Bøger af Andrew Oberg

Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do is a first-person account of a series of lucid thoughts, a quilted inner delving. In some ways Descartes redux, in others Holden Caulfield, it is observational and analytic, a work of "philosophy" - but only to a sort. Entirely non-academic and written for a popular audience, the book promotes the reader's thought and engagement, challenging every preconception and assumption. Supporting this is a methodology which is loosely aphoristic: sometimes carrying a thought over several paragraphs, sometimes only a line or two. It is a work to be explored and re-explored, and its short sections and frequent divisions will keep the reader blissfully turning pages. Presenting a philosophical soliloquy, the inquiries into life, art, culture, human nature, thinking and language, and finally technology and machines, form the sections of the book and explore what it is to be human today. Its deliberations don't attempt any final answers (because how could there ever be any), but profound and unsettling questions are raised time and again. Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do will evoke, entertain, enlighten, and above all encourage. Each of us is a work in progress.

Kazenoko Takebayashi is slowly coming undone. She has just left her husband, uprooted her two young children, and hauled everyone across town to a new apartment, a new school, a new life. She can't count on any support from her ex, even as she knows the presence of their daughters will keep him annoyingly in her life. She'll have to discover her own way for the ends to meet and everything to click together. Yet she's convinced that this was the right choice, and that it is - or will anyway prove to be - for the best. Will it? "Moonshadows" is Kazenoko's story told in her own words, a diary of her thoughts, feelings, perspectives, and efforts as she struggles in an unfair world and reflects on the fate laid bare at her feet. Could she have taken another path than the one she did? Would it have helped? As the pressures mount and her daily worries close in Kazenoko sinks into an emotional breakdown, becoming both sacrifice and sacrificer on life's altar. Depression, madness, suicide, murder, all pass through her in the constant striving to find some meaning and make some sense, to attain some peace with having been born. She never asked for any of it, and there's so little she can control; can she at least preserve herself?

When winter stretches on for half the year and people are forced to spend entirely too much time indoors, strange things are bound to happen. Randolph's city of Sornsville, and the local coffee shop he works at, are no exceptions. But through all the irate customers and cryogenically preserved mammals, the drinks that magically disappear just when their order has come up, and the simian clerks that know far too much for their own good, Randolph somehow manages to keep an even keel. Here are twenty linked stories, or twenty episodes if you will, about Randolph and the small, frozen, and thoroughly odd part of the world he inhabits.

Frank Tollman has just woken up in the middle of a rice paddy. Under a blazing sun. Being poked by someone he does not know and who is speaking to him in a language he has never heard. The last thing he can remember is stopping for drinks and then stumbling to catch the Tokyo Metro home after another day of grinding numbers for a multinational. Life abroad was supposed to be so much more exciting. And then suddenly, in a most unwelcome way, it was. In the tradition of Camus, Hesse, and Huxley, Freedom's Mask is a breathtakingly fresh philosophical novel that follows its hero-anti-hero on a quest for knowledge and for self. As Frank struggles to make sense of the world he finds himself in, he is forced to face the difficulties of meaning, the purpose of choice, consent, and the vast puzzle of being. He must not only relearn how to live, but come to terms with what it is, or what it could be, to live well. With its unflinching look at identity, self-making, and the ceaseless struggle of life alone among so many others, Freedom's Mask is the kind of book that haunts you long after you've put it down. Frank's story is our story, and his questions might be our answers. Don't miss your chance to ask them too. Buy this book and start your own journey today.

Tomorrow, as the Crow Flies is a book of ideas. Written in the style of a blog, it covers such philosophical topics as death in the absence of a soul, issues of personal identity and community, core values for modern life, and the nature and limits of truth. Personal, social, and political concerns are also discussed, with a unique form of government offered for consideration in the author's 'control socialism'. Each chapter consists of the recorded lectures of a wandering thinker, a present-day Zarathustra, and is followed by the comments and narratives of one of his disciples, along with an assortment of voices from those reading the content online. It will offend, entertain, uplift, and most of all challenge readers to look at themselves and their world in an entirely different way.

Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2 contain difficult and perplexing phrasings in the Hebrew. The present study plunges deeply into what might be discovered through a series of foundation-setting analytical exegeses followed by illustrative applications to multiple hermeneutical phenomenological investigations.