On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life, Paperback - Adam Phillips

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam PhillipsIn a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects und...

In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of ps...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: J. Jeremy WisnewskiJust when you thought paper couldn't be more exciting, this bookcomes your wayThis book--jammed full of ...

Reducere. As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as on...

An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today.

Reducere. Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style ...

DescriptionAn urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numer...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jan AbramIllustration(s): 4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave...

Reducere. Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and preserve a balance of powe...

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of unce...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Adam PhillipsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 111 x 181 x 15Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. DescriptionPeople tend to flirt only with serious things--madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ...

From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are inv...

Reducere. DescriptionReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlightenm...

Reducere. In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether r...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. - What does it mean to be human?- How does a right understanding of personhood affect decisions on critical life situations?- What implications doe...

Reducere. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. ...

A guide to rediscovering niceness as one of the highest of all human achievements.Publisher: The School of Life PressAuthor(s): The School of LifeN...

After Identity. Three Essays on the Musicality of Life - Maria-Mihaela Grajdian

Reducere. This book belongs to the genre of spirituality, especially personal and spiritual development and enrichment. It includes several interrelated stra...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such think...

Reducere. When the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in...

Off Headset is a collection of essays by a richly diverse group of stage management professionals and educators covering the challenges stage manag...

Contributor(s): Author: Christina de WitteAddressing the struggles of young girls everywhere, this hilariously relatable comic guide to life provid...

Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things the feminist critic and nivelist Rose Macaulay enj...

Analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. This work surveys a major segment in t...

Reducere. Contents: Preface - 9 The Magic of Love - 13 Once Upon a Time in Japan - 51 The Unbearable Lightness of Longing - 81 Acknowledgements - 109 Notes a...

Reducere. his book is compilation of a number of essays by the Chamorro writer, Julian Aguon, the author of Just Left of the Setting Sun. These essays are wr...

Reducere. Continue to act thus, my dear Lucilius - set yourself free for your own sake; gather and save your time, which till lately has been forced from you...

Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the econ...

A cutting-edge collection of psychoanalytic ideas edited by Rui Aragao Oliveira, Maria Jose Goncalves, and Joao Diniz, with contributions from Davi...

Pre-eminent psychoanalyst Phillips explores what writing and psychoanalysis can offer one another, drawing on the work of Sebald, Shakespeare, Byro...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this engaging, humorous and provocative collection of essays, Emma Van der Klift and Norman Kunc gently prod us to rethink many taken...