We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

Psychology has long been enamored of the dark side of human existence, rarely exploring a more positive view of the mind. What has psychology contributed, for example, to our understanding of the various human virtues? Regrettably, not much. The last decade, however, has witnessed a growing movement to abandon the exclusive focus on the negative. Psychologists from several subdisciplines are now asking an intriguing question: "What strengths does a person employ to deal effectively with life?" The Handbook of Positive Psychology provides a forum for a more positive view of the human condition. In its pages, readers are treated to an analysis of what the foremost experts believe to be the fundamental strengths of humankind. Both seasoned professionals and students just entering the field are eager to grasp the power and vitality of the human spirit as it faces a multitude of life challenges. The Handbook is the first systematic attempt to bring together leading scholars to give voice to the emerging field of positive psychology.

Handbook of positive psychology

This paper focuses on Foucault's analysis of two forms of neo-liberalism in his lecture of 1979 at the College de France: German post-War liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School. Since the course is available only on audio-tapes at the Foucault archive in Paris, the larger part of the text presents a comprehensive reconstruction of the main line of argumentation, citing previously unpublished source material. The final section offers a short discussion of the methodological and theoretical principles underlying the concept of governmentality and the critical political angle it provides for an analysis of contemporary neo-liberalism.

/pdf/the-birth-of-bio-politics-michel-foucault-s-lecture-at-the-29dqkf8weq.pdf

'The birth of bio-politics': Michel Foucault's lecture at the Collège de France on neo-liberal governmentality

The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.

Europe and the People without History

The extended self was proposed in 1988. Since it was formulated, many technological changes have dramatically affected the way we consume, present ourselves, and communicate. This conceptual update seeks to revitalize the concept, incorporate the impacts of digitization, and provide an understanding of consumer sense of self in today’s technological environment. It is necessarily a work in progress, for the digital environment and our behavior within it continue to evolve. But some important changes are already clear. Five changes with digital consumption are considered that impact the nature of self and the nature of possessions. Needed modifications and additions to the extended self are outlined, and directions for future research are suggested. The digital world opens a host of new means for self-extension, using many new consumption objects to reach a vastly broader audience. Even though this calls for certain reformulations, the basic concept of the extended self remains vital.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1086/671052.pdf

Extended Self in a Digital World

Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on "technologies of the self." He described it as "composed of different papers about the self..., about the role of reading and writing in constituting the self... and so on." The book Foucault envisioned was based on a faculty seminar on "Technologies of the Self," originally presented at the University of Vermont in the fall of 1982. This volume is a partial record of that seminar. In many ways, Foucault's project on the self was the logical conclusion to his historical inquiry over twenty-five years into insanity, deviancy, criminality, and sexuality. Because Foucault died before he completed the revisions of his seminar presentations, this volume includes a careful transcription instead...as a prolegomenon to that unfinished task.Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic.This volume was edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton.

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

The Political Technology of Individuals

Technologien des Selbst

This is a brief and lively introduction to the religious institutions, beliefs and practices of the Graeco-Roman world during the 'Hellenistic Age' (c300 BC-300 AD) Discussion of the various phenomena of Hellenistic religion is organized around the three classic types: piety, mystery, and gnosis As the author follows the historical development of these phenomena, he demonstrates the effect of religion on two fundamental transformations of the Hellenistic world-view The first of these is the transformation of the understanding of the structure of the cosmos from the archaic to the 'Ptolemaic' view The second transformation is what Martin describes as a shift in the relative importance of masculine and feminine god-images He concludes with a discussion of late Hellenistic religion's interaction with and influence on early Christianity

Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction

1 Preface 2 The Wedding of Psychology, Ethnography & History: Methodological Bigamy or Tripartite Free Love? 3 Toward a Scientific History of Religions Part 4 The Archaeological Evidence 5 From Ohalo to Catalhoeyuk: The Development of Religiosity During the Early Prehistory of Western Asia, 20,000-7,000 BC 6 No Need to Write this Down: Primary Emergence of the Doctrinal Mode in the Fifth and Fourth Millenia in Southwestern Iran 7 Graeco-Roman Antiquity 8 Old and New in Roman Religion: A Cognitive Account 9 Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and Doctrine in Mithraic Ritual 10 Syncretism and the Interaction of Modes of Religiosity: A Formative Perspective in "Gnostic Christian" Movements in Late Antiquity 11 Christian Traditions 12 Testing the Two Modes: Some Observations about Medieval Christianity 13 Modes of Religiosity and Changes in Popular Religious Practices at the Time of the Reformation 14 Modes of Religiosity and Types of Conversion in Medieval Europe and Modern Africa 15 Corrupt Doctrine and Doctrinal Revival: On the Nature and Limits of the Modes Theory 16 Critical Discussion 17 Critical Reflections on the "Modes of Religiosity" Argument 18 Theorizing Religions Past

Luther H. Martin

Papers

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

The Political Technology of Individuals

Technologien des Selbst

Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction

Theorizing religions past : archaeology, history, and cognition