The Problem of pure consciousness : mysticism and philosophy / edited by Robert K.C. Forman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forman, Robert K. C., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism.

Consciousness--Religious aspects.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience that received its fullest expression in two volumes edited by Steven T.Katz, "Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis" and "Mysticism and Religious Traditions".

Contents:

Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, JrOn the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. WoodhouseIs mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Includes bibliographies.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774053-7

0-19-802261-1

1-280-45320-6

0-19-535511-3

1-4237-5952-4

OCLC:

935260965