Language of Images: Visualization and Meaning in Tantras

Language of Images: Visualization and Meaning in Tantras (Asian Thought and Culture, Book 71) by Sthaneshwar Timalsina


English | 2015 | ISBN: 1433125560 | 175 pages | PDF | 7 MB

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly misunderstood. This book is the first to systematically address the hermeneutic and philosophical aspects of visualizing images in Tantric practices. While examining the issues of embodiment and emotion, this volume initiates a discourse on image-consciousness, imagination, memory, and recall. The main objective of this book is to explore the meaning of the opaque Tantric forms, and with this, the text aims to introduce visual language to discourse. Language of Images is the result of a long and sustained engagement with Tantric practitioners and philosophical and exegetical texts. Due to its synthetic approach of utilizing multiple ways to read cultural artifacts, this work stands alone in its attempt to unravel the esoteric domains of Tantric practice by means of addressing the culture of visualization.

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Meaning in Spinoza"s Method by Aaron V. Garrett

Meaning in Spinoza"s Method by Aaron V. Garrett


English | 26 Jun. 2003 | ISBN: 052182611X | 250 Pages | PDF | 2 MB

Readers of Spinoza"s philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza"s Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that its purpose, in Spinoza"s view, was not just to present claims and propositions but also in some sense to change the readers and allow them to look at themselves and the world in a different way.

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Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning

Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning by Alexis Burgess, Brett Sherman


2014 | ISBN: 0199669597 | English | 400 pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to systematically specify the meanings of linguistic expressions in context.




The paradigmatic metasemantic question is accordingly: what more basic or fundamental features of the world metaphysically determine these semantic facts? Efforts to answer this question inevitably raise others. Where are the boundaries of semantics? What is the essence of the meaning relation? Which framework should we use for semantic theorizing? What are the intrinsic natures of semantic values? Are the semantic facts metaphysically determinate? What is semantic competence?




Metasemantic inquiry has long been recognized as a central part of the philosophy of language, but recent developments in metaphysics and semantics itself now allow us to approach these classic questions with an unprecedented degree of precision. The essays collected here provide promising new perspectives on old problems, pose questions that suggest novel research projects, and taken together, greatly sharpen our understanding of linguistic representation.

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The Meaning of the Second World War [Repost]

The Meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel


English | 3 May 2011 | ISBN: 1844674797, 1844674800 | 212 Pages | PDF | 5 MB

The very scale of the 1939 45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel outlines his view that the war was in fact a combination of several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony.

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The Meaning of Stoicism (Martin Classical Lectures. Volume XXI)

The Meaning of Stoicism (Martin Classical Lectures. Volume XXI) by Ludwig Edelstein


English | Jan. 1, 1966 | ISBN: 0674558502 | 120 Pages | PDF | 2.98 MB

"As the ancients themselves knew, Stoicism was not a uniform doctrine. Throughout the centuries there existed factions; the Stoics treasured their independence of judgment and quarreled among themselves." Yet, "despite their individual differences, the Stoic dissenters remained Stoics. That which they had in common, that which made them Stoics, is what I understand as the meaning of Stoicism." Thus delimiting his framework, Ludwig Edelstein attempts to define Stoicism by grasping the elusive common element that bound together the various factions within the ethical system. He begins this exemplary essay with a description of the Stoic sage—the ideal aimed at by Zeno and his followers—which establishes the basic characteristics of the philosophy. Mr. Edelstein then proceeds to a more detailed examination, discussing the Stoic concepts of nature and living in accord with nature; the internal criticism of the second and first centuries B.C. , which indicates the limitations and possibilities inherent in the doctrine; the Stoic"s way of life and his attitude toward practical affairs, revealing the values cherished by the adherents of the Stoa; and, finally, the place of Stoicism in the history of philosophy.

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Life Forms and Meaning Structure

Life Forms and Meaning Structure by Alfred Schutz


English | Oct. 22, 2013 | ISBN: 0415703042 | 232 Pages | PDF | 10.67 MB

This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson’s conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.

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