Author: Sarah Neely File Type: pdf Margaret Tait filmmaker, photographer, poet, painter, essayist and short story writer is one of the UKs most unique and remarkable filmmakers. She was the first female filmmaker to create a feature-length film in Scotland (Blue Black Permanent, 1992). Although for most of her career Tait remained focused on the goal of making a feature-length film, her most notable and groundbreaking work was arguably as a producer of short films. The originality of her work, and its refusal to accept perceived barriers of genre, media and form, continues to inspire new generations of filmmakers. This book aims to address the lack of sustained attention given to Taits large body of work, offering a contextualisation of Taits films within a general consideration of Scottish cinema and artists moving image. Furthermore, the books grounding in detailed archival research offers new insights into Scotland (and Britain) in the twentieth century, relating to a diverse range of subjects and key figures, such as John Grierson, Forsyth Hardy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Lindsay Anderson and Michael Powell. **About the Author Sarah Neely is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling, where she is a member of the Centre for Scottish Studies and the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies. Her research stretches across a range of areas in film and media studies. Recent work has focused primarily on Scottish cinema and artists moving image. In 201011 she was awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship Grant to help support her research on Margaret Tait. She is the editor of Margaret Taits Poems, Stories and Writings (2012).

Author: Julius Evola File Type: pdf In a probing analysis of the oldest Buddhist texts, Julius Evola places the doctrine of liberation in its original context. The early teachings, he suggests, offer the foremost example of an active spirituality that is opposed to the more passive, modern forms of theistic religions. This sophisticated, highly readable analysis of the theory and practice of Buddhist asceticism, first published in Italian in 1943 , elucidates the central truths of the eightfold path and clears away the later accretions of Buddhist doctrine. Evola describes the techniques for conscious liberation from the world of maya and for achieving the state of transcendence beyond dualistic thinking. Most surprisingly, he argues that the widespread belief in reincarnation is not an original Buddhist tenet. Evola presents actual practices of concentration and visualization, and places them in the larger metaphysical context of the Buddhist model of mind and universe. The Doctrine of the Awakening is a provocative study of the teachings of the Buddha by one of Europes most stimulating thinkers.**

Author: Gordon Graham File Type: pdf The Re-enchantment of the World is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Gordon Graham takes as his starting point Max Webers idea that contemporary Western culture is marked by a disenchantment of the world--the loss of spiritual value in the wake of religions decline and the triumph of the physical and biological sciences. Relating themes in Hegel, Nietzsche, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, and Gadamer to topics in contemporary philosophy of the arts, Graham explores the idea that art, now freed from its previous service to religion, has the potential to re-enchant the world. In so doing, he develops an argument that draws on the strengths of both analytical and continental traditions of philosophical reflection. The opening chapter examines ways in which human lives can be made meaningful as a background to the debates surrounding secularization and secularism. Subsequent chapters are devoted to painting, literature, music, architecture, and festival with special attention given to Surrealism, 19th-century fiction, James Joyce, the music of J. S. Bach and the operas of Wagner. Graham concludes that that only religion properly so called can enchant the world, and that modern arts ambition to do so fails.Review...strives mightily and most impressively with the thesis that art can restore meaning to life after the demise of religion...This book is chock full of edifying loops excursions. Jerome Gellman Mind Vol 118 October 2009 This is a remarkable book...The book sets down a challenge to those of us involved in aesthetics and the arts-particularly to those of us who are not participants in religious ceremonies and who are not members of religious communities. It is highly readable and rewarding and full of argument and generosity to those against whom the author takes issue. I repeat this is a remarkable book. Edward Winters British Journal of Aesthetics About the AuthorGordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts in the Department of Theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

Author: Christopher Petherick File Type: pdf font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxMany people criticize authors for their sources...for this book, the source could not be better the CIA case officer who conducted the operation is the author! Yes, we all know the CIA makes a living from lying but the author uses declassified material to show why Iran continues to have chilly relations with the U.S. Imagine if Iran had overthrown our govt., installed a puppet dictator, and created and trained a secret police force to keep him in power?! I think we all know the answer... This is exactly what the CIA did in Iran in concert with big oil companies in 1953.spanfont