Cargando…

Nothingness and Desire : A Philosophical Antiphony /

The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the qu...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Heisig, James W., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_26209
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905042801.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 130215t20132013hiu o 00 0 eng d
020 |a 9780824839567 
020 |z 0824839560 
020 |z 9780824838850 
035 |a (OCoLC)861528158 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Heisig, James W.,  |d 1944- 
245 1 0 |a Nothingness and Desire :   |b A Philosophical Antiphony /   |c James W. Heisig. 
264 1 |a Honolulu :  |b University of Hawaiʻi Press,  |c [2013] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2013 
264 4 |c ©[2013] 
300 |a 1 online resource. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture 
500 |a "Jordan lectures 2011." 
505 0 |a The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal god -- The absolute of relatedness -- The God of nothingness -- The place of morality -- Convivial harmony -- Customs, habits, decisions -- Morality and religion -- The moral subject in love -- The experience of happiness -- Giving and receiving -- The body as property -- Detachment -- Orthoaesthesis -- Consumption -- Sufficiency -- An elusive horizon -- Rewriting the history of philosophy -- Philosophical antiphony -- Cultural disarmament -- Philosophy beyond the divide. 
520 |a The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide. Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, the author undertakes what he calls a "philosophical antiphony." Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, the author tries to join the choir on both sides of the antiphony to relate the questions at hand to larger problems that press on the human community. He argues that as problems like the technological devastation of the natural world, the shrinking of elected governance through the expanding powers of financial institutions, and the expropriation of alternate cultures of health and education spread freely through traditional civilizations across the world, religious and philosophical responses can no longer afford to remain territorial in outlook. Although the lectures often stress the importance of practice, their principal preoccupation is with seeing the things of life more clearly. The author explains: "By that, I mean not just looking more closely at objects that come into my line of view from day to day, but seeing them as mirrors in which I can see myself reflected. Things do not just reveal parts of the world to me; they also tell me something of how I see what I see, and who it is that does the seeing. To listen to what things have to say to me, I need to break with the habit of thinking simply that it is I who mirror inside of myself the world outside and process what I have captured to make my way through life. Only when this habit has been broken will I be able to start seeing through the reflections, to scrape the tain off the mirror, as it were, so that it becomes a window to the things of life as they are, with only a pale reflection of myself left on the pane. Everything seen through the looking glass, myself included, becomes an image on which reality has stamped itself. This, I am persuaded, is the closest we can come to a ground for thinking reasonably and acting as true-to-life as we can." 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Philosophy, Comparative.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01060928 
650 7 |a Nothing (Philosophy)  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01039602 
650 7 |a Desire (Philosophy)  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00891358 
650 7 |a PHILOSOPHY  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a PHILOSOPHY  |x Eastern.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Desir (Philosophie) 
650 6 |a Neant (Philosophie) 
650 6 |a Philosophie comparee. 
650 0 |a Desire (Philosophy) 
650 0 |a Nothing (Philosophy) 
650 0 |a Philosophy, Comparative. 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/26209/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2013 Philosophy and Religion 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2013 Complete