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January 30, 2024

Being Dragonborn Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim

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Free Download Mike Piero, "Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim "
English | ISBN: 1476677840 | 2021 | 236 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the bestselling and most influential video games of the past decade. From the return of world-threatening dragons to an ongoing civil war, the province of Skyrim is rich with adventure, lore, magic, history, and stunning vistas. Beyond its visual spectacle alone, Skyrim is an exemplary gameworld that reproduces out-of-game realities, controversies, and histories for its players. Being Dragonborn, then, comes to signify a host of ethical and ideological choices for the player, both inside and outside the gameworld. These essays show how playing Skyrim, in many ways, is akin to "playing" 21st century America with its various crises, conflicts, divisions, and inequalities. Topics covered include racial inequality and white supremacy, gender construction and misogyny, the politics of modding, rhetorics of gameplay, and narrative features.

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January 26, 2024

Flame into Being The Life and Work of DH Lawrence

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Free Download Anthony Burgess, "Flame into Being: The Life and Work of DH Lawrence"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 190338592X | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.6 mb
Burgess considered D. H. Lawrence to be one of the pillars of English literature and indeed a Modernist writer whose work had changed the face of the novel in the early 20th century. Flame into Being was first published in 1985 to mark the centenary of Law- rence’s birth and gave Burgess the chance to write a celebratory but also a brilliant (and short) introduction to the major books in Lawrence’s oeuvre. It is a beautifully written, entertaining and thoroughly accessible gateway to D. H. Lawrence aimed at both the general reader and students.

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January 26, 2024

Being and Nothingness An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology

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Free Download Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology"
English | ISBN: 0415529115 | 2018 | 848 pages | PDF | 32 MB
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of "the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge". This new translation, the first for over sixty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers.

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January 23, 2024

Narrative Being Vs. Narrating Being

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Free Download Marija Krivokapic, "Narrative Being Vs. Narrating Being"
English | ISBN: 1443880930 | 2015 | 270 pages | PDF | 1133 KB
This edited volume focuses on Anglo-American modernist fiction, offering challenging perspectives that consider modernism in the instances in which it transcends itself, moving, broadly speaking, towards postmodernist self-irony. As such, the contributions here discuss issues such as being in creation; narrativizing being and creation; the relation between being and narrative; the situation of being in narrative time and space; the relation between authority and narrative; possible authority over narrative and the authority of narrative; interaction between narrative and the other; the authority of the other over and within the narrative; and the inter-referentiality of text and author. Divided into two parts, Towards High Modernism and After Modernism , the book allows the reader to chronologically follow how authors relations to literature in general evolved with the changing world and new perspectives on the nature of reality. This book offers an insightful contribution to the on-going discussion on the ambiguities inherent in the concepts of author, narrative, and being, and will stimulate intellectual confrontation and circulation of ideas within the field.

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January 19, 2024

Being and the between

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Free Download Being and the between By William Desmond
1995 | 557 Pages | ISBN: 0791422712 | PDF | 22 MB
This is the culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics.As Plato told us long ago, the human being is neither a god nor a beast, but someone in between. Philosophy too is in between. How do we philosophize in between? W hat is the being of the between? This book answers the question in the most comprehensive terms possible. It offers an original understanding of metaphysical thinking and the fundamental senses of being, namely, the univocal, equivocal, dialectical, and metaxological senses.Part I of Being and the Between focuses on the nature of metaphysics, the question of being, in terms of the above fourfold sense. Part II develops a metaphysics of being as between, relative to our basic perplexities, concerning origin, creation, things, intelligibilities, selves, communities, being true, being good. The book calls for a generous hermeneutical rethinking of the philosophical tradition. Major figures and positions are reinterpreted. Desmond addresses the issue, common since Hegel, endemic since Heidegger, concerning the end of metaphysics. Granting a proper understanding of the between, Desmond believes that we need a resurrection of metaphysics, where the old perplexities, ever new, stand before us again.

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