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Self-help Books (self-help + book)
Selected AbstractsHarnessing Autonomous Art: Enlightenment and Aesthetic Education in Johann Adam Bergk's Die Kunst, Bücher zu lesenGERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 4 2000Robert Bledsoe This paper poses the question of the compatibility between Enlightenment and the concept of an autonoumous work of art that underlies notions of atsthetic education. The analysis focuses on Johann Adam Bergk's Die Kunst, Bücher zu lesen(1799). Bergk's work is a self-help book, for what will come to be called the 'Bildungsbürgertum', that attempts tp integrate insights from the critics of rationalism into the Enlightenment project. Bergk embraces the rationalism of the Enlightenment in the limits placed upon it by Kant, yet he supplements it with a recognition of the value of genius and imagination that was so important to the Sturm und Drang. To this he adds an arsthetic understanding of a closed work of art that reminds one more of the classical aesthetics of Moritz, Schiller and Goethe. My analysis shows that in order to engage in the search for Enlightenment through an aesthetic education, Bergk assumes a position that leaves us with an inadequate explanation of the transformative potential of literature, but that allows us to see a unique attempt to synthesise ideas from the Enlightenment and Romanticism. [source] A Decade of Advice for Women and Men in the Best-Selling Self-Help LiteratureFAMILY RELATIONS, Issue 2 2001Toni Schindler Zimmerman Many human service professionals use self-help books to supplement their services. A content analysis was conducted of the top 10 books on the New York Times best-seller list over 10 years (1988,1998) to determine the degree to which the books empower individuals to resist gender-based socialization messages. The four best-selling books contained advice for both genders to behave consistently with traditional gender socialization. Other books were generally empowering of women and men to resist these messages. [source] Designing a search strategy for locating self-help books for people with depressionHEALTH INFORMATION & LIBRARIES JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006Rachel Richardson No abstract is available for this article. [source] A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF SELF-HELP BESTSELLERS FOR IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS: A DECADE REVIEWJOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY, Issue 2 2001Toni Schindler Zimmerman Self-help literature is pervasive and influential in the United States. A Critical analysis of self-help books would help therapists to determine their utility for therapeutic process and assist them in making reading recommendations to clients. In this study, a content analysis was conducted of the top II relationships self-help books on the New York Times Bestseller List over a period of 10 years (1988,198) to determine the degree to which these books support a feminist approach to therapy. This study yielded three major findings. First, the number of feminist books, the number of nonfeminist books, and those falling in the middle across four components of feminist family therapy are about equal. However, the second major finding was that the top-selling books are more likely to be nonfeminist than feminist. The third finding is that most best-selling self-help books appear to have become less compatible with a feminist approach to relationships over time. This analysis encourages therapists to think critically about these best-selling books; it will also allow therapists to condider this methodology as a model for critically analyzing other books that they recommend to clients or use in their own professional development. [source] THINK AGAIN: WHAT MAKES A LEADER?BUSINESS STRATEGY REVIEW, Issue 3 2010Rob Goffee Leadership cannot be faked, say Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. All the self-help books in the world won't make you a leader , but there are four characteristics you must have. [source] | ||||||||||