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Title: Mindfulness and Letting Be
Condition: New
EAN: 9780739199862
ISBN: 9780739199862
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 17/09/2014
Item Height: 239mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Width: 16mm
Item Weight: 372g
Author: Fred Dallmayr
Language: English
Subtitle: On Engaged Thinking and Acting
ISBN-10: 0739199862
Description: Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting is a protest against the extreme mindlessness or thoughtlessness of our age, a malaise covered by manipulative cleverness and by minds filled to the brim with opinions, doctrines, marching orders, and ideologies. Rather than concentrating on a self-contained "mind," Fred Dallmayr pleads for an act of "minding" about oneself, one’s fellow beings, society, and the world. What is required for such mindfulness is not a predatory reason, but a kind of reticence or "mind-fasting" as preparation for a genuine attentiveness able to "let be" without aloofness or indifference. Dallmayr explores the benefits of such mindfulness in the fields of philosophy or theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism, and the insights that arise will be of benefit to students and scholars of continental, social, and political philosophy.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2014

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