Description: Wisdom As a Way of Life : Theravada Buddhism Reimagined, Paperback by Collins, Steven; Mcdaniel, Justin (EDT); Arnold, Dan (FRW); Hallisey, Charles (AFT), ISBN 0231197217, ISBN-13 9780231197212, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "In this wide-ranging and field-changing work Steven Collins argues that the study of Theravada Buddhism needs to separated from the rather dated and stagnant field of textual history and approached both "civilizationally" and as a "practice of the self." By civilizationally, he means that instead of seeing Buddhism as a set of "original" teachings of the so-called historical Buddha from the 5th century BC to the present, it should rather be viewed as an effort by many teachers and visionaries over time to make sense of what it means to lead a worthy life. The purveyors of Buddhist philosophy did not consider themselves to be preservers of an archaic body of rules and ethical guidelines; they were designing a dynamic way of living and confronting human problems in a timeless way. Using approaches to the very idea of the self promoted by Foucault and Hadot, he compares Theravada Buddhist ways of understanding and "practicing" the self to modernist and postmodernist ideas about "philosophy as a way of life." Rather than applying positivist and historicist approaches, Buddhism should be assessed philosophically, literarily, and ethically, using its own vocabulary and rhetorical tools. Treated in this manner, Buddhist notions of the self can be applied to contemporary ideas of self-care and the promotion of human flourishing. Th covers topics such as spiritual practice, ultimate versus provisional truth, systematic versus narrative thinking, meditation versus virtue, and history versus philosophy. It is a bold and complex way of understanding the impact that Buddhist ways of knowing can have in the world today, bringing them into conversation with modern psychology, literary studies, ethics, gender and sexuality studies, and philosophy"--
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Book Title: Wisdom As a Way of Life : Theravada Buddhism Reimagined
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Wisdom As a Way of Life : TheravāDa Buddhism Reimagined
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Buddhism / Theravada, Asian / Indic, Buddhist, General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Steven Collins
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
