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This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely reading, with the possibility of moments to pause and digest and re-read the words. It will change the way you look at your home and your life, providing a deeper, more insightful relationship with the spaces you occupy.
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The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces.
"A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."
—from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe
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English, please.......2007-06-25
I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book was almost incomprehensible. Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I can't read the original and compare them, but I suspect it is the translation, which appeared a bit stilted and unnatural (similar to translations of Frederick Bastiat's The Law, or Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes, both of which were oddly worded, although easily readable, and Bastiat wrote more than 150 years ago).
Maybe the translator didn't quite understand the topic, or have a conversational grasp of the English language, either of which would make translating difficult. I almost picked up my Strunk & White's Elements of Style to review their readability formula just to quantify how dense this book was, but restrained myself.
To the reviewers I read before buying this book, now I understand why a number of them wrote things like, "you have to be able to sit back and ponder the book, savoring the words before digesting them." I took this as a sign that there were deep meanings that mesmerized the reader, and looked forward to it. No. To translate that phrase into common English, it means, "the translator has an Oxford English Dictionary and he's going to use it."
Whats the big deal.......2007-02-07
I don't get why this is the bible of architects. Its boring as hell. Sure people are affected by the spaces they inhabit for various conditioning reasons. OK thats obvious but do I need to read a whole book written in pompous philospeak to learn that.
Honestly I put it down half way. Too boring and too many other things to read. Life is short.
very pleased.......2007-01-12
Book itself was in great condition, and was waiting at home for me sooner than expected.
An inspirational analysis.......2006-12-17
This book is hardly new, but Bachelard's analysis of the psychology of space remains as fascinating and lyrical as when it was first published. I've recommended this book to artists and sculptors and students over the years, and they in turn recomend it to others. Bachelard went on to write a book on the poetics of reverie and the "psychoanalysis of fire" but his book on space remains the most readable and the most genuinely poetic.
A book to savor ..............2006-08-27
........ this book is about house and its space and remembrance and meaning. House as protector, memory store, place in the world, construct. This is a philosophy book about house written by a poet, reflecting his views, and other's, on the importance and vital organism that is shelter. If you love word that conjures thought...and love home (whatever that means for you) I believe you will savor this book.
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Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. Hesiod's history of humanity was intended to establish justice in the modern city; Bacchylides sang the celebration of the Athenian hero Theseus in a present-day cultic and ideological framework; the city of Cyrene used the heroic act of its founding to reaffirm its civic identity; and the Greeks embossed poetic texts on leaves of gold to ensure the ritual passage of the dead to a blessed afterlife. Explicating these examples, Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.
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Narrative, Space and Gender in Russian Fiction: 1846-1903. (Studies in Slavic Language and Poetics)
Joe, Andrew
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The present volume has as its primary aim readings, from a feminist perspective, of a number of works from Russian literature published over the period in which the 'woman question' rose to the fore and reached its peak. All the works considered here were produced in, or hark back to, a fairly narrowly defined period of not quite 20 years (1846-1864) in which issues of gender, of male and female roles were discussed much more keenly that in perhaps any other period in Russian literature. The overall project is summed up by the three key words of this book's title, narrative, space and gender, and, especially, the interconnections between them. That is, what do the way these stories were told tell us about gender identities in mid-nineteenth-century Russia? Which spaces were central to these fictional worlds? Which spaces suggested which gender identities? The discussions therefore focus on issues of narrative and space, and how they acted as 'technologies of gender'. This volume will be of interest to all interested in nineteenth-century Russian literature, as well as students of gender, and of the semiotics of narrative space.
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Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia
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Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture
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In Repressed Spaces Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space. Its symptoms were first described in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton, the British scholar and writer, although it wasn’t until 1871 that Carl Otto Westphal coined the term to describe several of his patients who experienced severe anxiety when walking through streets or squares. There have been many attempts to explain and treat the condition: critics of modernization have linked it to bad city planning; psychoanalysts, calling it "street panic", have blamed it on the Oedipus complex; psychiatrists have tied it to existential insecurity and describe it as the fear of places or situations that have triggered panic attacks. Freud believed that agoraphobia, like all phobias, was part of an "anxiety neurosis" and had a sexual origin.Taking as his starting-point the fact that Freud himself was agoraphobic, and analyzing the way people have negotiated open spaces from Greek and Roman times to the present day, Paul Carter finds that "space fear" ultimately results from the inhibition of movement. Along the way, the author asks why Freud repressed his agoraphobia, and examines literature, the work of architects and theorists – including Le Corbusier, Walter Benjamin and R. D. Laing – artists such as Munch, Lapique and Giacometti, and the German "street films" of the 1920s. He concludes by proposing a new way of regarding open space, a new "poetics of agoraphobia", one that is sensitive to the agoraphobe’s point of view and provides lessons for architects and urban planners today.
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Written while in exile in the United States, “Time” and “Space” were originally intended to appear together in a single volume. Not until 1986, however, did they appear so in Spanish— and not until 1988 were they published together in English. By presenting them together, Jiménez had wanted them to convey the same continuity of emotion, the same philosophical intensity, that he had experienced while writing them. “All My Life,” he wrote in his introduction, “I have toyed with the idea of writing a continuous poem...with no concrete theme, sustained only by its own surprise, its rhythm, its discoveries, its light, its successive joys; that is, its intrinsic elements, its essence.” That continuous poem is Time and Space the last book Jiménez wrote. Presented here in a bilingual edition, Time and Space will take readers of both English and Spanish on the longest and most sustained ride on the crest of poetry they will ever enjoy.
“The greatest poem in this Century...” —Octavio Paz
Antonio T. de Nicolás, translator and editor of Time and Space is also widely known for his highly acclaimed translation of the Juan Ramón Jiménez classic, Platero and I, as well as many other works in Spanish. His first book of poetry, Remembering the God to Come, is also being published by iUniverse.com.
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No better long poem in the 20th Century!.......2001-09-01
Octavio Paz, another Noble Prize Winner called this poem:
" The greatest poem of this Century (20th)..."
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I wish you good spaces: Poetic selections from the songs of Gordon Lightfoot
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This book is concerned with the literary development of the narrative category of space in Russian literature from Romanticism until Modernism. It consists of two parts. The theoretical introduction renders a survey of some major 20-th century theories on literary development in the tradition of Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism. A critical discussion is given of the cultural and stylistic typologies of the soviet scholar D. Lichacev and the semiotician I. Smirnov. Furthermore, the ideas on literary space, as they were developed by two important representatives of the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics, Ju.Lotman and V.Toporov, are described together with the method of literary analysis they offer.
The contents of the second part of the book are analyses of the structure of space in the following narrative works: "Mcyri" by M.Ju. Lermontov, "Nevskij prospekt" by N.V. Gogol, Oblomov by I.A. Goncarov, "V tolpe" by F. Sologub and Kotlovan by A. Platonov. The analyses are accompanied by an interpretation of the story based on the spatial details in the text.
It appears that both continuity and change characterize the development of literary space. This two-fold nature of the evolutionary proces comes to the fore through recurrence of spatial archetypes in all the periods under discussion and through ambivalence of meaning as a result of the semiotization of literary space in each literary work.
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Feminine Politics and Poetics of Space
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This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization, and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book iterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium.
With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.
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Megan the Prima Ballerina Paper Doll (Paper Doll Series)
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The perfect gift for any little girl who dreams about entering the glamorous world of ballet, a paper doll of a young dance student appears with 8 ravishing costumes from Giselle, Coppelia, the Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and 2 costumes each from Swan Lake and Cinderella. Ideal for paper doll enthusiasts and ballet fans of all ages.
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Why does truth matter, when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant? Why be concerned over an abstract idea like truth when something that isn't true -- for example, a report of Iraq's attempting to buy materials for nuclear weapons -- gets the desired result -- the invasion of Iraq? In this engaging and spirited book, Michael Lynch argues that truth does matter, in both our personal and political lives. Lynch explains that the growing cynicism over truth stems in large part from our confusion over what truth is. "We need to think our way past our confusion and shed our cynicism about the value of truth," he writes. "Otherwise, we will be unable to act with integrity, to live authentically, and to speak truth to power."
True to Life defends four simple claims: that truth is objective; that it is good to believe what is true; that truth is a goal worthy of inquiry; and that truth can be worth caring about for its own sake -- not just because it gets us other things we want. In defense of these "truisms about truth," Lynch diagnoses the sources of our cynicism and argues that many contemporary theories of truth cannot adequately account for its value. He explains why we should care about truth, arguing that truth and its pursuit are part of living a happy life, important in our personal relationships and for our political values.
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Pop Philosophy Done Badly.......2007-07-04
One wants to resist the need to criticize a basically good book, for serious logical, ontological, epistemological, and causal errors. If these landmines were not so glaring, this lay approach to inductive reasoning and sophistry would be worth recommending. But the errors are too serious to do anything other than pan.
One of the many forms of human reasoning is the search for truth, and these forms can take several different approaches, with greater or lesser degrees of approximation. Overall, Lynch's objective is meritorious and commendatory, and many of his intuitionist claims will probably receive nods of approval. But philosophy of all enterprises does not end with intuitions. And, any author who commits the Fact/Value Fallacy right out of the gate is too sloppy to take seriously.
Among our many axiological (value judgments) concerns, is the valuation of the truth. Our system of justice, our interpersonal relations, our understanding of ourselves and our world, all depend on making value judgments, and one of those values hopefully is to value facts.
But values are neither "true of false," only "facts are." Values are either "good" or "bad." Values are relative measures to some perceived good. Facts, stand in and of themselves as to "true" or "false," and are determined solely on reason, correspondence, experience, and tests. So, while we value the truth for its usefulness in making value judgments (we don't want to make values on the wrong facts), values are not facts, nor are facts values.
That's a fallacy, exposed by David Hume in 1740 and slain by G. E. Moore in the early 20th C., which our author commits repeatedly, all the way to "Truth and Happiness" through "Truth as a Means to an End" (that should jar some ethicists and scientists). FROM a purported philosopher? Not even Aristotle commits these errors (Aquinas does big time), and this philosopher is oblivious to the is/ought, fact/value, "Naturalistic Fallacy" he commits repeatedly?
Since no bibliography is included (by MIT imprint, no less), it is noteworthy that numerous individuals are omitted in the Index, but there on page Ninety our author cites Hume's is/ought fallacy, and there on pages 88-91 is G. E. Moore (no mention of Moore's "Naturalistic Fallacy," but a lot of metaphysical conceptualism (at least he mentions Moore's observation that the word "good" is unanalyzable, which is untrue, because "good" and "bad" are valuative terms of approval and opprobrium we analyze one way, compared to "factual" STATEMENTS, which are analyzable by "true" and "false" standards). Moore's "Principia Ethica" can be consulted if Lynch leaves you unclear, and Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature," III.i.1 is also useful.
Overall, many of Lynch's observations are fairly well understood, several observations worth making, but repeatedly repeating the Naturalistic (fact/value) Fallacy is done only by Holy Mother Roman Catholic Church and her application of Aquinas's Natural Law Theory. Aristotle did not do it. Hume repudiates it. Moore slays it. But our pop-philosopher pops away, boldly conflating Aristotle's theoretical reasoning in the Physics (facts) to his instrumental reasoning (values) in Nichomachean Ethics ("truth as a means to an end" is unconscionable phrase for a philosopher to state, much less use as a Chapter).
PASS. BURN. Or USE pedagogically.
Good Philosophy, For What That's Worth .......2006-09-22
Michael Lynch's "True to Life" makes the case that truth is objective and that a concern for truth is necessary to a good human life. As Lynch notes, nothing is more certain than the fact that humans make mistakes -- and the possibility of mistake proves that the world is independent of our beliefs.
"True to Life" is short, readable, and wise. However, I'm unsure whether anyone untainted by post-modernism would find it necessary to defend the reality or value of truth. Reading the book mainly left me wondering why anyone bothers to read or write analytic philosophy at all -- and wishing that I had read "Going After Cacciato" instead (Lynch uses Tim O'Brien's novel to illustrate the importance of knowing what is truly important to us).
Odd.......2006-07-23
The copyright is 2005, that many years after a man arrived who said he was the way, the truth, and the life and who said, under what for you and me would be great duress, that he came into the world to testify to the truth and that everyone on the side of truth listened to him. Wiggenstein, Satre, Bertrand Russell, they're all here, though they will be soon forgotten. Odd that a book on truth and which ventures beyond the observations of the scientist would omit treatment of the man whose life, death, and, many believe, resurrection dates the very book written. Isn't that still the only question: "Who say you is Christ?"
before you buy..........2005-08-14
Please check out the review on this book over at barnes and noble. The attorney/judge who takes the author to task reflects my own experience with books that promise truth, but deliver the author's opinion. Caveat emptor.
Much needed defense of the importance of truth.......2005-05-25
If you've read much of the philosophical literature on truth, there is a strong chance that you have asked whether the discussion is relevant to your life and circumstances. It is very easy to pigeonhole this subject as academic and move on to others that seem more applicable to everyday life.
In a much needed work on the topic, Lynch argues that the concept of truth *is* important in one's personal and political life. The book proceeds by exposing the existing theories that have contributed to the attitude that the concept of truth is either unnecessary or insignificant, and providing specific reasons to tie truth to our desire for leading a full and authentic life.
Though previous reviews have claimed that Lynch's "politics intrude at several points," I would argue that any political color found in the book is merely supplemental, and can be taken or left aside from the central theses. Also, given that the book is intended to bridge the gap between the seemingly academic and the moral and political, some degree of commentary on current political events are a natural element to the book.
The takeaway is that the book is a stimulating read, and I would recommend it to anyone who either is interested in truth as a subject to itself, or is dubious/curious about its relation to everyday life.
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Fasten your seatbelts for the Second Garfield Treasury --- a full-color reminder of the fun Garfield gets into on Sundays. He's cranky, he's hungry, and he sure knows what to do with his day off --- get into trouble and take Jon along with him!
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Garfield Redux.......2002-11-13
America's favorite lazy, fat-cat is back. And, as always, he's sleeping.
It's fun to sit back, read, and take a stroll down memory lane with some of the characters we haven't seen in a while in the recent strips. There's Lyman (Odie's master), Arlene (Garfield's sometime girlfriend), Nermal (the world's cutese kitten), and the veterinarian (the only human being to go out with Jon more than once).
"The Second Garfield Treasury" is a collection of Sunday comic strips from July 1980 through August 1982. In this collection you will see the evolution of the drawing of the characters into what we see today.
So make a pan of lasagna, sit back, and watch everyone's favorite cat gulp it down right before your eyes.
Back Again In Living Color!.......2002-05-19
After the success of The Garfield treasury, a sort of sequel book was inevitable. So, this is The Second Garfield Treasury. While not quite as good as the original, this book dishes up on plenty of laughs, with Garfield kicking, eating and sleeping through his kitty-life (he finds time to get locked in a dog pound, however), but making sure to never forget to joke.
Recommended.
This has got to be the best treasury yet........1999-10-18
Jim Davis is a hillarious man and I hope he won't stop making Garfield books. I have all 35 garfield books and am waiting for the 36th to come out. I recomened this book to all Garfield lovers.
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THE SECOND GARFIELD SUPER TREASURY
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