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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777494703321

Titolo

The problem of pure consciousness : mysticism and philosophy / / edited by Robert K.C. Forman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997

©1990

ISBN

0-19-774053-7

0-19-802261-1

1-280-45320-6

0-19-535511-3

1-4237-5952-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (307 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

FormanRobert K. C

Disciplina

291.422

Soggetti

Consciousness - Religious aspects

Mysticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, JrOn the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. WoodhouseIs mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin