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The Wonder of Consciousness

Understanding the Mind Through Philosophical Reflection

By: Harold L. Langsam

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The Wonder of Consciousness

Understanding the Mind Through Philosophical Reflection

By: Harold L. Langsam

Langsam investigates the way certain features of some of our conscious states intelligibly relate us to features of the world of which we are conscious.

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The Wonder of Consciousness

Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection

By: Harold Langsam

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Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection

By: Harold Langsam

An argument that what makes consciousness wonderful is its intelligibility. Consciousness is a wonderful thing. But if we are fully to appreciate the wonder of consciousness, we need to articulate what it is about consciousness that makes it such an interesting and important phenomenon to us. In this book, Harold Langsam argues that consciousness is intelligible—that there are substantive facts about consciousness that can be known a priori—and that it is the intelligibility of consciousness that is the source of its wonder. Langsam first examines the way certain features of some of our conscious states intelligibly relate us to features of the world of which we are conscious. Consciousness is radically different from everything else in the world, and yet it brings us into intimate connection with the things of the world. Langsam then examines the causal powers of some of our conscious states. Some of these causal powers are determined in an intelligible way by the categorical natures of their conscious states: if you know what consciousness is, then you can also know (by the mere exercise of your intelligence) some of what consciousness does. Langsam's intent is to get the philosophy of mind away from the endless and distracting debates about whether consciousness is physical or not. He shows that there are substantive things that we can discover about consciousness merely through philosophical reflection. The philosopher who takes this approach is not ignoring the empirical facts; he is reflecting on these facts to discover further, nonempirical facts.

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Understanding the Mind through Philosophical Reflection

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Studies in Music History

Essays for Oliver Strunk

By: Harold Powers

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Studies in Music History

Essays for Oliver Strunk

By: Harold Powers

A wide variety of essays by colleagues and former students reflect Professor Strunk's particular role as music historian, teacher, and a pre-eminent musicologist. Donald Grout provides the introduction and outlines the problems confronting musicology today. Other essays are devoted to early Christian music, Renaissance music, early Italian opera; Arthur Mendel writes on ambiguities of the munsural system, Edward Lowinsky on Willaert’s "Chromatic Duo," Joseph Kerman on Verdi, and Elliot Forbes on Beethoven. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400879183

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Rilke’s Hands

An Essay on Gentleness

By: Harold Schweizer

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Rilke’s Hands

An Essay on Gentleness

By: Harold Schweizer

This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer. The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands—agents of gentleness throughout Rilke’s poetry—enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls’ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke’s work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000843890

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Everyone is Amazed: Sigfrid and Katharina Karg-Elert's letters from North America, January to March 1932

By: Harold Fabrikant

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Everyone is Amazed: Sigfrid and Katharina Karg-Elert's letters from North America, January to March 1932

By: Harold Fabrikant

Translated and annotated by Harold Fabrikant, this volume contains letters sent by Sigfrid and Katharina Karg-Elert from their time in America (January to March, 1932). Both the original German and translated English texts are given on facing pages.

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Lulu.com

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0244449678

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9780244449674

Legacies of Dachau

The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001

By: Harold Marcuse

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Legacies of Dachau

The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001

By: Harold Marcuse

Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. These names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This 2001 book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and traces its history from the beginning of the twentieth century, through its twelve years as Nazi Germany's premier concentration camp, to the camp's postwar uses as prison, residential neighborhood, and, finally, museum and memorial site. With superbly chosen examples and an eye for telling detail, Legacies of Dachau documents how Nazi perpetrators were quietly rehabilitated to become powerful elites, while survivors of the concentration camps were once again marginalized, criminalized and silenced. Combining meticulous archival research with an encyclopedic knowledge of the extensive literatures on Germany, the Holocaust, and historical memory, Marcuse unravels the intriguing relationship between historical events, individual memory, and political culture, to offer a unified interpretation of their interaction from the Nazi era to the twenty-first century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521552044

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9780521552042

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The Wonder of Consciousness

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The Wonder of Consciousness

The Wonder of Consciousness

The Wonder of Consciousness

Studies in Music History

Studies in Music History

Rilke’s Hands

Rilke’s Hands

Everyone is Amazed: Sigfrid and Katharina Karg-Elert's letters from North America, January to March 1932

Everyone is Amazed: Sigfrid and Katharina Karg-Elert's letters from North America, January to March 1932

Legacies of Dachau

Legacies of Dachau

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