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The Saktas: An Introductory and Comparative Study
by Ernest A. PayneFavorite Russian Fairy Tales, Irish Fairy Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales and North American Indian Legends.
Säkularismus, Postsäkularismus und die Zukunft der Religionen: Festschrift für Yvanka B. Raynova zum 60. Geburtstag
by Susanne Moser Hans-Walter RuckenbauerWie lässt sich das Religiöse heute redlich denken? In welchem Verhältnis stehen Philosophie und Religion bzw. Theologie zueinander? Ist ein religiöser Glaube nur eine Option unter anderen oder vielmehr eine tiefe Dimension menschlicher Existenz, auch in einer pluralistischen Kultur? Inwiefern sind religiöse und liberale Werte miteinander vereinbar? Zwei gegensätzliche Diagnosen halten diese Fragen in Spannung: einerseits die Behauptung, wir lebten in einem säkularen bzw. postreligiösen Zeitalter, und andererseits die Annahme einer "Wiederkehr des Religiösen" in einer postsäkularen Epoche. Die Differenz zwischen säkular und religiös durchzieht alle kulturwissenschaftlichen Debatten und berührt gleichermaßen die Fragen zur Rolle der Ethik, einer solidarischen Lebensweise und der feministischen Theoriebildung in unseren spätmodernen Gesellschaften. In drei Perspektiven fängt der vorliegende Band die Dialektik von Religion und Vernunft ein: Die religionsphilosophische Analyse fördert grundlegende Konvergenzen und Differenzen zu Tage. Der Blick auf die faktische Parallelität von säkularen und religiösen Vollzügen unter dem gemeinsamen Dach einer sozialen Identität thematisiert die Stabilität pluraler Lebenswelten. Schließlich erweist sich der Horizont eines globalen Ethos als jener Prüfstein, am dem sich profane und religiöse Wertkonzepte behaupten müssen. Die thematisierten Diskurse korrespondieren mit den zentralen Forschungsfragen im Werk der Phänomenologin und Religionsphilosophin Yvanka B. Raynova, ordentliche Professorin für Gegenwartsphilosophie an der Bulgarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Der vorliegende Band gilt als Festschrift zu ihren Ehren aus Anlass ihres 60. Geburtstags.
Sakuteiki
by Marc P. Keane Jiro TakeiThe Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand years ago. It is the oldest existing text on Japanese gardening-or any kind of gardening—in the world. In this edition of the Sakuteiki the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening.
Sala de espera
by José Luis SampedroLa obra póstuma de José Luis Sampedro. «La muerte me lleva de la mano, pero se está portando bien porque me está dejando pensar.» Los ríos como metáfora de la vida fueron una constante en la obra de Sampedro, hasta el punto de trascender la literatura y hacerse realidad cuando conoció a Olga Lucas. Fue su historia de amor lo que les inspiró a escribir sobre sus diez primeros años de vida juntos. Lo hacían cada uno por su lado y a hurtadillas para preservar la sorpresa cuando llegara el momento de compartirlos. Como si se tratara de un mensaje dentro de una botella, Olga encontró el texto de José Luis tras su fallecimiento y decidió unirlo al suyo. El resultado: este relato conmovedor de dos vidas diametralmente distintas, unidas para siempre a orillas del río Jalón. La segunda parte, «Sala de Espera», recoge el sentimiento de rebelión y lúcida rabia con el que vivió los últimos años. A caballo entre la autobiografía y el ensayo, el libro incluye además material inédito de su archivo personal -fotografías, anotaciones manuscritas- que hacen de él un documento de excepcional valor y muestran la emoción que Sampedro ponía a todo lo que hacía. La obra póstuma de uno de nuestros escritores más añorados, un hombre íntegro que estuvo pensando, leyendo y afanándose en escribir hasta el último suspiro. La crítica ha dicho...«Es aquí donde el escritor esboza "sus verdades", donde se replantea el sentido último de la nueva barbarie, donde busca aportar algo propio al proceso de desescombro que vivimos.»Elsa Fernández-Santos, El País
Salazar: A Political Biography (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right)
by Filipe Ribeiro de MenesesSalazar: A Political Biography is the definitive biography of the longstanding Portuguese dictator. António de Oliveira Salazar entered the government of Portugal when Herbert Hoover was president and ended his political career at the end of the Johnson administration. He remained in power for forty years (1928–1968), one of the longest tenures in modern history. Unlike the other ‘great dictators’ of the twentieth century, Salazar, an academic, immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate until illness forced his retirement. He successfully managed his country’s finances despite the impact of the Great Depression, imposing a harsh policy of austerity. He then preserved Portugal’s neutrality during the Second World War, ultimately favouring Great Britain and the United States. But Salazar was at heart an extremely conservative, even reactionary statesman. He relied on secrecy and a police state to maintain the order which, he believed, was necessary to control progress. Rejecting the anti-colonialist movements in Asia and Africa, he plunged Portugal into a series of wars in Africa it could ill afford. Fully revised and updated throughout, this remains the authoritative biography of a key Portuguese political leader who was a significant presence in twentieth-century politics. This book will be of interest to historians of the far right, international diplomacy and Portugal.
Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry
by Sophie ArcherSalience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic. Whether it bothers you that the picture on your wall isn’t straight, whose advice you should take, or whether you notice the homeless person at your feet as you squeeze your way down the street: these are all a function of salience. Salience is clearly of significance for a broad range of philosophical sub-disciplines, but what precisely is it? This collection addresses this neglected question by considering the role of salience in a wide variety of areas: epistemology; philosophy of perception; philosophy of psychology; practical reason; feminist philosophy; and aesthetics. All 13 chapters have been specially commissioned for this volume, and are written by an international team of leading names in the field. Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology, philosophy of mind and psychology, ethics, and metaphysics. It will also be of interest to those in related subjects such as politics, law, and sociology.
Sallust (Sather Classical Lectures #33)
by Ronald SymeWith this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.
Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression
by Petra Dierkes-Thrun"Salome's Modernityis a first-class piece of scholarship---at once learned, sharply focused, and beautifully, indeed, entertainingly written. Above all, it is a significant contribution to modernist studies, for it takes a number of themes that appear in the various writings about Salome to show precisely how the various authors, performers and film-makers utilized and rethought these themes for their own times. " ---Herbert S. Lindenberger, Stanford University "Salome's Modernityis intellectually powerful, truly informative, and engagingly written. No other book rivals it in scope when it comes to placing Wilde's play in a cultural and literary genealogy that links memorable works of poetry, fiction, drama, opera, and film. " ---Joseph Bristow, UCLA Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomé has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgressionis the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salomé as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salomé marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salomé are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarmé, Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others. Jacket illustration: Maria Ewing in Richard Strauss's Salome, Pittsburgh Opera, 2001, © Suellen Fitzsimmons.
Saltwater Buddha
by Jaimal YogisFed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer's tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.
Salvation and Sovereignty: A Molinist Approach
by Kenneth KeathleyIn Salvation and Sovereignty, Kenneth Keathley asks, “What shall a Christian do who is convinced of certain central tenets of Calvinism but not its corollaries?” He then writes, “I see salvation as a sovereign work of grace but suspect that the usual Calvinist understanding of sovereignty (that God is the cause of all things) is not sustained by the biblical witness as a whole.” <p><p>Aiming to resolve this matter, the author argues that just three of Calvinism’s five TULIP points can be defended scripturally and instead builds on the ROSES acronym first presented by Timothy George (Radical depravity, Overcoming grace, Sovereign election, Eternal life, Singular redemption). In relation, Keathley looks at salvation and sovereignty through the lens of Molinism, a doctrine named after Luis Molina (1535-1600) that is based on a strong notion of God’s control and an equally firm affirmation of human freedom.
Samajik Karar: सामाजिक करार
by Vasant Bhagwant Karnikझ्यां-झ्याक रूसो लिखित (SOCIAL CONTRACT) या ग्रंथाचा मराठी अनुवाद “सामाजिक करार” हे पुस्तक धार्मिक आणि भौतिक दोन्ही सत्ताधाऱ्यांना अधिक आक्षेपार्ह वाटले. सामाजिक कराराची कल्पना मान्य केली म्हणजे राजांच्या दैवी अधिकाराला स्थानच उरत नाही; राजसत्तेचा नैतिक पाया नष्ट होतो. म्हणून फ्रेंच राज्यकर्त्यांना ते पुस्तक फार भीतीदायक वाटले. पुस्तकाच्या वाचनामुळे लोकांच्या मनात क्रांतीच्या कल्पना स्फुरतील आणि बंडाचा वणवा पेटेल अशी त्यांना धास्ती वाटली. फ्रेंच राज्यकर्त्यांची ही धास्ती खोटी ठरली नाही. १७८९ साली फ्रेंच राज्यक्रांतीचा वडवानल पेटला तेव्हा क्रांतिकारकांच्या तोंडी होते ते रूसाचे नाव आणि त्यांची प्रेरकशक्ती होती ती त्याच्या सामाजिक करार या पुस्तकातील तत्त्वे व घोषणा! फ्रेंच राज्यक्रांतीच पाया जो घातला तो बुद्धिवादी विद्वानांनी घडवून आणलेल्या वैचारिक क्रांतीने; परंतु प्रत्यक्ष क्रांतीच्या दिवसात क्रांतिकारकांच्या मनावर अधिक पगडा होता तो रूसोच्या विचारांचा आणि त्याच्या मनोवृत्तीचा. क्रांतीच्या संगराच्या वेळी विवेकशील शुद्ध बुद्धीपेक्षा लोकांना हवी असते भावनोत्कट क्रियाशीलता. रूसोची मदार होती बुद्धीपेक्षा भावनेवर. त्यामुळे राज्यक्रांतीवर त्याचा अधिक प्रभाव पडला आणि क्रांतीचा अग्रदूत म्हणून त्याची जगभर ख्याती झाली.
Sámi Educational History in a Comparative International Perspective
by Merja Paksuniemi Otso Kortekangas Pigga Keskitalo Jukka Nyyssönen Andrej Kotljarchuk David SjögrenThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Sámi education in a historical and internationally comparative perspective. Despite the cross-national character of the Sámi population, academic literature on Sámi education has so far been published within the different nation states in the Sámi area, and rarely in English. Exploring indigenous educational history around the world, this collection spans from Asia to Oceania to Sápmi and the Americas. The chapters frame Sámi school history within an international context of indigenous and minority education. In doing so, two narrative threads are established: both traditional history of education, and perspectives on the decolonisation of education. This pioneering book will appeal to students and scholars of Sámi education, as well as indigenous education around the world.
Samkara's Advaita Vedanta: A Way of Teaching (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)
by Jacqueline G. HirstSamkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought which takes this as a central theme. The author develops an innovative approach based on Samkara's ways of interpreting sacred texts and creatively examines the profound interrelationship between sacred text, content and method in Samkara's thought. The main focus of the book is on Samkara's teaching method. This method is, for Samkara, based on the Upanishads' own; it is to be employed by Advaitin teachers to draw pupils skilfully towards that realisation which is beyond all words. Consequently, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Indian philosophy, but to all those interested in the relation between language and that which is held to transcend it.
Samkhya Karika: A Yoga Practitioner's Guide to Overcoming the Three Causes of Suffering
by Srivatsa Ramaswami• Explores the meaning of all 72 verses of the 4th-century Sanskrit text Samkhya Karika word by word, providing helpful explanations and annotations to aid your understanding• Reveals how Samkhya Karika explains the three duhkhas, or causes of suffering, and how to deal with them to reach a state of freedom from pain and suffering• Shows how Samkhya Karika explains the origin and evolution of the universe and how it identifies the true nature of the Self, the Atman, as unvarying consciousness distinct from the body-mind complexAlong with Yoga and Vedanta, Samkhya is one of the three schools of Vedic philosophy that teach the individual how to break free from the cycles of death and rebirth. Samkhya Karika is the earliest surviving text on Samkhya, a brilliant masterpiece written by fourth-century Indian poet and philosopher Ishvarakrishna, who was considered to be an avatar of the Classical Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.Presenting a translation of Samkhya Karika from the original Sanskrit along with detailed commentary, Srivatsa Ramaswami explores the meaning of all 72 slokas (verses) word by word, providing helpful explanations and annotations to aid in your understanding. He shows how Samkhya philosophy explains the origin and evolution of the universe and how it identifies the true nature of the Self as unvarying consciousness, distinct from the empirical body-mind complex. He reveals how Samkhya Karika explains the three duhkhas, or causes of suffering, and how to deal with them to reach the goal of Samkhya: kaivalya, a state of deep contemplation where one is unafflicted by pain and eternally free from the cycle of samsara.Providing a user-friendly guide to Samkhya for yoga practitioners and students of yoga philosophy, this book also shares insightful teachings from the author&’s teacher, the legendary Sri Krishnamacharya, hailed as "the father of modern yoga."
Sampling, Biting, and the Postmodern Subversion of Hip Hop
by Jim VernonDrawing on the culture’s history before and after the birth of rap music, this book argues that the values attributed to Hip Hop by ‘postmodern’ scholars stand in stark contrast with those that not only implicitly guided its aesthetic elements, but are explicitly voiced by Hip Hop’s pioneers and rap music’s most consequential artists. It argues that the structural evacuation of the voices of its founders and organic intellectuals in the postmodern theorization of Hip Hop has foreclosed the culture’s ethical values and political goals from scholarly view, undermining its unity and progress. Through a historically informed critique of the hegemonic theoretical framework in Hip Hop Studies, and a re-centering of the culture’s fundamental proscription against ‘biting,' this book articulates and defends the aesthetic and ethical values of Hip Hop against their concealment and subversion by an academic discourse that merely ‘samples’ the culture for its own reactionary ends.
Samriddhi Ka Marg, Samriddhi Ke Aath Stambh, Bhagya Ki Maharat: समृद्धि का मार्ग, समृद्धि के आठ स्तंभ, भाग्य की महारत
by James Allenसमृद्धि का मार्ग, समृद्धि के आठ स्तंभ, भाग्य की महारत एक प्रेरक और विचारशील पुस्तक है, जो आत्म-संवर्धन और जीवन में संतुलन बनाने का रास्ता दिखाती है। जेम्स एलन ने इसे चार भागों में विभाजित किया है, जहां वे समृद्धि के सिद्धांत, आत्मनियंत्रण, आंतरिक शांति और सकारात्मक सोच के महत्व को रेखांकित करते हैं। पुस्तक यह सिखाती है कि विचारों की शक्ति और कर्म के सिद्धांतों को समझकर न केवल बाहरी सफलता, बल्कि आंतरिक शांति और स्थायी खुशी भी पाई जा सकती है। समृद्धि के आठ स्तंभों (ऊर्जा, अखंडता, प्रणाली, सहानुभूति आदि) पर विशेष जोर देते हुए यह मार्गदर्शन करती है कि कैसे हर व्यक्ति अपने जीवन को नई ऊंचाइयों तक ले जा सकता है। यह कृति मानसिक और आध्यात्मिक विकास की दिशा में प्रेरणा का स्रोत है।
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature (The Library of Wisdom and Compassion #3)
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Thubten ChodronSamsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature takes up centrally important premises of Buddhism: the unsatisfactoriness (duhkha) of cyclic existence (samsara), the determination to be free of cyclic existence, and the mind as the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara and the bliss of nirvana. This volume shows us how to purify our minds and cultivate awakened qualities. Knowledge of buddha nature reveals and reconciles the paradox of how the mind can be the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara (the unpurified mind) and the bliss and fulfillment of nirvana (the purified mind). To illustrate this, Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature first takes readers through Buddhist thought on the self, the Four Noble Truths, and their sixteen attributes. Then, the Dalai Lama explains afflictions, their arising and antidotes, followed by an examination of karma and cyclic existence and, finally, a deep and thorough elucidation of buddha nature. This is the third volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and comprehensive series on the stages of the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion. Volume 1, Approaching the Buddhist Path, contained introductory material that sets the context for Buddhist practice. Volume 2, The Foundation of Buddhist Practice, describes the important teachings that help us establish a flourishing Dharma practice. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature can be read as the logical next step in this series or enjoyed on its own.
Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler
by Alex GarganigoIn seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson’s Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond. Alex Garganigo examines the radically different responses of John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Samuel Butler to the existential crises caused by this explosion of loyalty oaths. After early support, all three developed serious reservations, confronting the irony that while oaths often exclude and destroy, they also include and create. Tackling issues such as performance, ritual, religion, secularization, gender, swearing, republicanism, and citizenship, Garganigo offers original readings of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, The Rehearsal Transpros’d, and Hudibras.
Samudra kesadaran tak terbatas
by Dr. Tony NaderJawaban sederhana untuk pertanyaan-pertanyaan besar dalam kehidupan. Prolog oleh David Lynch. «Dalam buku fenomenal ini, Dr. Nader menawarkan ide-ide yang dapat mengubah dunia. Beliau memberikan solusi mendalam untuk pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang telah lama memikat dan menggugah para filsuf dan ilmuwan dari berbagai bidang, seperti tujuan hidup, kebaikan, dan kejahatan. Apa itu kesadaran? Apakah kita memiliki kebebasan? Apakah ada hukum, keteraturan, atau kekacauan di alam semesta? Bagaimana cara mengatasi perbedaan antara ateis dan mukmin, takdir dan pilihan? Bagaimana cara menjadikan hidup seseorang menjadi versi terbaiknya, memenuhi keinginannya, serta menciptakan perdamaian dan harmoni di antara manusia dan bangsa? Dr. Nader menawarkan solusi berdasarkan satu paradigma dasar sederhana yang menyatukan pikiran, tubuh, dan lingkungan dalam satu samudra wujud yang murni, kesadaran yang murni. Bacaan wajib bagi setiap pencari jawaban atas misteri kehidupan serta kebenaran yang mutlak dan hakiki».David Lynch «Saya ingin semua orang tahu apa itu Kesadaran dan bagaimana mengembangkannya untuk menikmati potensi penuh dari kehidupan pribadi dan sosial».Dr. Tony Nader
Samuel Beckett's Critical Aesthetics
by Tim LawrenceThis book considers how Samuel Beckett’s critical essays, dialogues and reflections drew together longstanding philosophical discourses about the nature of representation, and fostered crucial, yet overlooked, connections between these discourses and his fiction and poetry. It also pays attention to Beckett’s writing for little-magazines in France from the 1930s to the 1950s, before going on to consider how the style of Beckett’s late prose recalls and develops figures and themes in his critical writing. By providing a long-overdue assessment of Beckett’s work as a critic, this study shows how Beckett developed a new aesthetic in knowing dialogue with ideas including phenomenology, Kandinsky’s theories of abstraction, and avant-garde movements such as Surrealism. This book will be illuminating for students and researchers interested not just in Beckett, but in literary modernism, the avant-garde, European visual culture and philosophy.
Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science (The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences #23)
by Günther Chaloupek Hans A. Frambach Jurgen G. BackhausThis book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most important figures in early-modern political thought. Although his work fits within the intellectual framework of natural jurisprudence, there is an argument to be made that his ideas promoted the development of economics as a distinct discipline within the social sciences. Written by participants in the 34th Heilbronn Symposion in Economics and the Social Sciences, the contributions to this volume give an overview of Pufendorf’s influence on other authors of the Enlightenment, such as Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, as well as addressing the theoretical implications of his extensive writings. Further chapters place a special focus on Pufendorf’s discussion of economic matters, such as property rights theory, price theory, taxation, and preferences and decision-making. The book concludes with analyzing Pufendorf’s influence on Adam Smith, his anticipations of elements of modern economic theory, and his impact on the history of economic thought. Providing a fresh look at one of the foundational scholars of social science, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of the history of economic thought, political economy, economic history, and political philosophy.
Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading
by Simon Morgan WorthamTitle first published in 2003. 'Weber is probably the only person in his generation who is equally at home in and directly informed about contemporary literary theory and its antecedents in Germany, France, and the US. His theoretical interest in psychoanalysis serves as a viewpoint from which a powerful combination of philosophical, linguistic, and political concerns are brought together in an uncommonly productive dialectical interplay' Paul de Man This book presents the first introductory text examining the work of the contemporary thinker, Samuel Weber. Accessible, compelling and challenging, Weber's writing offers a rewarding investigation into the connections between literary and cultural studies, media and technology, and philosophy and aesthetics, in the context of significant intellectual debates and developments linking Europe and North America. The critical practice of Weber's various texts is explored in detail, along with his studies in philosophy, aesthetics, deconstruction, media, technology, psychoanalysis and theatre.
The Samurai Mind
by Christopher HellmanThe Samurai Mind is a collection of five seminal Japanese texts which together convey the very essence of the traditional samurai warrior ethos. These texts range from the ferocious to the esoteric--with their common thread being the importance of mastering one's own mind as the key to overcoming opponents. Written from the mid-18th to early 19th century, the authors were acknowledged master warriors keen to address a broader audience beyond their circle of students and acolytes. Their aim was to explain their craft to the outside world, and they do so with great insight.
The Samurai Mind
by Christopher HellmanThe Samurai Mind is a collection of five seminal Japanese texts which together convey the very essence of the traditional samurai warrior ethos. These texts range from the ferocious to the esoteric--with their common thread being the importance of mastering one's own mind as the key to overcoming opponents. Written from the mid-18th to early 19th century, the authors were acknowledged master warriors keen to address a broader audience beyond their circle of students and acolytes. Their aim was to explain their craft to the outside world, and they do so with great insight.
Samurai Strategies: 42 Martial Secrets from Musashi's Book of Five Rings
by Boye Lafayette De Mente Michihiro MatsumotoSimilar to The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Myamoto, Japan's most famous warrior and combat strategist, provides valuable lessons for anyone facing challenging circumstances--from business, war, and sports to fields of art, love, and politics.<P><P>The samurai culture, created over a period of nearly seven hundred years by Japan's ruling class of warriors and epitomized in The Book of Five Rings, still influences every facet of the Japanese way of thinking and doing things. Many Japanese, consciously and unconsciously, pattern their attitudes and behavior on the thinking and behavior of Musashi, including sacrificing themselves to ideals, and continuously striving to achieve perfection.Boyé Lafayette De Mente has extracted the fundamentals of Musashi's martial tactics and explains them here in a context for use in the modern world. These strategies for winning are as valid today as they were in 17th century Japan and provide valuable insights for anyone in any field to endeavor.This hardcover edition of Samurai Strategies features a new introduction by the author, and additional commentary in each chapter by renowned Japanese author and samurai expert Michihiro Matsumoto.