Angels of Desire - Esoteric Bodies, Aesthetics and Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Jay Johnston is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney, Australia. Klappentext Conceptual interrelations are traced across the disciplines of religion! philosophy and art history/theory! with a particular focus on its relevance to contemporary feminist religious studies/philosophy! mysticism and theories of desire. Zusammenfassung Examines the subtle body - a model of subjectivity found in esoteric, eastern and western religious and philosophical traditions - from a transdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. This book considers this radical form of self as enabling an innovative reconsideration of the dualisms at the heart of western discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section I: Subjectivity Chapter 1: Subtle Bodies Chapter 2: Difference Chapter 3: Subtle Subjects of Desire Section II: Aesthetics Chapter 4: "Seering" Desire: The Between Chapter 5: Inhabiting Sight Chapter 6: Duree: the Aesthetics of Desire-Time Section III: Ethics Chapter 7: An Ethics of Emptiness Chapter 8: Witnessing: Detached Immersion Chapter 9: An Ethics of Grace: The Law of Desiring Angels Conclusion: The Angelic Ternary

Product details

• Authors: Jay Johnston, Johnston Jay
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2009
• EAN: 9781845533076
• ISBN: 978-1-84553-307-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Gnostica
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems