that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the divine across place and time
and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth
Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic
"dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective
They remain powerful testaments to Rilke's struggles with the mysteries of existence and the endlessly opening miracle of the everyday
Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World that showcase the breathtaking multiplicityPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case