Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary PredicamentState University of New York Press, 22 окт. 1992 г. - Всего страниц: 350 This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation. |
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... Asceticism , has urged a retrieval of some traditional Christian practices for the purposes of breaking unhealthy patterns of behavior typical of contemporary life.1 I shall sometimes appeal to non - Western materials for which I ...
... Asceticism , has urged a retrieval of some traditional Christian practices for the purposes of breaking unhealthy patterns of behavior typical of contemporary life.1 I shall sometimes appeal to non - Western materials for which I ...
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... ascetic ideals " in On the Genealogy of Morals is a very significant philosophical treatment of this topic , and his ideas are invoked as corroboration for my own criticisms of traditional asceticism ( Chapter 6.A ) . Nietzsche , while ...
... ascetic ideals " in On the Genealogy of Morals is a very significant philosophical treatment of this topic , and his ideas are invoked as corroboration for my own criticisms of traditional asceticism ( Chapter 6.A ) . Nietzsche , while ...
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... ascetic . She records that Pascal was converted by a sermon delivered by Monsieur Singlin at Port - Royal de Paris on the day of the Conception of the Virgin Mary . She further surmises that the example of the Virgin Mary commended in ...
... ascetic . She records that Pascal was converted by a sermon delivered by Monsieur Singlin at Port - Royal de Paris on the day of the Conception of the Virgin Mary . She further surmises that the example of the Virgin Mary commended in ...
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... ascetic and saintly status . Now , while it seems true that Pascal gave up his own indefinite marriage plans upon his 1654 conversion , his advice to others was far less categorical . In a series of letters written in the autumn of 1656 ...
... ascetic and saintly status . Now , while it seems true that Pascal gave up his own indefinite marriage plans upon his 1654 conversion , his advice to others was far less categorical . In a series of letters written in the autumn of 1656 ...
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A Contemporary Evaluation | 47 |
Semiotic SelfReference | 95 |
Physical Symmetry | 125 |
Biological Equilibration | 159 |
Nietzsches Negation | 203 |
A Novel Response | 233 |
Beyond Diversion and Decadence | 273 |
Select Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 335 |
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