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Free Download Alan Watts, "This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience"
English | 1973 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0394719042 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
Six revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra),exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life-and the need for them to coexist within each of us.

Free Download Tony Fisher, "The aesthetic exception: Essays on art, theatre, and politics"
English | ISBN: 1526170167 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 22 MB
The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art’s politics is limited to a recondite space of ‘autonomous resistance’. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art’s exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to ‘effect’ to offer a nuanced account of art’s political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the ‘new’ through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.

Free Download The Snarling Girl and Other Essays by Elisa Albert
English | August 27, 2024 | ISBN: 1960988069 | 194 pages | EPUB | 1.06 Mb
In sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos of punk, all in the midst of making a home in the strange city of Albany, New York.

Free Download The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1668034905 | 304 pages | PDF | 4.92 Mb
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.

Free Download K.J. Kesselring, "Reckoning with History: Essays on Uses of the Past"
English | ISBN: 0228022428 | 2024 | 270 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near. Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later essays offer insights into personal, popular, professional, and sometimes deeply political uses of the past in other times and places, helping to contextualize our own moments in historical writing and to link the early and post-modern periods. Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past. Covering subjects such as early archival practices, memories of historic plagues, and the type of commemorations needed to revitalize liberal democracies, Reckoning with History contextualizes the uses of the past today.

Free Download Rationis Defensor: Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne By Alan Musgrave (auth.), James Maclaurin (eds.)
2012 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 9400739826 | PDF | 3 MB
Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and which has twice been judged as the strongest research department across all disciplines in governmental research assessments. Colin is the immediate past President of the Australasian Association for Philosophy (New Zealand Division). He is the author of Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism (Springer, 2001) and the editor, with Vladimir Svoboda and Bjorn Jespersen, of Pavel Tichy’s Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy (University of Otago Press, 2005) and, with John Worrall, of Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (Springer, 2006). This volume celebrates the dedication to rational enquiry and the philosophical style of Colin Cheyne. It also celebrates the distinctive brand of naturalistic philosophy for which Otago has become known. Contributors to the volume include a wide variety of philosophers, all with a personal connection to Colin, and all of whom are, in their own way, defenders of rationality. ​

Free Download Philip Miller, "Praise Emptiness: Essays Verbal & Visual"
English | ISBN: 9657048109 | 2023 | 180 pages | AZW3 | 19 MB
Praise Emptiness’ essays and images form a dialog ranging among diverse topics: Judaism, Buddhism, feminism, free will. The book reflects the author and artist’s conception of UltimateTruth as various and unknowable.

Free Download Alice Knox Eaton, "New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Race, Culture, and History"
English | ISBN: 1496828879 | 2020 | 180 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González, and Anissa Wardi

Free Download Magically Black and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0063161079 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 0.5 MB
In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains Black life and culture with equal parts candor and humor.

Free Download Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen
English | November 9, 2000 | ISBN: 015601159X | 480 pages | PDF | 6.07 Mb
How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. Basing his ideas on common sense, Eco shares a vast wealth of literary and historical knowledge, touching on issues that affect us every day. At once philosophical and amusing, Kant and the Platypus is a tour of the world of our senses, told by a master of knowing what is real and what is not.