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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962821603321

Autore

Llewelyn John <1928-, >

Titolo

Seeing through God : a geophenomenology / / John Llewelyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612071720

1-282-07172-6

0-253-11082-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 193 pages)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Environmental sciences - Philosophy

Environmentalism - Religious aspects

Phenomenology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

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

In 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 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 understanding of aesthetic experience and imagination.