Описание: [Fine s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is. The New York Times
Автор: Kidner Название: Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion ISBN: 0230308481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230308480 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.
Автор: Munro Название: Delusional Disorder ISBN: 052158180X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521581806 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 22810.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a comprehensive review of delusional disorder, a condition that was only reintroduced into modern psychiatric diagnosis in 1987. An invaluable reference for psychiatrists and other clinicians, this authoritative text is illustrated throughout with case histories and includes clear guidelines on diagnosis and treatment.
Автор: Oppenheim Lois Название: Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion ISBN: 0415875714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415875714 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion, Lois Oppenheim illustrates the enhancement of self that creativity affords, the relationship of imagination to the self as agent. The premise of this book is twofold: First, that the imaginary is real. Where it differs from what we commonly take to be reality is in structure and in form. The imaginary of art, for example, is not illusionary for it is phenomenologically describable and even depictable, as demonstrated by the self-reflexive efforts of modernist painters and writers. No less real than the imaginary of art, and thus fantasy, is the imaginary of delusion, ascertainable in the very function it serves. Though fundamentally different, fantasy and delusion do share a significant feature: a preoccupation with agency. Second is that change, the enhancement of self through an increase in agency, is facilitated by the biology of reward: The pleasure of increased self-cohesion--the efficacy acquired through knowledge of, and the attribution of meaning to, the world--is ultimately the sine qua non of imaginative thought.
Oppenheim emphasizes the idea that imagination generates knowledge. Our sensory systems, like our higher cognitive functions, give the human brain knowledge to maintain the homeostatic balance required for survival and to enrich the sense of self required for agency. And, she suggests, imagination is a function of their doing so. Moreover, she explores the construct by which we apprehend the workings of imagination--fantasy--and considers in what the mental imagery that endows it consists, how fantasy may be transmitted transgenerationally, and how delusion can be an impediment to imagination while also being a product of it. Additionally, she likens psychoanalysis to the making of art as a process of acquiring knowledge and looks at creativity itself as a coming-to-know.
Throughout this book, there run several opposing threads. The first is that of the intra- and interpsychic psychoanalytic paradigms. This theoretical contrast bears on our understanding of aesthetic experience as sublimatory versus object relational and on our understanding of the construction of meaning. A second opposition resides in the notion of agency (with its implication of self-cohesion) which has everything to do with ego function and, seemingly, the usefulness of "unconscious fantasy," a cornerstone of psychoanalysis now thrown into question by the postmodern favoring of dissociation over repression and other mechanisms of defense. Last, but no less significant, is the contrast interwoven between the empiricism of neuroscience and the metaphysics of philosophical thought. Oppenheim's underlying effort is to explore the validity of these oppositions, which seem not to hold as steadfastly as we tend to suppose.
Автор: Alister E. McGrath Название: Dawkins?€? God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion ISBN: 1118964780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118964781 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2843.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An examination of the theories and writings of Richard Dawkins by a world-renowned expert on the relation of science and religion. It includes in-depth analysis of Dawkins` landmark treatise The God Delusion (2006). It tackles Dawkins` hostile and controversial views on religion, and examines the religious implications of his scientific ideas.
Описание: In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anticommunist sentiment in the context of 1940s and `50s America, exploring the historical factors that allowed for McCarthyism and its long-term effects on US politics and culture.
Описание: Offers information on various things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. This title features close to 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from alchemy to zombies. It covers such categories as alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; and junk science.
Автор: Orfield Gary Название: Educational Delusions? ISBN: 0520274733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520274730 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 9979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in US schools.
Описание: Solving the Strategy Delusion matters to anyone interested in realising strategy in the 21st century. The book challenges conventional and `delusional` approaches to strategy. It offers different ways of seeing, thinking, planning, acting, and mobilising when it comes to making strategy happen in a world of volatility and complexity.
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