David Levin: 11 books
Raise Your Inner Game
How to Overcome Stress and Distraction, Work at Your Highest Level, and Live a Life You're Proud of Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Forget the old-school “motivation” and pop-psychology that fills so many self-improvement books—it’s out of date and, honestly, doesn’t work that well in the first place. What you need to thrive in today’s distracting, fast-paced world are three, fundamental self-mastery skills—cognitive...
Slings and Arrows
Narcissistic Injury and Its Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
Levin examines what therapists can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn, and heal them. He shows the nature of the injuries to each party and considers ways to minimize them, since treatment itself can seem an injury to both patient and therapist.
by David Levin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Mary Lawrence is a nerdy high school senior recently orphaned and tormented by the cool kids. She believes her life will make no positive difference. Marys joy comes from the music of the worlds most famous rock band, Promise. She meets a mysterious newcomer to the school, Matthew Blair, who also...
Judaism and Health
A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The first state-of-the-art, comprehensive resource to encompass the wide breadth of the rapidly growing field of Judaism and health.
"For Jews, religion and medicine (and science) are not inherently in conflict, even within the Torah-observant community, but rather can be friendly partners...
Beckett's Words
The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory,...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness
A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...
The Body's Recollection of Being
Phenomenological Psychology and the Deconstruction of Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting it as the developing of a bodily-felt...
The Listening Self
Personal Growth, Social Change and the Closure of Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Originally published in 1989. In this interdisciplinary study, Dr Levin offers an account of personal growth and self-fulfilment based on the development of our capacity for listening. This book should be of interest to advanced students of critical theory, psychology, cultural studies, ethics, continental philosophy, ontology, metaphysics.
by Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan Levin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of...
The Emperor Redressed
Critiquing Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.
The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy,...