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David Appelbaum
There is no doubt that all poems included in the poetry collection make it evident that the poet is a very impressive artist. These poems reveal remarkable skill and simplicity…
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All poems included in the poetry collection reveal the plain, matter-of-fact style devoid of everything suggestive of artifice. These poems have completely got rid of the conventional, artificial phraseology. There…
This is a book of poems to remember those for whom 'time had lapsed.' The poems begin innocently with common collections, rocks or coins, and progressively, become memories that gather…
How do we perceive reality? What role does the body play in the act of perception? Making the Body Heard takes up a neglected aspect of perceiving our surroundings, inner…
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The Interpenetrating Reality is a philosophical investigation of what inhibits a fresh perception of the world. It explores the dulling effect of habit on tactile contact with the body. A…
Rejects Levinas’s argument for the preeminence of ethics in philosophy.
A creative study of Maurice Blanchot’s theory of literary voice.
One of the Spirit of Philosophy series, offering the core teachings of the world’s greatest philosophers. Each volume extracts the essential ideas of a major thinker in a way that…
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Drawing on clues from Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Jacobson, Condillac, and Diderot, Appelbaum investigates the vocalized, acoustical aspect of audible expression. He analyzes the tendency to equate voice with speaking…
Transformation of being begins exactly where one is. This is, for most of us, at home. We are acted upon by objects familiar to us, influenced in unfelt ways, and…
This book is about the turn toward consciousness by which we pass from ignorance to knowledge. The stop is the spark of initiation that arouses our habitual inattentiveness, motivating us…
Appelbaum (philosophy, State U. of New York) explores how the disruption of the intellect fractures consciousness, which loses its world-making power and realigns itself with wholeness and purpose. He discusses…
Explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an initiatory ethics.
Offers a spirited reading of Derridas view of ethics as transcendental and performative.
A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.
THE SHOCK of LOVE is a book about spirit. It is a book within a book. The book found within is a manuscript entitled THE SHOCK of LOVE. It is…
Portuguese Sailor Boy is a fragmentary history of the bloodline of the Portuguese explorer, Vasco de Gamma. The bloodline motif plays out in a series of scenes of an unnamed…
Imbued with the spirit of the moment, the poems in Alchemist harness the power of intuition in order to reveal the providential call of reality, what Chuang Tzu called the…
A ceremonial affair, a musical and imaginative exploration of memory and desire. Like the air we breathe, they inhabit the space between declaration and question, as if claiming the territory…
sucked two small drops of blood & I suddenly saw the lust of his attack & felt its most serious misunderstanding of my life.
To the poet’s quest for immortal vision, A Hellsmouth for Orpheus offers the longing of human desire. Raw but discreet, deliferately sensual, evoking an elusive authority, this book-length poem turns…
The ambiguity of snow Dog wishes, buried in squinty sun may never sprout deeper dreads down under may deface even terror’s stun gun before bright dawn pours on white cloth…
The fragmentary poems are of flight, written in the full fury of movement from a known habitat to one full of strangeness. The uncanny is their constant envoy. They enter…
This appears to be a poem that touches on themes of decay, disease, and the struggle to find meaning and beauty in a world that can be harsh and unforgiving…
P. L. Travers
The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what…
William O. Stephens
Originally published in 1894 by the German scholar Adolf Bonhoeffer and here translated into English for the first time, this work remains the most systematic and detailed study of Epictetus’s…
Peter Appelbaum (Arcadia University),with David Scott Allen
This alternative textbook integrates pedagogy and content exploration in ways that are unique in mathematics education, provoking new ideas for making mathematics education meaningful to teachers at all levels as…
David T Scheffman,Elie Appelbaum
This study analyzes the economics of rational policy formulation and the economic theory of social regulation in markets for consumer goods and services, summarizes the legal basis of social regulation…
