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Imagination and the meaningful brain Imagination and the meaningful brain Arnold H. Modell "The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims… OL13607543W
Imaginaire Imaginaire Jean-Paul Sartre First published in 1940, Sartre's The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his philosophy. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the… OL15093488W
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism Encyclopedia of Postmodernism Victor E Taylor Postmodernism has emerged as a critical cultural, political and intellectual concept and has significantly altered our understanding of every discipline from architecture to ethics, and history to po… OL15169528W
The power of feelings The power of feelings Nancy Chodorow "In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries - Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others - turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human pe… OL15839199W
The spell of the sensuous The spell of the sensuous David Abram [In this book, the author] draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician … OL15845262W
Money talks Money talks Brenda Berger xviii, 200 p. ; 23 cm OL15902099W
The nick of time The nick of time E. A. Grosz Focusing on the work of Darwin, Nietzsche and Bergson, showing its relevance to cultural and social theory influential theorist Elizabeth Grosz investigates the social and political implications of e… OL16915650W
On Humour On Humour Simon Critchley Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley sk… OL16941669W
The achilles of rationalist psychology The achilles of rationalist psychology Robert Stainton,Thomas M. Lennon "How is it that the mind perceives the words of a verse as a verse and not just as a string of words? One answer to this question is that to do so the mind itself must already be unified as a simple … OL16954377W
Death and desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze Death and desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze Brent Adkins This title places Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze in conversation with one another, which results in a new (joyful) way of thinking about death. OL16974285W
Models of horizontal eye movements Models of horizontal eye movements John D. Enderle There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements. The purpose of this book is focused … OL16975593W
The Freud encyclopedia The Freud encyclopedia Edward Erwin "The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture is a comprehensive reference work on the life, ideas, and influence of the great and controversial founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The … OL19123406W
Pragmatic reasons Pragmatic reasons Jeremy Randel Koons We daily classify actions by their morality and their voluntariness, and beliefs by their rationality. But in light of persistent skepticism about morality, free will, and (to a lesser extent) episte… OL19896124W
The Book That Changed America The Book That Changed America Randall Fuller Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdr… OL20047403W
A fragile life A fragile life Todd May It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the w… OL20058098W
Lasting words Lasting words Claire Willis Faced with the ultimate challenge of life-confronting your death-how would you want to be remembered? Are there stories you want to tell? Experiences you want to relay? Explanations about how you fel… OL24277880W
Inspiring hope Inspiring hope Thom Lisk For centuries hope has been symbolized by an anchor. The hope offered inside grounds you and finally moves you upwards and outward with wind at your back so you soar and succeed. The human heart or s… OL24533804W
Memory Memory John Scanlan When we think of getting older, we know we will slowly lose more and more of our memory-and with it, our sense of where we belong and how we connect to others. We might relax a little if we considere… OL26196548W
Freud A to Z Freud A to Z Sharon Heller A lively guide to the life and work of the father of psychoanalysis From Anna O. to Zionism, this uniquely accessible A-to-Z reference presents a comprehensive overview of Freud's ideas, family, col… OL2645341W
The Interpersonal World of the Infant The Interpersonal World of the Infant Daniel N. Stern Challenging the traditional developmental sequence as well as the idea that issues of attachment, dependency, and trust are confined to infancy, the author integrates clinical and experimental scienc… OL2726306W
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