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The Myth of Modernity

The Myth of Modernity

First published in 1950 this was a new work by Charles Baudouin world-famous French psychologist and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the myth of Modernity characteristic of the time of writing. The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards as essentially vulgar; the myth of Progress he says had its aspiration and gave man reasons for reaching out for better things but the myth of Modernity ‘seems to give humanity reasons only for fleeing from itself reasons for unhappiness inasmuch as the man who runs away from himself is an unhappy man’. This chapter is characteristic of those that follow – on Baudelaire Verlaine and other literary topics; on Art and the Epoch The Prestige of Action Technique versus Mysticism Opinion and Tolerance etc. A broad humanity and a gentle irony are the characteristic features of this simulating book now available again to be enjoyed in its historical context.

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The Reinvention of Primitive Society Transformations of a Myth

The Reinvention of Primitive Society Transformations of a Myth

Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of fascinating account of classic texts in anthropology ancient history and law Kuper reveals how this myth underpinned academic research and inspired political programmes. Its ancestry is traced back to classical western beliefs about barbarians and savages and Kuper also tackles the latest version of the myth the idea of a global identity of “indigenous peoples”. The Reinvention of Primitive Society is a key text in the history of anthropology and will interest anyone who has puzzled about the very idea of “primitive society” – and so by implication about “civilisation”. | The Reinvention of Primitive Society Transformations of a Myth

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Myth Literature and the Unconscious

Myth Literature and the Unconscious

At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny Myth Literature and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth studies. The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range (including ancient Egypt India Japan nineteenth-century France and twentieth-century Germany) and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethe's opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction and from William Blake's visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus Orpheus the Scapegoat and the Hero while mobilising Freudian Jungian object relations and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches.

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The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist Private Life Professional Practice

The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist Private Life Professional Practice

Therapists are not immune to the range of problems their clients experience including divorce bereavement illness and depression. The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist considers what kinds of difficulties clinicians face as well as the best ways of dealing with them. Featuring interviews from forty different practitioners – CBT psychoanalytic integrative and humanistic therapists from an international array of backgrounds – on how they coped during times of personal strife the book dispels the myth that therapists are immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. Using clinical examples personal experience and research literature Marie Adams challenges mental health professionals to take a step back and consider their own wellbeing. This new edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter looking at the impact of COVID-19 on practitioners. Linking therapists’ personal histories to their choice of career the book highlights some of the key elements that may serve and sometimes undermine counsellors working in private practice or mental health settings. The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist is ideal for counsellors and psychotherapists as well as social workers and those working within any kind of helping profession. | The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist Private Life Professional Practice

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Greek Myth and the Bible

Greek Myth and the Bible

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently however has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of biblical narratives. Greek Myth and the Bible argues that classical mythological literature and the biblical texts were composed in a dialogic relationship. Louden examines a variety of Greek myths from a range of sources analyzing parallels between biblical episodes and Hesiod Euripides Argonautic myth selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Homeric epic. This fascinating volume offers a starting point for debate and discussion of these cultural and literary exchanges and adaptations in the wider Mediterranean world and will be an invaluable resource to students of the Hebrew Bible and the influence of Greek myth.

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The Myth of Bureaucratic Neutrality An Examination of Merit and Representation

The Myth of Bureaucratic Neutrality An Examination of Merit and Representation

In a system discredited by political corruption the notion of ‘bureaucratic neutrality’ was presented during the Progressive era as strategy to restore legitimacy in government. However bureaucratic neutrality also served as a barrier to equity in government. This book argues that neutrality is a myth that has been used as a means to oppress marginalized communities largely disconnected from its origins within the field of public administration. A historical perspective of how the field has understood race and gender demonstrates how it has centered whiteness masculinity and heteronormativity in research and administrative practices mistaking them for neutrality in public service. Using a historically grounded positionality approach the authors trace the myth of bureaucratic neutrality back to its origins and highlight how it has institutionalized inequity both legally and culturally. Ultimately the authors demonstrate that the only way to move toward equity is to understand how inequity has become institutionalized and to constantly work to improve our systems and decision making. With constituents across the globe demanding institutional changes in government that will establish new practices and mediate generations of inequality The Myth of Bureaucratic Neutrality is required reading for public administration scholars practitioners and students. | The Myth of Bureaucratic Neutrality An Examination of Merit and Representation

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A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories Myth and Reality

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories Myth and Reality

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer uses qualitative research to examine the popular myth that therapists are ‘wounded healers’. Rhona M. Fear presents the life stories of seven well-known psychoanalysts and psychotherapists including Sigmund Freud John Bowlby and Patrick Casement. Fear uses grounded theory to analyse her research and categorise her results focusing closely on experiences including trauma in early life attachment problems mental disturbance and resistance to authority figures. The book identifies patterns and common themes in the life stories of these leading figures and explains what this research can tell us about the enduring myth of the wounded healer. Accessibly written A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists counsellors and others in the helping professions. | A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories Myth and Reality

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The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf

The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf

The British became the dominant power in the Arab Gulf in the late eighteenth century. The conventional view has justified British imperial expansion in the Gulf region because of the need to supress Arab piracy. This book first published in 1988 challenges the myth of piracy and argues that its threat was created by the East India Company for commercial reasons. The Company was determined to increase its share of Gulf trade with India at the expense of the native Arab traders especially the Qawasim of the lower Gulf. However the Company did not possess the necessary warships and needed to persuade the British Government to commit the Royal Navy to achieve this dominance. Accordingly the East India Company orchestrated a campaign to misrepresent the Qawasim as pirates who threatened all maritime activity in the northern Indian Ocean and adjacent waters. Any misfortune that happened to any ship in the area was attributed to the ‘Joasmee pirates’. This campaign was to lead eventually to the storming of Ras al-Khaimah and the destruction of the Qawasim. Based on extensive use of the Bombay Archives previously unused by researchers this book provides a thorough reinterpretation of a vital period in Gulf history. It also illuminates the style and method of the East India Company at a critical period in the expansion of the British Empire. | The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf

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Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

This study explores the ways in which Dickens’s published work and his thousands of letters intersect to shape and promote particular myths of the reading experience as well as redefining the status of the writer. It shows that the boundaries between private and public writing are subject to constant disruption and readjustment as recipients of letters are asked to see themselves as privileged readers of coded text or to appropriate novels as personal letters to themselves. Imaginative hierarchies are both questioned and ultimately reinforced as prefaces and letters function to create a mythical reader who is placed in imaginative communion with the writer of the text. But the written word itself becomes increasingly unstable through its association in the later novels with evasion fraud and even murder. | Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

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The Myth of Superwoman Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

The Myth of Superwoman Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

Reviled by critics but loved by the readers the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In The Myth of Superwoman originally published in 1990 Resa Dudovitz looks at this international phenomenon particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the United States and France. Her cross-cultural study including interviews with publishers literary agents and bestselling authors gives a lively picture of the contrasting ways in which the bestseller is produced marketed and received in two countries. It pays special attention to the ‘international bestsellers’ of the 1980s to writers like Judith Krantz Colleen McCullough and Barbara Taylor Bradford all of whose novels are published in the United States Britain France Germany and Italy. The book presents a general analysis of women’s bestsellers ranging over a wide variety of novels from popular nineteenth-century texts in France and the United States to the novels of today. Dudovitz shows how women’s bestselling fiction has over the last two hundred years kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women culminating in the myth of superwoman in women’s bestsellers of the 1980s. This fascinating account of an important aspect of popular culture will be of great value to students of women’s studies and cultural studies especially those interested in the myths which structure women’s bestselling fiction. | The Myth of Superwoman Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

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The Myth of the Queer Criminal

The Myth of the Queer Criminal

The Myth of the Queer Criminal documents over a century of writings by sociologists psychologists criminologists and forensic scientists in Europe and the United States who asserted that LGBT persons were innately and uniquely criminal. Applying the tools of narratology and queer theory Jeffery P. Dennis examines the ten types of queer criminal that have appeared in seminal texts both literary and scientific over the past 140 years - beginning with Lombroso's Criminal Man (1876) and extending to postmodern criminologists and contemporary textbooks. Each type is named after its defining characteristic. The pederast for example was believed to be a master-criminal leading vast criminal empires. The degenerate intellectually and morally corrupted was perceived as a symptom or cause of societal decay. The silly lisping pansy was a figure of ridicule rather than of dread. The traitor was murderous and depraved prepared to destroy democratic institutions worldwide. The book aims to contextualize this mythology revealing the motivations of the agents behind it the influence of broader preoccupations and anxieties of the age and its societal political and cultural impact. This carefully researched meticulously written history of the queer criminal will be of interest to students and researchers in criminology gender studies queer studies and the history of sexuality.

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Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

This volume traces the interconnections between myth environmentalism narrative poetry comics and innovative artistic practice using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging mindless consumption and the degradation of human–nature relations this collection advocates a re-evaluation of the ethical relation to living with and sharing the Earth. Myth and the environment have shared a rich common cultural history travelling as far back as the times of storytelling and legend with the environment often the central theme. Following a robust introduction the book is organized into three main sections—Myth Disaster and Present-Day Views on Ecological Damage; Indigenous and Afro-diasporic Myths and Ecological Knowledge; Art Practices Myth and Environmental Resilience—and concludes with a Coda from Jeanette Hart-Mann. The methodology draws from diverse perspectives such as ecocriticism new materialism and Anthropocene studies offering a truly interdisciplinary discussion that reflects on the dialogue among environment and myth and a broad range of contributions are included from Canada the United States the Caribbean Ukraine Japan Morocco and Brazil. The book joins a long line of approaches on the interrelations between ecological and mythical thinking and criticism that goes back to the early 20th century. This volume will be of interest to students scholars activists and experts in environmental humanities myth and myth criticism literature and art on more-than human and nature interaction ecocriticism environmental activism and climate change. | Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

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Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights Life Outside the Pale of the Law

Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights Life Outside the Pale of the Law

Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights but they also spend billions fortifying their borders detaining unauthorised immigrants and policing migration. Meanwhile public debate over the West’s obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate vitriolic and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical historical and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Using the political philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant the book highlights the tension in liberalism between partiality towards one’s compatriots and the universalism of human rights and brings this tension to life through an examination of Hannah Arendt’s account of the rise and decline of the modern nation-state. It provides a novel reading of Arendt’s critique of human rights and her concept of the right to have rights. The book argues that the right to have rights must be secured globally in limited form but that recognition of its significance should spur expansive changes to border policy within and between liberal states. | Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights Life Outside the Pale of the Law

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Myth and Madness The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism

Myth and Madness The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism

The persistence of anti-Semitism and its current resurgence after a brief post-Holocaust suppression challenge those who study human behavior to locate the causal bases of anti-Semitism and find approaches to combat it. This is an astonishing report of a nine-year study of the psychodynamics of anti-Semitism. Undertaken by Dr. Mortimer Ostow on behalf of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund it puts flesh and bones on the discussion of antisemitism in Sigmund Freud's 1939 classic theoretical study Moses and Monotheism. Its close adherence to case material and application of psychoanalytic theory to historical data and cultural products yields new insights into bigotry and equity alike. By examining prejudiced patients and their myths Dr. Ostow shows the common threads of anti-Semitism in a variety of national and cultural settings even under supposed optimal conditions when antisemitism is stringently controlled. The work uses the psychiatric approach and can be read as a study of how this area of behavioral science reveals the interplay of the individual and the group cultural background and material opportunities. The book is divided into five major segments: Psychoanalytic interpretation of anti-Semitism in the past; clinical data on anti-Semitic sentiments in a variety of personal and national settings; mythological dimensions of anti-Semitism and apocalyptic doctrines; specific anti-Semitic myths including pre-Christian early and medieval Christian racial and post-modern Muslim anti-Semitism. The final segment focuses on the pogrom mentality including the Nazi phenomenon antisemitic fundamentalism and black anti-Semitism. Myth and Madness is informed by an amazing breadth of learning: from biblical exegesis to modern sociology from close attention to mundane patients to evaluating mythic claims of the loftiest and at times most dangerous sort. This is a landmark effort one that will be the touchstone for theoretical and clinical works to come. | Myth and Madness The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism

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Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

In Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction Bret Alderman puts forth a compelling thesis: Deconstruction tells a mythic story. Through an attentive examination of multiple texts and literary works he elucidates this story in psychological and philosophical terms. Deconstruction the method of philosophical and literary analysis originated by Jacques Derrida arises from what Carl Jung called “a kind of readiness to produce over and over again the same or similar mythical ideas. ” In the case of deconstruction such ideas bear a striking resemblance to a figure that Jungian and Post-Jungian writers refer to as the puer aeternus or eternal youth. To make his case in addition to a careful analysis of numerous Derridean texts he offers readings of literary works by Milan Kundera J. M. Barrie Dante Apuleius and others. These texts help illustrate that deconstruction’s preoccupations over questions of presence deferral authority limits time and representation are also recurrent issues for the eternal youth as described by Marie-Louise Von Franz and James Hillman. Judith Butler’s deconstruction of sex and gender reflects similar patterns and she features in this work as a contemporary exemplar of the deconstructive approach. Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction will be a compelling read for both students and teachers of depth psychology and continental philosophy. The clarity of its style will be appealing to advanced scholars and educated laypersons alike. | Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

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The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of rationalising and ordering processes which modern neuroscience identifies as 'left hemisphere' brain activity. The book argues that Blake's profound understanding of the human brain is finding surprising corroboration in recent neuroscientific discoveries such as those of the influential Harvard neuro-anatomist Jill Bolte Taylor and it explores Blake's provocative supposition that the emergence of these rationalising law-making and 'limiting' activities within the human brain has been recorded in the earliest Creation texts such as the Hebrew Bible Plato's Timaeus and the Norse sagas. Blake's prescient insight into the nature and origins of this dominant force within the brain allows him to radically reinterpret the psychological basis of the entity usually referred to in these texts as 'God'. The book draws in particular on the work of Bolte Taylor whose study in this area is having a profound impact on how we understand mental activity and processes. | The God of the Left Hemisphere Blake Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation

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The Myth of Attachment Theory A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

The Myth of Attachment Theory A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory – challenging its scientific basis and questioning the relevance in our modern superdiverse and multicultural society – and exploring the central concern of how children and their way of forming relationships differ from each other. In this book Heidi Keller examines diverse multicultural societies proposing that a single doctrine cannot best serve all children and families. Drawing on cultural psychological and anthropological research this challenging volume respects cultural diversity as the human condition and demonstrates how the wide heterogeneity of children’s worlds must be taken seriously to avoid painful or unethical consequences that might result from the application of attachment theory in different fields. The book explores attachment theory as a scientific construct deals with attachment theory as the foundation of early education specifies the dimensions that need to be considered for a culturally conscious approach and finally approaches ethical problems which result from the universality claim of attachment theory in different areas. This book employs multiple and mixed methods while also going beyond critical analysis of theory to offer insight into the implications of the unquestioning acceptance of this theory in such areas as childhood interventions diagnosis of attachment security international intervention programs and educational settings. This volume will be a crucial read for scholars and researchers in developmental educational and clinical psychology as well as educators teachers-in-training and other professionals working with children and their families. | The Myth of Attachment Theory A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

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The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion A Century-Old Myth

The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion A Century-Old Myth

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians and generated extensive research since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document and in spite of the fact that it served as an inspiration for Hitler’s antisemitism and the Holocaust it continues even in our time to be influential. Exploring the Protocols’ successful dissemination and impact around the world this volume attempts to understand their continuing popularity one hundred years after their first appearance in so many diverse societies and cultures. With contributions from leading scholars in the field the book covers themes such as: Why have the Protocols survived to the present day and what are the sources from which they draw their strength? What significance do the Protocols have today in mainstream worldviews? Are they gaining in importance? Are they still today a warrant for genocide or merely a reflection of xenophobic nationalism? Can they be fought by logical argumentation? This comprehensive volume which for the first time dwells also on the attraction of the Protocols in Arab and Muslim countries will be of interest to specialists teachers and students working in the fields of antisemitism the far right Jewish studies and modern history. | The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion A Century-Old Myth

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Beyond Utopia Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia

Beyond Utopia Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia

Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia. Beyond this partial understanding Agnes Nyilas suggests that rather than being merely utopian the Megastructure of Metabolism represents a uniquely amalgam genre: the myth camouflaged as utopia. Although its Megastructure seemingly describes a desirable future condition as utopia does it also comprises certain cultural images rooted in the collective (un)conscious of Japanese people in accordance with the general interpretation of myth. The primary narrative of Beyond Utopia thus follows the gradual unfolding of the myth-like characteristics of its Megastructure. Myth is dealt here as an interdisciplinary subject in line with contemporary myth theories. After expounding the mechanism underlying the growing demand for a new myth in architecture (the origin of the myth) Part I discovers the formal characteristics of the Megastructure of Metabolism to give a hint of the real intention behind it. Based on this Part II is a reexamination of their design methods which aims to clarify the function of the myth and to suggest the meaning behind it. Finally Part III deals with the subject matter of the myth by disclosing the meaning unfolding in the story and suggests a new reading of Metabolism urban theory: as an attempt to reconsider the traditional Japanese space concept. | Beyond Utopia Japanese Metabolism Architecture and the Birth of Mythopia

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Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes borne out of male desire inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several comp | Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

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Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

For well over half a century since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with or even consider the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop. The coming of peak oil-the peaking and irreversible decline of world petroleum production-poses an existential threat to societies in which every sector of the economy depends on petroleum-based transport and no known energy source can scale up extensively or quickly enough to replace dwindling oil supplies. Not The Future We Ordered is the first study of the psychological dimensions of that decision and its consequences as a case study in the social psychology of collective failure and as an issue with which psychologists and therapists will be confronted repeatedly in the years ahead. | Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

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The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal is the Oosterhuis' personal account of four decades of architectural and societal thinking designing building and theorizing. It is an orchestrated yet non-linear series of subjects all leading toward the creation of a parallel world called Another Normal. Another Normal is as of now a hypothetical parallel world. Nomadic international citizens are the inhabitants of Another Normal. Urged by the climate crisis the food energy and water nexus and the COVID-19 pandemic Another Normal demonstrates the inevitable data-driven techno-social architecture of the physically built environment and the metaverse. Besides robotic production on demand of almost anything – when where and as needed – Oosterhuis' proposes a dozen strategies that run in parallel to establish Another Normal among others: ubiquitous basic income global birthright to own a generous piece of land distributed production of healthy food clean energy and drinking water ownership of private data and personal avatars in the Web 3. 0 autonomous electronic transportation ubiquitous shared responsibility for clean production and waste treatment techniques ubiquitous home delivery working from anywhere for any period of time and decentralized real-time peer to peer banking. The organic real and the synthetic hyper-real co-evolve naturally in Another Normal where a mix of strong and simple legislative planning and design rules create complexity diversity fairness and equality. | The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

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Mircea Eliade Myth Religion and History

Mircea Eliade Myth Religion and History

Mircea Eliade (1907�1986) was one of the twentieth century's foremost students of religion and cultural environments. This book examines the emergence function and value of religion and myth in his work. Nicolae Babuts Robert Ellwood Eric Ziolkowski John Dadosky Robert Segal Mac Linscott Ricketts Douglas Allen and Liviu Borda examine Eliade's views on the interaction between the sacred and the profane. Each explores Eliade's phenomenological approach to the study of religion and myth. They show that modern rites of initiation cultural activities and spectacles like bullfighting film and perhaps surprisingly reading and writing all harken back to the archetypal structures of the mythical imagination. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Eliade's phenomenological approach is that it reveals what we have in common with pre-Socratic man: the mind's structural capacity to endow objects and events with spiritual values and meanings. As a study of Eliade's concept of the mythic imagination the book posits an analogy between the myths of the past and modern imitations. The authors suggest that in spite of their differences and their separate historical sources myths represent basic structures of human consciousness. This book is essential reading for all students of religion philosophy and literature. | Mircea Eliade Myth Religion and History

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