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Time, Migration and Forced Immobility : Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco / by Stock, Inka

Table of Contents: “…EU externalization policies and their impact on migrants in Morocco -- Travelling adventures : migration as an existential quest -- Arriving in Morocco : becoming trapped in a context of uncertainty -- Facing time and the absurd -- Migrant communities in Morocco -- Waiting in desperate hope.…”
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Time, Migration and Forced Immobility : Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco / by Stock, Inka

Table of Contents: “…EU externalization policies and their impact on migrants in Morocco -- Travelling adventures : migration as an existential quest -- Arriving in Morocco : becoming trapped in a context of uncertainty -- Facing time and the absurd -- Migrant communities in Morocco -- Waiting in desperate hope.…”
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Indian summer musings on the gift of life / by Pickering, Samuel F., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- Toolless -- Writers' colony -- Dog days -- A brown bird sang in the apple tree -- Lasting -- Raking -- Absurd -- Time for Black & Decker -- End papers.…”
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Indian summer musings on the gift of life / by Pickering, Samuel F., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- Toolless -- Writers' colony -- Dog days -- A brown bird sang in the apple tree -- Lasting -- Raking -- Absurd -- Time for Black & Decker -- End papers.…”
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Modes of creativity philosophical perspectives / by Singer, Irving

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : reversing mistakes about creativity -- The creative experience -- The creative process -- Three myths of artistic creativity -- Aesthetic creativity -- Creativity in expression, metaphor, myth -- The prosaic and the absurd in their creative context -- Creativity in practice -- Creativity in science, technology, and mathematics -- Creativity and reality.…”
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Modes of creativity philosophical perspectives / by Singer, Irving

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : reversing mistakes about creativity -- The creative experience -- The creative process -- Three myths of artistic creativity -- Aesthetic creativity -- Creativity in expression, metaphor, myth -- The prosaic and the absurd in their creative context -- Creativity in practice -- Creativity in science, technology, and mathematics -- Creativity and reality.…”
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Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre from the word to the image / by Łabędzka, Izabella

Table of Contents: “…Chinese avant-garde: new trends in Chinese exploratory and experimental theatre -- Actor in the space of illusion and anti-illusion -- New narrative strategies -- From realism to sur-realism: poets of the absurd and the grotesque -- Between life and death, reality and dream: towards an oneiric imagination -- In search of the total theatre.…”
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Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre from the word to the image / by Łabędzka, Izabella

Table of Contents: “…Chinese avant-garde: new trends in Chinese exploratory and experimental theatre -- Actor in the space of illusion and anti-illusion -- New narrative strategies -- From realism to sur-realism: poets of the absurd and the grotesque -- Between life and death, reality and dream: towards an oneiric imagination -- In search of the total theatre.…”
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Property rites the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / by Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…Curious acts -- "All mixed up" in New York -- The trial begins -- Passing and the "seemingly absurd question" of race -- Defending the citadel of whiteness from the "awful stain" -- The trial continues : degeneracy, modern love, and "filthy letters" -- "Poor little cupid" and the marriage contract -- Blind love and the visibility of race -- The trial ends.…”
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Property rites the Rhinelander trial, passing, and the protection of whiteness / by Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…Curious acts -- "All mixed up" in New York -- The trial begins -- Passing and the "seemingly absurd question" of race -- Defending the citadel of whiteness from the "awful stain" -- The trial continues : degeneracy, modern love, and "filthy letters" -- "Poor little cupid" and the marriage contract -- Blind love and the visibility of race -- The trial ends.…”
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Jewish religion after theology by Sagi, Abraham

Table of Contents: “…-- Yeshayahu Leibovitz : the man against his thought -- Leibowitz and Camus : between faith and the absurd -- Jewish religion without theology -- The critique of theodicy : from metaphysics to praxis -- The Holocaust : a theological or a religious-existentialist problem? …”
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Jewish religion after theology by Sagi, Abraham

Table of Contents: “…-- Yeshayahu Leibovitz : the man against his thought -- Leibowitz and Camus : between faith and the absurd -- Jewish religion without theology -- The critique of theodicy : from metaphysics to praxis -- The Holocaust : a theological or a religious-existentialist problem? …”
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The Dangerous Lover : Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative / by Lutz, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…The erotics of ontology : the mass-market erotic historical romance and Heideggerian failed presence (1921-2003) -- The spectral other and erotic melancholy : the Gothic demon lover and the early seduction narrative rake (1532-1822) -- Love as homesickness : longing for a transcendental home in Byron and the Brontës (1811-1847) -- The absurdity of the sublime : the Regency dandy and the malevolent seducer (1825-1897).…”
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The Dangerous Lover : Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative / by Lutz, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…The erotics of ontology : the mass-market erotic historical romance and Heideggerian failed presence (1921-2003) -- The spectral other and erotic melancholy : the Gothic demon lover and the early seduction narrative rake (1532-1822) -- Love as homesickness : longing for a transcendental home in Byron and the Brontës (1811-1847) -- The absurdity of the sublime : the Regency dandy and the malevolent seducer (1825-1897).…”
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Fragments essays in subjectivity, individuality, and autonomy / by Gonzáez, Pedro Blas

Table of Contents: “…The plight of subjectivity in an objective world: existential subjects in sinister situations -- Pillars of remembrance: the plight of aesthetic vision and moral courage in the modern world -- Auto-gnosis, subjectivity, and the role of maxims in philosophical reflection -- On meaning in human existence -- Loneliness and immortality in Enrique Anderson Imbert's 'El Fantasma' -- Subjectivity and philosophical reflection in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus trilogy -- Camus's hero of the absurd.…”
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Fragments essays in subjectivity, individuality, and autonomy / by Gonzáez, Pedro Blas

Table of Contents: “…The plight of subjectivity in an objective world: existential subjects in sinister situations -- Pillars of remembrance: the plight of aesthetic vision and moral courage in the modern world -- Auto-gnosis, subjectivity, and the role of maxims in philosophical reflection -- On meaning in human existence -- Loneliness and immortality in Enrique Anderson Imbert's 'El Fantasma' -- Subjectivity and philosophical reflection in Jean Cocteau's Orpheus trilogy -- Camus's hero of the absurd.…”
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Moore's paradox new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- The all-seeing eye : a blind spot in the history of ideas / Roy Sorensen -- Moore's paradox and knowledge -- Moorean absurdity : an epistemological analysis / Claudio de Almeida -- The normative character of belief / Thomas Baldwin -- Moore's paradox, Evans's principle, and iterated beliefs / John N. …”
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Moore's paradox new essays on belief, rationality, and the first person /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- The all-seeing eye : a blind spot in the history of ideas / Roy Sorensen -- Moore's paradox and knowledge -- Moorean absurdity : an epistemological analysis / Claudio de Almeida -- The normative character of belief / Thomas Baldwin -- Moore's paradox, Evans's principle, and iterated beliefs / John N. …”
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Refiguring the ordinary by Weiss, Gail, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Context and perspective -- Ambiguity, absurdity, and reversibility: three responses to indeterminacy -- Reading/writing between the lines -- The body as a narrative horizon -- Can an old dog learn new tricks? …”
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Refiguring the ordinary by Weiss, Gail, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Context and perspective -- Ambiguity, absurdity, and reversibility: three responses to indeterminacy -- Reading/writing between the lines -- The body as a narrative horizon -- Can an old dog learn new tricks? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view