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  • The Narrative Brain

    The Stories Our Neurons Tell

    by Fritz Alwin Breithaupt ...
    An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tellAs humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work, our brains and the ways in which we tell stories must be attuned to each other. But how exactly does this happen?Tapping into the essence of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Dark Sides of Empathy

    by Fritz Breithaupt ...
    Translated by Andrew B. B. Hamilton ...
    Many consider empathy to be the basis of moral action. However, the ability to empathize with others is also a prerequisite for deliberate acts of humiliation and cruelty. In The Dark Sides of Empathy, Fritz Breithaupt contends that people often commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of over-identification and a desire to increase empathy. Even well ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    The Narrative Brain

    The Stories Our Neurons Tell

    by Fritz Alwin Breithaupt, Ph.D. ...
    Narrated by Brian Wiggins ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tellAs humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work, our brains and the ways in which we tell stories must be attuned to each other. But how exactly does this happen?Tapping into the essence of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Self as Muse

    Narcissism and Creativity in the German Imagination 1750-1830

    by Alexander Mathas, Richard Block, Susan Gustafson, Gail K. Hart, Martin Klebes, Edgar Landgraf, Alexander Mathäs, F Corey Roberts, Ann Schmiesing, Fritz Breithaupt ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature.In many Eighteenth-century works ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

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    The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

    by Howard Gardner ...
    In this groundbreaking classic, a leading psychologist argues that there are many human intelligences**.**"Brilliant." —New York Review of BooksWhen we call someone “intelligent,” we are often referring to traits like their high SAT score, their performance on an IQ test, or their ability to perform in today’s schools—which prioritize linguistic and mathematical abilities. Traits like these ... Read more

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  • The Entanglement

    How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

    by Alva Noë ...
    Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us ... Read more

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  • Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy

    Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics

    by Stephen K. Levine, Paolo J. Knill, Ellen G. Levine ...
    Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art work itself at the center.This book lays the philosophical foundation for a fresh interpretation of ... Read more

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  • Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century

    The Literary Agenda

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

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  • Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

    His Craft and Thought

    Edited by Roman Struc, John Yardley ...
    The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.”The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities ... Read more

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  • Stories and the Brain

    The Neuroscience of Narrative

    by Paul B. Armstrong ...
    This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world—and why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues that the ways ... Read more

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  • The Rilke Alphabet

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Translated by Andrew Hamilton ...
    The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet's work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings.Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world's greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life's mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke's language, Baer examines ... Read more

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