Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Introduction viii
4. I
5. 1 The Ethical Significance of the Human Relationship to Place 3
6. 2 The Start of Real Thinking 17
7. 3 On Scholem, Ruusbroec and Exegesis 23
8. 4 Imagination, Psychagogy and Ontology 35
9. 5 Mostly on Prayer 57
10. 6 Seeing into Things 69
11. II
12. 7 A Mandelstamian Generation in China 93
13. 8 Poetry as Pneumatic Force 107
14. 9 Fresh Coherence 115
15. 10 Turning the Soul Around: The Ascetical Practice of Philosophy in the Republic 125
16. 11 Negative Theological Meditations: Apophasis and Its Politics 143
17. 12 Thinking the Rule of Benedict within Modernity 161
18. 13 Thomas Merton’s Novitiate Talks on Cistercian Usages and Richard Kearney’s Theandrism 171
19. III
20. 14 A Poetics of Decolonization 187
21. 15 Contemplative Experience; Autochthonous Practice 195
22. 16 Faith and Land 209
23. 17 Nothingness 219
24. Epilogue: At the Foot of WMIEŦEM 229
25. Dramatis Personae 241
26. Glossary 245
27. Acknowledgements 249
28. Reading 251
29. Permissions 257
30. Index 259