Edward Slingerland
Autor(a) de Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity
About the Author
Edward Slingerland is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. An internationally renowned expert in Chinese thought, comparative religion, and cognitive science, Slingerland lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter.
Obras de Edward Slingerland
What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture (New Approaches to European His) (2008) 49 cópias
Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China (2003) 46 cópias
Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities (New Directions in Cognitive Science) (2011) 10 cópias
Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Translated & Annotated) (Hackett Classics) 1 exemplar(es)
L'ivresse. Comment nous avons bu, dansé et titubé sur le chemin de la civilisation (2023) 1 exemplar(es)
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way… de Edward Slingerland
Excellent book on alcohol and its benefits and perils; and that most rare of academic books: a funny one!
This would be an excellent long-form magazine article, but is trapped in 300 pages of notes-heavy, dry prose. Slingerland's done the research. He knows his material. His editor did him a grave disservice by letting him write an academic tome.
I won this book in a give-away.
I signed up for the give- away, because I spotted the word ¨spontaneity¨ in the title. I was not disappointed: the book is a lively description of the solutions to the paradox of trying to be spontaneous (wu-wei) in Ancient Chinese philosophy and modern science (especially psychology). Slingerland uses examples from modern culture, funny anecdotes and personal experience to illustrate his point. Since I was somewhat unfamiliar with the details of Confucianism and Daoism and their offshoots, I appreciated this approach very much. It is very clear that Slingerland himself has made the texts his has studied for so many years part of his day to day thinking. That's wu-wei in action.… (mais)
I signed up for the give- away, because I spotted the word ¨spontaneity¨ in the title. I was not disappointed: the book is a lively description of the solutions to the paradox of trying to be spontaneous (wu-wei) in Ancient Chinese philosophy and modern science (especially psychology). Slingerland uses examples from modern culture, funny anecdotes and personal experience to illustrate his point. Since I was somewhat unfamiliar with the details of Confucianism and Daoism and their offshoots, I appreciated this approach very much. It is very clear that Slingerland himself has made the texts his has studied for so many years part of his day to day thinking. That's wu-wei in action.… (mais)
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