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For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart shows us that happiness doesn't come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. Weaving together the accumulated wisdom of his two worlds--Buddhism and Western psychotherapy--Epstein shows how "the happiness that we seek depends on our ability to balance the ego's need to do with our inherent capacity to be." He encourages us to relax the ever-vigilant mind in order to experience the freedom that comes only from relinquishing control.
Drawing on events in his own life and stories from his patients, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart teaches us that only by letting go can we start on the path to a more peaceful and spiritually satisfying life.
The word "biology" was first used to describe the scientific study
of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his
reconstruction of the genealogy of the concept of life, our
understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent
invention. Focusing on the histories of philosophy, science, and
biopolitics, he contends that biological life is a metaphysical
concept, not a scientific one, and that this notion has gradually
permeated both European and Anglophone traditions of thought over
the past two centuries. Building on the work undertaken by Foucault
in the 1960s and '70s, Tarizzo analyzes the slow transformation of
eighteenth-century naturalism into a nineteenth-century science of
life, exploring the philosophical landscape that engendered biology
and precipitated the work of such foundational figures as Georges
Cuvier and Charles Darwin. Tarizzo tracks three interrelated
themes: first, that the metaphysics of biological life is an
extension of the Kantian concept of human will in the field of
philosophy; second, that biology and philosophy share the same
metaphysical assumptions about life originally advanced by F. W. J.
Schelling and adopted by Darwin and his intellectual heirs; and
third, that modern biopolitics is dependent on this particularly
totalizing view of biological life. Circumventing tired debates
about the validity of science and the truth of Darwinian evolution,
this book instead envisions and promotes a profound paradigm shift
in philosophical and scientific concepts of biological life.
The word "biology" was first used to describe the scientific study
of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his
reconstruction of the genealogy of the concept of life, our
understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent
invention. Focusing on the histories of philosophy, science, and
biopolitics, he contends that biological life is a metaphysical
concept, not a scientific one, and that this notion has gradually
permeated both European and Anglophone traditions of thought over
the past two centuries. Building on the work undertaken by Foucault
in the 1960s and '70s, Tarizzo analyzes the slow transformation of
eighteenth-century naturalism into a nineteenth-century science of
life, exploring the philosophical landscape that engendered biology
and precipitated the work of such foundational figures as Georges
Cuvier and Charles Darwin. Tarizzo tracks three interrelated
themes: first, that the metaphysics of biological life is an
extension of the Kantian concept of human will in the field of
philosophy; second, that biology and philosophy share the same
metaphysical assumptions about life originally advanced by F. W. J.
Schelling and adopted by Darwin and his intellectual heirs; and
third, that modern biopolitics is dependent on this particularly
totalizing view of biological life. Circumventing tired debates
about the validity of science and the truth of Darwinian evolution,
this book instead envisions and promotes a profound paradigm shift
in philosophical and scientific concepts of biological life.
A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of
the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing
Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to
French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in
English, Another Mother argues that the question of the mother is
essential to comprehend the matrix of contemporary culture and
society and to pursue feminist political projects. Focusing on
Diotima, a community of women philosophers deeply involved in
feminist politics since the 1960s, this volume provides a
multifaceted panorama of its engagement with currents of thought
including structuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and Marxism.
Starting from the simple insight that the mother is the one who
gives us both life and language, these thinkers develop concepts of
the mother and sexual difference in contemporary society that
differ in crucial ways from both French and U.S. feminisms. Arguing
that Diotima anticipates many of the themes in contemporary
philosophical discourses of biopolitics-exemplified by thinkers
such as Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto
Esposito-Another Mother opens an important space for reflections on
the past history of feminism and on feminism's future.
Contributors: Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Paris 8 U-Vincennes
Saint-Denis; Ida Dominijanni; Luisa Muraro; Diana Sartori, U of
Verona; Chiara Zamboni, U of Verona.
A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of
the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing
Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to
French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable in
English, Another Mother argues that the question of the mother is
essential to comprehend the matrix of contemporary culture and
society and to pursue feminist political projects. Focusing on
Diotima, a community of women philosophers deeply involved in
feminist politics since the 1960s, this volume provides a
multifaceted panorama of its engagement with currents of thought
including structuralism, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and Marxism.
Starting from the simple insight that the mother is the one who
gives us both life and language, these thinkers develop concepts of
the mother and sexual difference in contemporary society that
differ in crucial ways from both French and U.S. feminisms. Arguing
that Diotima anticipates many of the themes in contemporary
philosophical discourses of biopolitics-exemplified by thinkers
such as Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, and Roberto
Esposito-Another Mother opens an important space for reflections on
the past history of feminism and on feminism's future.
Contributors: Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Paris 8 U-Vincennes
Saint-Denis; Ida Dominijanni; Luisa Muraro; Diana Sartori, U of
Verona; Chiara Zamboni, U of Verona.
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