Everyday Extraordinary

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The concept of fetishism has long been a window through which philosophers, psychoanalysts and cultural anthropologists have looked in order to critically examine the nature of beliefs, sexual interests and material values, and it remains today a vital interpretive paradigm. The enduring interest in fetishism gives testimony to the fact that its status and significance have yet to be fully resolved. In the attempt to further clarify this ambiguous and often mystifying phenomenon, the contributors to Everyday Extraordinary: Encountering Fetishism with Marx, Freud and Lacan have taken a fresh look at the fundamental dynamic of fetishism through the lenses of its most influential interpreters?not only Marx, Freud and Lacan, but also Derrida, Mannoni and Pietz.In this collection of essays, the philosophical approach joins forces with the psychoanalytic, and the psychoanalytic with the aesthetic and mythological, often with striking results. Emerging from the essays contained in this volume is a notion of fetishism as a response to a crisis of meaning: personal, social or religious. The fetish mediates the crisis that arises when a system of meaning and identity is confronted with something that threatens it with dissolution, whether this threat arises from an excessive and traumatic figure of alterity, or from the loss of the ground on which ones certainty had been staked. And the stakes of this confrontation are indeed high, as the fetish is here seen as an object having a profound influence on the life of desire, now leading to a symbolic blossoming of the mundane, now into perverse repetition and the refusal of change.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Christopher M. Gemerchak
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Release : 2004
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9058674088


Everyday Extraordinary

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Everyday Extraordinary is a follow up to My Saturday Morning Posts, the compilation of a weekly journal posted on social media that followed Penny Sparks’ first year of grief after the unexpected loss of her husband. Through this format, her healing process developed into a continued walk through the “more” that everyday life can bring. So often we can see God clearly in crisis, turning points or big decisions, but what about the routines in our average days? He promises we will see and do more if we engage Him in the middle-of-the-road moments. This collection of thoughts is divided into four seasons in recognition of how we can feel differently and more deeply at different times of the year. Penny uses her everyday moments to share extraordinary lessons about the goodness of God. These stories will inspire you to see God in the seemingly insignificant stuff and show you how He doesn’t just work in the earthquakes of life, but in the gentle whispers as well.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Penny Armstrong Sparks
Publisher : WestBow Press
Release : 2023-06-01
File : 252 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781664296374


Inside Organized Racism

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Following up her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee discovers that many of today's racist women combine dangerous racist and anti-Semitic agendas with otherwise mainstream lives. The only national sample of a broad spectrum of racist activists and the only major work on women racists, this important book also sheds light on how gender relationships shape participation in the movement as a whole.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Kathleen M. Blee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2003-07-09
File : 302 Pages
ISBN-13 : 052093072X


Rise And Elevate The World

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Many people face this big question; "How do I live a life of great effect and consequence"? Resolving this question begins with clarifying your reason for living. It involves making creative, courageous, and unconventional choices to pursue that reason for being in excellence. It requires taking an enduring legacy of inspiration to tomorrow. To achieve this, we must equip ourselves with the highest excellence of character that empowers us to meet our obligations of destiny to the world. Rise and Elevate the World explores this question and presents a case for a principle based, compassion inspired, and values driven model of personal change and growth. It builds a case for beyond the self thinking and ambitioning which makes an enduring difference in the world. The work also calls for the overcoming of the socially and culturally constructed boundaries to the unlimited growth possibilities which we all have. Rise and Elevate the World calls for making great decisions of great consequence. Decisions which reorient and repurpose the life to rise into the highest possibility of becoming while enriching the lives of the people in our orbits. It is about changing the world as we ascend into our highest and best.

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Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Author : Chomba Chocho
Publisher : iUniverse
Release : 2010-03
File : 126 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781450207713


Big Research Questions About The Human Condition

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The book is a manifesto-like essay aiming to redress some globally present drawbacks characterizing current research in the humanities: 1. Fragmentation and thematic volatility; 2. A reluctance to acknowledge that humanities research is a truth seeking enterprise as all scientific research; 3. A certain unwillingness (or inability) to ask clear questions and to provide distinct answers to these questions. The book consists of three parts: A. Introduction, where the problem and the purpose of the book is presented; B. six chapters, each presenting a certain topic that I suggest that humanist scholars gather around with sustained efforts; C. Conclusion with some words of how to proceed and a section discussing what the humanities or should and are not or should not be.

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Genre : History
Author : Arne Jarrick
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release : 2020-11-30
File : 162 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781785275685


Cultural Studies Vol18 Issue 2

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Issue 2-3 (2004) includes articles on rethinking everyday life, the myth of everyday life, the persistence of everyday, everyday tragedy and creation, time and space in everyday life, everyday utopianism, profane illuminations, a different life - looking at Barthes and Foucault, rountine and ambiguity, shame, prescences, a mundane voice, limitations; and consumption of digital commodities in everyday life to name a few.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2021-12-24
File : 351 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000446128


Armageddon Or Evolution

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We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Bernard S Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-12-03
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317263555


The Structures Of The Life World

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The Structures of the Life-World is the final focus of twenty-seven years of Alfred Schutz's labor, encompassing the fruits of his work between 1932 and his death in 1959. This book represents Schutz's seminal attempt to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the nature of social reality. Here he integrates his theory of relevance with his analysis of social structures. Thomas Luckmann, a former student of Schutz's, completed the manuscript for publication after Schutz's untimely death.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Alfred Schutz
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release : 1973
File : 357 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780810108332


Impoverishment And Asylum

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Impoverishment and Asylum argues that a shift has taken place in recent decades towards construing asylum as primarily a political and/or humanitarian phenomenon, to construing it as primarily an economic phenomenon, and that this shift has had led to the purposeful impoverishment, by the state, of people seeking asylum in the UK. This shift has far-reaching consequences for people seeking asylum, who have been systematically impoverished as part of the effort to strip out any possibility of an economic pull factor leading to more arrivals, but also for those administering their support system, and for civil society organisations and groups who seek to ameliorate the worst effects of the resulting asylum regimes. This book argues that within this context asylum support policies in the UK which are meant to help and protect, in fact do serious harm to their recipients. It argues that the shift from construing asylum seekers as economically, rather than politically, motivated migrants across the West, is part of a much broader set of historical and philosophical worldviews than has previously been articulated. The book offers a rigorously researched and richly theorised analysis drawing on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in making sense of the purposeful impoverishment by the state of a particular group of people, and why this continues to be tolerated in the fourth richest country in the world.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Lucy Mayblin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-11-27
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000767346


Falling For The Cowboy S Baby

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Second chance for a family A Valentine for the Cowboy by Rebecca Winters Brianna Frost can't deny the serious attraction between her and sexy cowboy Eli Clayton, or the bond she has with his little girl. Still, Brianna can't quite shake the feeling that Eli's ex is still in his life—and in his heart. Would falling for this Clayton cowboy mean loving a family that could never be hers? The Kentucky Cowboy's Baby by Heidi Hormel Pepper Bourne dreams of opening a community garden on her stepfather’s ranch. The only thing standing in her way is the rugged cowboy who just inherited the property! AJ McCreary gave up the rodeo to raise his baby girl, and selling the ranch is the only way he can support her now. When Pepper makes a claim on AJ’s heart, can he prove to her he’s ready to become a family man? 2 Heartfelt Stories A Valentine for the Cowboy and The Kentucky Cowboy's Baby

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Rebecca Winters
Publisher : Harlequin
Release : 2022-07-26
File : 362 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780369721211