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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...

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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.