Author: Gillian Pye File Type: pdf In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists has been a negative category, heavily implicated in the destruction of the natural world. However, in the context of the arts, trash has long been seen as a rich aesthetic resource and, more recently, particularly under the influence of anthropology and archaeology, it has been explored as a form of material culture that articulates modes of identity construction.In the context of such shifting, often ambiguous attitudes to the obsolete and the discarded, this book offers a timely insight into their significance for representations of social and personal identity. The essays in the book build on scholarship in cultural theory, sociology and anthropology that suggests that social and personal experience is embedded in material culture, but they also focus on the significance of trash as an aesthetic resource. The volume illuminates some of the ways in which our relationship to trash has influenced and is influenced by cultural products including art, architecture, literature, film and museum culture.**

Author: Ernest Hemingway File Type: epub Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century -- from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star -- and he recorded them with matchless power. This landmark volume brings together Hemingways most important, timeless writings about the nature of human combat. Passages from his beloved World War I novel A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, about the Spanish Civil War, offer an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. Selections from Across the River and Into the Trees vividly evoke an emotionally scarred career soldier in the twilight of life as he reflects on the nature of war. Classic short stories, such as In Another Country and The Butterfly and the Tank, stand alongside excerpts from Hemingways first book of short stories, In Our Time, and his only full-length play, The Fifth Column. With captivating selections from Hemingways journalism -- from his coverage of the Greco-Turkish War of 1922 to a legendary early interview with Mussolini to his jolting eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 -- Hemingway on War represents the authors penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare.**

Author: A. John Simmons File Type: pdf This book completes A. John Simmonss exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton paperback edition, 1994). Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations between persons.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Mari Ruti File Type: pdf Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called the art of living. How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can we best engage and overcome our suffering? From Socrates to Foucault, Western philosophers have sought to define the art of livingthe complex craft of human existence that elicits our thoughtful participation, and the idea that even though death escapes our control, life is not something that simply happens to us in a passive manner but is instead a process that invites our active and lively engagement. A World of Fragile Things offers a distinctly psychoanalytic perspective on the art of living, one that focuses on ongoing and ever-evolving processes of self-fashioning rather than defining a fixed and unitary sense of self. With a compelling blend of philosophical insight and psychoanalytic acumen, Mari Ruti asks experts and readers alike to probe the complexities of human existence, offering a contemporary outlook on some of the most enduring questions of Western thought. [a] splendid book In exploring such subtending themes as the relation of loss to creativity and the meaning of love, fantasy, and character development, Ruti stands in the tradition of humanist writers who have bridged the disciplinary gaps between philosophy, psychotherapy, and the human sciences. CHOICE Rutis bracing postmodernist sensibility is well ballasted by genuine open-mindedness and even a refreshing dash of humanism. Her eloquent argument that psychoanalysis teaches us to make a virtue of contingency should be heeded not only by scholars of literature and philosophy but also by practicing clinicians. Peter L. Rudnytsky, coeditor of Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Passionate, persuasive, ambitious and caringRuti cogently bridges ontological issues into psychoanalytic thought. Ellen McCallum, author of Object Lessons How to Do Things with Fetishism **Review Rutis bracing postmodernist sensibility is well ballasted by genuine open mindedness and even a refreshing dash of humanism. Her eloquent argument that psychoanalysis teaches us to make a virtue of contingency should be heeded not only by scholars of literature and philosophy, but also by practicing clinicians. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky [a] splendid book In exploring such subtending themes as the relation of loss to creativity and the meaning of love, fantasy, and character development, Ruti stands in the tradition of humanist writers who have bridged the disciplinary gaps between philosophy, psychotherapy, and the human sciences. CHOICE Ruti s bracing postmodernist sensibility is well ballasted by genuine open-mindedness and even a refreshing dash of humanism. Her eloquent argument that psychoanalysis teaches us to make a virtue of contingency should be heeded not only by scholars of literature and philosophy but also by practicing clinicians. Peter L. Rudnytsky, coeditor of Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Passionate, persuasive, ambitious and caring Ruti cogently bridges ontological issues into psychoanalytic thought. Ellen McCallum, author of Object Lessons How to Do Things with Fetishism From the Back Cover How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can we best engage and overcome our suffering? From Socrates to Foucault, Western philosophers have sought to define the art of living--the complex craft of human existence that elicits our thoughtful participation, and the idea that even though death escapes our control, life is not something that simply happens to us in a passive manner but is instead a process that invites our active and lively engagement. A World of Fragile Things offers a distinctly psychoanalytic perspective on the art of living, one that focuses on ongoing and ever-evolving processes of self-fashioning rather than defining a fixed and unitary sense of self. With a compelling blend of philosophical insight and psychoanalytic acumen, Mari Ruti asks experts and readers alike to probe the complexities of human existence, offering a contemporary outlook on some of the most enduring questions of Western thought. Rutis bracing postmodernist sensibility is well ballasted by genuine open-mindedness and even a refreshing dash of humanism. Her eloquent argument that `psychoanalysis teaches us to make a virtue of contingency should be heeded not only by scholars of literature and philosophy but also by practicing clinicians. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, coeditor of Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine Passionate, persuasive, ambitious and caring--Ruti cogently bridges ontological issues into psychoanalytic thought. -- Ellen McCallum, author of Object Lessons How to Do Things with Fetishism