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  Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World (eBook, ePUB)

  While phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism are both known for their investigations of consciousness, there exists a core tension between them: phenomenology affirms the existence of essence, whereas Yogacara Buddhism argues that everything is empty of essence (svabhava). How is constructive cultural exchange possible when traditions hold such contradictory views? Answering this question and positioning both philosophical traditions in their respective intellectual and linguistic contexts, Jingjing Li argues that what Edmund Husserl means by essence differs from what Chinese Yogacarins mean by svabhava, partly because Husserl problematises the substantialist understanding of essence in European philosophy. Furthermore, she reveals that Chinese Yogacara has developed an account of self-transformation, ethics and social ontology that renders it much more than simply a Buddhist version of Husserlian phenomenology. Detailing the process of finding a middle ground between the two traditions, this book demonstrates how both can thrive together in order to overcome Orientalism.

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  Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World (eBook, PDF)

  While phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism are both known for their investigations of consciousness, there exists a core tension between them: phenomenology affirms the existence of essence, whereas Yogacara Buddhism argues that everything is empty of essence (svabhava). How is constructive cultural exchange possible when traditions hold such contradictory views? Answering this question and positioning both philosophical traditions in their respective intellectual and linguistic contexts, Jingjing Li argues that what Edmund Husserl means by essence differs from what Chinese Yogacarins mean by svabhava, partly because Husserl problematises the substantialist understanding of essence in European philosophy. Furthermore, she reveals that Chinese Yogacara has developed an account of self-transformation, ethics and social ontology that renders it much more than simply a Buddhist version of Husserlian phenomenology. Detailing the process of finding a middle ground between the two traditions, this book demonstrates how both can thrive together in order to overcome Orientalism.

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  God Eternal Life and the World according to Bruce (eBook, ePUB)

  "God Eternal Life and the World according to Bruce" is a philosophical journey in the quest to find the real meaning of God. This book takes a sincere look at religion and the belief in God and eternal life and tries to understand, or explain how God might, or should be perceived, and how today's perception of God and eternal life might be flawed, or just plain incorrect. This book does not discount the reality of God, but questions how God should be viewed. This book is written in and with a firm belief that God is indeed real, and that life is indeed eternal, but man's perception's of God and eternal life are ambiguous, contradictory, and illogical. This book tries to point out where current spiritual philosophy might be flawed and tries to point out what might be a more logical, or correct way to view such things.

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  Bones and Silence: Dalziel and Pascoe Series, Book 11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 753min

  Andy Dalziel of the Mid-Yorks CID has witnessed a murder, but it was though dark glass and he was being sick at the time. Now he finds the case shrouded in uncertainty and a string of contradictory statements. And who is his anonymous letter writer threatening suicide? Meanwhile Dalziel's colleague, Peter Pascoe, has returned from a long convalescence uncertain about his job, his marriage, or his motivations whilst having to act as a moderator to the strong-willed Dalziel. In the background and, occasionally, the foreground, are the York Mystery Plays with their Director, Eileen Chung, who uses and abuses her vast range of talents to get the cast, site, and show she wants. But mysteries linger long after the performances, mysteries with no solution. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Glover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/000660/bk_bbcw_000660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Notes from Underground , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min

  A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory, and even sadistic nature. Yet in Dostoyevsky's most extreme and disturbing character, there is the uncomfortable flicker of recognition of the human condition. When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends. It is here, paralysed by his own social awkwardness, that he carries out extraordinary acts and cements his status as a true and original outsider. The reader D.B.C. Pierre is an award-winning writer who has also written and recorded a new introduction to this famous text. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. B. C. Pierre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cnon/000094/bk_cnon_000094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Notes from the End of Everything , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 169min

  The writer and creator of the YouTube channel and production house Pursuit of Wonder brings you his debut book, Notes from the End of Everything.After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, writer John Gallo spends his time confronting his lifelong sense of fraudulence, regret, and self-misunderstanding, all while loosely chronicling the development of his cancer. Formed out of a collection of journal-like essays posthumously discovered on his computer, we follow Gallo’s mind as he ruminates on concepts and theories of time, being, death, anxiety, creativity, despair, isolation, happiness, wonder, absurdity, and other eternal themes of life — big and small.The work carries a tone of existentialism as well as a culmination of other complimentary and sometimes contradictory philosophies that meld into a modern, accessible take that is simultaneously dark and hopeful. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Pantano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228493/bk_acx0_228493_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Sultan's Seal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 653min

  The body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, 10 years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a mystical voice, a young Muslim woman recounts her own relationship with one of the dead women and with the suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? Rich in sensuous detail, this novel of faith and desire brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire and the contradictory desires of the human soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadia May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001399/bk_blak_001399_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min

  Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives. As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate and learn from in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen's University Student Overseas Travel Fund - The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gina Clayton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000012/bk_ecwp_000012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 661min

  Al-Hasan al-Wazzan - born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco - became famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa and to the language, culture, and faith in which he had been raised. Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Prichard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007602/bk_adbl_007602_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Modern Scholar: Darwin, Darwinism, and the Modern World, Hörbuch, Digital, 437min

  The history of Western civilization can be divided neatly into pre-Darwinian and post-Darwinian periods. Darwin's 1859 treatise, On the Origin of Species, was not the first work to propose that organisms had descended from other, earlier organisms, and the mechanism of evolution it proposed remained controversial for years. Nevertheless, no biologist after 1859 could ignore Darwin's theories, and few areas of thought and culture remained immune to their influence. Darwinism was attacked, defended, debated, modified, ridiculed, championed, interpreted, and used not only by biologists but also by philosophers, priests, sociologists, warmongers, cartoonists, robber-barons, psychologists, novelists, and politicians of arious stripes.This course will introduce the major themes of Darwin's works and explore their diverse, often contradictory impacts on science and society from 1859 to the present. Language: English. Narrator: Chandak Sengoopta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/002164/bk_reco_002164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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