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Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination
AvJohn Farrell
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2023
760 kr
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In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. While utopias aim at equality, the heroic imperative defends the need for personal and collective dignity. It asks the utopian, Do we really want to live in a world without struggle, without heroes, and without the stories they create? Because the utopian dilemma pits essential values against each other—equity versus freedom, dignity versus justice—few who confront it can simply take sides. Rather, the dilemma itself has been a generative stimulus for classic authors from Plato and Thomas More to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Farrell follows their struggles with the utopian dilemma and with each other, providing a deepened understanding of the moral and emotional dynamics of the western political imagination.
Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination
AvJohn Farrell
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
760 kr
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In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. While utopias aim at equality, the heroic imperative defends the need for personal and collective dignity. It asks the utopian, Do we really want to live in a world without struggle, without heroes, and without the stories they create? Because the utopian dilemma pits essential values against each other—equity versus freedom, dignity versus justice—few who confront it can simply take sides. Rather, the dilemma itself has been a generative stimulus for classic authors from Plato and Thomas More to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Farrell follows their struggles with the utopian dilemma and with each other, providing a deepened understanding of the moral and emotional dynamics of the western political imagination.
Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination
AvJohn Farrell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 420 kr
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In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. While utopias aim at equality, the heroic imperative defends the need for personal and collective dignity. It asks the utopian, Do we really want to live in a world without struggle, without heroes, and without the stories they create? Because the utopian dilemma pits essential values against each other—equity versus freedom, dignity versus justice—few who confront it can simply take sides. Rather, the dilemma itself has been a generative stimulus for classic authors from Plato and Thomas More to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Farrell follows their struggles with the utopian dilemma and with each other, providing a deepened understanding of the moral and emotional dynamics of the western political imagination.Introduction, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, and Conclusion of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
718 kr
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In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. While utopias aim at equality, the heroic imperative defends the need for personal and collective dignity. It asks the utopian, Do we really want to live in a world without struggle, without heroes, and without the stories they create? Because the utopian dilemma pits essential values against each other—equity versus freedom, dignity versus justice—few who confront it can simply take sides. Rather, the dilemma itself has been a generative stimulus for classic authors from Plato and Thomas More to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Farrell follows their struggles with the utopian dilemma and with each other, providing a deepened understanding of the moral and emotional dynamics of the western political imagination.Introduction, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, and Conclusion of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
How He Died, and Other Poems.
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
271 kr
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Australia to England. [a Poem.] (Reprinted from the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 22nd June, 1897.).
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
225 kr
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Jayton's Book of Poetry
Inspirational and Secular
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
274 kr
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Jayton's Book of Poetry
Inspirational and Secular
AvJohn Farrell
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
60 kr
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The purpose behind the writing of this book is twofold; one, is to show that even though some may not believe that there''s a God, that personally I do. And I also believe that everything that presently exist on the earth and above the earth, was created by Him. Second, it is my hope that this inspirational book along with its secular content would be a means of enlightening the minds of those who truly need hope in their life. It will also endeavour to show, that apart from God, we as human beings are helpless to save ourselves spiritually. Our only hope then, is in the Son of God who gave his life, so that all of us can live. Hence, I thank Him for the inspiration that he has given me to compile these poems-THANK YOU God !-And thanks also to those friends and family alike whose interest I have gained throughout the years. My prayer is that all who read it''s pages, may find hope and comfort in their life. GOD BLESS!
Day Without Yesterday
Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
292 kr
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Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth century, when an obscure Belgian priest put his mind to deciphering the nature of the cosmos. Is the universe evolving to some unforeseen end, or is it static, as the Greeks believed? The debate has preoccupied thinkers from Heraclitus to the author of the Upanishads, from the Mayans to Einstein. The Day Without Yesterday covers the modern history of an evolving universe, and how Georges LemaÃ®e convinced a generation of thinkers to embrace the notion of cosmic expansion and the theory that this expansion could be traced backward to the cosmic origins, a starting point for space and time that LemaÃ®e called "the day without yesterday." LemaÃ®e's skill with mathematics and the equations of relativity enabled him to think much more broadly about cosmology than anyone else at the time, including Einstein. LemaÃ®e proposed the expanding model of the universe to Einstein, who rejected it. Had Einstein followed LemaÃ®e's thinking, he could have predicted the expansion of the universe more than a decade before it was actually discovered.
The Crisis Clinic
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
263 kr
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Capital Gains Exit Ramp
AvRoger D Silk,John Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
206 kr
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Varieties of Authorial Intention
Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy
AvJohn Farrell
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
437 kr
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This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, “The Intentional Fallacy,” and it deepened during the era of poststructuralist theory. Even now, when the vocabulary of “critique” that has dominated the literary field is under sweeping revision, the matter of authorial intention has yet to be reconsidered. This work explains how “The Intentional Fallacy” confused different kinds of authorial intentions and how literary critics can benefit from a more up-to-date understanding of intentionality in language. The result is a challenging inventory of the resources of literary theory, including implied readers, poetic speakers, omniscient narrators, interpretive communities, linguistic indeterminacy, unconscious meaning, literary value, and the nature of literature itself.
Varieties of Authorial Intention
Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
344 kr
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This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, “The Intentional Fallacy,” and it deepened during the era of poststructuralist theory. Even now, when the vocabulary of “critique” that has dominated the literary field is under sweeping revision, the matter of authorial intention has yet to be reconsidered. This work explains how “The Intentional Fallacy” confused different kinds of authorial intentions and how literary critics can benefit from a more up-to-date understanding of intentionality in language. The result is a challenging inventory of the resources of literary theory, including implied readers, poetic speakers, omniscient narrators, interpretive communities, linguistic indeterminacy, unconscious meaning, literary value, and the nature of literature itself.
Rogue Science
AvJohn Farrell
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
229 kr
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Rogue Science
AvJohn Farrell
E-bok
Engelska, 2025
186 kr
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Scientists have made wonderful progress in preventing disease in the past two decades. To take one example, the human growth hormone was scarce and beyond the financial reach of most families with a child that needed it. Scientists were able to insert the genes for making it into the milk producing system of cows. Now ten cows can produce enough human growth hormone to meet the world''s annual need.
Unfortunately, many scientific advances can be misused. This has happened in the area of gene manipulation. A scientist and a lab technician took the genes that tells the coca tree in Andes to make cocaine and inserted those genes into domestic plants in the US. This enabled those men to make cocaine here and avoid the risks of smuggling it in from South America.
Several criminals in the US wanted the lab notebooks that showed the necessary steps for making cocaine here. That put Dr. Susan Goodwin, the lab chief where the two men in the cocaine project had been employed, at risk.
When Susan came back from a ski trip, an intruder with a large knife came at her when she was doing her laundry. Fortunately, Susan''s hobby was archery and her longbow was nearby. She grabbed her bow and put two arrows into the intruder''s chest. He died soon afterward.
Susan''s lab technician, Tim Benet, and another scientist in the laboratory Carl Boyer were also killed. The violence and death were too much for Susan emotionally, and she felt a need to get away for a while. She chose a resort-hotel in Mexico''s Baja California peninsula.
To Susan''s dismay, there was as much violence there as back in the US. A gangster and his assistant tried to take over the resort-hotel. The gangster''s assistant tried to kill the animal livestock in a corral on a local rancho, but the animals killed him. Two kitchen employees, both tortilleras, killed the gangster. The shared danger made Susan and a woman assistant manager of the hotel become close friends. Although Susan was distressed by the additional violence in Baja, she decided it was everywhere and she might as well go back to the US.