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Informationen zum Autor Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Klappentext Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting is a protest against the extreme mindlessness or thoughtlessness of our age, a malaise covered by manipulative cleverness and by minds filled to the brim with opinions, doctrines, marching orders, and ideologies. Rather than concentrating on a self-contained "mind," Fred Dallmayr pleads for an act of "minding" about oneself, one's fellow beings, society, and the world. What is required for such mindfulness is not a predatory reason, but a kind of reticence or "mind-fasting" as preparation for a genuine attentiveness able to "let be" without aloofness or indifference. Dallmayr explores the benefits of such mindfulness in the fields of philosophy or theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism, and the insights that arise will be of benefit to students and scholars of continental, social, and political philosophy. Zusammenfassung Fred Dallmayr explores the benefits of mindfulness in respect to philosophy and theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism. Students of continental, social, and political philosophy will benefit from Dallmayr’s engagement with, among others, Heidegger, Panikkar, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. "The Future of Theory": Mindful ThinkingChapter 2. Beyond "Action Theory": Mindful Praxis Chapter 3. Nothingness, Non-Being, Emptiness: Thinking at the Edge of ThoughtChapter 4. But Only Speak the Word: Mindfulness and LanguageChapter 5. Naturing Nature: Mindfulness and ArtChapter 6. The Future of the Past: Mindfulness and HistoryChapter 7. Why Cross-cultural Studies Now?: Mindfulness and CosmopolisAppendix A. Are Humans Becoming Superfluous?: Robots and GestellAppendix B. For an Apophatic Humanism: OrthopraxisAppendix C. Empire and Mindfulness: Theocracy as Temptation...
