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Many people are unable to love -- and thus live -- fully. Renowned
psychoanalyst Erich Fromm has helped generations of men and women
achieve rich and productive lives by developing their capacity to
love. This Centennial Edition of his most enduring work, The Art of
Loving, salutes the valuable lessons that are Fromm's legacy.
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The Prophet
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Kahlil Gibran
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Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own
day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship
that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. And
in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of
reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked
seaward; and he beheld his ship coming with the mist. Then the
gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the
sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
So begins The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran's transcendant verse cycle in
which the prophet Almustafa boards a ship bearing him homeward and
discusses with those whom he meets on board life, love, and and all
aspects of the human condition. Never out of print since its first
publication in 1923, Gibran's collection of prose poems is one of
the best-loved volumes in world literature.
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the
historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.
What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages
to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern
classic weaves together numerous histories to trace a range of
possibilities for this most basic act. Touching on the philosophers
of Ancient Greece, the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Elizabeth
Bennett, Andre Breton's Nadja, and more, Rebecca Solnit considers
what forms of pleasure and freedom walkers have sought at different
times. Profound and provocative, Wanderlust invites us to look
afresh at the rich, varied, often radical interplay of the body,
the imagination, and the world when walking. "Radical, humane,
witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other times, impassioned
and serious" - Alain de Botton
Throughout the ages philosophers have examined their own lives
in an attempt both to find some meaning and to explain the roots of
their philosophical perspectives. This volume is an introduction to
philosophical autobiography, a rich but hitherto ignored literary
genre that questions the self, its social context, and existence in
general. The author analyzes representative narratives from
antiquity to postmodernity, focusing in particular on three case
studies: the autobiographies of St. Augustine, Rousseau, and
Sartre. Through the study of these exemplary texts, philosophical
reflection on the self emerges as a valid alternative to Freudian
psychoanalysis and as a way of promoting self-renewal and
change.
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Legacy
(Hardcover)
Benjamin D Author, Benjamin Freeman
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