Renunciation

Author : Ross Posnock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674967836

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Renunciation as a creative force in the careers of writers, philosophers, and artists is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of artists and intellectuals to society in productive and unpredictable ways. In a work of remarkable synthesis that includes traditions and genres from antiquity to postmodernity, Posnock discovers connections among disparate figures ranging from Lao Tzu to Dave Chappelle and Bob Dylan. The thread running through these acts of renunciation, he argues, is an aesthetic and ethical resistance to the demand that one’s words and actions be straightforward and immediately comprehensible. Modern art in particular valorizes the nonconceptual and the intuitive, seeking to make silence articulate and incompletion fertile. Renouncers reject not only artistic and scholarly conventions but also the public roles that attend them. Wittgenstein, Rimbaud, and Glenn Gould brazenly flouted professional and popular expectations, demanding that philosophy, poetry, music play by new rules. Emerson and Nietzsche severed all institutional ties, while William James waged a guerrilla campaign from his post at Harvard against what all three considered to be the enemy: the pernicious philosophical insistence on rationality. Posnock also examines renunciations in light of World War II—the veterans J. D. Salinger and George Oppen, and the Holocaust survivor Paul Celan—while a fourth cluster includes the mystic Thomas Merton and the abstract painters Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin.

Author : Kapil N. Tiwari
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120808258

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Dimensional of Renunciation in Advaita by Kapil N. Tiwari Pdf

The aim of this dissertation is to present a systematic exposition of renunciation (Samnyasa) as a philosophico-religious category within Indian tradition with special reference to Advaita Vedanta of Samkaracarya. The author tried to justify this category as a spiritual technique systematically worked out and developed by Advaitins particularly Samkara with a view to classifying and systematizing values in terms of the different forms which renunciation and its object may be found to assume. This dissertation also highlights principles of human behaviour in the Indian tradition implicitly clarifying thereby such concepts as dharma (socio-religious duties), the good life, obligation and responsibility etc.

Author : Ross Posnock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674915633

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Renunciation by Ross Posnock Pdf

Renunciation as a creative force is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of writers, philosophers, and artists to society in productive and unpredictable ways.

Author : John D. Barbour
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620328453

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Renunciation by John D. Barbour Pdf

"Traveling in New Mexico in 1971, Will George converts to Bhakti Dharma, a new religious movement influenced by Hinduism and Sikh tradition. Returning to his home in Minnesota, he renounces his previous life, provoking a crisis for everyone in his family. Peter, Will's older brother, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago who studies early Christian asceticism partly to understand his brother's devotion. He gains insight into kundalini yoga, gender roles in the ashram, the guru's charisma, and events such as Jonestown and controversies about Hare Krishna. In Thailand Peter has a profound encounter during a Buddhist meditation retreat. Meanwhile, Will's religious search continues in India, where he dies in suspicious circumstances. Peter retraces his brother's steps to investigate his death and wrestles with what it means to be his brother's keeper. The developing relationship between the two brothers dramatizes the theme of renunciation, as expressed both in explicit religious vows and in other choices they make. Acts of renunciation reveal a longing for sacrifice and self-transcendence, and sometimes also a dangerous and destructive urge. This novel explores how family relationships and religious commitments conflict, intertwine, and shape each other. "

Author : Annabella Pitkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226816913

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Renunciation and Longing by Annabella Pitkin Pdf

Through the eventful life of a Himalayan Buddhist teacher, Khunu Lama, this study reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this elusive wandering renunciant became a revered teacher of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. At Khunu Lama’s death in 1977, he was mourned by Himalayan nuns, Tibetan lamas, and American meditators alike. The many surviving stories about him reveal significant dimensions of Tibetan Buddhism, shedding new light on questions of religious affect and memory that reimagines cultural continuity beyond the binary of traditional and modern. In Renunciation and Longing, Annabella Pitkin explores devotion, renunciation, and the teacher-student lineage relationship as resources for understanding Tibetan Buddhist approaches to modernity. By examining narrative accounts of the life of a remarkable twentieth-century Himalayan Buddhist and focusing on his remembered identity as a renunciant bodhisattva, Pitkin illuminates Tibetan and Himalayan practices of memory, affective connection, and mourning. Refuting long-standing caricatures of Tibetan Buddhist communities as unable to be modern because of their religious commitments, Pitkin shows instead how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist narrators have used themes of renunciation, devotion, and lineage as touchstones for negotiating loss and vitalizing continuity.

Author : M. Khandelwal,Sondra L. Hausner,A. Gold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137104854

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Women's Renunciation in South Asia by M. Khandelwal,Sondra L. Hausner,A. Gold Pdf

This volume brings together compelling new research on South Asian women who have renounced worldly life for spiritual pursuits. Documenting contemporary women's experiences with intimate ethnographic narratives, this book offers feminist insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Baul ascetic traditions.

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400823185

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Reading Renunciation by Elizabeth A. Clark Pdf

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning." Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754076882004

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To Prescribe the Oath of Renunciation and Allegiance for Purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045325276

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General Pact of the Renunciation of War by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Kellogg-Briand Pact
ISBN : UOM:39015003982645

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General Pact for the Renunciation of War by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Arbitration (International law)
ISBN : UOM:39015016926662

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The General Pact for the Renunciation of War by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Srinivasa Ramanujam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000113600

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Renunciation and Untouchability in India by Srinivasa Ramanujam Pdf

This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of ‘Brahmin’ and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories. An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.

Author : Lewis C. Todd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Pennsylvania imprints
ISBN : UCAL:$B141959

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A Defence Containing the Author's Renunciation of Universalism Explained and Enlarged by Lewis C. Todd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Arbitration (International law)
ISBN : UIUC:30112021182107

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Treaty for the Renunciation of War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Kellogg-Briand Pact
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116185513

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Treaty Between the United States and Other Powers Providing for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy by Anonim Pdf