The gifts of abandon and grace: an ethics of reading -- Conclusion: The Attentive Work of Grace -- Simone Weil: attention to gravity and grace -- Martin Heidegger: rapture (Rausch) and meditative thinking -- Reading as an aesthetic ...
Drawing on fresh archival material, this is the first study of its kind to explore Coetzee's writing process as already slow; as a program of seemingly relentless revision which brings forth his uniquely dense and crystalline style.
, Cittaslow (slow cities), slow fashion, slow travel, and slow parenting. The book explains why the slow movement is in many ways at odds with the prevalent American Dream so committed to growth, speed, and acceleration.
Slow reading tolerates and, in fact, incites an estranging flux of different readings to occur simultaneously or in a ... In The Childhood of Jesus, philosophy is explicitly mocked as being too imperious, too abstract, too inducing of ...
He also feels his balance and speed have improved on the basketball court and in the hockey rink. What Cohen most likes about yoga, though, is its relaxing, meditative quality. “When I do the poses, everything inside me slows right down ...
Presents advice on low-maintenance gardening, with tips for easy landscaping, short-cut composting, container gardening, and reliable plant combinations.
These theories understand moral thinking in terms of two separate domains: one deliberate and analytic, the other quick and instinctive. This book presents a new theory of the philosophy and cognitive science of moral judgment.
talks about the King George VI (1895–1952) who had a serious stuttering problem (see Fig. 3.6). During that time, Britain was preparing a war against Germany ruled by Adolf Hitler (1889–1945). In order to get across the unity of the ...
These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, everything suffers - our work, diet and health, our relationships and sex lives. Carl Honore uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed.
A slow revolution is taking place. This is a modern revolution, championed by cell-phone using, emailing lovers of sanity. The slow philosophy can be summed up in a single word: balance.