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Author |
: Joe Moshenska |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198712947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198712944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feeling Pleasures by : Joe Moshenska
Feeling Pleasures argues that the sense of touch assumed a new and unique importance in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and that the work of major poets of the period, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton, should be read alongside these developing ideas.
Author |
: Joe Moshenska |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2014-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191022036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191022039 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feeling Pleasures by : Joe Moshenska
The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary: each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to lose touch was to lose life itself. Alternatively, touch was seen as dangerously bodily, and too fully involved in sensual and sexual pleasures, to be of true worth. Feeling Pleasures argues that this tension came to the fore during the English Renaissance, and allowed some of the central debates of this period—surrounding the nature of human experience, of the material world, and of the relationship between the human and the divine—to proceed through discussions of touch. It also argues that the unstable status of touch was of particular import to the poetry of this period. By bringing touch to the fore in a period usually associated with the dominance of vision and optics, Joe Moshenska offers reconsiderations of major English poets, especially Edmund Spenser and John Milton, while exploring a range of spheres in which touch assumed new significance. These include theological debates surrounding relics and the Eucharist in the work of Erasmus, Thomas Cranmer and Lancelot Andrewes; the philosophical history of tickling; the touching of paintings and sculptures in a European context; faith healing and experimental science; and the early reception of Chinese medicine in England.
Author |
: adrienne maree brown |
Publisher |
: AK Press |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2019-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781849353274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1849353271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasure Activism by : adrienne maree brown
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!
Author |
: Stella Resnick |
Publisher |
: Conari Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1998-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1573241504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781573241502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pleasure Zone by : Stella Resnick
Discusses the eight core pleasures--primal pleasure, pain relief, the pleasures of play and humor, and mental, emotional, sensual, sexual, and spiritual pleasure--and how they can enrich one's life
Author |
: Gary Thomas |
Publisher |
: Zondervan |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2009-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780310563716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0310563712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pure Pleasure by : Gary Thomas
Gary Thomas, one of this generation's most trusted writers about the spiritual life, explores what it means to build a life of true pleasure - one that will liberate your spiritual life, marriage, family, community, and outreach. Many Christians assume "pleasure" and "sin" are synonymous. Others define godly pleasure so narrowly that they drastically minimize the powerful and holy role that pleasure can play in their lives. Still others feel guilty even thinking about how to build a life of pleasure. For all of them, Pure Pleasure provides an entirely new paradigm. It invites Christians to embrace a life of true pleasure as a pathway to obedience, worship, and service. Building on his bestselling books Sacred Pathways, Sacred Marriage, and the ECPA Gold Medallion-winning Authentic Faith, Gary Thomas takes readers to a new level of faith by providing a theological and inspirational framework to help them cultivate the kind of life that pleases God. Abounding with spiritual insights and practical exercises, this book invites you to shake off the shackles of misunderstanding about sin, provides the freedom to approach life in Christ with new wonder and joy, and challenges you to experience life as God meant it to be: overflowing with pleasure. Also available: Pure Pleasure small group video study and study guide, Spanish edition, and more.
Author |
: Samantha Colling |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2017-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501318511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501318519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film by : Samantha Colling
What is 'fun' about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film forms a study of Hollywood girl teen films between 2000-2010. By tracing the aesthetic connections between films such as Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray (Shankman, 2007), and Easy A (Gluck, 2010), the book articulates the specific types of pleasure these films offer as a means to understand how Hollywood creates gendered ideas of fun. Rather than condemn these films as 'guilty pleasures' this book sets out to understand how they are designed to create experiences that feel as though they express desires, memories, or fantasies that girls supposedly share in common. Providing a practical model for a new approach to cinematic pleasures The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film proposes that these films offer a limited version of girlhood that feels like potential and promise but is restricted within prescribed parameters.
Author |
: William Kelley Wright |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89050153477 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethical Significance of Feeling, Pleasure, and Happiness in Modern Non-hedonistic Systems by : William Kelley Wright
Author |
: Jonathan Balcombe |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2006-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230552272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230552277 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasurable Kingdom by : Jonathan Balcombe
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
Author |
: Fred Feldman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2004-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199265169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019926516X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasure and the Good Life by : Fred Feldman
Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories. In this text, the author presents a careful, modern formulation of hedonism, defending the theory against some of the most important objections.
Author |
: Adolf Wohlgemuth |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89094653359 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pleasure - Unpleasure, an Experimental Investigation on the Feeling-elements by : Adolf Wohlgemuth