Daoist philosophy (or Taoist, if you want to use the old spelling-but Daoist is how you pronounce it) is intriguing because it seems to rely on not taking action rather than on actually doing anything. Since the Teaching Company doesn’t have a course on this book as they do for the Analects, I’ll just have to rely more on my own first impressions. Compared to the Analects of Confucius, this is a shorter, easier read, but like that work, I’m sure it benefits from reading in multiple translations and from reading more about it-not just of it. There are also certain ideas that are repeated in nearly identical phrases in different parts of this very short work. Like the Analects of Confucius, there are passages that are corrupted and whose meaning is either unfathomable or in dispute. Instead, the contents of the Tao Te Ching seem to be a distillation and compilation of early Daoist thought. Lau points out in his highly readable introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, it is highly unlikely that Lao Tzu was an acutal person, despite stories of Confucius once going to see him.
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From artistic achievement to mere independence, Jenny is forced to drastically shift her ambitions, to remain unbroken in a world that seems intent on breaking every hope she holds. Determined as ever despite being shaken from her path as an artist, Jenny determines to raise the child by herself, forsaking convention while simultaneously risking her life and the life of her baby. Moved by hidden desires, however, Jenny strikes up an affair with the man's father that leaves her pregnant, disgraced, and alone. There, she finds not only success, but a fiance with whom she envisions sharing a life and family. Finding herself uninspired in her native Norway, Jenny Winge, an idealistic and talented painter, moves to Rome in order to further her artistic career. Although Undset's later fiction-inspired by her conversion to Catholicism-won her the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature, her earlier work has remained essential to her legacy. Published during the author's social realist phase, a period in which her writing focused on the lives of everyday Norwegians, Jenny is a moving portrait of idealism and ambition and a tragic tale of talent gone to seed. Jenny (1911) is a novel by Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset. Secondarily, the author explores ways in which gay-Jewish playwrights and filmmakers have assisted the re-evaluation of sexual norms within Judaism over the past three decades, inspiring and reinforcing measures across the spectrum of belief geared towards integrating Jewish members of the GLBT community into the overall Jewish historical narrative. Through a close reading of the texts of numerous American and Israeli plays and films (some famous, but mostly lesser known), the author evaluates some of the key conventions and tropes that have been employed to construct, critique, and reflect the social reality of the connection between Jewishness and gay identity in the United States and Israel. The genocide of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians perpetrated by the German regime during World War Two continues to confront. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public space for, the gay, lesbian, and transgendered community as a whole. Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. This line continues to be cut throughout the narrators stay in Athens, crossing strangers and students alike, allowing tales of love, loss, family and success to pour forth onto the page. Opening the cut, the narrator takes an astute eye to the bias that lives within autobiography and shines a light into the very heart of ones connection to their own perceived reality. Her seat mate divulges the flourish and eventual demise of his first two marriages at length, the narrator, although initially passive, begins to draw the line of dissection down the core of this novel. Beginning unnamed and almost alarmingly space of description, the narrator begins her conversational journey on the London - Athens flight. In the wake of a life upheaval and dissolution of her marriage, our narrator, a novelist, travels to Greece to teach a week long writing workshop. Words: Ethan Potter Set against the shimmering & sweltering heat of Summer in Athens, Rachel Cusk’s 2014 novel Outline (the first book in a trilogy of stories) presents a series of complex meditations on reality, set amongst a familiar circumstance - conversation. "Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. "Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy," the president said in a statement. 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Professor Fine participated in ESOF 2014, the European science conference that took place this year in Copenhagen, and we could talk to her about neurosexism, women and science. In the paper, she proves how easy it is to find newly published books defending sex-difference through neuroscientific aspects, and how the media reproduce the same patterns. The last of them was published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. That might somewhat explain the poor presence of women in high-level research positions (only 20%) in Spain, as recently published by Materia.Ĭordelia Fine, professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne (Australia), published Delusions of Gender in 2011, in which she delved in the issues around neurosexism, a theme she has also researched in different academic papers. 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There were so many unknowns that was the hardest part.” It felt like we were always playing catch-up. “She was in the hospital right away and we didn’t get a chance to game plan. “The more I talked about it and learned about it, I realized this affects people you know,” Vandersloot said. There is currently no cure for the cancer Jan Vandersloot has, but medical advancements have helped people live with it. She was ridiculously positive and strong and that helped me a lot.” “It was heart-wrenching to hear that from your person. “You try to be strong,” Vandersloot said. It helped that Jan, who declined to be interviewed for this story but has always been Courtney's rock, was in a good mindset. Vandersloot, 34, struggled with the news. Like its predecessor, there might be elements of portal fantasy and mystery here, but Black House is unequivocally and firmly planted in the horror genre. And this book is absolutely a horror novel. 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