Tom Donovan suggests reading Freud today for inspiration in shaping one's outlook and taking control of one's life - and he leads the way. We all have to confront the human condition and we face a constant challenge to steer a satisfying course around, over and through the distractions that tempt us to accept the easy gratifications and let the real treasures dribble away.Can one live a philosophical life in a world that has killed God and given the reins of society to what Nietzsc...

Philosophy professor Tom Donovan asks, Could it be that atheism and belief in God are both forms of avoidance behavior? It's easier to focus on belief than it is to take up a new practice of living. Perhaps both are ideological distractions that mystify the nature of reality and what knowledge is. What if we admit that we are neither believers nor atheists: Does that mean we're nothing?

In their Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno set out to "explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism." Philosophy teacher Tom Donovan (PhD UCRiverside) offers a fresh reading of that classic text showing that it is first and foremost a critique of the metaphysical urge. Describing our world of "stupid consumption, mindless entertainment, and perverted games and relationships" he notes, "these sorts of games have no en...

Are you sure we need to choose sides?Perhaps it's easier to debate the existence of God than to embrace the uncertainty, curiosity, and responsibility of being human. Perhaps both are ideological distractions that mystify the nature of reality and what knowledge is. What if we admit that we are neither believers nor atheists: Does that mean we're nothing?Drawing on the insights of thinkers such as Socrates, Descartes, Augustine, Nietzsche, and Camus, Donova...

In their Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno set out to &quote;explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.&quote; Philosophy teacher Tom Donovan (PhD UCRiverside) offers a fresh reading of that classic text showing that it is first and foremost a critique of the metaphysical urge. Describing our world of &quote;stupid consumption, mindless entertainment, and perverted games and relationships&quote; he notes, &quote;t...

Could it be that atheism and belief in God are both forms of avoidance behavior? It's easier to focus on belief than it is to take up a new practice of living. Perhaps both are ideological distractions that mystify the nature of reality and what knowledge is. What if we admit that we are neither believers nor atheists: Does that mean we're nothing?Philosophy aims to help us understand the world without appealing to something beyond. It's considered to be ...

Defining the principles and practices of walking as critical pedagogy, this book engages with social questions and challenges related to understandings of the Anthropocene.Through a series of chapters that operationalize walking as a form of participatory pedagogy, it explores issues including migration and borders, sustainability and climate change, gender and feminist thought, the labour market, crime and rehabilitation, and urban life and regeneration. Showing how walking enable...

"Partly memoir, partly fiction, The Deer Yard is more than merely a good read."~The Ottawa Review of BooksTom Mahoney grew up on a small family farm in Johnville, New Brunswick. Despite a lack of modern conveniences such as running water and electricity, he wouldn't have had it any other way. Tom's was a world of natural beauty; of soft and lonely quiet. Life was never dull. His active imagination was nourished by ghosts and demons, intrepid priests, drunken neighbours, redn...

Ein Anfang voller Hindernisse ... Carter Donovan ist der Star-Torhüter der Philadelphia Flyers. Berühmt und gutaussehend, ist er es gewohnt, dass die Frauen ihm regelmäßig zu Füßen liegen. Als er jedoch bei einem Verkupplungsversuch seiner Freunde die toughe Sydney Carroway kennenlernt, scheint er eine echte Herausforderung gefunden zu haben. Sydney ist eine erfolgreiche Romance-Autorin aus reichem Elternhaus, die gewohnt ist, zu bekommen, was sie will. Als die beiden aufeinandertreffen, f...

In the bitter Antarctic winter of 1910, in the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentleman adventurers wait out a raging blizzard in the close, perpetual darkness, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer, as what has begun as a probe for the bottom of the world becomes a probe for the bottom of man's soul.