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Author : Todd Brendan Fahey
Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Wisdom's Maw by : Todd Brendan Fahey
Download or read book Wisdom's Maw written by Todd Brendan Fahey. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damien B. Schlarb
Release : 2021
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Melville's Wisdom by : Damien B. Schlarb
Download or read book Melville's Wisdom written by Damien B. Schlarb. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Melville's work is an example of how romantic literature fills the interpretive lacuna left by contemporary theology. Damien Schlarb argues that attending to Melville's engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture. In wisdom, which addresses questions of theology, radical scepticism, and the nature of evil, Melville finds an ethos of critical inquiry that allows him to embrace the acumen of modern analytical techniques such as higher biblical criticism, while salvaging simultaneously the spiritual authority of biblical language. Wisdom for Melville constitutes both object and analytical framework in this balancing act. Melville's Wisdom joins other works of postsecular literary studies in challenging its own discipline's constitutive secularization narrative by rethinking modern, putatively secular cultural formations in terms of their reciprocity with religious concepts and texts. Schlarb foregrounds Melville's sustained, career-spanning concern with biblical wisdom, its formal properties, and its knowledge-creating potential. By excavating this project from Melville's oeuvre, Melville's Wisdom shows how he seeks to avoid the spiritually corrosive effects of suspicious reading while celebrating truth-seeking over subversive iniquity"--
Author : Stuart A. Schlegel
Release : 2015-03-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wisdom from a Rainforest by : Stuart A. Schlegel
Download or read book Wisdom from a Rainforest written by Stuart A. Schlegel. This book was released on 2015-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly. Wisdom from a Rainforest is Schlegel's testament to his experience and to the Teduray people of Figel, from whom he learned such vital, lasting lessons. Schlegel's lively ethnography of the Teduray portrays how their behavior and traditions revolved around kindness and compassion for humans, animals, and the spirits sharing their worlds. Schlegel describes the Teduray's remarkable legal system and their strong story-telling tradition, their elaborate cosmology, and their ritual celebrations. At the same time, Schlegel recounts his own transformation—how his worldview as a member of an advanced, civilized society was shaken to the core by a so-called primitive people. He begins to realize how culturally determined his own values are and to see with great clarity how much the Teduray can teach him about gender equality, tolerance for difference, generosity, and cooperation. By turns funny, tender, and gripping, Wisdom from a Rainforest honors the Teduray's legacy and helps us see how much we can learn from a way of life so different from our own.
Author : Patrick Tylee
Release : 2014-11-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wisdom by : Patrick Tylee
Download or read book Wisdom written by Patrick Tylee . This book was released on 2014-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisdom takes you on a journey across the Orion Arm of our galaxy and into the dreams, fears, and frailties of four distinctly different beings. When the gas-condenser vessel of the brutal Prawl-Tang mistakenly arrives in the Sol system, the Knowers of Jupiter are in danger. Ambassador to their planet, Moyab-4 of the Manufactured Flesh and SynThinker Union, convinces his brother clones to create a Savior Class artificial person whose assignment would be to prevent the annihilation of the enormous cephalopod Knowers at any cost. Using the tools at his disposal, the newly awakened Jove pilots the Equus into the hydrogen clouds. He's accompanied by two virtual entities: Knowledgebase and Wisdom, as well as his own biting sarcasm, quirky intellect and the humor that so inadequately hides his self-doubt. Surprised by the audacity of the childlike Jovians and the business minded Prawl-Tang, Jove finds himself on Earth, central to a plan that includes the death of every human, including the ones that have befriended him, like the innocent orphan, Elmyrah. Influenced by the human's own Knowledge of Good and Evil, Jove bends the will of entire worlds to see that everyone gets what they deserve. Wisdom however, has plans of her own. She would know what's best for all. They just need to be made to listen.
Author : Heinrich Heine
Release : 1888
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Book Synopsis Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos by : Heinrich Heine
Download or read book Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos written by Heinrich Heine. This book was released on 1888. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
