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The Uncertain Phoenix. Adventures Toward a Post-cultural Sensibility.
David Hall
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Description for The Uncertain Phoenix. Adventures Toward a Post-cultural Sensibility.
paperback. Offers an attempt at cultural self-understanding, based upon our Western experiences, and projected beyond them to the East. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 616.
The Uncertain Phoenix is primarily an attempt at cultural self-understanding, based upon our Western experiences, and projected beyond them to the East. For, one of the way in which Western society might develop is toward a style of creative experience reminiscent of Taoism in China, especially now that the strengths of Western philosophy have been fully extended, if not indeed exhausted. Certainly we are rapidly approaching the limits to our growth and our dominance over nature, society, and human life. In Dr. Hall’s view, such control or dominance has been the governing factor in the development of the West; this ... Read more
The Uncertain Phoenix is primarily an attempt at cultural self-understanding, based upon our Western experiences, and projected beyond them to the East. For, one of the way in which Western society might develop is toward a style of creative experience reminiscent of Taoism in China, especially now that the strengths of Western philosophy have been fully extended, if not indeed exhausted. Certainly we are rapidly approaching the limits to our growth and our dominance over nature, society, and human life. In Dr. Hall’s view, such control or dominance has been the governing factor in the development of the West; this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823210541
SKU
V9780823210541
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About David Hall
David L. Hall is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. His interests include our understanding of Daoism and classical Greek philosophy, as well as the interpretive studies of classical Chinese philosophy. His publications include The Civilization of Experience: A Whiteheadian Theory of Culture and Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism. He has also ... Read more
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