Learning in the Plural: Essays on the Humanities and Public Life By David D. Cooper
2014 | 205 Pages | ISBN: 1611861128 | PDF | 1 MB
Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? How can the practices and methods, the conventions and innovations of humanities teaching and scholarship yield knowledge that contributes to the public good? These are just two of the vexing questions David D. Cooper tackles in his essays on the humanities, literacy, and public life. As insightful as they are provocative, these essays address important issues head-on and raise questions about the relevance and roles of humanities teaching and scholarship, the moral footings and public purposes of the humanities, engaged teaching practices, institutional and disciplinary reform, academic professionalism, and public scholarship in a democracy. Destined to stir discussion about the purposes of the humanities and the problems we face during an era of declining institutional support, public alienation and misunderstanding, student ambivalence, and diminishing resources, the questions Cooper raises in this book are uncomfortable and, in his view, necessary for reflection, renewal, and reform. With frank, deft assessments, Cooper reports on active learning initiatives that reenergized his own teaching life while reshaping the teaching mission of the humanities, including service learning, collaborative learning, the learning community movement, and student-centered and deliberative pedagogy.

Jesus Risen in Our Midst: Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel By Sandra M. Schneiders
2013 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 0814680844 | PDF | 3 MB

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David Carr, "Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History "
English | ISBN: 0367349272 | 2021 | 186 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history.

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays by Monique Wittig
English | February 3, 1992 | ISBN: 0807079170 | EPUB | 132 pages | 2.3 MB
These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.

English | ASIN: B08SWP6BZT | 2021 | 6 hours and 46 minutes |MP3|M4B | 186 MB
A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces - between Black and White, rich and poor, thin and fat. Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in-between. It is these liminal spaces - of race, class, and body type - that the essays in Don't Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society's most intractable points of tension. The 12 essays that comprise this collection are rich with unforgettable anecdotes and are as humorous and as full of Nolan's appetites as they are of anxieties. The result is lyrical and magnetic.

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The Subject and the Text: Essays on Literary Theory and Philosophy By Manfred Frank
1998 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 0521561213 | PDF | 15 MB
In this collection of essays, the German philosopher Manfred Frank challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of contemporary theory. The emphasis on language, he claims, ignores key arguments inherited from Romantic hermeneutics, those which demonstrate that interpretation is an individual activity never finally governed by rules. Andrew Bowie's introduction situates Frank's work in the context of contemporary debates in philosophy and literary theory.

Jeanette Winterson, "Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0679446443, 0099590018 | 192 pages | MOBI | 0.34 MB
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world-neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Force of an Idea: New Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030744345 | 343 Pages | PDF EPUB | 3 MB
This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the last decades, the publication of Wolff's Gesammelte Werke by Jean École and collaborators has aroused new interest in his ideas, but the meaning, scope, and impact of his psychological program have remained open to close and comprehensive analysis and discussion. That is what this volume aims to do.

English | ASIN: B08R95KQY3 | 2021 | 8 hours and 34 minutes |kbps | 236 MB
From a GQ columnist and Twitter sensation, this hilarious, clever, and eye-opening memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood - from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life's constant double standards. Like so many women, Benoit spent her formative years struggling to do the "right" thing - to make others comfortable, to take minimal and calculated risks, to live up to society's expectations - only to realize that there was so little payoff to this tiresome balancing act.
Now, in Well, This Is Exhausting, she shares her journey from aspiring good girl to proud feminist and addresses the constantly shifting goalposts of what exactly it means to be "good" in today's world. Including topics as varied and laugh-out-loud funny as how to be the life of the party (even when you have crippling anxiety), navigating the disappointments of the dating world, and why no one should judge you for having an encyclopedic knowledge of reality TV stars, these essays are sure to move, motivate, and charm you.

English | ASIN: B097QD7H1D | 2021 | 7 hours and 59 minutes |kbps | 219 MB
Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and nonhuman world, the future of the university, the temporal challenge of climate catastrophe, and more.
Addressing some of the most pressing social problems of our day, Taylor invites us to imagine how things could be different while never losing sight of the strategic question of how change actually happens. Curious and searching, these historically informed and hopeful essays are as engaging as they are challenging and as urgent as they are timeless. Taylor's unique philosophical style has a political edge that speaks directly to the growing conviction that a radical transformation of our economy and society is required.