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Wisdom transcends knowledge but is only meaningful and relevant in context. This book explores the tensions and paradoxes associated with the ineffability of wisdom in a range of social and cultural contexts.
List of contents
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Wisdom
Philip Kao, University of Pittsburgh
Part I. Seeking Wisdom
Revelations of Delusion: Becoming Isomorphic to the Ugrund, Richard Doyle, Penn State
The Social Life of the Inexpressible: English Benedictine Mysticism, the Ineffable, and the Sublime, Richard Irvine, University of St Andrews
Part II. Discerning Wisdom
How Wisdom in Discovered: Discretion and Emotional Insights in Naikan Meditation in Japan, Clark Chilson, University of Pittsburgh
Navigating Wisdom and Time in the Context of Aging and Eldercare, Philip Kao, University of Pittsburgh
Part III. Transmitting Wisdom
Yoga and Wisdom: Reflections on the Body at the Intersection of Epistemology and Ontology, Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh
The Social Construction of Wisdom in Institutions, Charlotte Linde
Part IV. Narrating Wisdom
Of Uncertainty, Sophiology and Contemporary Governance: Zen and the Art of Scenario Planning, James Faubion, Rice University
Grappling with the Ineffable in Three African Situations: An Ethnographic Approach, Wim van Binsbergen, African Studies Centre, Leiden
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Edited by Philip Y. Kao and Joseph S. Alter
Summary
Wisdom transcends knowledge but is only meaningful and relevant in context. This book explores the tensions and paradoxes associated with the ineffability of wisdom in a range of social and cultural contexts.
