Tag: Life

Free Download Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy by Luca Corti, Johannes-Georg Schülein
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 372 Pages | ISBN : 3031415574 | 9.2 MB
This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective. Its 19 chapters move from the peculiarities of organic life to the peculiarities of the distinctly human life form and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic accounts of life. In light of the growing interest in nature within current philosophical debates, the book provides an overview of what the philosophical epoch of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Humboldt, the Romantics, Hegel, and others can contribute to our understanding of life today. The collection of essays represents a plurality of approaches that reflects the pluralism of the tradition itself – highlighting the liveliness and polyphonic nature of the issues at stake and the ways in which they were approached in post-Kantian thought.

Free Download Flocel Sabaté, "Life and Religion in the Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 1443877905 | 2015 | 395 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Religious experience in the European Middle Ages represented an intersection of a range of aspects of existence, including everyday life, relations of power, and urban development, among others. As such, religion offered a reflection of many facets of life in this period. This book brings together scholars from different parts of the world who use a variety of different examples from the medieval era to show this specific path through which to reach a renewed perspective for understanding the European Middle Ages.

Free Download Life and Job Satisfaction in China: Exploring Longitudinal Analysis with Mplus by Lukasz Czarnecki , Delfino Vargas Chanes
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 112 Pages | ISBN : 3031486943 | 9 MB
This book examines subjective wellbeing in China in terms of life and job satisfaction from a longitudinal perspective during the last decade. Using quantitative methods, the research presented in this volume performed a longitudinal analysis of data collected by the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018 to study the effects of social and economic transformations on life and job satisfaction among the Chinese population in this period.

Free Download Gustav Strandberg, "Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death "
English | ISBN: 3031495470 | 2024 | 187 pages | EPUB, PDF | 362 KB + 4 MB
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay "The Phenomenology of Afterlife", as well as contributions surrounding and analyzing this text. In his essay, Patočka reflects on our relation to the dead and on how the departure of a loved one affects our continued existence. The premise of Patočka’s investigation is that our existence always takes place by and through an originary and reciprocal "being for others".

Free Download Greg Olson, "Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837-1860 (Volume 275) "
English | ISBN: 0806152117 | 2016 | 184 pages | PDF | 26 MB
In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri River. Forcibly removed to the newly created Great Nemaha Agency, the Ioway men, women, and children, numbering nearly a thousand, were promised that through hard work and discipline they could enter mainstream American society. All that was required was that they give up everything that made them Ioway. In Ioway Life, Greg Olson provides the first detailed account of how the tribe met this challenge during the first two decades of the agency’s existence.

Free Download Olga Michael, "Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative: Reading and Witnessing Violations of the ‘Other’ in Anglophone Works "
English | ISBN: 1350329754 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 79 MB
Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about people who become ‘othered’ within Western contexts, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can promote social justice. With thought given to how the graphic form can offer a powerful counterpoint to the legal, humanitarian and media discourses that dehumanise the most violated and dispossessed, but also how these works may unconsciously reproduce Western neo-colonial presentations of the ‘other,’ Olga Michael focuses on gender, death, space, and border violence within graphic life narratives depicting suffering across different geo- and biopolitical locations. Combining the familiar with the lesser-known, this book covers works by artists such as Joe Sacco, Thi Bui, Mia Kirshner, Phoebe Gloeckner, Kamel Khélif

Free Download Francisco J. Gonzalez, "Human Life in Motion: Heidegger’s Unpublished Seminars on Aristotle as Preserved by Helene Weiss "
English | ISBN: 0253068304 | 2024 | 372 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 29 MB
Human Life in Motion presents for the first time the previously unpublished transcripts of the seminars on Aristotle Martin Heidegger gave in the 1920s. These transcripts reveal much about the evolution of his thought during that time.

Free Download Clark, "Herder: His Life and Thought"
English | ISBN: 0520325230 | 2022 | 524 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Free Download Gas Dynamics with Applications in Industry and Life Sciences: On Gas Kinetic/Dynamics and Life Science Seminar, March 25-26, 2021 and March 17-18, 2022 by Mohammad Asadzadeh, Larisa Beilina, Shigeru Takata
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 288 Pages | ISBN : 3031358708 | 73.5 MB
This proceedings volume gathers selected contributions presented at two instances of the "JSPS/SAC Seminar: On Gas Kinetic/Dynamics and Life Science", held by the Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on March 25-26, 2021 (virtual) and March 17-18, 2022 (virtual).

Free Download The Foundational Economy Collective, "Foundational Economy: The infrastructure of everyday life "
English | ISBN: 1526133997 | 2018 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. The end result is the degradation of the foundational economy. The foundational economy encompasses the material infrastructure at the foundation of civilised life – things like water pipes and sewers – and the providential services like education, health care and care for the old which are at the base of any civilised life. This book shows how these services were built up in the century between 1880 and 1980 so that they were collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This system of provision has been undermined in the age of privatisation and outsourcing. The book describes the principles that should guide renewal of the foundational economy and the initiatives which could begin to put these principles into practice.