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The larger conversation : contemplation and place /
This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn's decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to be where he found himself, Lilburn embarked on a personal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada :
The University of Alberta Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | First electronic edition, 2017. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- I. The ethical significance of the human relationship to place; The start of real thinking; On Scholem, Ruusbroec and Exegesis; Imagination, psychagogy and ontology; Mostly on prayer; Seeing into things: Suhrawardi and Mandelstam
- II. A Mandelstamian generation in China; Poetry as pneumatic force; Fresh coherence; Turning the soul around: the ascetical practice of philosophy in the republic; Negative theological meditations: apophasis and its politics; Thinking the Rule of Benedict within modernity; Thomas Merton's novitiate talks on cistercian usages and Richard Kearney's theandrism
- III. Poetics of decolonization; Contemplative experience, autochthonous practice ; Faith and land; Nothingness
- Epilogue: at the foot of WMieten
- Dramatis Personae
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Reading
- Permissions
- Index.