Fanatic explores the concept of fanaticism, the psychological drivers of fanatics, and the commonalities across their experiences. Capturing the stories of those who consider fanaticism as core to their self-concept and interviewing experts in clinical and sport psychology, Joe Ungemah identifies core motivations across the social, physical, cognitive, and emotive domains. Exploring these, Ungemah demystifies the concept of fanaticism and recognizes its benefits. He argues that we all have the potential to become fanatics, and that fanaticism should be embraced for the sense of purpose and identity that it can foster and the opportunity for connection it can provide.

A provocative investigation of the links between contemporary advertising images and 19th-century medical discourse.

Why do people persist in commitments that threaten their happiness, security, and comfort? Why do some of our most central, identity-defining commitments seem to resist the effects of reasoning and critical reflection? Drawing on real-life examples, empirical psychology, and philosophical reflection, Paul Katsafanas argues that these commitments involve an ethical stance called devotion, which plays a pervasive—but often hidden—role in human life. Devotion typically involves sacralizing certain values, goals, or relationships. To sacralize a value is to treat it as inviolable (trade-offs with ordinary values are forbidden), incontestable (even contemplating such trade-offs is prohibited), and dialectically invulnerable (no rational considerations can disrupt the agent's commitment to the value). Philosophy of Devotion offers a detailed philosophical account and defense of these features. Devotion and the sacralization of values can be reasonable; indeed, a life involving meaningful, sustained commitment depends on these stances. Without devotion, we risk an existential condition that Katsafanas describes as normative dissipation, in which all of our commitments become etiolated. Yet devotion can easily go wrong, deforming into the individual and group fanaticism that have become pervasive features of modern social life. Katsafanas provides an alternative to fanaticism, investigating the way in which we can express non-pathological forms of devotion. We can be devoted through affirmation and through what Katsafanas calls the deepening move, which treats the agent's central commitments as systematically inchoate. Each of these stances enables a wholehearted form of devotion that nevertheless preserves flexibility and openness, avoiding the dangers of fanaticism on the one hand and normative dissipation on the other. But this is inevitably a fragile and precarious achievement: affirmation can slide into a focus on rejecting what isn't affirmed, and the deepening move can ossify into rigidity. Only the perpetual quest to maintain a form of existential flexibility, which may require oscillation between affirmation and deepening, can stave off these dangers

A great moralist and social thinker illuminates the most vexing issues of our time--war, old age, racism, abortion, boredom, crime and punishment, sociobiology--in a book which is by turns hilarious and somber but always vigorous and stimulating.

Welcome to still-unwritten-phenomena showing Nonmolecularly-Molecular Cosmocellular-World. Read a special & unique book (Cosmocellular-Hypothesis). No one would have ever read it before. This same Cosmocellular-Message you had read before 30 billion years, and will also read after 30 billion years,.....How it's possible according to universal Ancient-Vedic-Law of the Time-Replication & Thermodynamics-Laws of the Modern-Science (Waves-physics)? Indeed, all kind of the plant-kingdoms & animal-kingdoms on the earth, had reproduced , are reproducing & will reproduce from their same species only. Thus, our ancestors were not apes, but they were same as we look today. ..... How according to such joint-theory of cosmocellular-ancestory (and waves- &-particles-physics) as well as cytocosmic-ancestory, ---- can trace back us to Vedic-belief or philosophical-belief (which strongly prevailed before Charles Darwin) about the evolution of life on the earth that each living-species evolved separately & that none had changed their forms? That means, how a man evolved from a man only ,not from the ape or other species. In other words, man has descended from man only , & rat from rat only; similarly a banyan tree from banyan-tree only, & mango-tree from mango-tree only etc.etc. ? In short, a babool or banyan tree never never gives mango-fruit.... ******************************************************************************************************************************************* For USA: Eco-Friendly Special Discount Rate of E-Books : Vol-1-A , $33, + Vol-1-B, $35 + Vol-1-C, $35 = Total $ 103 : VERSUS e-book COMBO (Vol-1- A / B / C) = $ 61. For UK: Eco-Friendly Special Discount Rate of E-Books : Vol-1-A , £22.59, + Vol-1-B, £ 27.26 + Vol-1-C, £25.70 = Total £ 75.55 : VERSUS e-book COMBO (Vol-1- A / B / C) = £47.51. For EURO: Eco-Friendly Special Discount Rate of E-Books : Vol-1-A , € 26.44, + Vol-1-B, € 31.91, + Vol-1-C, € 30.09 = Total € 88.44 : VERSUS e-book COMBO (Vol-1- A / B / C) = € 55.62 . For Aus : Eco-Friendly Special Discount Rate of E-Books : Vol-1-A , AUS $43.44, + Vol-1-B, AUS $52.43, + Vol-1-C, AUS $ 49.43 = Total AUS $145.30 : VERSUS e-book COMBO (Vol-1- A / B / C) = AUS $91.38 . For Canada : Eco-Friendly Special Discount Rate of E-Books : Vol-1-A , CAD $38.51, + Vol-1-B, CAD $46.48, + Vol-1-C, CAD $ 43.82 = Total CAD $128.81 : VERSUS e-book COMBO (Vol-1- A / B / C) = CAD $81.01. For Mexico : Eco-Friendly Special Discount Rate of E-Books : Vol-1-A , MXN $494.53, + Vol-1-B, MXN $595.85, + Vol-1-C, MXN $ 562.74 = Total MXN $1654.12 : VERSUS e-book COMBO (Vol-1- A / B / C) = MXN $1140.22. www.cosmocellular.com

The War on Terror has established a new global order of political structures, legislation, and technologies designed to spy on the world’s Muslims. This book explains the origins and trajectories of this political system. The contributors argue that a constellation of Western ideas about Muslims have evolved over time to produce an insatiable desire for all-pervasive, ever-expanding surveillance in our contemporary moment. The book posits that the surveillance order is not, however, only the result of conceptions of Muslims. It is, rather, the outcome of centuries of European thought regarding religion, governance, and revolution. Islamophobia and Surveillance traverses the existential desire for wakeful vigilance, the religious wars of early modern Europe, colonial India, the Balkan frontier of the EU, and the walls of the United States-Mexico border. The consequences of the new surveillance order transcend the West’s Muslim Question and threaten the very existence of the liberal democratic state. This book will, therefore, be of interest to those studying a range of subjects related to international co-operation, modern political systems, and security studies, as well as Islamophobia. Islamophobia and Surveillance was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Set against a socio-economic landscape on the verge of collapse across the Eurozone, neo-Nationalism is on the rise again. Simon Tomlin charts the rise of European neo-nationalism from its violent reawakening in England in the 1970s in a nation struggling to find its identity after the loss of Empire to the modern imitations across the European Union and explains their success. This is a gripping account of the mechanics of modern political power and the forces of the Old Order that are being confronted and defeated by nationalists. From the back-streets of Derbyshire with murdered neo-Nazi leader Ian Stuart to the collapse of the British National Party and the rise of Marine Le Pen in France; The Fanatics will leave you spellbound and shocked. Are the 1930s coming round again in Europe? The civil war in Ukraine and the involvement of thousands of neo-Nazi volunteers should be the only warning people need of what is coming in Europe...

The essays in this volume explore some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism, by analyzing its unique dynamics, and considering how it can be productively confronted. The book features both analytic and continental philosophical approaches to fanaticism. Working at the intersections of epistemology, philosophy of emotions, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, the contributors address a range of questions related to this increasingly relevant, yet widely neglected topic. What are the distinctive features of fanaticism? What are its causes, motivations, and reasons? In what ways, if at all, is fanaticism epistemically, ethically, and politically problematic? And how can fanaticism be combatted or curtailed? The Philosophy of Fanaticism will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of emotions, moral psychology, and political philosophy.

In this groundbreaking book, Knight shows how the Qabalah and its basic diagram, the Tree of Life, is a system of relationships among mystical symbols that can be used to gain access to the hidden reaches of the mind. He also demonstrates how the Qabalah is applicable to all mystical traditions and religious beliefs, including Christian mysticism, Greek, Egyptian and Celtic mythologies, and even Native American beliefs. It is indeed symbolic of our universal search for the Divine. Included here are two books in one. The first compares the Western Mystery Tradition with the Eastern system of yoga, analyzes the Tree of Life in full detail, and describes the practical application and theories of Qabalistic symbolism. The second gives the most comprehensive analysis ever published of the twenty-two 'Paths of Concealed Glory' that join the Spheres of the Tree of Life taking into account the Hebrew alphabet, astrological signs, and tarot trumps. A large section explores the history of tarot design and the varying systems of correspondence with the Tree of Life.