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Beneath the surface of things : new and selected essays / by Davis, Wade,author.(CARDINAL)184215;
"The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique cultural perspective to such varied topics as the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred. His essay, 'The Unraveling of America,' first published in Rolling Stone, attracted five million readers and generated 362 million social media impressions. Media interest in the story was sustained over many weeks, with interview requests coming in from 23 countries. The anthropological lens, as Davis demonstrates, reveals what lies beneath the surface of things, allowing us to see, and to seek, the wisdom of the middle way, a perspective of promise and hope that all of the essays in this collection aspire to convey."--Publisher.
Subjects: Essays.; Reflection (Philosophy); Perspective (Philosophy);
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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What would Socrates say? : philosophers answer your questions about love, nothingness, and everything else / by George, Alexander.;
What can I know? -- What ought I to do? -- What may I hope? -- What is man? -- One last, but not final, question.
Subjects: Socrates.; Applied ethics.; Reflection (Philosophy);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Dancing the dream / by Jackson, Michael,1958-2009.(CARDINAL)351022;
Subjects: American poetry.; Reflections;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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How to do nothing [sound recording] : resisting the attention economy / by Odell, Jenny(Multimedia artist),author.(CARDINAL)792458; Gibel, Rebecca,narrator.;
Read by Rebecca Gibel.Artist Jenny Odell sees our attention as the most precious--and overdrawn--resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we hear so often, Odell offers an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Information technology; Reflection (Philosophy); Attention; Work; Arts;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy / by Odell, Jenny(Multimedia artist),author.(CARDINAL)792458;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.The case for nothing -- The impossibility of retreat -- Anatomy of a refusal -- Exercises in attention -- Ecology of strangers -- Restoring the grounds for thought -- Conclusion : Manifest dismantling."A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention--and our personal information--that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity ... doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell, who sees our attention as the most precious--and overdrawn--resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine our role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from a simple anti-technology screed or back-to-nature meditation, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of the narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent."--Jacket.
Subjects: Information technology; Reflection (Philosophy); Attention; Work; Arts;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 33
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Wake up to love : meditations to start your day / by Walton, Nikki,author.(CARDINAL)606815;
"Joyful meditations to start your day intentionally and wake each morning to your soul with chart-topping GoOD Mornings podcast host Nikki Walton"--
Subjects: Meditations.; Meditations.; Love; Morning.; Meditation.; Reflection (Philosophy);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 8
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Saving time : discovering a life beyond the clock / by Odell, Jenny(Multimedia artist),author.(CARDINAL)792458;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index.Introduction: A message for the meantime -- Whose time, whose money? -- Self timer -- Can there be leisure? -- Putting time back in its place -- A change of subject -- Uncommon times -- Life extension -- Conclusion: Halving time."Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it--the way we experience time itself--and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Explaining how we got to the point where time became money, Odell offers us new models to live by--inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological, and geological time--that make a more humane, more hopeful way of living seem possible. In this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful reframing of time, Jenny Odell takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days, alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding. The stretchy quality of waiting and desire, the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory, the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy, or the time it takes to heal from injuries--physical or emotional. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life, to imagine a life, identity, and source of meaning outside of the world of work and profit, and to understand that the trajectory of our lives--or the life of the planet--is not a foregone conclusion. In that sense, "saving" time--recovering its fundamentally irreducible and inventive nature--could also mean that time saves us"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Time; Information technology; Reflection (Philosophy); Attention; Work; Work-life balance.;
Available copies: 43 / Total copies: 47
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Thirst / by Nothomb, Amélie,author.(CARDINAL)391934; Anderson, Alison,translator.(CARDINAL)395043;
In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus's final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles, we find a man struggling with his humanity and his exceptional nature, straddling the line between human and deity, the son of a formless, omnipotent creator in the fallible form of a man.
Subjects: Novels.; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ; Thought and thinking; Reflection (Philosophy);
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Open Socrates : the case for a philosophical life / by Callard, Agnes,author.; W.W. Norton & Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)764072;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-389) and indexes.The man whose name is an example -- Untimely questions -- The Tolstoy problem -- Load-bearing answers -- Savage commands -- Socratic intellectualism -- The Socratic method -- Three paradoxes -- The Gadfly-Midwife paradox -- Moore's paradox of self-knowledge -- Meno's paradox -- Socratic answers -- The Socratizing move -- Politics: Justice and liberty -- Politics: Equality -- Love -- Death."Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that "the unexamined life is not worth living," yet take no steps to live examined ones. We know that he was tried, convicted, and executed for "corrupting the youth," but freely assign Socratic dialogues to today's youths, to introduce them to philosophy. We've lost sight of what made him so dangerous. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates' thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life. Callard draws our attention to Socrates' startling discovery that we don't know how to ask ourselves the most important questions--about how we should live, and how we might change. Before a person even has a chance to reflect, their bodily desires or the forces of social conformity have already answered on their behalf. To ask the most important questions, we need help. Callard argues that the true ambition of the famous "Socratic method" is to reveal what one human being can be to another. You can use another person in many ways--for survival, for pleasure, for comfort--but you are engaging them to the fullest when you call on them to help answer your questions and challenge your answers. Callard shows that Socrates' method allows us to make progress in thinking about how to manage romantic love, how to confront one's own death, and how to approach politics. In the process, she gives us nothing less than a new ethics to live by."--
Subjects: Socrates.; Questioning.; Ethics.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Reflection (Philosophy);
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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Open Socrates [audio-enabled device] : the case for a philosophical life / by Callard, Agnes,author,narrator.; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;
Read by Agnes Callard.Sound files.An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer and, in the first place, ask life's most important questions. Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, yet take no steps to live examined ones. We know that he was tried, convicted, and executed for corrupting the youth, but freely assign Socratic dialogues to today's youths, to introduce them to philosophy. We've lost sight of what made him so dangerous. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates' thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life. Callard draws our attention to Socrates' startling discovery that we don't know how to ask ourselves the most important questions about how we should live, and how we might change. Before a person even has a chance to reflect, their bodily desires or the forces of social conformity have already answered on their behalf. To ask the most important questions, we need help. Callard argues that the true ambition of the famous Socratic method is to reveal what one human being can be to another. You can use another person in many ways for survival, for pleasure, for comfort but you are engaging them to the fullest when you call on them to help answer your questions and challenge your answers. Callard shows that Socrates' method allows us to make progress in thinking about how to manage romantic love, how to confront one's own death, and how to approach politics. In the process, she gives us nothing less than a new ethics to live by.Adult.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Socrates.; Questioning.; Ethics.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Reflection (Philosophy);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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