Paul Marcus: 24 books
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering
Flourishing Despite Pain
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
The Psychoanalysis of Overcoming Suffering: Flourishing Despite Pain offers a guide to understanding and working with a range of everyday causes of suffering from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The book delineates some of the underappreciated, everyday facets of the troubling and challenging...
The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction
How to Flourish in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest contribution...
In Search of the Spiritual
Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book is a most impressive and important study of the presence of the spiritual and the sacred in the writings of the twentieth century French philosopher Gabriel Marcel, offering immense help in understanding Marcel and in seeing the usefulness of his ideas in psychoanalysis.
How to Laugh Your Way Through Life
A Psychoanalyst's Advice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book claims that a tragicomic outlook—the kind that echoes in black and gallows humour and the "laughter through tears" of Jewish humour—is the most effective way to manage what Freud called the "harshness" of everyday life.
The Rights of the Accused Under The Sixth Amendment
Trials, Presentation of Evidence, and Confrontation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This essential resource takes a close look at The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and those key provisions which impact mightily on defendants in criminal prosecutions.
The book was authored by four noted legal professionals, each from different backgrounds (private practice of law,...
In Search of the Good Life
Emmanuel Levinas, Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe, there are few if any books or articles...
Creating Heaven on Earth
The Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility, and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom, this book provides the details, conceptual structures, and inner meanings of...
Zwischen zwei Kriegen
Aus Berlins glanzvollsten Tagen und Nächten
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Die Wiederentdeckung eines vergessenen Autors und eines einmaligen Buches über die zwanziger Jahre: Es geht um das turbulente kulturelle Leben, um den damals neuen Film, um Theater, Literatur, Musik und Kabarett, um den Sport, aber auch um die politische Bedrohung spätestens seit 1930 durch die Nazis...
by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and...
Present Tense
Rock & Roll and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1992
The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it plays a part. In Present Tense, Anthony DeCurtis brings...
Progress and Confusion
The State of Macroeconomic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”?
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...
The Evil That Men Do
Faith, Injustice and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history.
Were the crusades...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
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