Abandoned to Ourselves

2013-08-25 Philosophy

Author : Peter Alexander Meyers
Release : 2013-08-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Abandoned to Ourselves written by Peter Alexander Meyers. This book was released on 2013-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centerpiece of the Enlightenment—society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice—was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Displaying this new society as an evolving field of interdependence, Abandoned to Ourselves traces the emergence and moral significance of dependence itself within Rousseau’s encounters with a variety of discourses of order, including theology, natural philosophy, and music. Underpinning this whole scene we discover a modernizing conception of the human Will, one that runs far deeper than Rousseau’s most famous trope, the “general Will.” As Abandoned to Ourselves weaves together historical acuity with theoretical insight, readers will find here elements for a reconstructed sociology inclusive of things and persons and, as a consequence, a new foundation for contemporary political theory.

Abandoned to Ourselves

2012 Political sociology

Author : Peter Alexander Meyers
Release : 2012
Genre : Political sociology
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Download or read book Abandoned to Ourselves written by Peter Alexander Meyers. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Into Your Hands, Father

2011-01-01 Religion

Author : Wilfried Stinissen
Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Into Your Hands, Father written by Wilfried Stinissen. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spiritual life, we need a central idea: something so basic and comprehensive that it encompasses everything else. According to Carmelite Father Wilfrid Stinissen, surrender to God, abandonment to the One who loves us completely, is that central reality. The life of Jesus shows us the centrality of abandonment, for it is truly the beginning and the end of his mission on earth. In this simple but profound book, Father Stinissen distinguishes three degrees or stages in abandonment. The first stage consists of accepting and assenting to God's will as it manifests itself in all circumstances of life. The second is actively doing God's will at every moment of one's life. In the third stage, abandonment to God is so complete that one has become a tool in God's hands. At this stage it is no longer I who do God's will, but God who accomplishes his will through me.

Finding My Abandoned Self

2021-09-05 Family & Relationships

Author : Salvina Castiglione
Release : 2021-09-05
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book Finding My Abandoned Self written by Salvina Castiglione. This book was released on 2021-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finding My Abandoned Self, author Salvina Castiglione shares her story of struggle and triumph as she leaves behind a husband she loved and a beautiful life she had created for her children. "I had lived with too many lies, too many betrayals, and too many secrets, for too long" she writes. Salvina found the courage and strength to reclaim the parts of herself she had abandoned for decades as she created a new life for herself and her children. This book is an honest and true account of her healing journey. Salvina hopes that women who see themselves in her story become inspired to find their abandoned selves.

Abandon Me

2017-02-28 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Melissa Febos
Release : 2017-02-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 595/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Abandon Me written by Melissa Febos. This book was released on 2017-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of the Best Books of the year by: Esquire, Refinery29, BookRiot, Medium, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Largehearted Boy, The Coil and The Cut. Winner of the Lambda Literary Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Finalist, Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction An Indie Next Pick A fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped by love and loss. In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power, desire, and fulfillment. In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection -- with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming, long-distance love affair with a woman, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral, erotic prose, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession -- and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another. At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art, love, and identity, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories, religion, psychology, mythology, popular culture, and the intimacies of one writer's life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.

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