Mysticism and Embodiment: An Ethical Phenomenology - Hardcover
by Anna Westin
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350450493ISBN-10:1350450499UPC:9781350450493Book Category:Philosophy, Mind, Body, SpiritBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Political, MysticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.572Product ID:SCPNF4089K
Cultivating the mystical experience and the contemplative traditions that underpin it can have profound ethical consequences.
By taking this path, alongside or instead of the analytic post-enlightenment route more familiar in the West, mysticism can shape the way that we relate our consciousness to our lived experience. Contemporary society is a hostile place in which to hold onto ideas of hope, not least from an ethical standpoint. The anxiety that pervades this point in our shared history squeezes the opportunities to find escape or to reach a place beyond the immediate. Mysticism and Embodiment uses the body as a site from which to argue for a new understanding of this reality, framing transcendent experience in the context of existential phenomenology. In this context, the role of the mystical imagination comes to the fore, showing its immense value for individual and social healing, as well as our understanding of the other and how we can talk about new possibilities in ethical philosophy.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350450493ISBN-10:1350450499UPC:9781350450493Book Category:Philosophy, Mind, Body, SpiritBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Political, MysticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.572Product ID:SCPNF4089K
Anna Westin is a lecturer in philosophy and ethics at St. Mellitus College, UK and a Lecturer and Research Fellow at The Bakhita Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. She is Director of The Willow Institute, an academic collective of artists engaged in trauma and the arts.
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