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Author : Andrew C. Willford
Release : 2007
Genre : Hinduism
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Book Rating : 916/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cage of Freedom by : Andrew C. Willford
Download or read book Cage of Freedom written by Andrew C. Willford. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Topp
Release : 2017-03-28
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Freedom and the Cage by : Leslie Topp
Download or read book Freedom and the Cage written by Leslie Topp. This book was released on 2017-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the “caged freedom” that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven such buildings established in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy between the late 1890s and World War I. In the last two decades of the Habsburg Empire, architects of asylums began to abandon traditional corridor-based plans in favor of looser formations of connected villas, echoing through design the urban- and freedom-oriented impulse of the progressive architecture of the time. Leslie Topp considers the paradoxical position of designs that promoted an illusion of freedom even as they exercised careful social and spatial control over patients. In addition to discussing the physical and social aspects of these institutions, Topp shows how the commissioned buildings were symptomatic of larger cultural changes and of the modern asylum’s straining against its ideological anchorage in a premodern past of “unenlightened” restraint on human liberty. Working at the intersection of the history of architecture and the history of psychiatry, Freedom and the Cage broadens our understanding of the complexity and fluidity of modern architecture’s engagement with the state, with social and medical projects, and with mental health, psychiatry, and psychology.
Author : Adam Oakley
Release : 2014-12-23
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Book Synopsis Get Out of the Cage by : Adam Oakley
Download or read book Get Out of the Cage written by Adam Oakley. This book was released on 2014-12-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often we can feel trapped in thoughts, trapped in identity, trapped in conditioning. It can seem as if we are trapped in the cage of our own minds. This book points you out of this, to show you that both the cage and the person who feels trapped in it, are not real. This book also looks at some of the insane ways we have been taught to approach life and to function in the world, and how to be free of these conditioned behaviours. The content within each chapter is split into passages, each passage being a pointer in itself. You may feel inclined to only read a single passage, and pause to allow time for the words to sink in before moving on. This book is very useful for contemplative or meditative reading. Once you understand what is meant by the cage (simply the conditioned, personal mind that creates suffering) - this book becomes a helpful guide in that as well as being able to read it conventionally from cover to cover - you can pick it up and read any passage at random. Rather than being a book that teaches you anything to remember, it is a tool to point you back towards who you really are before conditioning took over. May this book help you realise your inherent freedom, and allow you to function sanely, effectively and happily in the world.
Author : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Release : 1952
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Book Synopsis Cages of Freedom by : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Download or read book Cages of Freedom written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. This book was released on 1952. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lytton
Release : 2011-09-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Freedom of the Cage by : David Lytton
Download or read book The Freedom of the Cage written by David Lytton. This book was released on 2011-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small-town shopkeeper in the Orange Free State points a revolver at the South African Prime Minister. He is detained and questioned, but his eccentric explanations fail to provide the police with the neat motive they are searching for and he is judged insane. Yet Ebon Prinsloo's gesture of violence is for him a kind of awakening - an awakening from the fantasies with which he has protected himself from a parochial community, a constricting marriage, indeed from the limitations of life itself. The inarticulate dissatisfactions he feels inside his ' cage of freedom' are typical of his society, and so too is the violence with which he tries to extricate himself. We explore the confused mind and conscience of Ebon Prinsloo. We share his commercial ambitions, his domestic difficulties, his day-dreams, his painful gropings towards thought, above all the crucially disturbing influence of the urbane Professor of Anthropology working on a nearby prehistoric site, whose patronising intrusion into his home does much to disturb his peace, and balance, of mind. To only one person, the Professor's wife, is the irony of Ebon Prinsloo's fate apparent: only she can see that the bewildered little shopkeeper is in fact a herald of the possible chaos to come. The story of Ebon Prinsloo and his neighbours is told with the same compassion and intensity that marked the author's last novel, The Grass Won't Grow Till Spring.
