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Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day - Paperback

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by Steve Hagen (Author)"This is the clearest and most precise exposition of Buddhism I have ever read. If you're looking for enlightenment rather than just scholarly knowledge, you'd better read this." --Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance In Buddhism Plain and Simple, Zen priest and longtime teacher Steve Hagen presents the heart of Buddhist teachings, pared down to its essence and explained in simple, everyday language. This best-selling book is the perfect g...

Out of the Darkness: Man's Struggle Against Himself

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Campbell (Author)Navigating the Journey of Life: An Introspective Look at Triumphs and Trials, Choices and Regrets, Wisdom Gained Through Experience, and the Philosophy of Being Human in a World Full of Challenges, Growth, and the Pursuit of Meaningful Existence.In OUT OF THE DARKNESS, I delve into my personal journey, sharing the intricate tapestry of my life experiences, both uplifting and challenging. This autobiography is not just a recounting of even...

The Book of Tea: Beauty, Simplicity and the Zen Aesthetic - Paperback

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by Kakuzo Okakura (Author), Andrew Juniper (Foreword by), Liza Dalby (Introduction by)"Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature. Along the way exploring topics related to tea appreciation, including Zen, flower arranging and Taoism. An early cultural activist, Okakura's mission was to preserve Japanese art and aesthetic practices from an extinction that seemed imminent." --The Japan Times Now in paperback with a new foreword and new pho...

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Report copyright infringementby Leo Graf Tolstoy (Author), Aylmer Maude (Author)Leo Tolstoy's "What Is Art?" delves into the fundamental question of art's purpose and its relationship to morality. Tolstoy challenges conventional notions of beauty and aesthetics, arguing that true art serves a vital function: to unite people through shared emotion and understanding. This thought-provoking work explores the connection between artistic expression and ethical responsibility. Tolstoy critiques art...

rock philosophy: meditations on art and desire

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Report copyright infringementby Torgeir Fjeld (Author)Is the creative act like a volcano: an outburst that lights up the universe? This volume connects reason with desire and the arts in ways that enable us to imagine how creativity can bring us closer to the truth. The artistic quest for freedom stands in stark contrast to philosophy's call to subordinate art to reason and tradition. The struggle between them has culminated in artistic attempts to subsume philosophical matters within the dom...

The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Swirski (Editor), Tero Eljas Vanhanen (Editor)Artertainment is more than a novel aesthetic term reflecting the fact that art and entertainment have cross-pollinated each other throughout history. It is a creative strategy that purposely intertwines highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics in the name of reaching the connoisseurs and the masses. The Art of Artertainment sets out to unravel the jumble of aesthetic faultlines and prejudices found wherever we find art...

Introduction to Zen Training: A Physical Approach to Meditation and Mind-Body Training (the Classic Rinzai Zen Manual) - Paperback

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by Omori Sogen (Author), Sayama Daian (Foreword by), Michael Kangen (Foreword by)Introduction to Zen Training is a translation of the Sanzen Nyumon, a foundational text for beginning meditation students by Omori Sogen--one of the foremost Zen teachers of the twentieth century. This book addresses many of the questions which arise when someone first embarks on a journey of Zen meditation--ranging from how long to sit at one time to how to remain mindful when not sitting--and it concludes with ...

Fear and Trembling and the Sickness Unto Death

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Report copyright infringementby Søren Kierkegaard (Author), Walter Lowrie (Translator), Gordon Marino (Introduction by)Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of S ren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have come to define his contribution to philosophy. Lowrie's translation, first published in 1941 and late...

Elements of Beauty: Or What Makes a Thing Beautiful

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Report copyright infringementby Johann M. Moser (Author)In the first of the two long talks published here, Johann Moser defends the classical view that beauty is grounded in the irreducible splendor of form itself, enjoyed and enjoyable by all cultures and ages.Yet often today, beauty is said also to lie elsewhere: "She has such a beautiful soul"; "The Pythagorean theorem is beautiful"; "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."Moser shows that to discover the very essence of beauty and to clearly deli...

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto Diodato (Author), Justin L. Harmon (Translator), Silvia Benso (Revised by)Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.Arguing that the virtual body is something new-namely, an entity that from an ontological perspective has only recently entered the world-Roberto Diodato considers the implications of this kind of body for aesthetics. Virtual bodies insert themselves into the space opened up by the famo...

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain: One Hundred Years Later

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Kilroy (Author)This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Zizek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but that this very misunderstanding is central to the work's ...

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Slater (Author)In this, his first book, Howard Slater extemporizes around what Walter Benjamin could have meant by the phrase 'affective classes'. Rather than be restricted by an academic approach Slater is inspired by the possible implications of Benjamin's 'messianic shard' and is led towards a therapeutic micro-politics by way of a mourning for the Workers' Movement and a grappling with the 'becomings of capital'. The essay, Anomie/Bonhomie, is the se...

The Stoics: The Philosophy of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius - Hardcover

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Epicurus (Author), Seneca (Author)This luxurious hardback edition brings together four classic essays on Stoic philosophy from the Ancient Greek world, beautifully presented with gold embossing and stenciled page edges. Is there an answer to the question 'How does one lead a happy life?' Certainly one ancient Greek school of philosophy believed that there was: lead a life of virtue, one in harmony with nature and do not be swayed by fortune or misfortune. First p...

The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art

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Report copyright infringementby Georges Didi-Huberman (Author), Harvey Mendelsohn (Translator) The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Huberman's extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the "life" of images. Drawing on a wide range of Warburg's unpublished letters and diaries, Did...

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Report copyright infringementby Akel Ismail Kahera (Author)The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault's analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the "ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space." This book uses Foucault's framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century, to the development...

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Report copyright infringementby Ulli Beier (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enoug...

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by Anton La Vey (Author)The Satanic Bible was written by Anton LaVey in 1969. It is a collection of essays, observations and basic Satanic rituals, and outlines LaVey's Satanic ideology. It contains the core principles of LaVeyan Satanism and is considered the foundation of the philosophy and dogma that constitute Satanism. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.7 x 6.7 x 4.1 IN Publication Date: December 01, 1976

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Hardcover

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by Robert M. Pirsig (Author)THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONSA penetrating examination of how we live and how to live betterFew books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generations that follow. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one such book. This modern epic of a man's search for meaning became an instant bestseller on publication in 1974, acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters. It continues...

The Complete I Ching -- 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Translation by Taoist Master Alfred Huang - Paperback

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by Taoist Master Alfred Huang (Author)A revised edition of the definitive translation of the world's most important book of divination - The first English translation from within the tradition by a Chinese Taoist Master - Includes translations of the Ten Wings--the commentaries by Confucius essential to the I Ching's insights Translated by the eminent Taoist Master Alfred Huang, The Complete I Ching has been praised by scholars and new students of the I Ching since its first edition. A native...

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by Jonathan Haber (Author)An insightful guide to the practice, teaching, and history of critical thinking--from Aristotle and Plato to Thomas Dewey--for teachers, students, and anyone looking to hone their critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential 21st century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given the propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said tha...

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by David Shields (Author)A landmark book, "brilliant, thoughtful" (The Atlantic) and "raw and gorgeous" (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus ...

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids - Paperback

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by Meghan Daum (Editor), Meghan Daum (Introduction by), Meghan Daum (Author)Sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice, in this critically acclaimed, bestselling anthology One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society's most vexing taboos. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," ...

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by Aristotle (Author), Hugh Lawson-Tancred (Translator), Hugh Lawson-Tancred (Introduction by)Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the ...

Master Dogen's Zazen Meditation Handbook: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa: A Discourse on the Practice of Zazen - Hardcover

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by Eihei Dogen (Author), Kosho Uchiyama Roshi , Shohaku Okumura (Translator)"Dogen's famous text on Zen practice comes alive in the hands of a modern meditation master." --Carl Biefeldt, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University and author of Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation This is the definitive English translation of a foundational work of Zen Buddhism--the Bendowa ("On the Endeavor of the Way") by Eihei Dogen, founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan. Written in 1231, it cont...

Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli a First English Translation - Paperback

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by Sebastian Purcell (Translator)Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in Latin script by Spanish clergymen and passed down for centuries in the native Nahuatl language--one of the earliest transcripts being ...

Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Stephen Eric Bronner (Author)Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many...

The Everlasting Man: A Guide to G.K. Chesterton's Masterpiece - Hardcover

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by Dale Ahlquist (Editor) Among the many masterpieces of G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man is his crowning achievement. It was the book that set a young atheist named C.S. Lewis on the path toward Christianity. Evelyn Waugh called it "a permanent monument" that "needs no elucidation." And its lively prose and compelling defense of Christianity have dazzled readers ever since. But a little elucidation, it turns out, is needed. Chesterton's presentation of the story of humanity and religion...

Zen Wisdom for the Anxious: Simple Advice from a Zen Buddhist Monk - Hardcover

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by Shinsuke Hosokawa (Author), Ayako Taniyama (Illustrator)By dipping into this little book of simple Zen Buddhist sayings, you can calm your anxiety and return serenity to your soul. Are you feeling stress and anxiety from the demands of daily life? Do you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list and the constant deluge of information from all quarters? Are you unhappy with your life and envious of those around you? At times like these it's important to step back and take a breath. Zen meditation...

The Book of Five Rings: The Strategy of the Samurai - Hardcover

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by Miyamoto Musashi (Author), Victor Harris (Translator)'When you attain the Way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.' -Miyamoto Musashi This deluxe silkbound edition presents The Book of Five Rings, a classic Japanese text written by undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. In it, he records his "true principles" which guarantee victory in martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience, observa...

Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer - Hardcover

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by Heather Lende (Author)As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It's that simple--and that hard. Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Find the Good offers up short chapters that help us unlearn the habit--and it is a habit--of see...

The Guru is You: A Guide to Yoga for Self-Discovery, Healing, and Purposeful Living

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Report copyright infringementby Charmion O'Day Harris (Author)What if yoga wasn't something you practiced, but something you lived?Most yoga books give you pieces of yoga, but real transformation happens when everything connects.The Guru is You is a complete, integrative guide to using yoga as a pathway to self-awareness, resilience, and purposeful living.Blending ancient wisdom with real-life experience, this book weaves together: Yogic philosophy and the Eight Limbs as a practical life fra...

When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times - Hardcover

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by Haemin Sunim (Author), Charles La Shure (Translator), Haemin Sunim (Translator)"In When Things Don't Go Your Way, Haemin Sunim offers readers a warm and reassuring path through the most challenging moments of our lives. By sharing his hard-won wisdom, he guides us from hardship to self-discovery, helping us to stay centered and feel whole." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast From renowned Zen Budd...