If you all will allow me, I’d like to try to take up Goodchild’s
cause, here, as well as the cause of David Graeber (Debt: The First 5,000 Years), whose critique of money is strikingly
similar. Both Graeber and Goodchild are working out of a line of thinking
that would include someone like Richard Seaford’s Money and the Early Greek Mind, as well as more obviously Polanyi
and Simmel. So much for the genealogy, now for the argument.
It seems to me (following Goodchild and Graeber) that Michael and
David simply accept the axiom, precious to economic theory, that money simply
is its function in the contemporary economy. What Goodchild and Graeber
would press, and I would concur, is that the functional account is not only
incomplete but politically suspect.
In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source
material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars
have largely neglected one of the intellectual currents underlying his work:
Western esotericism, specifically the lineage of hermetic thought that extends
from Late Antiquity into the Renaissance through the work of figures such as
Iamblichus, Nicholas of Cusa, Pico della Mirandola, and Giordano Bruno. In this
book, Joshua Ramey examines the extent to which Deleuze's ethics, metaphysics,
and politics were informed by, and can only be fully understood through, this
hermetic tradition.
Identifying key hermetic moments in Deleuze's thought, including his
theories of art, subjectivity, and immanence, Ramey argues that the
philosopher's work represents a kind of contemporary hermeticism, a consistent
experiment in unifying thought and affect, percept and concept, and mind and
nature in order to engender new relations between knowledge, power, and desire.
By uncovering and clarifying the hermetic strand in Deleuze's work, Ramey offers
both a new interpretation of Deleuze, particularly his insistence that the
development of thought demands a spiritual ordeal, and a framework for
retrieving the pre-Kantian paradigm of philosophy as spiritual practice.
The spiritual gift of India
to the world has already begun. India 's
spirituality is entering Europe and America in an ever increasing
measure. That movement will grow; amid the disasters of the time more and more
eyes are turning towards her with hope and there is even an increasing resort
not only to her teachings, but to her psychic and spiritual practice. (Sri
Aurobindo, from the message broadcast on August 14, 1947)
Mirandola,
Malebranche, Mandeville, Mendelssohn - Humanism,
a religious movement Pico Della Mirandola: Oration On the Dignity Of
Man (1496)
If there is such a thing as a "manifesto" of the Italian
Renaissance, Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man"
is it; no other work more forcefully, eloquently, or thoroughly remaps the
human landscape to center all attention on human capacity and the human
perspective. Paul Brians - 7:24 pm
I suppose it's no coincidence that my favorite Christian theologians
(e.g., Dionysius, Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa, John Scottus Eriugena) often sound
like vedic seers. For example, I might well have cited Nicholas to support the
Cosmogenesis section of my book: This is Not a Post About Vedanta and Christianity from One Cosmos by Gagdad Bob 7:11 am
Savonarola,
Tyndale, Servetus, Bruno - Plotinus,
Bruno, Schelling, Bradley, and Sri Aurobindo - Supramental Consciousness and the Logic of the Infinite by Marcel Kvassay from Posthuman Destinies The Life Divine (LD), Sri
Aurobindo’s comprehensive and definitive philosophical statement. 9:19 am
Knowledge,
consciousness and religious conversion in Lonergan and Aurobindo - Page 179 Michael T. McLaughlin
- 2003 - 318 pages Aurobindo's
monism in which the One differentiates itself in time and space (extension) as
finite souls in the infinite has many similarities with Schelling in
his work Bruno. He refers to this process of differentiation of the One
as ... 9:19 am
- 2003 - 318 pages Aurobindo's
monism in which the One differentiates itself in time and space (extension) as
finite souls in the infinite has many similarities with Schelling in
his work Bruno. He refers to this process of differentiation of the One
as ... 9:19 am
Science, Culture and Integral Yoga :: 100 Years of Sri
Aurobindo on Evolution: Why Sri Aurobindo would not believe in Intilligent
Design (part 1 or 6) - by Debashish on
Sun 22 Mar 2009 02:33 PM PDT Permanent
Link - In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo often directs or turns an
argument based on natural or phenomenological intuitions. The kinds of
intuitions used by artists or poets in making judgements may seem impossibly
subjective to arriving at universal truths, particularly of the material world,
but poets and philosophers like Goethe and Giordano Bruno developed a
cross-disciplinary view of knowledge, which gave them access also to a new
material science. 3:41 pm
Religions
in Global Society - Page 7 - Peter
Beyer - 2013 - Preview - More
editions An intriguing feature of this strategy is that its attempt to deny the
differentiation of religious and national identity also leads to their
practical re-differentiation, especially through recognition that 'Hinduness' (Hindutva) can accommodate ...
Muslim
Society and the Western Indian Ocean: The Seafarers of Kachchh - Page 110 -
Edward
Simpson - 2013 - Preview - More
editions Thus 'Hindutva' or
'Hinduness' has come to stand for the equation of Hinduism with nation and
national identity as a way of seeing the world based upon doctrines supposedly
derived from ancient Hindu thought. Nationalistic Hindu political ...
State,
Identity and Violence R. Brian Ferguson - 2012 - Preview - More
editions In this book, a collection of experts investigate the varied
forces - from global systems to local beliefs - that lead to civil violence,
chaos and, perhaps, a new political order.
Memory,
Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia - J.
Mallot - 2012 - Preview
investigates how English-language fiction, Hindi cinema, and postcolonial urban
planning have provided surprisingly ambivalent and deeply controversial
responses to the twinned ...
Jinnah,
Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin - Page 255 -Akbar
Ahmed - 2012 - Preview - More
editions It provided to the new aggressive social class spawned in the 80s
a packaged, collective self image which, with the mobilizing by Hindutva [the idea of a dominant
Hindu culture and nation], became the motivating force for changing, by force ...
Religion
and Nationalism in India: The Case of the Punjab - Page 46 -Harnik
Deol - 2012 - Preview - More
editions The court endorsed the use of the term hindutva on the grounds that Hindutva was a broad philosophical
term ... The court's
interpretation of hindutva has
given an impetus to the hindutva brigade
of the BJP and the Shiv-Sena and has ...
Patriots
and Partisans: From Nehru to Hindutva and
Beyond - Ramachandra
Guha - 2012 - Guha then explores the contemporary relevance of
Gandhi’s religious pluralism and analyses the fall in Jawaharlal Nehru’s
reputation after his death. The essays in Part II of this book focus on writers
and scholars.
Religion
and Nationalism in India: The Case of the Punjab - Page 45 - Harnik
Deol - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Recent interviews given by the BJP leaders indicate that the BJP
is bracing itself for the election year by shedding its traditional image—with
emphasis purely on hindutva. It
wants to broaden its political constituency 'by fighting off casteism, ...
Culture
and leadership, across the world: The GLOBE Book of ... - Page 1018 - Jagdeep
Singh Chhokar, Robert
J. House, Felix
C. Brodbeck - 2012 - Preview -More
editions Amid the flock of Hindutva hawks,
Vajpayee is the moderate voice and the BJP's star campaigner. His considerable
charisma apart, he lends a liberal touch to the party's image and, therefore,
is the BJP's best bet to attract a significant chunk of...
Bookless
in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers - Shashi
Tharoor - 2012 - Preview - More
editions ... been any
such thing as a Hindu heresy — is not the Hinduism professed by those who
destroyed a mosque, nor the Hindutva spewed
in hate-filled speeches by communal politicians. How can such a religion lend
itself to “fundamentalism”? ... rise in Indian politics of an intolerant
and destructive “Hindutva”
movement that assaults India 's
minorities, especially its Muslims, that destroyed a well-known mosque and
conducted horrific attacks on Muslims in the state of Gujarat ,
where in... In the process, Das Gupta regretted that the votaries of Hindutva had laid claim to it,
“that one of the world's greatest and most universal epics should be reduced to
the religious text of a community.” The writer Sukumar Mitra, deploring the ...
The
Politics of Personal Law in South Asia: Identity, Nationalism ... - Partha
S. S. Ghosh - 2012 - Preview - More
editions So, this book attempts to harmonize the threads of the debate to
provide a holistic political analysis.
Religious
Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion - Goldie
Osuri - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty,
biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and
secular understanding of India ’s
religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into ...
Illustrated with original case studies, the ten investigative essays
from a multicultural panel of experts, each with specific local and academic
knowledge of the faiths and issues they discuss, offer an intimate and highly
specific ...
Muscular
Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and ... - Sikata
Banerjee - 2012 - Preview - More
editions The United States, and the West in general, has always organized
society along bipolar lines.
Grounding
Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures - Jyotirmaya
Sharma, A. Raghuramaraju - 2012 - Put together to honour one of the most
influential philosophers in recent times, Mrinal Miri, this book brings
together articles on philosophy, politics, literature and society, and updates
the status of enquiry in each of these fields.
The
Missing Martyrs:Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists: Why ... - Page 65 -
Charles
Kurzman - 2011 - Preview - More
editions Hindutva communalists,
for example, have mobilized a large segment of the middle class in India and
the Indian diaspora. For decades, communist movements in many countries focused
their recruitment efforts more toward college campuses ...
Domicile
and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics ... - Alison
Blunt - 2011 - Preview - More
editions In their discussion of the rise of the Hindutva movement in the 1920s,
and its more recent revival, Chetan Bhatt and Parita ... The Hindutva movement is gendered
both by images and by the political practices of men and women, and ...
Cultural
Entrenchment of Hindutva:
Local Mediations and Forms of ... - Daniela
Berti, Nicolas Jaoul, Pralay Kanungo - 2011 - The book reflects on the
discreet influence of Hindutva in situations/places outside or at the margins
of its organisational and mobilisational arena, where people denying any
commitment to the Sangh Parivar, incidentally, show affinities ...
Gandhi,
Hinduism and Modernity: The Persistent Mahatma - Makarand
Paranjape - 2012 - An exploration of Gandhi "s life and thought,
this book also offers an investigation into what it means to be seriously
engaged with Gandhi in our times.
