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Radical Experience
James, William (2000). Pragmatism and Other Writings, 338. Story behind the Passage No, the title today is not a typo. You might think so if you happen to know the term “radical empiricism” by William James. I am building on James today but I want to focus more on the concept of experience itself. How…
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Tugend Und Universit T
Wieprecht, Volker, and Robert Skuppin (2009). Das Lexikon der verschwundenen Dinge, 64. Story behind the Passage Erneut weiche ich sprachlich von meiner Gewohnheit ab. Die Suche das Autors ist auch immer die Suche nach der Sprache. Natürlich gibt es die Sprache nicht. Man kann sich nicht nach dem richten, was vermeintlich „gut“ ankommt. Man muss nach…
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Reentry From Error
Al-Ghazali (1107). Deliverance from Error. Story behind the Passage For 318 days, I have been blogging about a book passage or text excerpt now. Every single one of these books stayed in my memory because it had taught me something. Yet, since the reading had mostly taken place a long time ago, the insights were not…
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Book Of The Week The First And Last Freedom
Krishnamurti, J. (2013/1954). The Last Best Freedom. Story behind the Book Choice Krishnamurti has been on my reading and learning list for a long time. In a way, his teachings have already reached me via different channels. Still, it needed the project I am currently working on to finally read one of his books. This one…
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Decisions
Mintzberg, Henry (1989). Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations, 72–3. Story behind the Passage Last night, I listened to a pretty powerful lecture by an experienced consultant and advisor. The topic was decision-making. Of course, that is a huge topic because life is all about making decisions every single second. As he…
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Putting Culture Into Words
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno (1944/2007). “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: 41–72. In: Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner, 45. Story behind the Passage To clarify this straight away: Today I am actually dealing with “culture” not in the sense of “languge, habits, norms, etc.” but…
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Recovery With Growth
Jackson, Tim (2009). Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, 17. Story behind the Passage Today in the car, I was listening to the news on the radio. One thing they reported about was the fact that Frankfurt Airport was recovering from Covid because the economic performance is picking up speed again. Of course, there…
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Bearing Freedom
Bergmann, Frithjof (1977). On Being Free. Kindle. Story behind the Passage It is still so remarkable that all this New Work talk was triggered by a man who wrote his book On Being Free close to five decades ago. Nobody knows exactly how it then ended up as this hype and how he was involved in…
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Breathing
Iyengar, B. K. S. (2015/1966). Light on Yoga: The Definitive Guide to Yoga Practice, 361. Story behind the Passage A few weeks ago, I noticed that my breathing was slightly off. This does not happen to me that often anymore, but it did. So, it was like an alarm bell going off. I have to…
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Culture And Politics
CultureReport. Eunic Yearbook 2017/2018. Mafaldo Dâmaso, 151. Story behind the Passage This passage is from a book that I picked up at a huge Middle Eastern conference three years ago. It was actually the last academic conference I attended, I think. If it will remain the last academic conference I ever attended, I do not know….