from Phoenix, Dr. Ishmail struggles to save his young asthmatic patient's life and his future as a surgeon. And with little time and few clues to the cause of Henry Rojelio's sudden collapse, the impressionable doctor wonders whether his former lover may have exacted a disturbing revenge. Rich in medical detail and written with stylish, razor-sharp action and dialogue, Lie Still is a gripping, emotional drama of human failings and devastating consequences that marks the debut of a remarkable new voice.

Author : Nick Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781250372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vital Question written by Nick Lane and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021106629
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism; Volume 1 written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: