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This is a book of poems to remember those for whom 'time had
lapsed.' The poems begin innocently with common collections, rocks
or coins, and progressively, become memories that gather the death
in the folds of language, to commemorate the passage. The words are
most forceful for those closest to the heart of the narrator. The
poems mourn a secret bond with each lost one. In the work of grief,
special harmonies in poetry open the soul to the transcendent joy
of simply being.
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Simple With
David Appelbaum
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R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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THE SHOCK of LOVE is a book about spirit. It is a book within a
book. The book found within is a manuscript entitled THE SHOCK of
LOVE. It is purportedly written by Paolo Cellini, Professor of
Romance Languages and a student of the era of the troubadours and
courtly love. Based on the idea of a book of the heart, current
during that time, it is divided into nine chapters that give
allegorical detail of the journey of love, a love that completes
the spirit in a person. There the reader follows the courtship, the
'alchemical' marriage, and the dark gestation before emerging
transformed and completed. The outer book, the book that encloses
the found manuscript, tells the story of Cellini as well as
speculating on why it came to be written.
In 'Jacques Derrida's Ghost' David Appelbaum explores three of
Derrida's favourite themes: the other, death, and the work of
mourning. He shows how Derrida's unique philosophy, mindful of
ghosts, proposes a respectful attitude toward otherness - whether
the 'other' be corporeal or indeed phantom.
Appelbaum (philosophy, State U. of New York) explores how the
disruption of the intellect fractures consciousness, which loses
its world-making power and realigns itself with wholeness and
purpose. He discusses such aspects as the perception of the
formless and formless perception, toward a somatic critique of
retentivity, sympathy and the plight o
The final installment in Appelbaum's three-volume exploration of
the "intervening subject" -- volumes one and two are The Stop and
Disruption, also published by SUNY Press -- The Delay of the Heart
explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an
"initiatory ethics". It intimates a secret of delay that is behind
all traditional teachings and suggests ways that a sensitivity to a
sacred obligation emerges from the heart of human experience.
Imagine listening at a keyhole to a conversation with the task of
transcribing it, and the result may be a text similar to the
present one. from Part I: Stagework
In a series of meditations responding to writings by Emmanuel
Levinas, David Appelbaum suggests that a flawed grammar warrants
Levinas to speak of language at the service of ethics. It is the
nature of performance that he mistakes. Appelbaum articulates this
flaw by performing in writing the act of the philosophical mind at
work. Incorporating the voices of other thinkers in particular
Levinas s contemporaries Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot
sometimes clearly, sometimes indistinctly, Appelbaum creates on
these pages a kind of soundstage upon which illustrations appear of
what he terms a rhetorical aesthetic, which would reestablish
rhetoric, rules for giving voice and not ethics as the correct
matrix for understanding the otherness and beyond-being that
Levinas seeks in his work."
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