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Obsession

2009-05-15 Psychology
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Release : 2009-05-15
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Obsession by : Lennard J. Davis

Download or read book Obsession written by Lennard J. Davis. This book was released on 2009-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category—both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in Obsession. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and nymphomania, no variety of obsession eludes Davis’s graceful analysis.

History of an Obsession

2001-04-01 History
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Release : 2001-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 277/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis History of an Obsession by : Klaus P. Fischer

Download or read book History of an Obsession written by Klaus P. Fischer. This book was released on 2001-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klaus Fischer charts the tortured history of German-Jewish relations over a millennium, from migration and ghettoization in the Middle Ages to enlightenment and emancipation in the eighteenth century to varieties of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Second Reich to the rise of pathological Judeophobia in the years 1918 to 1933. The aim of the book is to provide a historical explanation for this change in consciousness that began with a religious prejudice, moved to social and political discrimination, and ended up in annihilatory rage.

The Power of Gold

2005-12-13 Business & Economics
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Release : 2005-12-13
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Power of Gold by : Peter L. Bernstein

Download or read book The Power of Gold written by Peter L. Bernstein. This book was released on 2005-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating myth, history and contemporary investigation, Bernstein tells the story of how human beings have become intoxicated, obsessed, enriched, impoverished, humbled and proud for the sake of gold. From the past to the future, Bernstein's portrayal of gold is intimately linked to the character of humankind.

Character

2020-07-14 Philosophy
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Release : 2020-07-14
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Character by : Marjorie Garber

Download or read book Character written by Marjorie Garber. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is “character”? Since at least Aristotle’s time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage, “character” derives from a word for engraving or stamping, yet over time, it has come to mean a moral idea, a type, a literary persona, and a physical or physiological manifestation observable in works of art and scientific experiments. It is an essential term in drama and the focus of self-help books. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession, Marjorie Garber points out that character seems more relevant than ever today, omnipresent in discussions of politics, ethics, gender, morality, and the psyche. References to character flaws, character issues, and character assassination and allegations of “bad” and “good” character are inescapable in the media and in contemporary political debates. What connection does “character” in this moral or ethical sense have with the concept of a character in a novel or a play? Do our notions about fictional characters catalyze our ideas about moral character? Can character be “formed” or taught in schools, in scouting, in the home? From Plutarch to John Stuart Mill, from Shakespeare to Darwin, from Theophrastus to Freud, from nineteenth-century phrenology to twenty-first-century brain scans, the search for the sources and components of human character still preoccupies us. Today, with the meaning and the value of this term in question, no issue is more important, and no topic more vital, surprising, and fascinating. With her distinctive verve, humor, and vast erudition, Marjorie Garber explores the stakes of these conflations, confusions, and heritages, from ancient Greece to the present day.

Perpetual Motion

2015-02-25 Art
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Release : 2015-02-25
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Perpetual Motion by : Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume

Download or read book Perpetual Motion written by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume. This book was released on 2015-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deceptively simple task of making a mechanism which would turn forever has fascinated many famous men and physicists throughout the centuries. In fact, the basic tenets of engineering grew from the failures of these perpetual motion machine designers. This work offers an illustrated overview of perpetual motion machines and their inventors.

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