Bøger af Raymond Martin

And Silence Follows is Raymond Martin`s third book and contains much of the poetry he wrote over a thirty-year span and left in a white box. Like Lord Bryon, Raymond Martin believes truth is stranger than fiction. Combine that belief with a sense of absurdity conceived from decades of bartending and you`ll find the resultant narrative poems tell stories that are both irreverent and tragically waggish.

"Rollicking fun stories and poems about growing up and being a bartender in the DC club scene." Jack Scary, The Irish Times.Raymond Martin`s first book, The Trouble with Bartenders, contains poems and stories about bars, nightclubs, and hotels. They offer a commentary on the late-night characters you will find on both sides of the bar. Many of the stories were written as they happened and just recently edited and assembled for this collection. These stories follow a bartending career that started at the age of twelve, and they weave their way through Washington`s rock and punk scenes where alcohol mixed with sex and danger on any given night, to working at Albuquerque`s once infamous El Rey Bar before sobriety changed his perspective. A real page-turner! Both personal narrative and a story of time and place, this collection is wry, sad, funny and most of all surprising! A very good read. I couldn't put it down. Susan Saunders

It's about growing up in DC, it's about two brothers, it's about bartending, it's about a bar on Tenley Circle in the post-Watergate era, it's about a love affair with a bottle of rum. The story is based on actual events. Some details have been fictionalized for the sake of storytelling. Mr. Martin bartended for fifteen years in his hometown of Washington, D.C., before moving to Albuquerque, N.M. in 1989.

Explores philosophically what the quest for the historical Jesus might mean for the faith of educated Christians.

Explores philosophically what the quest for the historical Jesus might mean for the faith of educated Christians.

This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves.The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nature in the seventeenth century, Martin and Barresi note a shift away from religious and purely philosophical notions of self and personal identity to more scientific and social conceptions, a trend that has continued to the present day. They explore modern philosophy and psychology, including the origins of different traditions within each discipline, and explain both the theoretical relevance of feminism and gender and ethnic studies and also the ways that Derrida and other recent thinkers have challenged the very idea that a unified self or personal identity even exists. Martin and Barresi cover a number of issues broached by philosophers and psychologists, such as the existence of a fixed and unchanging self and whether the concept of the soul has a use outside of religious contexts. They address the question of whether notions of the soul and the self are still viable in today's world. Together, they reveal the fascinating ways in which great thinkers have grappled with these and other questions and the astounding impact their ideas have had on the development of self-understanding in the west.