4751 results for '"Self, Will"'

Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in...

In these writings by one of our most creative legal philosophers, Meir Dan-Cohen explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands and mounts a challenge to some prevailing tenets of...

An examination of the rituals of death and attitudes toward death in Puritan New England and of their links with community purpose and self-perception provides a new perspective on death in modern...

A cut-through-the-crap guide to quitting the self-destructive habits that undermine happiness and successHow to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting self-improvement guide for women, one...

Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason , in the celebrated transcendental deduction. Although this section of...

Based on the New York Times bestseller The Body Is Not an Apology, this is an action guide to help readers practice the art of radical self-love both for themselves and to transform our society...

Critics of liberal democracy from both the left and right view rights not as protectors of freedom but as impediments to self-determination and call for radically regenerative political alternatives...

Our protagonist Palmer - wallflower, mystic seeker and paper mill operator - moves into a new apartment with his outwardly self-assured and womanizing friend, Perry. Thus begins an epic struggle of...

Master Hua-Ching Ni uses straightforward language and personal experiences, as well as traditional stories and teachings of the ancient masters, to impart the wisdom of Taoism, the Integral Way. His...

In these powerful lyric poems, Idra Novey’s exploration of “country” extends beyond national boundaries into the countries of marriage and family, history and the unspoken, leading to a bold and...

This text by one of the originators of the cluster variation method of statistical mechanics is aimed at second- and third-year graduate students studying such topics as the theory of complex...

In this brilliant exploration of the apparent conflicts and tensions between feminism and contemplative spirituality, Carol Lee Flinders uncovers how a life of meaning, self-knowledge, and freedom...

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of...

Papers on child psychology, education, and individuation, underlining the overwhelming importance of parents and teachers in the genesis of the intellectual, feeling, and emotional disorders of...

With a quiet eloquence, the poems in Long Walks in the Afternoon follow “the deep imagination’s long tap into the dark”―inward toward the still and radiant center of the self. But Margaret Gibson’s...

The seventy-third volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets presents poems which explore every part of the self, openly inviting readers to experience as much of the poet's sensibility as can be...

This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger--the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own--as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person's deep...

In 1950 Krishnamurti said: "It is only when the mind is not escaping in any form that it is possible to be in direct communion with that thing we call lonliness, the alone, and to have communion with...

In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual...

Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of poetry! The poems of THE APHASIA CAF? write the lives of individuals who, because of stroke or dementia, have lost all...