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Author | : Jim Norwine |
Publisher | : University Press of Amer |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780819189936 |
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Author | : J.J. Clarke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134625286 |
In this book, J.J. Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas, and practices have been assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. We see how Chinese thinkers such as Lao-tzu and Chuang tzu, along with practices such as Feng Shui and Tai Chi, have been used as a key Western inspiration in religion, philosophy, ethics, politics, ecology and health. The Tao of the West not only provides a fascinating introduction to Taoism, it also offers a timely insight into the history of the West's encounter with this ancient tradition, and into the issues arising from inter-cultural dialogue. Anyone interested in understanding the key influence Taoism has had on the West will welcome and embrace this book.
Author | : Raymond L. M. Lee |
Publisher | : Nova Biomedical Books |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
"The irony of this reversal suggests that some space has opened up between Asia and the West for the mutual receptivity of ideas and innovations. The Western rediscovery of fatalism, the Asian fascination with individualism, and a new understanding of emptiness in social theory characterize the mood of change at fin de siecle. The essays in this book point to that direction."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Christopher Hauke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-10-23 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 131779849X |
What has Jung to do with the Postmodern? Chris Hauke's lively and provocative book, puts the case that Jung's psychology constitutes a critique of modernity that brings it in line with many aspects of the postmodern critique of contemporary culture. The metaphor he uses is one in which 'we are gazing through a Jungian transparency or filter being held up against the postmodern while, from the other side, we are also able to look through a transparency or filter of the postmodern to gaze at Jung. From either direction there will be a new and surprising vision.' Setting Jung against a range of postmodern thinkers, Hauke recontextualizes Jung' s thought as a reponse to modernity, placing it - sometimes in parallel and sometimes in contrast to - various postmodern discourses. Including chapters on themes such as meaning, knowledge and power, the contribution of architectural criticism to the postmodern debate, Nietzsche's perspective theory of affect and Jung's complex theory, representation and symbolization, constructivism and pluralism, this is a book which will find a ready audience in academy and profession alike.
Author | : Chenyang Li |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791441367 |
Examines liberal democracy and Confucianism as two value systems and argues for a future where both coexist as independent value systems in China.
Author | : Julian Laboy |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1477135553 |
In Western territories, the last two centuries have been demanding many so-called scientific fields of study a set of ideas that would change some of their traditional worldviews. These new ideas come from another set of worldviews that run parallel or have very similar discursive direction to traditional Eastern perspectives. In the West, this is happening in the fields of Psychology, Biology, Neurosciences, Physics, and others. On the other hand, Eastern perspectives that share similar views with the relatively new Western ideas are Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism. This book will concentrate on the example of the similarities between specific theories in Psychology and Classical Taoism. Those similarities can be seen in three themes: union or separation of mind and body; union or separation of reason and emotions; and, finally, the construction or representation of knowledge. The primary goal is to see the possibilities of sharing and learning from both sides of the world; to walk a bridge that unites them. This is an introduction to the communication between East and West that is already taking place in many parts of the world.
Author | : Namsoon Kang |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451489722 |
How do we navigate the question of identity in the fluid and pluralist conditions of postmodern society? Even more, how do we articulate identity as a defining particularity in the disappearance of borders, boundaries, and spaces in an increasingly globalist world? What constitutes identity and the formation of narratives under such conditions? How do these issues affect not only discursive practices, but theological and ethical construction and practice? This volumes explores these issues in depth. Diasporic Feminist Theology attempts to construct feminist theology by adopting diaspora as a theopolitical and ethical metaphor. Namsoon Kang here revisits and reexamines today’s significant issues such as identity politics, dislocation, postmodernism, postcolonialism, neo-empire, Asian values, and constructs diasporic, transethnic, and glocal feminist theological discourses that create spaces of transformation, reconciliation, hospitality, worldliness, solidarity, and border-traversing. This work draws on diverse sources from contemporary critical discourses of diaspora studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism and feminist theology from a transterritorial space. This book is a landmark work, providing a comprehensive discourse for feminist theology today.
Author | : Jeremy Miller |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2015-08-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781516825592 |
As for "nothingness," please sit comfortably, close your eyes, breathe naturally, and put your attention on your breath. Be it immediate, days, months, years, decades, or lifetimes, what you perceive will be space (akasha) and a growing sense of expansion. This is one of Lord Buddha's techniques for liberation. "Nothingness" is quite real. As for "zero," relax and try to imagine the universe, but with you no longer a part of it. You may find this an impossible task. It is not. The universe, without your ego, is zero, and gives you a glimpse of the ultimate reality of eternal abstract-bliss consciousness. The perfected being Lao Tzu gave a path to find your true nature.
Author | : Jianfei Zhu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134720467 |
A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the twentieth century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of ‘critical’ and ‘historical’ research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period. This is a short, elegant book that condenses the wide subject matter into key topics.
Author | : Ken Goffman |
Publisher | : Villard |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307414833 |
As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it’s in plain sight, challenging the status quo; and at still other times it erupts in a fiery burst of creative–or destructive–energy to change the world forever. But until now the countercultural phenomenon has been one of history’s great blind spots. Individual countercultures have been explored, but never before has a book set out to demonstrate the recurring nature of counterculturalism across all times and societies, and to illustrate its dynamic role in the continuous evolution of human values and cultures. Countercultural pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly sets the record straight in this colorful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging study based on ideas developed by the late Timothy Leary with Dan Joy. With a distinctive mix of scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Sirius and Joy identify the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that, for all their surface differences, countercultures share important underlying principles: individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and a belief in the possibility of personal and social transformation. Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of ancient Athens and the outsider movements of Judaism, which left indelible marks on Western culture, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, which were equally influential in the East, to the famous countercultural moments of the last century–Paris in the twenties, Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Tropicalismo, women’s liberation, punk rock–to the cutting-edge countercultures of the twenty-first century, which combine science, art, music, technology, politics, and religion in astonishing (and sometimes disturbing) new ways, Counterculture Through the Ages is an indispensable guidebook to where we’ve been . . . and where we’re going.