![]() ![]() Piaget proposed four stages of cognitive development: ![]() Piaget’s view stands between nature and nurture: the child is born with certain innate abilities and these develop and mature in a set sequence under the influence of the environment the child grows up in.
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![]() ![]() Although a Christian and a learned theologian, Kierkegaard was far from being an unquestioningly obedient member of the flock. His funeral was a lively affair, his followers protesting that the established Danish church had no right to take possession of, or to sermonise over, the body of a man who had so vehemently opposed it. Kierkegaard (whose name means ‘churchyard’ in Danish), died in Copenhagen aged just 42, possibly due to a paralysing spinal ailment caused by a fall from a tree in his youth. Here we’re going to briefly look at his concept of anxiety. ![]() ![]() But his radical views on faith, religious commitment and the individual, and his rejection of a conformist, passive, rationalist, dispassionate, inauthentic approach towards the religious life and the infinite, make him a true existentialist. Existentialism is undoubtedly as much rooted in Kierkegaard’s militant, idiosyncratic Christianity as it is in the ‘God is dead’ proto-existentialism of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. Many of the central themes and concepts of existentialism – freedom, choice, responsibility, bad faith, anxiety, despair, and absurdity – originated in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55), in such ground-breaking works as Either-Or (1843), Fear and Trembling (1843), The Concept of Anxiety (1844) and The Sickness Unto Death (1849). ![]() SUBSCRIBE NOW Existentialism & Life Kierkegaard: Young, Free & Anxious Gary Cox considers the problematic side of freedom, from the edge of a cliff. ![]() ![]() ![]() Boxers & Saints is one of the most ambitious graphic novels First Second has ever published. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. ![]() Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. ![]() The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Families are often made up of blood relatives, non-blood associations, adoptees, ghosts/spectres, and people who came around one day and never left, as well as absentee relations. ![]() One of the Erdrich’s common ideas is an understanding of blended families. There’s real genius without dipping too much into cleverness. It almost never feels like there’s an extra word on the page. But there is also an economy to her style. ![]() When I say form instead of flourish, I mean that there is depth and richness to her writing, complexity does come at times in complicated sentence structures, and she’s putting careful touches on each clause. It focuses more so on form and effect than on flourish, so it would be right, then, to link her in some ways to Faulkner and Morrison. ![]() Erdrich’s writing is direct, competent, and complex. For whatever reason, for this time in my life, I have clicked with her writing. In this previous year, I have read seven of her novels and look to read the remaining seven this year. I went from being suspect of her to reading as much of her stuff as I could stomach to sitting up the morning of the Nobel announcement having convinced myself she was about to win. 2016 could have easily been my year of Louise Erdrich. ![]() ![]() Garner published three books on the subject of speech in primates, as well as articles in various magazines. In 1910, he brought a chimpanzee named Susie back to the United States and toured with her, attempting to demonstrate that she knew a hundred English words. He returned to Africa on several more research trips, some lasting more than a year. ![]() In Gabon, he attempted to decipher individual words of the chimpanzee language, and he also attempted to teach one chimpanzee a few words. Garner next raised funds for a trip to study chimpanzees in Gabon among his donors were such prominent figures as Edison, Alexander Melville Bell, and Grover Cleveland. He lived and observed from inside a cage, a few gorillas came near and none showed any aggression. ![]() In 1896 Garner went to Africa to study gorillas, then considered as aggressive. He became famous for an 1891 article, "The Simian Tongue", in which he argued that the lower primates have a rudimentary language, and that this language is the origin of human speech. He hypothesized that human speech might have arisen from animal sounds and "resolved to study those sounds in a methodic manner and try to learn the speech of animals." He acquired one of Thomas Edison's early phonographs and began to spend time observing and recording monkeys at zoos in Cincinnati, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Garner's career studying primates arose through his interest in Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This vivid account, now in paperback, includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the frontline. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, art historian Whitney Chadwick charts the lives of five female surrealists–connecting their experiences with art, friendship, and war. Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be a young, ambitious woman during an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her teenage years she learned to pilot a plane from her mother. Her parents ran a small airport in Susanville, where her mother was both a pilot and a mechanic. She grew up in Johnstonville, California, a place near Susanville, California in the far northern section of California, one of two daughters. She is known for her Anna Pigeon series, which is primarily set in a series of national parks and other protected areas of the United States.Īlthough Barr was born in Yerington, Nevada, she was named not after her state of birth but after a character in one of her father's favorite books. Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952) is an American author of mystery fiction. ![]() Signing books at the 2006 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Madison, WisconsinĬalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ![]() ![]() ![]() To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will have to do battle with old friends, new foes, and a magic that plays with heads and hearts.Evangeline has always trusted her heart, but this time she's not sure she can. Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline's life, a murderous spell has been cast. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him. ![]() Only this time, the rules have changed.Jacks isn't the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. Now that she's discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away.īut when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Stephanie Garbers THE BALLAD OF NEVER AFTER is the jaw-dropping sequel to the ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART, starring Evangel. The Ballad of Never After is the fiercely-anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Once Upon a Broken Heart, starring Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts on a new journey of magic, mystery, and heartbreak.Īfter Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Stephanie Garber’s THE BALLAD OF NEVER AFTERis the jaw-dropping sequel to the ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART, starring Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts on a new journey of magic, mystery, and heartbreak Not every love is meant to be. 1 day ago &0183 &32 33 movies were most excited to see after watching never-before-seen footage at CinemaCon 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now let’s unfold this seemingly simple proposition. In Unamuno’s 2 nd chapter, he clearly defines what he means by the term a ‘tragic sense of life,’ “For living is one thing and knowing is another and, as we shall see, perhaps there is such an opposition between the two that we may say that everything vital is anti-rational, not merely irrational, and that everything rational is anti-vital.” This diagram separates Unamuno’s opposition with notes on what this must imply : If we are to come to an understanding of our lives as an existentialist, we must come to that understanding within the context of our own living & breathing existence. To conclude that a thinker is existentialist, we make the claim that their philosophy bases itself in the concerns of existence. Why do we propose Unamuno is an existentialist?-because he was concerned with existence, our corporeal existence. ![]() ![]() Unamuno’s 1912 book Tragic Sense of Life is an early expression of Spanish & European existentialism. Notes on Miguel de Unamuno’s Tragic Sense of Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() More specifically, there is a rebellion brewing within House Atreides, one led by a certain Sion a, dead-set on opposing Leto II’s rule.Įnemies strengthen you. ![]() However, the transformation into something of a deity has taken a harsh toll on Leto II, both in terms of his physical appearance and his sense of morality.Īdditionally, his rule has been anything but benevolent, and the further he finds himself sinking into the abyss of inhumanity, the more his subjects are beginning to rally against what is becoming a sort of divine figure. ![]() In order to save humanity, he once merged his body with a sandworm, turning him into a unique being blessed with immortality, quasi-invulnerability, and prescience of tremendous accuracy. ![]() In any case, for those of you who are still here, the fourth book in the series takes a bit of a different path from the rest, jumping forward three and a half thousand years into the future, where Leto II Atreides reigns supreme. Indeed, this is very much a book series which must be read in order. Otherwise, it will be rather difficult for you to get into God Emperor of Dune, the fourth entry. The Dune series by Frank Herbert has come a very long way since the humble beginnings of Paul Atreides and his transformation into Muad’Dib, and if you’ve found your way here without knowing much of the other books, I would recommend you have a look at our Dune review, as well as its sequels. ![]() |