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In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body , Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy ( xiangshu ) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented ‘somatic cosmology’. Applying an anthropological reading to these texts and providing detailed analysis of this technique, the author proves that this physiognomic cosmology in Ming China emerged as a part of a new body discourse which differs from the modern scholarly discourse on the body.

Fortune-telling --- History.

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In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with ""deep control"". Fischer defines deep control as the middle ground between two untenable extreme positions: ""superficial control"" and ""total control"". Our freedom consists of the power to add to the given past, holding fixed the laws of nature, and therefore, Fischer contends, we must be able to interpret our actions as extensions of a line that represents the actual past. In ""connecting the dots"", we engage in a distinctive sor

Free will and determinism. --- Values. --- Fortune.

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"An analysis of contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy"--Provided by publisher.

Fate and fatalism --- Destiny --- Fatalism --- Fortune --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- History.

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"In the novel, Year of the Rat by Marc Anthony Richardson, an artist returns to the city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year"-- "Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize In The Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of his birth to tend to his invalid mother, only to find himself torn apart by memories and longings. Narrated by this nameless figure whose rants, reveries, and Rabelaisian escapades take him on a Dantesque descent into himself, the story follows him and his mother as they share a one-bedroom apartment over the course of a year. Despite his mother's precarious health, the lingering memories of a lost love, an incarcerated sibling, a repressed sexuality, and an anarchic inability to support himself, he pursues his dream of becoming an avant-garde artist. His prospects grow dim until a devastating death provides a painful and unforeseeable opportunity. With a voice that is poetic and profane, ethereal and irreverent, cyclical and succinct, he roams from vignette to vignette, creating a polyphonic patchwork quilt of a family portrait"--

FICTION / Literary. --- Opportunity --- Self-perception --- Mothers and sons --- Artists --- Fortune

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A fortune-teller declares that a boy must be walled up alive in a fort to keep it from crumbling in medieval Caucasus; from the folk legend.

Folklore --- Čonkʻaże, Daniel, --- Self-sacrifice --- Fortune-tellers --- Filmregisseurs, acteurs, filmografen