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Grief : a philosophical guide
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ISBN: 069120179X 0691211213 0691232733 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief--and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow. Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us--as universal as it is painful--is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding and a fuller realization of our humanity. Drawing on psychology, social science, and literature as well as philosophy, Cholbi explains that we grieve for the loss of those in whom our identities are invested, including people we don't know personally but cherish anyway, such as public figures. Their deaths not only deprive us of worthwhile experiences; they also disrupt our commitments and values. Yet grief is something we should embrace rather than avoid, an important part of a good and meaningful life. The key to understanding this paradox, Cholbi says, is that grief offers us a unique and powerful opportunity to grow in self-knowledge by fashioning a new identity. Although grief can be tumultuous and disorienting, it also reflects our distinctly human capacity to rationally adapt as the relationships we depend on evolve. An original account of how grieving works and why it is so important, Grief shows how the pain of this experience gives us a chance to deepen our relationships with others and ourselves. --

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Grief --- Mourning --- Sorrow --- Bereavement --- Emotions --- Loss (Psychology) --- Philosophy. --- Acculturation. --- Addiction. --- Adult. --- Apathy. --- Biology. --- British literature. --- Business partner. --- Christianity. --- Clothing. --- Coincidence. --- Compatible Partners. --- Consideration. --- Conspicuous consumption. --- Cosmetics. --- David Bowie. --- Decision-making. --- Depiction. --- Desertion. --- Deviance (sociology). --- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. --- Disability. --- Distraction (game show). --- Dual process theory (moral psychology). --- Dwelling. --- Embarrassment. --- Existence. --- Expecting (Angel). --- Flourishing. --- Furniture. --- Good and evil. --- Grave. --- Grief counseling. --- Grief. --- Half-truth. --- Health. --- Hinge. --- Human behavior. --- Humility. --- Imprisonment. --- In Death. --- Indulgence. --- Institution. --- Instrumental value. --- Interaction. --- John Rawls. --- Joy Davidman. --- Juncture. --- Just society. --- Limbic system. --- Medical classification. --- Medical diagnosis. --- Mental breakdown. --- Mental health professional. --- Mental health. --- Michel Foucault. --- Morality. --- Mourner. --- Mourning. --- Narrative. --- Negative affectivity. --- Obstacle. --- Odor. --- Organic unity. --- Our Choice. --- Oxymoron. --- Pathology. --- Payment. --- Person A. --- Person. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of artificial intelligence. --- Prediction. --- Predictive analytics. --- Promiscuity. --- Psychology. --- Quantity. --- Republic (Plato). --- Requirement. --- Resentment. --- Role. --- Sanity. --- Scrutiny (journal). --- Self-help. --- Self-interest. --- Self-love. --- Sibling. --- Single parent. --- Social skills. --- Space exploration. --- Suggestion. --- Technology. --- The Chronicles of Narnia. --- The Screwtape Letters. --- Theory of mind. --- Thomas Szasz. --- Time. --- Trait theory. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Zhuangzi (book).


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The novel. : history, geography and culture
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ISBN: 0691243751 Year: 2006 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.

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Plurality of worlds in literature. --- A Book Of. --- Author. --- Ballantine Books. --- Ben Okri. --- Bildungsroman. --- Biographical novel. --- Book. --- Buchi Emecheta. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Canon (fiction). --- Castle in the Air (novel). --- Critical Essays (Orwell). --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Deathless (novel). --- Devotio Moderna. --- Diary. --- Dime novel. --- Divergent (novel). --- Edward Said. --- English novel. --- English poetry. --- Epic and Novel. --- Epigram. --- Epistolary novel. --- Fabulation. --- Feuilleton. --- Fiction writing. --- Fiction. --- G. (novel). --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- God Knows (novel). --- Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights). --- Historical fiction. --- Historiography. --- Horace Walpole. --- Ibid (short story). --- In Parenthesis. --- Inception. --- Indulekha (novel). --- J. R. R. Tolkien. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Kusamakura (novel). --- La Religieuse (novel). --- Le Morte d'Arthur. --- Literary fiction. --- Literary theory. --- Literature and Revolution. --- Literature. --- Matter of Britain. --- Memoir. --- Mervyn Peake. --- Mine Boy (novel). --- Modernity. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Niranjana (writer). --- Novel of manners. --- Novel. --- Novelas ejemplares. --- Novelist. --- Novella. --- Pen name. --- Persius. --- Picaresque novel. --- Poetry. --- Point of Origin (novel). --- Postmodern literature. --- Proletarian literature. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Puritans. --- Raag Darbari (novel). --- Rant (novel). --- Romance novel. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sine ira et studio. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taiping Guangji. --- Terra Nostra (novel). --- The Empire Writes Back. --- The Franklin's Tale. --- The Great Indian Novel. --- The Modern World (novel). --- The Realist. --- The Tale of the Heike. --- Theodore Dreiser. --- Tobias Smollett. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel). --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Victorian literature. --- Waverley Novels. --- World literature. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Zaynab (novel). --- Zhuangzi (book).


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The good-enough life
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ISBN: 0691204349 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society"--

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Ability. --- Conduct of life. --- Ableism. --- Absurdity. --- Adolf Hitler. --- African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68). --- Agriculture (Chinese mythology). --- Arbitrariness. --- Archaeology. --- Attention economy. --- Biomass (ecology). --- Buddhism. --- Canberra. --- Capitalism. --- Central Asia. --- Chengdu. --- Company. --- Competition. --- Computational model. --- Cory Doctorow. --- Customer. --- Cycling. --- Deansgate. --- Debt. --- Disability studies. --- Docking station. --- Economic recovery. --- Economics. --- Elitism. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Equal opportunity. --- Feeling. --- Fiat money. --- Financial institution. --- Funding. --- Global warming. --- Good and evil. --- Great Famine (Ireland). --- Greatness. --- Hinge. --- Human migration. --- Human nature. --- Humility. --- Hunter-gatherer. --- Illustration. --- Imperialism. --- Income bracket. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Laptop. --- Laughter. --- Liberal socialism. --- Local community. --- Loneliness. --- Market (economics). --- Mechanization. --- Mentorship. --- Meritocracy. --- Michael Walzer. --- Mining. --- Moisture. --- Morality. --- Mutual aid (organization theory). --- Netflix. --- New Society. --- New Urbanism. --- Nikil Saval. --- Pali Canon. --- Patriarchy. --- Perfectionism (psychology). --- Play (activity). --- Positional good. --- Publicity. --- Quality of life. --- Racism. --- Rational choice theory. --- Rationality. --- Rosa Luxemburg. --- Samaritans (charity). --- Self-esteem. --- Shenzhen. --- Suburbanization. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supporter. --- Taoism. --- Tax. --- Technological revolution. --- Technology. --- Teleology. --- The New York Times. --- Thought. --- Tinder (app). --- Traffic collision. --- Transport network. --- Tree. --- Unemployment. --- Urbanization. --- Waste management. --- Wealth. --- World War II. --- Yacht. --- Yale University Press. --- Zhuangzi (book).

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