Natality and finitude
by O'Byrne, Anne E., (Anne Elizabeth)
fromStudies in Continental thought
The author focuses on birth as a way to make sense of being alive. Building on the work of Heidegger, Dilthey, Arendt, she discusses how the world becomes ours and how meaning emerges from our relations to generations past and to come. Themes such as creation, time, inheritance,…
Myths of Termination confronts and refutes the myths about how psychoanalysis should end--what patients experience and what analysts do. Kantrowitz explores the accounts of 82 former analysands reflecting on the effect of non-mutual endings due to external factors (moving, retir…
Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the selections in this reader will help students engage with key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take.
Conflict After the Cold War is a classic and first-rate reader that addresses enduring problems of international security and admirably represents a variety of theoretical orientations without overreliance on contemporary squabbles. By including classical and current readings, i…