Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture, and state security in Canada, 1940-1960 / / Mark Kristmanson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459941403321
• Autore: Kristmanson Mark <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4426-2315-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Collana: Canadian Social History Series
• Disciplina: 971.063
• Soggetti: Politics and culture - Canada - History - 20th century; Art and state - Canada - History - 20th century; Internal security - Canada - History - 20th century; Intelligence service - Canada - History - 20th century; Cold War; Electronic books.; Canada Cultural policy; Canada Intellectual life 20th century; Canada Politics and government 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Characterizations of Tracy Philipps -- 2. Love Your Neighbour: The RCMP and the National Film Board, 1948-1953 -- 3. Remembering To Forget -- 4. State Security and Cultural Administration: The Case of Peter Dwyer -- 5. Pulp History: Repossessing the Gouzenko Myth -- 6. 'I Came To Sing': Paul Robeson on the Border -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining activities and careers of those involved in Canada's security agencies and in the state-sanctioned culture industry during the ; delight of the Cold War. The connections between secret intelligence and culture might appear to be merely coincidental. Both the spies and the arts people worked with words, with symbols and hidden meanings, with ideas. They had regular informal luncheons together in Ottawa. Some members of the intelligence community even found careers in the arts. Less than a decade after defecting, the Russian Igor Gouzenko wrote a pulp fiction Cold War spy novel- for which he received a Governor General's award. And Peter Dwyer, Britain's top security official in North America during World War II, was a playwright who after the war worked in Canada's intelligence community before drafting the founding for the Canada Council and becoming its first director. But Plateaus of Freedom details much more than a casual relationship between security and the arts. As Kristmanson demonstrates, 'the censorship-intelligence-propaganda complex that proliferated in Canada after World War II played a counterpoint between national culture and state security, with the result that freedom, especially intellectual freedom, plateaued on the principle of nationality.' The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, 'attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change'.

Advaita Vedānta and Zen Buddhism : deconstructive modes of spiritual inquiry / / Leesa S. Davis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792323703321
• Autore: Davis Leesa S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-4725-4845-0; 1-282-55798-X; 9786612557989; 1-4411-0586-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Collana: Continuum studies in Eastern philosophies
• Disciplina: 181/.482
• Soggetti: Advaita; Deconstruction; Vedanta; Zen Buddhism
• 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: Introduction: Experiential Deconstructive Inquiry -- Part 1 Foundational Philosophies and Spiritual Methods. 1 Non-Duality in Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism ; 2 Advaita Vedanta: Philosophical Foundations and Deconstructive Strategies ; 3 Zen Buddhism: Philosophical Foundations and Deconstructive Strategies -- Part 2 Deconstructive Techniques and Dynamics of Experiential Undoing. 4 Four Deconstructive Techniques Common to Both Traditions ; 5 Dynamics of Experiential Undoing ; 6 Conclusion : Deconstruction of Reified Awareness -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This fascinating and innovative book explores the relationship between the philosophical underpinnings of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism and the experiential journey of spiritual practitioners. Taking the perspective of the questioning student, the author highlights the experiential deconstructive processes that are ignited when students' "everyday" dualistic thought structures are challenged by the non-dual nature of these teachings and practices. Although Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism are ontologically different, this unique study shows that ; in the dynamics of the practice situation they are phenomenologically similar. Distinctive in scope and approach Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry examines Advaita and Zen as living practice traditions in which foundational non-dual philosophies are shown "in action" in contemporary Western practice situations thus linking abstract philosophical tenets to concrete living experience. As such it takes an important step toward bridging the gap between scholarly analysis and the experiential reality of these spiritual practices."--Bloomsbury Publishing.