Varieties of Nothingness

372 Seiten, Hardcover

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This book explores the many and diverse ways in which nothingness is weaved into the fabric of our existence. It can express the very ground of reality or a cessation of mind: a winking out, as well as being a guide for painting meditative states. It is inescapably linked with the divine in many traditions as a precondition of our existence. It is the Pleroma before consciousness and the gateway to enlightenment. While these essays are indeed wide ranging and eclectic, they share one theme in common: nothingness is not nothing. Table of ContentsList of Contributors Editors' Introduction Existential Grounding1 Your Cosmos Needs You! From Nothingness to Quantum Existentialism - Dean Rickles 2 Of Mind and Void: Understanding The Duality of Existence and Nothingness - Ian Durham Experiential Possibilities3 Varieties of Experiencing Nothingness - Harald Atmanspacher 4 Who or What Experiences Nothingness? Reflections from Psychoanalysis - Leslie Stein 5 Nothingness in Meditation: Making Sense of Emptiness and Cessation - Vismay Agrawal and Ruben E. Laukkonen Logico-Philosophical Forms6 Ex Nihilo Omnis Fit - Graham Priest 7 Hegel on Nothing (in particular): A Greek Alternative to the Problem of Infinitesimals - Paul Redding 8 Nothingness: Martin Heidegger and Georges Perec - Inja Stracenski and Daniela Helbig Artistic and Cultural Forms9 The Vitality of Nothingness in Jing Hao's Notes on the Art of the Brush - David Chai 10 Thoughts on Nothingness from Japan - James W. Heisig Theological Expression11 'Something Formless Yet Complete': Nothing and Divine Consciousness - Gerard Guiton 12 Apophaticism and Deifi cation in Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa - Ken Parry 13 Nothingness and the Desire for Being: Der Nister's Modernist Zoharic Theogony - Nathan Wolski

• ISBN: 9781685032432
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Chiron Publications
• Herausgegeben von: Leslie Stein, Dean Rickles