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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and signifi... ...nction disturb anybody. Personification being inevitable in creation, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, lea... ...ose who follow it: “art has proved not only that it is, as is the rule in history, impotent to domesticate the Demon of power, but that it is in cond... ...rom abroad: Dumitru Ichim (Canada), Dan Romascanu (Denmark), Titu Popescu (Germany), Radu Enescu (Spain), Al. Mirodan (Israel), Constantin Craciun (A... ... by Student Theater of Timisoara, October 1995 (ia a tour through Morocco, germany and Romania); 5. Pacala, the Bear and the Dragon, Dramatic Theate... ...othing new under the letters or From where dye the hare, in “Argo”, Bonn, Germany, 1992, no.6. Tatomirescu, Ion Pachia, “Constantin M. Popa: The Pa...

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In th... ...ved over thousands of years and been disseminated among Kabbalists throughout history. I would like to briefly review the key points in this process... ...d motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this ca... ...nized as the greatest writ- er of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known ... ... theorist of literature and art. For the last thirty years of his life he was Germany's greatest cultural icon, serving as an object of pilgrimage f...

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