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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... individual habits of consumption are vehicles of social control I became more convinced of the importance of spiritually disciplined practices as means for resisting such control . Some of the practices I discuss in ix Preface.
... individual habits of consumption are vehicles of social control I became more convinced of the importance of spiritually disciplined practices as means for resisting such control . Some of the practices I discuss in ix Preface.
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... individual variety and its social diversity , and thereby promise , when used in thinking anew about religious practices , to make these practices continuous with many nonreligious and non - Western phenomena . Thus an attentiveness to ...
... individual variety and its social diversity , and thereby promise , when used in thinking anew about religious practices , to make these practices continuous with many nonreligious and non - Western phenomena . Thus an attentiveness to ...
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... individual soul and transcendent God , Kant believed that these notions transgress the limits of possible experience and are therefore rationally insupportable . Yet he also said that they are the product of “ a natural and unavoidable ...
... individual soul and transcendent God , Kant believed that these notions transgress the limits of possible experience and are therefore rationally insupportable . Yet he also said that they are the product of “ a natural and unavoidable ...
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... Individual quotations from Pascal's writings can be cited which suggest this sort of rationale . Yet a quite different case can also be made . Readers of Pascal must not shy away from the contradictions and complexities of his thought ...
... Individual quotations from Pascal's writings can be cited which suggest this sort of rationale . Yet a quite different case can also be made . Readers of Pascal must not shy away from the contradictions and complexities of his thought ...
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... individuals like himself are now characteristic of the middle classes of developed nations . A more productive and less regimented economy allows many people to enjoy the breadth of occupational and recreational experience Pascal ...
... individuals like himself are now characteristic of the middle classes of developed nations . A more productive and less regimented economy allows many people to enjoy the breadth of occupational and recreational experience Pascal ...
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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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Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament Peter Higbie Van Ness Ограниченный просмотр - 1992 |
Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament Peter H. Van Ness Недоступно для просмотра - 1992 |
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