Ogieblyn meghan (46 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. In this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change. "This is one of the best memoirs of the decade--a cool-water baptism, so bracing I felt transformed." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror "An elegant and philosophical memoir about addiction whose stakes are no less than what comprises one's will to live." --Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season After leaving evangelical Christianity in her early twenties, kicking an addiction, and building a life as a writer, Meghan O'Gieblyn was admired by her friends for having a strong will. Then, in her late thirties, she began secretly attending Catholic mass and meeting with a priest to discuss conversion. After eleven years of sobriety, she began drinking again. Both returns--to organized religion and to alcohol--felt to her like a regression, a personal defeat. Knowledge and determination had proven useless when it came to her most vexing personal battles. In Will and Attention, O'Gieblyn captures those perplexing days. Soon after her return to sobriety, she looked to a series of spiritual texts for answers and began putting them in conversation with her life. She was struck by the words of philosopher and mystic Simone Weil: "We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will."  Will had certainly failed her; perhaps the answer lay in attention to her wandering mind and heart? Inspired by this possibility, she set out to find a spirituality that could meet her longings and prove capacious enough to hold the dark side of human nature. The book tracks her pursuit as she practices social distancing among the academics and artists of her Midwestern college town; attends conferences as part of the AI commentariat when the world opens again; traces her evangelical roots at a Bible camp on the dunes of Lake Michigan, and reminisces about her early years lost to drinking. Faced at midlife with the temptation to blow it all up, she seeks the grounding consolations of marriage, friendship, political engagement, and art. She makes a case for finding beauty in what is good. Written with the sparkling intellect and searching rigor that are Meghan O'Gieblyn's signature, Will and Attention is a singular memoir of recovery and discovery that plumbs the elusive nature of our power over ourselves.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction "Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection." --Lorrie Moore A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity: faith, in general and the specific forms Christianity takes in particular; and the challenges of living in the Midwest when culture is felt to be elsewhere. What does it mean to be a believing Christian and a Midwesterner in an increasingly secular America where the cultural capital is retreating to both coasts? The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country." She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still," and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the fifteen superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture ("Hell"), a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design ("Species of Origin"), the paradoxes of Christian Rock ("Sniffing Glue"), Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages ("Midwest World"), and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity ("Ghosts in the Cloud"). Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a whole-hearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 8.00x5.18x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 8.00x5.18x0.59 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Ex-Library.…

Zustand: New. 2026. hardcover. . . . . .

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. 'At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future.' PhillipLopate "[A] truly fantastic book."Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousnessi.e., soulsmight be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existenceidentity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itselfurgently require rethinking.Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering. 305 pp. Englisch. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.18x0.81 inches. In Stock.

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No Binding. Zustand: New. Contained in the Summer 2016 issue of The Threepenny Review. This issue of the highly regarded arts and literary quarterly includes writing by, among others, J. T. Barbarese, Louise Gluck, Javier Marias, Jim Powell, Tom Sleigh, David Ulin, Rosanna Warren, Dean Young, and Adam Zagajewski, as well as photographs by Jack Feder.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 5.50x0.72x8.25 inches. In Stock.

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Rústica. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Nuevo. 01. Durante la mayor parte de la historia de la humanidad, el mundo fue un lugar mágico y encantado gobernado por fuerzas que estaban más allá de nuestra comprensión. El auge de la ciencia y la división de la mente del mundo por Descartes hicieron del materialismo nuestro paradigma dominante, en el proceso se preguntó si nuestra propia conciencia, es decir, las almas, podrían ser ilusiones. Ahora, el inexorable auge de la tecnología, con inteligencias artificiales que superan nuestra comprensión y control, y la difusión de metáforas digitales para la autocomprensión, las cuestiones centrales de la existencia (identidad, conocimiento, la propia naturaleza y el propósito de la vida misma) requieren urgentemente un replanteamiento. Meghan OGieblyn aborda este desafío con rigor filosófico, alcance intelectual, brío ensayístico, originalidad refrescante y un irónico sentido de la contradicción. Se basa profundamente y a veces con humor en su propia experiencia personal como antigua creyente religiosa todavía obsesionada por cuestiones de fe, y sirve como la mejor guía posible para navegar por el territorio en el q. LIBRO.…

Zustand: New. 2026. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.