Charles Reich -Herbert Marcus - R.D.Laing - Ernst Bloch - Carl G. Jung

Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism. An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs, as well as a new afterword by Sensei Bodhin Kjolhede, who has succeeded Philip Kapleau as spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center, one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers in the United States.

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Interviews met de invloedrijke Nederlandse psychiater (1929) over psychiatrie, medische biologie en religie en over zijn persoonlijke visie op religie en zijn joodse achtergrond.

Analytische annotatie: Moraalfilosofisch pleidooi voor een levensopvatting die uitgaat van de vooronderstelling dat toekomstige generaties ertoe doen en streeft naar het op lange termijn positief beïnvloeden van de toekomst. Met illustraties.

Profielschets van een vorst, een heerser, zoals hij zal moeten staan aan het hoofd van een ideale staat door de Italiaanse geschiedschrijver (1469-1527).

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

De beroemde filosoof Thomas Hobbes wordt beschouwd als de grondlegger van de Engelse politiek en rechtsfilosofie en als de eerste denker die een zuiver seculiere theorie over het politiek gezag formuleerde.

First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian émigré--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism will remain for years to come the reference book of choice for those intrigued by this practice.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941), whose philosophical works emphasized motion, time, and change, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. His work remains influential, particularly in the realms of philosophy, cultural studies, and new media studies. In Thinking in Time, Suzanne Guerlac provides readers with the conceptual and contextual tools necessary for informed appreciation of Bergson's work.

Guerlac's straightforward philosophical expositions of two Bergson texts, Time and Free Will (1888) and Matter and Memory (1896), focus on the notions of duration and memory-concepts that are central to the philosopher's work. Thinking in Time makes plain that it is well worth learning how to read Bergson effectively: his era and our own share important concerns. Bergson's insistence on the opposition between the automatic and the voluntary and his engagement with the notions of "the living," affect, and embodiment are especially germane to discussions of electronic culture.

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, Karsh contends that the region’s experience is the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions, and patterns of behavior, and that foremost among these is Islam’s millenarian imperial tradition.
The author explores the history of Islam’s imperialism and the persistence of the Ottoman imperialist dream that outlasted World War I to haunt Islamic and Middle Eastern politics to the present day. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream, and such attacks have little to do with U.S. international behavior or policy in the Middle East, says Karsh. The House of Islam’s war for world mastery is traditional, indeed venerable, and it is a quest that is far from over.

Analyse van het wereldwijde islamitische terrorisme en de onderlinge politieke, theologische en maatschappelijke conflicten tussen moslims en de factoren in de westerse wereld die aan dat terrorisme ten grondslag liggen.

Bloemlezing van klassieke Chinese levensbeschouwelijke en spirituele teksten met commentaar.

Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy -- armed with a power to analyze fundamental concepts and their relationship to the human experience -- has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In Everywhere and Everywhen, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest, such as: What shape is space? Does it have an edge? What is the difference between past and future? What is time in relativity? Is time travel possible? Are there other universes?Huggett shows that answers to these profound questions are not just reserved for physics, and that philosophy can not only address but help advance our view of our deepest questions about the universe, space, and time, and their implications for humanity. His lively, accessible introduction to these topics is suitable for a general reader with no previous exposure to these profound and exciting questions.

These writings, new translated from Greek, are the earliest and most venerable examples of the mass of ecclesiastical literature produced in the first centuries A.D. They are the work of a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, who faithfully preserved the Apostolic teaching and tradition between the time of the Apostles and the late second century. Most of their writings take the form of epistles: those of Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp, for example, are warmly human and affectionate, while the anonymous "Epistle to Diognetus" and the "Epistle of Barnabas" are more impersonal. All, however, have a genuine pastoral concern -- they are interested more in people than ideas, in practice more than dogma.

An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, The Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his "nurse", Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment.

The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made this work hugely popular throughout medieval Europe, and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes it accessible to the modern reader while losing nothing of Boethius's poetic artistry and philosophical brilliance.

Who are you? When are you? What were you conscious of a moment ago? This groundbreaking book sees acclaimed psychologist Susan Blackmore combining the latest scientific theories about mind, self, and consciousness, with a lifetime's practice of Zen. Alongside her research on consciousness and memes, Susan Blackmore has been practicing Zen for over twenty-five years; not as a Buddhist, but as a scientist who longs to understand the mind. Many neuroscientists and philosophers believe that we need first-person approaches as well as third-person scientific research in order to fully comprehend consciousness. In "Ten Zen Questions", she brings the two together for the first time. Seeking to understand whether personal experience can help penetrate the scientific mystery of consciousness, she uses traditional techniques of calming the mind and looking directly into experience as she delves into ten great questions, including 'How does thought arise?', 'Am I conscious now?', and the Zen koan There is no time. What is memory? Featuring the ten questions, a critical response from her Zen master, and lively illustrations, "Ten Zen Questions" offers a revolutionary way to try to understand who we are. This is not the kind of book that provides final - or easy - answers, but instead offers an inspiring exploration of how intellectual inquiry and meditation can tackle the questions behind some of today's greatest scientific mysteries.

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Essay over doven, hun gebarentaal en sociaal-emotionele problemen.

Causerie over het werk van de Franse schrijver (1871-1922) als gids voor levenskunst.

Voorlichting voor jonge twintigers over met name de emotionele aspecten van seks.

Honderd jaar geleden werd in Duitsland de allereerste school voor blindengeleidehonden opgericht. Sindsdien zijn deze dieren in de hele wereld onmisbaar als hulp en metgezel voor veel blinden. Vooraan! is het verhaal van de bijzondere relatie tussen de blinde en zijn geleidehond. Dat honden blinde mensen kunnen helpen, was al langer bekend, maar pas in de Eerste Wereldoorlog ontstond in het Duitse Oldenburg voor het eerst een echte opleidingsschool voor blindengeleidehonden. Die waren bestemd voor blinde oorlogsveteranen. Toen deze honden een succes bleken te zijn, kwamen ook blinde burgers voor een blindengeleidehond in aanmerking. Dankzij Dorothy Eustis, een Amerikaanse die op dat moment in Zwitserland woonde, kregen de geleidehonden bekendheid in de Verenigde Staten. Ook in veel Europese landen, zoals Groot-Brittannië, Nederland, België en Italië, hielp Eustis bij het oprichten van scholen voor blindengeleidehonden. In 'Vooraan!' wordt de ontwikkeling beschreven van deze scholen, met alle hoogte- en dieptepunten, en met de nadruk op maatschappelijke aspecten als armoedebestrijding, filantropie, kynologie, dierenwelzijn, gedragswetenschap en de emancipatie van mensen met een beperking.