Fred Dallmayr

Mindfulness and Letting Be

On Engaged Thinking and Acting

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780739199886
• ISBN-10: 0739199889
• Artikelnr.: 45310847

Autorenporträt

By Fred Dallmayr

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. "The Future of Theory": Mindful Thinking Chapter 2. Beyond
"Action Theory": Mindful Praxis Chapter 3. Nothingness, Non-Being,
Emptiness: Thinking at the Edge of Thought Chapter 4. But Only Speak the
Word: Mindfulness and Language Chapter 5. Naturing Nature: Mindfulness and
Art Chapter 6. The Future of the Past: Mindfulness and History Chapter 7.
Why Cross-cultural Studies Now?: Mindfulness and Cosmopolis Appendix A. Are
Humans Becoming Superfluous?: Robots and Gestell Appendix B. For an
Apophatic Humanism: Orthopraxis Appendix C. Empire and Mindfulness:
Theocracy as Temptation