The Experience of NothingnessTransaction Publishers - 147 páginas |
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Página xiii
... seems surprised by the night and sometimes ( like the poet Dylan Tho- mas ) rages , rages against it , and sometimes ( like Bertrand Russell in Mysticism and Logic ) marches around it with empty boasts of defi- ance . Nothingness is ...
... seems surprised by the night and sometimes ( like the poet Dylan Tho- mas ) rages , rages against it , and sometimes ( like Bertrand Russell in Mysticism and Logic ) marches around it with empty boasts of defi- ance . Nothingness is ...
Página xiv
... seem that every action is meaningless . Life does seem to lack point . So what ? The practical question is , " What am I going to do next ? " Most of the nihilists I read chose to act as if God does not exist . By indulging passions ...
... seem that every action is meaningless . Life does seem to lack point . So what ? The practical question is , " What am I going to do next ? " Most of the nihilists I read chose to act as if God does not exist . By indulging passions ...
Página xv
... seems mean- ingful either . ) Also , and on another front , when I felt great despair and emptiness , just then I would make time to write my essays and books : another enactment of creatio ex nihilo . I felt nothing . I wrote anyway ...
... seems mean- ingful either . ) Also , and on another front , when I felt great despair and emptiness , just then I would make time to write my essays and books : another enactment of creatio ex nihilo . I felt nothing . I wrote anyway ...
Página xviii
... seems to me plain . The central subject of that book is not the isolated individual but the family mem- ber , nourished in a particular tradition that is part of a symphony of other traditions . ( I rejected the metaphor of the ...
... seems to me plain . The central subject of that book is not the isolated individual but the family mem- ber , nourished in a particular tradition that is part of a symphony of other traditions . ( I rejected the metaphor of the ...
Página xix
... that so many of the views I then held now seem to me to have been illusory does not injure , indeed it helps , the original argument of the book . So many things seemed real. Introduction to the Transaction Edition xix.
... that so many of the views I then held now seem to me to have been illusory does not injure , indeed it helps , the original argument of the book . So many things seemed real. Introduction to the Transaction Edition xix.
Contenido
The Source of the Experience | 31 |
Inventing the Self | 67 |
Myths and Institutions | 95 |
St Therese Doctor | 139 |
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