In Search of the Sacred : a Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today. Sure to be a key resource for decades to come, In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought illuminates Nasr's experiences and shares his insights on topics from religion and phi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
Otros Autores: Jahanbegloo, Ramin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2010.
Temas:
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein > Interviews.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
Muslim philosophers > Interviews.
Muslim philosophers > Biography.
Islamic philosophy.
Philosophes musulmans > Entretiens.
Philosophes musulmans > Biographies.
Philosophie islamique.
Islamic philosophy
Muslim philosophers
Biographies
Interviews
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One
  • Childhood
  • Ancestors
  • Early Memories
  • Nasr's Father
  • A Pneumatic Child
  • Traditional and Modern Education: A Synthesis
  • Leaving Iran
  • Nasr's Mother and Her Family
  • Nasr Family Friends and Connections
  • The Debate between Modernity and Tradition
  • Religious Practices
  • Relationship with God
  • Muslim Practices
  • Memories of Tehran
  • Primary Schools
  • New Technology
  • Cars
  • Movies
  • Heroes
  • Invasion of Allied Forces
  • Part Two
  • Going to America
  • Cairo
  • Aboard the Gripsholm
  • New York
  • The Peddie School Years
  • Loss of and Reacquaintance with Persian Culture
  • Athletics
  • Intellectual Development
  • Isolation
  • Contacts with Christianity
  • The M.I.T. Years
  • Intellectual Crisis: Physics or Metaphysics?
  • Leaving Physics
  • Discovering the Traditionalists (Coomaraswamy and Schuon)
  • Courses at Harvard
  • The Harvard Years
  • Islamic Studies
  • Languages
  • Thesis
  • Harvard's Widener Library
  • Influences and Encounters at Harvard
  • Part Three
  • Return to Iran
  • Architecture and Sacred Space
  • Tehran University
  • Famous Students
  • Teaching
  • Theory of Education
  • Studies with Traditional Masters
  • 'Assār
  • 'Allāmah Tabātabā'ī
  • Qazwīnī
  • Other Teachers
  • Henry Corbin
  • Teaching with Corbin
  • Projects with Corbin
  • Corbin and Mullā Sadrā
  • Corbin and Religion
  • Corbin and Islamic Philosophy
  • Corbin and Heidegger
  • Corbin Discovers Islamic Philosophy in Persia
  • Corbin and Imamology
  • Tabātabā'ī and Corbin
  • Revival of the Islamic Intellectual Tradition
  • The Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy
  • Aryamehr University: Reconciling Modern Technology and Persian Culture
  • Building the Isfahan Campus
  • Political Problems
  • The Question of the Use of Force
  • Vocational Decisions
  • Mounting Political Tensions in Iran.
  • The Death of 'Allāmah Tabātabā'ī
  • Part Four
  • Leaving Iran
  • Moving to the United States
  • Temple University
  • The George Washington University
  • Travels in the Islamic World
  • Travels in the Western World
  • Self-Identity: Muslim, Persian or Global?
  • Nostalgia for Iran
  • What Is Persian Culture?
  • Promethean Man and Pontifical Man
  • Persian Joy and Sorrow
  • Sacralization of Daily Life
  • Architecture and the Modernization of Iranian Cities
  • Sacred Architecture in the ModernWorld
  • Persian andWestern Poetry
  • Living the Spiritual Life
  • Practicing Sufism
  • What Is Spirituality?
  • Part Five
  • Spirituality: Esoteric and Exoteric
  • Eso- and Exoterism in Christianity
  • Eso- and Exoterism in Islam and Judaism
  • Exoteric Barriers and Esoterism
  • Religion's Response to Modernism
  • Tradition
  • What Is Tradition?
  • Modernism
  • Tradition's Answer to Historicism
  • Descartes' Break from Tradition
  • The Waning of the Western Tradition (Preparing the Ground for Descartes)
  • Western Philosophy's Dependence on Astronomy
  • The Primacy of Philosophy over Economics and Politics
  • The Disruption of the Political Hierarchy
  • Harmony and Dichotomy between Spiritual and Temporal Authority
  • Muslim and Renaissance Interpretations of Greek Political Philosophy
  • The Value of Tradition and the Critique of Modernism
  • Alternative Paradigm
  • Psychology
  • Philosophy of Nature
  • The Environmental Crisis
  • The Sacred
  • What Is the Sacred?
  • Tradition and the Sacred
  • Nature as Sacred
  • Science and the Sacred
  • Knowledge and the Sacred
  • The Multiplicity of Religions
  • Part Six
  • What Is Modernism?
  • Authentic Religions' Opposition to Modernism
  • Critiques of Modernism
  • Modern Western Critical Thought
  • Modernism's Effect on Muslims
  • Globilization and Diversity
  • Muslims Throughout the World
  • Western Images of Islam.
  • The Arab Conquest
  • John the Damascene
  • The Middle Ages
  • The Renaissance
  • The Colonial Period
  • The Romantic Era
  • Modern Times
  • Part Seven
  • Art
  • Traditional Art
  • Religious Art and Sacred Art
  • The Meaning of Islamic Art
  • Part Eight
  • Sufism
  • Sufism in the Safavid Period
  • Shi'ism and Sufism
  • Sufism and Pacifism
  • Sufism and Sunnism
  • The Imams
  • The Source of Sufism
  • Interreligious Dialogue
  • Sufism and Interreligious Dialogue
  • Christianity Confronts Other Religions
  • Islam in the West
  • Islam and Other Religions
  • Part Nine
  • Modernism and Its Effect on Christianity
  • Naturalism, Rationalism, and Nominalism
  • Other Factors in the Secularization of the West
  • Secular and Sacred Law
  • Church and State in America and in the Islamic World
  • The Resistance of Islamic Governments to Secularization
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.

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