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Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy

Essay
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Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence. [more]

Keywords: culture and anarchy, matthew arnold, essays, history, politics, psychology, literature and art, humanities, civilization, social science, philosophy, cultural studies

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Sam Vaknin Cyclopedia of Philosophy

Philosophy
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Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, [more]

Keywords: philosophy, mind, ethics, moraility, robot, Turing, automata, cognitive, psychology, physics, science, culture, power, technology, virtual, ontology, quantum mechanics, epistemology, AI, artificial intelligence, narcissism, dream, consciousness, machine, superman, art, artist, society, religion, ontology, God [more][Less]

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Catana Tully Split at the Root

A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity

Biography & Autobiography
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In this memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption, and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala. Her journey into the mystery that shrouded her early years begins in the US when she realized it was not just her foreign accent that alienated her from Blacks. Under layers of privilege (private schools, international travel, the life of a fashion model and actress in Europe) she discovered that her most important story is one of disinheritance. The author’s determination to find out who her parents really were and why she was taken from them, tests the love of her White husband and their son, and returns her to Guatemala to find a family that kept her memory alive as legend. In the end, she learns truths about the women who were her mothers, and the disrespect committed long ago against a birthmother and her child in the name of love. [more]

Keywords: memoir, adoption, identity, race, parenting, family relationships, biography, mothers, parents, adopting children

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