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The essays and short pieces in this collection were written over a period of eleven years while the author and his partner Carol Motuz ran Second Thoughts Bookstore on Sunnyside Avenue, in Old Ottawa South. The Gods at Play offers a provocative approach that rejects the notion of revelation, but takes religion seriously as myth. It features a partly (but only partly) tongue-in-cheek defense of polytheism. The Idea of the Self and At the Limits of Agency use perspectives from Zen and recent neuro-psychology to re-consider what it means to be a human person acting in the world. The last essay, Shalom Father, is a letter from the author to his deceased father, discussing their troubled relationship and attempting to make a posthumous peace. The short pieces (70 of them) are selected columns that Richard wrote for OSCAR, the neighborhood's community newspaper.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Second Thoughts
• Author: Richard Ostrofsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9781435713246
• ISBN: 9781435713246
• ID: 08514880
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Weight: 398 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. July 2008

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