The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a knife." The Transmission of Affect deals with the belief that the emotions and energies of one person or group can be absorbed by or can enter directly into another. The ability to borrow or share states...

Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the 1960s counterculture, reentered as an icon of new edge cyberpunks. HIGH PRIEST chronicles 16 psychedelic trips taken in the days before LSD was made illegal. The trip guides or "High Priests" include Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, William S. Burroughs, Godsdog, Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Willy (a junkie from New York City), Huston Smith, Frank Barron, and others....

Originally published in 1902, this book is 'A practical scientific explanation of thought or mind force, the law which governs all mental and physical action and phenomena, the cause of life and death'. A fascinating early look at the powers of the mind and the exertion of positive energy and willpower. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides...

Esta obra tematica el lugar que ocupa "el cuerpo" en la sociedad actual, a partir de las diversas formas en que se ha interpretado en la filosofía, la literatura y el arte. Sin duda, las representaciones más diversas sobre el cuerpo adquieren sentido cuando se relacionan con las expresiones simbólicas que el ser humano emplea al exponerse en su corporeidad. Las investigaciones y las reflexiones sobre el cuerpo no están por ello al margen de las...

In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen only as a variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud's famous line "love needs reinventing," In Praise of Love is the celebrated French philosopher's passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This...

El nacimiento de la filosofía es inseparable de las preguntas fundamentales en torno al ser humano: quiénes somos, de dónde venimos y a dónde vamos. Y de la respuesta a ellas dependen a su vez muchas otras cuestiones que nos interpelan a todos, como cuál es la relación del ser humano con la Naturaleza, qué es lo que nos distingue de otros seres vivos, cómo nos relacionamos entre nosotros (familia, amistad, sociedad, etc.) o, de un modo mucho...

Examines Hegel's insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life, identity, and experience. Meaning and Embodiment provides a detailed study of Hegel's anthropology to examine the place of corporeity or embodiment in human life, identity, and experience. In Hegel's view, to be human means in part to produce one's own spiritual embodiment in culture and habits. Whereas for animals nature only has meaning relative to...

"Intelecto de amor" es un diálogo filosófico entre Giorgio Agamben y Jean-Baptiste Brenet, una meditación sobre el lugar y el sujeto del amor, en la que se supone la mutua implicancia y el entrelazamiento del deseo del conocimiento y el conocimiento del deseo. En ese camino, aquí se analiza, por una parte, el poema más oscuro del más conceptual de los poetas italianos, Guido Cavalcanti, "primer amigo" de Dante según la Vida nueva. Y, por la...

In this passionate philosophical memoir, Kimerer LaMothe unfolds an earth-friendly vision of what love can be. Moving to a farm after years spent teaching and writing at Harvard University, LaMothe faces new challenges in her relationships with her parents, her partner, and their children. In her struggle to respond, she comes to a radical conclusion: we humans are nothing more or less than an impulse to connect, born to love, but not born knowing...

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