Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 132 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231140827
,
023151185X
,
9780231140829
,
9780231511858
Content:
In this groundbreaking comparative study, Matthew Bagger investigates the role of paradox in Western and Asian religious discourse. Drawing on both philosophy and social scientific theory, he offers a naturalistic explanation of religion's oft-noted propensity to sublime paradox and argues that religious thinkers employ intractable paradoxes as the basis for various techniques of self-transformation. Considering the writings of Kierkegaard, Pseudo-Dionysus, St. John of the Cross, N?g?rjuna, and Chuang-tzu, among others, Bagger identifies two religious uses of paradox: cognitive asc
Content:
Introduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231140829
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231140827
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bagger, Matthew C Uses of paradox New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007
Language:
English
URL:
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