Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Wisdom 1
5. Part One: Seeking Wisdom
6. 1. Revelations of Delusion: Becoming Isomorphic to the Urgrund with Philip K. Dick 27
7. 2. The Social Life of the Inexpressible: English Benedictine Mysticism, the Ineffable, and the Sublime 45
8. Part Two: Discerning Wisdom
9. 3. How Wisdom Is Discovered: Discretion and Emotional Insights in Naikan Meditation in Japan 67
10. 4. Navigating Wisdom and Time: Reflections on Aging and Eldercare 82
11. Part Three: Transmitting Wisdom
12. 5. Yoga and Wisdom: Reflections on the Body at the Intersection of Epistemology and Ontology 103
13. 6. Social Construction of Wisdom in Institutions 122
14. Part Four: Narrating Wisdom
15. 7. Of Uncertainty, Sophiology, and Governance: Zen and the Art of Scenario Planning 155
16. 8. Grappling with the Ineffable in Three African Situations: An Ethnographic Approach 179
17. Contributors 243
18. Index 247