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Author | : Davide Stimilli |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791484246 |
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The literature on physiognomy—the art of studying a person's outward appearance, especially the face, in order to determine character and intelligence—has flourished in recent years in the wake of renewed scholarly interest in the history and politics of the body. Virtually no attention, however, has been devoted to the vocabulary and rhetoric of physiognomy. The Face of Immortality addresses this gap, arguing that the trend in Western culture has been to obliterate the face, which is manifested in criticism as a disregard for the letter. Denouncing this trend, Davide Stimilli draws on Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, English, and German sources in order to explore the terminology and historical development of physiognomy. Stimilli takes physiognomy to be the resistance to such an obliteration of the face, and argues that it offers a model for a theory of reading that does not discount the letter as inessential. Elaborating on the work of Walter Benjamin, he defines the task of physiognomical criticism as transliteration (which preserves the letter) rather than translation (which obliterates it). The Face of Immortality is meant to exemplify the method and test the reach of such a criticism, which aims at mediating between philology and philosophy, between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.
Author | : Adam Gollner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1439109435 |
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An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.
Author | : Margaret Cool Root |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Art, Egyptian |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Milan Kundera |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1999-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060932384 |
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence.
Author | : Oliver Krüger |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2021-10-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3839450594 |
Download Virtual Immortality - God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high frontier: outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny, posthumanists assume that they will become an immortal part of a transcendent superintelligence. Krüger's award-winning study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.
Author | : APPARITIONS. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1799 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kevin Bohacz |
Publisher | : CPrompt |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0979181518 |
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"What if God is only a ghost in a cosmic machine?"
Author | : American Oriental Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : |
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List of members in each volume.
Author | : John Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780956365606 |
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"The Eternal Quest for Immortality" includes an investigation into all aspects of immortality, plus a look at the lives of some people who have experienced glimpses of it.
Author | : Alex Long |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107086590 |
Download Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.