Author: James Allen File Type: pdf Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a quiet mind involved in responsibilities, the heart can be at rest in the midst of strife, we can know the abiding peace. The twenty pieces which comprise this book, unrelated as some of them are in the letter, will be found to be harmonious in the spirit, in that they point the reader towards those heights of self-knowledge and self-conquest which, rising above the turbulance of the world, lift their peaks where the Heavenly Silence reigns. - James Allen**

Author: P. H. Callum File Type: pdf Studies of gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity however, the study of medieval masculinities has developed into an important area of enquiry in the last few years. This collection is the first to concentrate on the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity intersected with concepts of holiness. Individual essays in this volume explore differing notions of holiness which had currency in the Middle Ages, understood variously as religious, saintly, sacred, pure and morally perfect. They also consider the ways in which the performance of both holiness and masculinity was affected by other categories such as monasticism, kingship, mysticism, social status, body and age.For some men the practice of holiness embodied the masculine capacities of self-control and intellectual decision, but for others it involved identities that challenged conventional ideas of masculine autonomy. Therefore masculinity could either be a source of validation, or a matter for anxiety an issue explored in several of the essays. Others consider holy masculinity alongside holy femininity and the ways in which both could sometimes be achieved by men and women.Topics include sanctity and martyrdom, eunuch saints, meanings attached to the tonsure, mystical marriage, models of ideal conduct and virginity. The volume as a whole deals with a wide variety of texts and sources drawn from Byzantium, Syria, Germany, France, Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England.ReviewThis, the fourth volume in this handsomely produced series by the University of Wales Press . . . is a pioneering collection of interdisciplinary essays . . . shedding new light on familiar topics. www.gwales.com (www.gwales.com )This collection goes some of the way to addressing this dearth of scholarship, and encourages new thinking on attitudes to the past and sainthood . . . this is a well edited and coherent production. Church Times(Church Times ) About the AuthorP. H. Cullum is a Principal Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Huddersfield. She has published widely on hospitals and charity in late medieval England. Katherine J. Lewis is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Huddersfield. She is the author of The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England.

Author: Martin Heidegger File Type: epub Written in 19389, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heideggers second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and discusses the Greeks, Nietzsche and Hegel at length. In addition to the main text, the text also includes two further important essays, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway (19378) and The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted) (19378), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works and discusses his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity and reflects on his lifes path. This is a major translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations Series.

Author: Anand Pandian File Type: pdf Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and craftsmen in the south Indian movie studios of Kollywood, Anand Pandian examines how ordinary moments become elements of a cinematic world. With inventive, experimental, and sometimes comical zeal, Pandian pursues the sensory richness of cinematic experience and the adventure of a writing true to these sensations. Thinking with the visceral power of sound and image, his stories also broach deeply philosophical themes such as desire, time, wonder, and imagination. In a spirit devoted to the turbulence and uncertainty of genesis, Reel World brings into focus an ecology of creative process the many forces, feelings, beings, and things that infuse human endeavors with transformative potential. **Review Anand Pandian is a gifted writer. And the sounds, spaces, rhythms, and colors that these creative directors draw together provide rich tapestries. The result is a spiritual work that illuminates life today. (William E. Connolly, author of A World of Becoming) Of the many unique things about Reel World, the most ambitious is Pandians attempt to capture this moment of creation, in writing, composing, directing the moment that the spark of inspiration connects the individual artist to the numinous forces around him. (Walter Murch, from the foreword) Reel World thinks in and through the media of cinema and experience as things of the world. They are like fireflies whose paths flash and cut out. A chance encounter, a glance, or a gesture activates experiments in rhythm and voice, light and sound, a feeling of movement. Streets, migrants, flowers, bullets, childrens textbooks, and bottlefuls of pills form ecologies of incipience. Ontological curiosity laps like an infinity wave in the craving for wonders now. (Kathleen Stewart, author of Ordinary Affects) An original, thoughtful, and daring anthropologist, Anand Pandian has written a book ostensibly about the fierce intensities of Tamil cinema and the great cultural themes that pervade it hope, color, space, love, desire, light, dream, time. It might, however, be more apt to describe this work as a rich, experimental meditation about the elusive momentum of creativity, the shift in perception when something unexpected happens. This meditation is set in the Tamil country, mainly in its cinema capital, Chennai, whose streets, tea stalls, beaches and offices are beautifully evoked. It is often difficult to decide if the emerging text is driven more by the inner landscapes of Tamil villagers (such as those discussed in Pandians superb first book, Crooked Stalks), or by resonant voices from the modernist canon (Bohumil Hrabal, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, Lefebvre, Joyce, Deleuze). The lyrical interweaving of these worlds along with lively vignettes of many of the great names of south Indian cinema as they struggle to define themselves and their work offer us a context-sensitive understanding of cinema as a medium of thought, a way of thinking with the visceral force of moving images. (David Shulman, author of More than Real A History of the Imagination in South India) Decoding the phantasmagoria on-screen while navigating the labyrinthine networks of Indias Tamil cinema calls for inspired writing. Thankfully, the cicerone who takes us through these oneiric protean worlds can reconcile the recondite with the banal, the sublime with the quotidian, and the real with the mythological The taut prose, the espial documentation, and cogitations make Reel World a work of superfluous quality. (Kumuthan Maderya PopMatters 2015-12-01) Pandian delivers an adventurous and boldly written pursuit of how ideas become the sights, sounds, stories, emotions, and realities that flicker onscreen in a movie. (Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine 2015-12-10) In this book, which follows the various paths through which Tamil films are made, another kind of dream emergesone that allows us to re-envision the anthropological (by which I mean the human) project as one concerned with learning to open oneself to the wild world beyond what we think we can control. (Eduardo Kohn Somatosphere 2015-12-17) Pandians writing simulates the formal properties of cinema, conjuring the sounds and sights of films many of us may never see, but feel as though we have seen through his writing, while intimating that much of our apprehension of the world is already irrevocably cinematic. (Stephanie Spray Somatosphere 2015-12-17) Tamil cinema, in many ways, is its own little universe, and its time someone explored it in the manner of an anthropologist investigating a remote culture. Anand Pandian is, in fact, an anthropologist, and his flavorful, seamlessly narrated book is a fascinating dig into Tamil cinema, its codes, its symbols, how it is made, how it is received. (Baradwaj Rangan, author of Conversations with Mani Ratnam) Anthropology comes together with an intense cinephilia to explore the social circumstances of unstable creativity in Anand Pandians remarkable book on recent Tamil cinema. He shadows filmmakers, writers, producers, actors, technicians and sundry characters from its movie industry, and with them tracks a creativity that is between conscious thought and unconscious impulse, between a utopian promise and dangerous lived reality. Never have the ramifications of the cinematic conscious been explored before in India in this way. (Ashish Rajadhyaksha, author of Indian Cinema in the Times of Celluloid) [A] delightful combination of thought and description is a unique ethnographic account that is both autobiographical and participant-observational. ... In this book, we are made privy to this enigmatic and elusive interface between the creator and the nothingness that confronts himher in the act of creation. (C.S. Venkiteswaran Frontline 2016-06-10) About the Author Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Crooked Stalks Cultivating Virtue in South India, also published by Duke University Press. Walter Murch is an Academy Awardwinning film editor and sound designer, and the author of In the Blink of an Eye A Perspective on Film Editing.