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İlk romanı Soraya ile Berlin Film Festivali Kitaplığı’na seçilen Meltem Yılmaz’dan yine unutulmayacak bir eser... Bütün Mümkünlerin Kıyısında, mümkünsüzlüklerle çevrili hayatların ayakta kalma mücadelesini, kısa öykülerle iç içe geçmiş röportajlar aracılığıyla okuyucuyla buluşturuyor. Turgut Uyar’ın Tütünler Islak kitabının girişindeki bu anlamlı sözden ilhamla hayata geçen bu kitapta okuyacağınız yaşamöykülerinin hepsi gerçek, hepsi hayatın tam kalbinde. Toplam 13 öykü-röportajdan oluşan eserde, içinizdeki “öteki” ile yüzleşecek, birbirinden ilginç ve sarsıcı deneyimlerin hayata tutunma çabalarına eşlik edeceksiniz. Her birinin öyküsünde, kendi mücadelenizle yüzleşeceksiniz. Soraya ve İris adlı iki romanıyla Polonya ve Bulgaristan’da da sayısız okura ulaşan genç yazar Meltem Yılmaz’ın bu sıra dışı eseri, yine hafızalara kazınacak nitelikte.
The book is a contribution to the fields of pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and social and political ethics. The argument in the book runs along two lines: firstly, four pragmatist philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger) are discussed by putting them into their respective intercultural contexts. They are interpreted as philosophers that were/are either explicitly or implicitly linked to some of the key tenets in comparative and/or intercultural philosophy of the twentieth/twenty-first century. Secondly, the book looks to their particular works and discusses the role of the body and its important ethical potential. In their respective contex...
In this extraordinarily candid book, Umesh Patri presents a fresh reappraisal of the impact of Indian scriptures on American transcendentalism which flourished in New England in the 19th century. The major premise of the study is that other influences on the transcendentalists, such as Chinese, Persian, Sufi, Arabic, Neo-Platonism and German transcendentalism, are of less significance than that of Indian scriptures comprising of Hindu and Buddhist texts. In the writings of Emerson, Thoreau and minor transcendentalists like Alcott, Fuller, Channing, Johnson, Brownson, etc., the influence of Indian scriptures is clearly discernable. An attempt has been made here to show that Indian scriptures ...
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
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Table of Content Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 5 Number 1 June 2008 Catherine LEGG: Argument-Forms Which Turn Invalid Over Infinite Domains: Physicalism as Supertask? Joseph MARGOLIS: Wittgenstein¿s Question and the Ubiquity of Cultural Space Jay SCHULKIN: Cognitive Adaptation: Insights from a Pragmatist Perspective Jay SCHULKIN: Cephalic Organization: Animacy and Agency Lara M. TROUT: C. S. Peirce, Antonio Damasio, and Embodied Cognition: A Contemporary Post-Darwinian Account of Feeling and Emotion in the `Cognition Series¿ Rita RISSER: Industry and Quiescence in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Lenart SKOF: Pragmatism and Social Ethics: An Intercultural and Phenomenological Approach Andrew STABLES: Semiosis, Dewey and Difference: Implications for Pragmatic Philosophy of Education Book Reviews Scott R. STROUD: Review of Cheryl Misak, ed. New Pragmatists. Jacob GOODSON: Review of Romand Coles and Stanley Hauerwas. Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian.
This Reader explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. It is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental influence upon European thinkers.
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