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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450026403321

Autore

Llewelyn John

Titolo

Seeing through God [[electronic resource] ] : a geophenomenology / / John Llewelyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612071720

1-282-07172-6

0-253-11082-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Environmental sciences - Philosophy

Environmentalism - Religious aspects

Phenomenology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologomena to any future phenomenological ecology -- Gaia scienza -- Occidental orientation -- On the saying that philosophy begins in wonder -- Belongings -- A footnote in the history of phusis -- Touching earth -- Seeing through God -- Regarding regarding -- Seeing through seeing through.

Sommario/riassunto

Playing on the various meanings of Seeing Through God, John Llewelyn                explores the act of looking in the wake of the death of the transcendent God of                metaphysics. Taking up strategies developed by the Western sciences for seeing and                observing, he finds that the so-called tough-minded practices of the physical                sciences are very much at home with the so-called tender-minded practices of Eastern                religions. Instead of opposing East and West, Llewelyn thinks that blending these                spheres leads to a better unde