A Sense of Direction
Title | A Sense of Direction PDF eBook |
Author | Gideon Lewis-Kraus |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1594631492 |
In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the fear and self-sacrifice that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anything-goes Berlin. But the surfeit of freedom there has begun to paralyze him, and when a friend extends a drunken invitation to join him on an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain, Lewis-Kraus packs his bag, grateful for the chance to wake each morning with a sense of direction. Irreverent, moving, hilarious, and thought-provoking, A Sense of Direction is Lewis-Kraus’s dazzling riff on the perpetual war between discipline and desire, and its attendant casualties. Across three pilgrimages and many hundreds of miles, he completes an idiosyncratic odyssey to the heart of a family mystery and a human dilemma: How do we come to terms with what has been and what is—and find a way forward, with purpose?
Directional Sense
Title | Directional Sense PDF eBook |
Author | Janet R. Carpman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2012-07-25 |
Genre | Geographical perception |
ISBN | 9780615562636 |
A Sense of Direction
Title | A Sense of Direction PDF eBook |
Author | William Ball |
Publisher | New York : Drama Book Publishers |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
"William Ball, founder and general director of the acclaimed American Conservatory Theatre, engages his audience in a wide-ranging discussion of the director's process - from first reading through opening night. Mr. Ball offers a candid, personal account of his method of working - including the choice of a play's essential elements, preproduction homework, casting, and rehearsal techniques"--Cover.
Spatial Navigation: Memory Mechanisms and Executive Function Interactions
Title | Spatial Navigation: Memory Mechanisms and Executive Function Interactions PDF eBook |
Author | Thackery I. Brown |
Publisher | Frontiers Media SA |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2019-10-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 2889630668 |
Time and Exteriority
Title | Time and Exteriority PDF eBook |
Author | John Protevi |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780838752296 |
Chapter 2 examines the notion of exteriority at work in Aristotle's theory of change. The time chapters of the Physics receive special attention in the book, anticipating the readings of Heidegger and Derrida in highlighting time and exteriority. Chapter 3 reads "Ousia and Gramme," in which Derrida reads Heidegger's reading of Aristotle's determination of Hegel's theory of time.
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
Title | Language Use and Linguistic Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Emonds |
Publisher | Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci |
Pages | 487 |
Release | |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 8024455242 |
The twenty-three articles in this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO) at Palacký University in the Czech Republic in June 7-9, 2018. This conference welcomed papers that combined analyses of language structure with generalizations about language use. The thematic sections are as follows: Part I. Micro-syntax: The Structure and Interpretation of Verb Phrases; Part II. Micro-syntax: Word-Internal Morphosyntax in Nominal Projections; Part III. Macro-syntax: Structure and Interpretation of Discourse Markers and Projections; Part IV: Empirical Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies. Články v tomto sborníku vycházejí z příspěvků prezentovaných na konferenci Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO), pořádané Univerzitou Palackého v Olomouci ve dnech 7. 6. - 9. 6. 2018. Jako téma byl zvolen "Jazyk jako prostředek a lingvistická struktura", což mělo umožnit prezentaci referátů ze všech současných lingvistických disciplín, pokud se zabývají vědeckým (empirickým, formálním) popisem jazykového systému. Články jsou rozděleny do následujících tematických sekcí: Part I. Micro-syntax: The Structure and Interpretation of Verb Phrases; Part II. Micro-syntax: Word-Internal Morphosyntax in Nominal Projections; Part III. Macro-syntax: Structure and Interpretation of Discourse Markers and Projections; Part IV: Empirical Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies.
Sense and Singularity
Title | Sense and Singularity PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Van Den Abbeele |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2023-11-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1531503314 |
Philosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical project as an inquiry into the limits or finitude of philosophy itself, where it is interrupted, and as a practice of critical intervention where philosophy serves to interrupt otherwise unquestioned ways of thinking. Nancy’s interruption of philosophy, Van Den Abbeele argues, reveals the limits of what philosophy is and what it can do, its apocalyptic end and its endless renewal, its Sisyphean interruption between the bounds of infinitely replicating sense and the conceptual vanishing point that is singularity. In examinations of Nancy’s foundational rereading of Descartes's cogito as iterative, his formal experimentations with the genres of philosophical writing, the account of “retreat” in understanding the political, and the interruptive play of sense and singularity in writings on the body, sexuality, and aesthetics, Van Den Abbeele offers a fresh account of one of our major thinkers as well as a provocative inquiry into what philosophy can do.