Author: Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520246195
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time."
Alef, Mem, Tau
Author: Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520246195
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time."
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520246195
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time."
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49
Author: Reinhold F. Glei
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153819175X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 49 contains four articles ranging from medieval literature (discovery of the Self in the twelfth century) and philosophy (reception of Moses Maimonides in Latin) to Humanist poetry (Boccaccio on leisure) and panegyrics (Nagonio on Henry VII and Prince Arthur, with an appendix containing a couple of poems hitherto unedited, along with an English translation). In addition, there are five book reviews which cover various epochs, genres, and discourses.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153819175X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy. Volume 49 contains four articles ranging from medieval literature (discovery of the Self in the twelfth century) and philosophy (reception of Moses Maimonides in Latin) to Humanist poetry (Boccaccio on leisure) and panegyrics (Nagonio on Henry VII and Prince Arthur, with an appendix containing a couple of poems hitherto unedited, along with an English translation). In addition, there are five book reviews which cover various epochs, genres, and discourses.
Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom
Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226453781
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
William Blake once wrote that "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Inspired by these poetic terms, Jeffrey J. Kripal reveals how the works of scholars of mysticism are often rooted in their own mystical experiences, "roads of excess," which can both lead to important insights into these scholars' works and point us to our own "palaces of wisdom." In his new book, Kripal addresses the twentieth-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy. Fluidly combining autobiography and biography with scholarly exploration, Kripal takes us on a tour of comparative mystical thought by examining the lives and works of five major historians of mysticism—Evelyn Underhill, Louis Massignon, R. C. Zaehner, Agehananda Bharati, and Elliot Wolfson—as well as relating his own mystical experiences. The result, Kripal finds, is seven "palaces of wisdom": the religious power of excess, the necessity of distance in the study of mysticism, the relationship between the mystical and art, the dilemmas of male subjectivity and modern heterosexuality, a call for ethical criticism, the paradox of the insider-outsider problem in the study of religion, and the magical power of texts and their interpretation. An original and penetrating analysis of modern scholarship and scholars of mysticism, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom is also a persuasive demonstration of the way this scholarly activity is itself a mystical phenomenon.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226453781
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
William Blake once wrote that "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Inspired by these poetic terms, Jeffrey J. Kripal reveals how the works of scholars of mysticism are often rooted in their own mystical experiences, "roads of excess," which can both lead to important insights into these scholars' works and point us to our own "palaces of wisdom." In his new book, Kripal addresses the twentieth-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy. Fluidly combining autobiography and biography with scholarly exploration, Kripal takes us on a tour of comparative mystical thought by examining the lives and works of five major historians of mysticism—Evelyn Underhill, Louis Massignon, R. C. Zaehner, Agehananda Bharati, and Elliot Wolfson—as well as relating his own mystical experiences. The result, Kripal finds, is seven "palaces of wisdom": the religious power of excess, the necessity of distance in the study of mysticism, the relationship between the mystical and art, the dilemmas of male subjectivity and modern heterosexuality, a call for ethical criticism, the paradox of the insider-outsider problem in the study of religion, and the magical power of texts and their interpretation. An original and penetrating analysis of modern scholarship and scholars of mysticism, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom is also a persuasive demonstration of the way this scholarly activity is itself a mystical phenomenon.
The Text and Its Margins
Author: Margaret Alexiou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Greek Philosophical Terms
Author: Francis E. Peters
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814765524
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Isolates terms and offers an evolutionary history of the concept instead of a mere definition
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814765524
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Isolates terms and offers an evolutionary history of the concept instead of a mere definition
Eros and Noesis
Author: Don A. Monson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004504494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This is the first study to apply some of the results of modern cognitive science to all the major genres of the courtly love literature of medieval France (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) in Occitan, Old French, and Latin.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004504494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This is the first study to apply some of the results of modern cognitive science to all the major genres of the courtly love literature of medieval France (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) in Occitan, Old French, and Latin.
Noesis
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Philosophy and Its Others
Author: William Desmond
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791403075
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Philosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious, and the ethical, without losing any of its own distinctive voice. He develops an original and constructive position between these extremes: the Hegelian extreme which reduces the plurality of others to a dialectical totality and the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive options that celebrate plurality, but without a proper sense of the connectedness of philosophy and its others.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791403075
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Philosophy and its Others responds to the widespread sense that philosophy must renew its intellectual community with other significant ways of being and mind. The author articulates philosophy's community of mind with the aesthetic, the religious, and the ethical, without losing any of its own distinctive voice. He develops an original and constructive position between these extremes: the Hegelian extreme which reduces the plurality of others to a dialectical totality and the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive options that celebrate plurality, but without a proper sense of the connectedness of philosophy and its others.
Poetry Criticism
Author: Elisabeth Gellert
Publisher: Poetry Criticism
ISBN: 9780787652210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Annotation Each volume provides substantive critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in subscription).
Publisher: Poetry Criticism
ISBN: 9780787652210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Annotation Each volume provides substantive critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in subscription).
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134825374
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
First published in 1997. Most work in gender studies has focused on women. This volume brings together various forms of gender theory, especially feminist and queer theory, to explore how men made cultures and culture made men, in the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134825374
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
First published in 1997. Most work in gender studies has focused on women. This volume brings together various forms of gender theory, especially feminist and queer theory, to explore how men made cultures and culture made men, in the Middle Ages.