Rosicrucian Nature of Goethe's "Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily" and the Mystery Dramas of Rudolf Steiner
Places the fairytale against the background of Goethe's life and cultural setting. This title discusses its importance in the development of Steiner's spiritual science. It describes its visual language, mystical insights, and relevance for us.
Jean Paul Sartre hailed him as the philosopher who introduced France to Husserl and Heidegger. Derrida has paid him homage as ''master.'' An original philosopher who combines the insights of phenomenological analysis with those of Jewish spirituality, Emmanuel Levinas has proven to be of extraordinary importance in the history of modern thought. ......
The Ansaru Allah Community, also known as the Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) and later the Nuwaubians, is an immensely important and controversial African American Muslim movement. Founded in Brooklyn in the 1970s, it spread through the prolific production and dissemination of literature and lecture tapes and became famous for continuously ......
Develop Your Knowledge of Yoga Principles and Practice
An accessible guide on the history, anatomy and philosophy behind yoga, showing how yoga students can develop and grow their personal practice. By offering students and teacher trainees guidance on how to move on to the next stage in their learning, this practical companion helps to deepen their understanding of holistic yoga ......
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the central figure in the emancipation of European Jewry. His intellect, judgment, and tact won the admiration and friendship of contemporaries as illustrious as Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Immanuel Kant.
Reconciling Philosophy, Literature, Film and Urban Space
Driven by a dual analysis, Encounters with Bergson(ism) in Spain looks at French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) in Spain--his more or less direct influence on Spanish letters--and also at Bergsonism in Spain--the more indirect resonance with his methodological posture--articulated through Spanish texts as well as theoretical approaches to ......
In paperback for the first time, Randolph Feezell's Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection immediately tackles two big questions about sport: What is it? and Why does it attract so many people? Feezell argues that sports participation is best described as a form of human play, and the attraction for participants and viewers alike derives from both ......
Provides a philosophical basis to understand the meaning of natural law, the scientific method, and causality in science. This work reviews the classical approach to time, space, and the laws of mechanics, and discusses the implications of relativity theory. It explains the key modern concepts, like randomness, probability, and time's arrow.
A collection of essays, covering a range of fields, from Darwinism and the global population explosion to bird watching, which point out frontiers for scientific research and reaffirm the author's s belief in the intimate connection of the sciences, particularly biology, with the pressing social problems of the present and future.
