The Resource Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony, James W. Heisig
Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony, James W. Heisig
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- Summary
- 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, Heisig undertakes what he calls a "philosophical antiphony." Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, Heisig 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. Heisig 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."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Note
- "Jordan lectures 2011."
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9780824838867
- Label
- Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony
- Title
- Nothingness and desire
- Title remainder
- an East-West philosophical antiphony
- Statement of responsibility
- James W. Heisig
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, Heisig undertakes what he calls a "philosophical antiphony." Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, Heisig 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. Heisig 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."
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Heisig, James W.
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Philosophy, Comparative
- Nothing (Philosophy)
- Desire (Philosophy)
- PHILOSOPHY
- PHILOSOPHY
- Desire (Philosophy)
- Nothing (Philosophy)
- Philosophy, Comparative
- Label
- Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony, James W. Heisig
- Note
- "Jordan lectures 2011."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn861528158
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824838867
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62r560
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861528158
- Label
- Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony, James W. Heisig
- Note
- "Jordan lectures 2011."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn861528158
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824838867
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62r560
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861528158
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