The quotable Kierkegaard / / edited by Gordon Marino

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452778903321
• Autore: Kierkegaard Søren <1813-1855.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4008-4879-2
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MarinoGordon Daniel <1952->
• Disciplina: 198/.9
• Soggetti: PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kierkegaard's Biography -- Sources and Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Autobiographical -- Observations -- Anxiety -- Depression/Melancholy -- Self/Spirit -- Despair -- Freedom -- Possibility -- Choice/Decision -- The Ethical -- Deception/Self-Deception -- Guilt -- Envy -- The Poet -- Erotic Love -- Silence -- Authority -- Genius -- Writing/Communication -- The Press -- Science -- Philosophy -- Existence -- The Absurd -- Paradox -- The Understanding/Reason/Knowledge -- Truth -- Time -- Eternal -- Death -- Immortality -- Repetition -- Busyness -- The Individual -- Laughter/Humor/The Comic -- The Tragic -- Irony -- God -- Faith -- Passion -- Prayer -- Earnestness/Seriousness -- Sin -- Demonic -- Repentance/Forgiveness -- Christ -- Love -- Suffering -- Neighbor -- Christianity -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Søren Kierkegaard. The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his ; wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work. Organized by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ("Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward") and obscure ones ("Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep--i.e., the phrasemongers"). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, "my grief is my castle," but who also taught that "the best defense against hypocrisy is love. "Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers. Gathers some 800 quotations Drawn from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings Includes an introduction, a brief account and timeline of Kierkegaard's life, a guide to further reading, and an index"--

Being there : learning to live cross-culturally / / edited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958567903321
• Autore: Konner Melvin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 9780674063334; 0674063333
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DavisSarah H; KonnerMelvin
• Disciplina: 303.48/2
• Soggetti: Cross-cultural orientation; Intercultural communication; Culture shock
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Konner, Melvin -- Introduction / ; Davis, Sarah H. -- 1. A Kind of Kinship / Lughod, Lila Abu- -- 2. Saints and Outcasts / Sharman, Russell Leigh -- 3. Mad to Be Modern / Gottlieb, Alma / Graham, Philip -- 4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist / Behar, Ruth -- 5. Two Women / Konner, Melvin -- 6. Graça / Gregg, Jessica -- 7. Insult and Danger / Boehm, Chris -- 8. Shame and Making Truth / Hay, M. Cameron -- 9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet / Greene, Melissa Fay -- 10. Time Travel / Shore, Robert / Shore, Bradd -- 11. Prostitutes with Honor / Brown, Louise -- 12. A Widening Circle / Simonelli, Jeanne -- 13. Japa nese Ghosts Don't Have Feet / Dalby, Liza -- 14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals / Wood, John C. -- 15. My Family's Honor / Davis, Sarah H. -- 16. Return to Nisa / Shostak, Marjorie -- Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are more (or less) honorable: those of a prostitute who sells her daughter's virginity to a rich man, or those of a professor who sanctions her daughter's hook-ups with casual acquaintances? As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures and navigate the relationships that take shape, the authors of these essays, most of them trained anthropologists, find that accepting cultural difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain as much as they illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.Their insights were gained only after discomforts resulting mainly from the authors' own blunders in the field. From Brazil to Botswana, Egypt to Indonesia, Mongolia to Pakistan, mistakes were made. Offering a gift to a Navajo man at the beginning of an interview, rather than the end, caused one author to lose his entire research project. In Côte d'Ivoire, a Western family was targeted by the village madman, leading the parents to fear for the safety of their child even as they suspected that their very presence had triggered his madness. At a time when misunderstanding of cultural difference is an undeniable source of conflict, we need stories like these more than ever before.