Tag: Sensibility

Free Download Theology and the Mythic Sensibility: Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity by Andrew Shamel
English | November 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1009542605 | True PDF | 232 pages | 2.9 MB
How do stories change the way we see both ourselves and the world? That question is the starting-point of this accomplished new contribution to narrative theology. Dr Shamel addresses what he calls mythopoieic fantasy: the fictionalised myth-making occupying those twilight borderlands between contemporary secularity and a religious worldview. Exploring key writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, and J. K. Rowling, the author argues that the mythic turn of popular culture signals an ongoing hunger for something ‘more’: more dense, more present, more ‘real’. For Dr Shamel, mythopoieic fantasy and Christian theology represent the same human impulse: a desire to participate in the divine. Despite the avowed secularity of many authors of fantasy literature, the creativity of their mythic fictions reveals something of the theological character of all human making. The stories we tell in order to encounter the world as meaningful, argues Dr Shamel, in fact emerge within a theological horizon.

Free Download Self and Sensibility: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind
Udo Thiel, Dieter Hüning
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111387135 | 480 Pages | PDF | 3.38 MB

Free Download Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR5B5PRK | 2024 | 10 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Jo-Ann Finkelstein
Narrator: Jo-Ann Finkelstein
An invaluable guide to understanding and dismantling sexism for parents trying to raise confident and powerful girls in a culture that often demeans them. The world is full of mixed messages for girls: Stand up for yourself but do it softly. Be independent but not single. Love your body, just make sure it’s waxed, bleached, and thin. And then there are the more overt hostilities: being talked over, paid less, touched without permission, and having politicians debate their right to bodily autonomy. Many parents find it simpler to affirm girls’ strength than to address these distressing experiences directly.

Free Download Debora Shuger, "Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England"
English | ISBN: 0812239172 | 2006 | 360 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of why no one prior to the mid-1640s argued for free speech or a free press per se, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility surveys the texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns, which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels, conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship illegitimate.

Free Download Jane Austen, "Sense and Sensibility (Webster’s Spanish Thesaurus Edition)"
English | 2006 | pages: 389 | ISBN: 049725946X | PDF | 3,2 mb
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of Sense and Sensibility. This edition would be useful if yo

Free Download Adrian Wesolowski, "Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility "
English | ISBN: 1032373873 | 2023 | 282 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1523 KB + 11 MB
This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and philanthropists started being considered as a distinct breed of public figures.

Free Download The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0199594937 | 464 Pages | PDF | 9.3 MB
Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture – one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones – is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted.

Free Download Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro
English | May 30, 2017 | ISBN: 069117668X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 2.4 MB
A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics

Free Download The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry By Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard (auth.), Koen Vermeir, Michael Funk Deckard (eds.)
2012 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 9400721013 | PDF | 4 MB
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.

Free Download Sorin Baiasu, "Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature, and Religion "
English | ISBN: 1138503746 | 2020 | 246 pages | EPUB | 1034 KB
Immanuel Kant’s work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy. The significance of Kant’s work for the so-called continental philosophy cannot be exaggerated, although work in this area is relatively scant. The book includes eight chapters, a substantial introduction and a postscript, all newly written by an international cast of well-known authors. Each chapter focuses on particular aspects of a fundamental problem in Kant’s and post-Kantian philosophy, the problem of the relation between the world and transcendence. Chapters fall thematically into three parts: sensibility, nature and religion. Each part starts with a more interpretative chapter focusing on Kant’s relevant work, and continues with comparative chapters which stage dialogues between Kant and post-Kantian philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, Luce Irigaray and Jacques Derrida. A special feature of this volume is the engagement of each chapter with the work of the late British philosopher Gary Banham. The Postscript offers a subtle and erudite analysis of his intellectual trajectory, philosophy and mode of working. The volume is dedicated to his memory.