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The Tzaddik and other poems

By: Per K. Brask

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A Poetic Exploration of Judaism Per K. Brask is fascinated with the conversation that Jews have had down through the ages about life and God and about what humans owe to each other and to God. A Jew by conviction not birth, he offers an accessible and insightful collection of 32 poems that explore his experience growing into Judaism.

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1927663466

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9781927663462

The Laws of Life: An Exploration of Fundamental Problems in Ethics

By: Per K. Brask,Andreas Simonsen

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The Laws of Life: An Exploration of Fundamental Problems in Ethics

By: Per K. Brask,Andreas Simonsen

An important 20th century work on ethics. Now available in English for the first time. Danish thinker Andreas Simonsen explores what he considers the three most fundamental problems in ethics: free will versus determinism, happiness versus duty, and humanism versus humility. "These problems have been pondered throughout history, often with great perspicacity and wit. However, every generation must take its own position on them so that new experiences are included in our understanding of life, not only directly but also indirectly through changing interpretations and practices of past wisdom."" Simonsen attempts to untangle the inevitable contradictions "attached to everything human and conditioned by a basic paradoxical duality in our essence and existence. ... "We must have a paradoxical understanding of humans as both free and conditioned; a paradoxical view of ethics as both duty and happiness; a paradoxical understanding of God as both immanent and transcendent.

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192766330X

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9781927663301

Foundational Thoughts in Judaism

By: Per K. Brask,Andreas Simonsen

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Foundational Thoughts in Judaism

By: Per K. Brask,Andreas Simonsen

What does Judaism say about free will, suffering, good and evil, sin, responsibility, righteousness? Danish philosopher Andreas Simonsen explains where Judaism stands on these and other complex moral issues, puts them into historical perspective and discusses their relevance to our lives today, while tackling the contradictions, confusions and paradoxes inherent in Judaism's fundamental tenets. He also compares Judaism's teachings to those of Christianity, humanism and selected Western philosophers, both classical and modern. Christians and Jews, believers and non-believers, alike, will find Simonsen's insights fascinating and enlightening. This important 20th-century religious-philosophical work is now available in English for the first time, translated from the Danish by Per K. Brask.

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1927663105

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9781927663103

The Foundation of Ethics

By: Per K. Brask,Andreas Simonsen

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The Foundation of Ethics

By: Per K. Brask,Andreas Simonsen

Is there a solid foundation for the ethical concept of the good? Danish-Jewish thinker Andreas Simonsen explores this "ancient all-important question initially debated by the Sophists, Socrates and Plato" using an ancient technique - the dialogue form. Three separate conversations, three different interlocutors, three different worldviews: skeptical, rationalist and existentialist. This eclectic, thought-provoking work takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Western philosophy and scientific theory - to the author's unique adaptation of Niels Bohr's theory of "complementarity" to ethics.

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1927663512

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A Spectator

Ekphrastic Poetry

By: Per K. Brask

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A Spectator

Ekphrastic Poetry

By: Per K. Brask

A Spectator is the first published collection of ekphrastic poetry by poet, author, playwright and dramaturge Per K. Brask. "Ekphrasis” is defined as literary commentary on a work of art. Think John Keat's poems "Ode on a Grecian Urn" or "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time." A Spectator is a modern take on this poetic tradition. Written in "plain speech," these 50 accessible and insightful poems express the poet's playful attention to live performances, works of art, exhibits or life moments. Readers will be delighted and inspired by these beautifully wrought personal reflections on concrete things. "A Spectator contains many insights from watching theatrical performance, but its greatest accomplishment is its practice of ekphrasis. Adopting a highly dramatic form for his literary account of theatrical events, Brask offers an ongoing behind-the-scenes look at how one might attend to a work of performed art, as well as a fine example of the affect of dramatic writing. A Spectator offers an engaging series of reflections from an engaged spectator with a playwrights pen." Reviewed by AOM

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0987917056

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Above Palm Canyon and Other Places in the Mind

Poems

By: Per K. Brask

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Above Palm Canyon and Other Places in the Mind

Poems

By: Per K. Brask

Road trips from Manitoba, Canada, to Palm Springs, CA, inspire these poetic meditations by Danish-born, Canadian poet, playwright, essayist and dramaturge Per K. Brask. Composed in accessible “plain speech,” this collection of 37 poems is grouped thematically into three sections, offering a poetic travelogue of the journey and its destination ("On the Road" and "Palm Springs"), along with meditations on life at home in Winnipeg, Canada ("In Between"). Readers will enjoy the poet’s personal reflections on such offbeat locales as Fargo, ND, and Missoula, MT, as well as his meditations inspired by hikes with his wife on the trails in the Sonoran Desert around Palm Springs.

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1927663008

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9781927663004

Power/lessness

By: Per K. Brask

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Power/lessness

By: Per K. Brask

The alienated and radicalized characters of these cosmopolitan dramas speak out in unflinching and austere monologues and dialogues.

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Book's by Per K. Brask

The Tzaddik and other poems

The Tzaddik and other poems

The Laws of Life: An Exploration of Fundamental Problems in Ethics

The Laws of Life: An Exploration of Fundamental Problems in Ethics

Foundational Thoughts in Judaism

Foundational Thoughts in Judaism

The Foundation of Ethics

The Foundation of Ethics

A Spectator

A Spectator

Above Palm Canyon and Other Places in the Mind

Above Palm Canyon and Other Places in the Mind

Power/lessness

Power/lessness

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