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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823275403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997, c1990

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

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

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

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience that received its fullest expression in two volumes edited by Steven T.Katz, "Mysticism and Philosophical



Analysis" and "Mysticism and Religious Traditions".