| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910791402103321 |
|
|
Autore |
Sussman Henry |
|
|
Titolo |
Around the book [[electronic resource] ] : systems and literacy / / Henry Sussman |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
0-8232-4117-3 |
0-8232-3285-9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xxiii, 319 p. ) : ill. ; |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Criticism |
Social systems |
Literature - Philosophy |
Books - History |
Books and reading - Sociological aspects |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Introduction : around the book -- Extraterrestrial Kafka : ahead to the graphic novel -- Kafka's imaginary : a psychoanalytical footnote -- Booking Benjamin : the fate of a medium -- Pulsations of respect, or, Winged impossibility : poetic deconstruction -- Hegel, Glas, and the broader modernity -- Systems, games, and the player : did we manage to become human? -- Atmospherics of mood -- Thinking flat out : back to Bateson. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Offering a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book, this study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'prevailing operating system' at play within the fields of knowledge, art, critique and science. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910808954403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Cook Chris (Christopher C.H.) |
|
|
Titolo |
Finding God in a holy place : explorations of prayer in Durham Cathedral / / Chris Cook |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Mowbray, , 2010 |
|
©2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-282-87480-2 |
9786612874802 |
1-4411-5001-3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (177 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Prayer - Church of England |
Sacred space - England - Durham |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Finding a Holy Place: Durham Cathedral; 2 Finding God in a Holy Place; 3 An Invitation to Pray: The Nave and the Body of the Church; 4 Daily Prayer: The Quire and Sanctuary; 5 Praying on the Margins: The Galilee Chapel; 6 Pilgrim Prayer: The Chapel of the Nine Altars; 7 Contemplative Prayer: The Feretory; 8 Holy Places: Finding Ourselves and Finding God; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
'A holy place...is a place that becomes a gateway to heaven', writes Chris Cook, 'a place in which we are aware of the presence of God.' These places may be geographical or architectural, or they may be metaphorical: places of loss, or achievement, or transition. This book explores prayer in holy spaces: physical places where we can go to be nearer to God. It is focused on one particular place - Durham Cathedral (voted the country's best-loved building) - but it is designed to enable the reader to explore prayer in other holy places also. It is a practical guide to prayer which takes into accoun |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |