For centuries, human perfection has been a powerful goal, but only in the twentieth century were national states able to achieve the capacity to impose radical change on entire societies in the name of rooting out imperfections. The contributions to this volume constitute an ambitious attempt to study a number of significant efforts by twentieth-century states to reshape--either through social policy or brute force--their societies and their populations according to ideologies based on various theories of human perfectibility. The cases examined include Germany during the World War I, the...
For centuries, human perfection has been a powerful goal, but only in the twentieth century were national states able to achieve the capacity to impos...
Jizo Bodhisattva is an important saint of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, and is most prominent in Japanese Zen Buddhism. This book helps readers understand how this Buddhist saint of travellers, children and the dead can help people confront suffering.
Jizo Bodhisattva is an important saint of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, and is most prominent in Japanese Zen Buddhism. This book helps readers und...
- "Auf brillante, praktische und elegante Weise beantwortet Bays die am häufigsten von Meditationsschülern gestellte Frage: Wie bringe ich diese Praxis in mein Alltagsleben ein? Hier haben wir eine Schatzkiste voller aufschlussreicher, weiser, schöner und mitfühlender Methoden, dies zu erreichen." - Jack Kornfield, Autor von "A Path with Heart"- Tag für Tag wacher, glücklicher und entspannter
- "Auf brillante, praktische und elegante Weise beantwortet Bays die am häufigsten von Meditationsschülern gestellte Frage: Wie bringe ich diese Pra...
