Author: Dambisa Moyo File Type: epub Controversial and bestselling economist Dambisa Moyo tackles one of the most vital geopolitical stories of our time Chinas aggressive global crusade to secure natural resources.

Author: Kwok-Ying Lau File Type: pdf This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided the reader will find a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters. Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly engaging. **From the Back Cover This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided the reader will find a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters. Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly engaging. About the Author Kwok-ying LAU, born and educated in Hong Kong, received his Doctor in Philosophy at the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, in 1993 with a dissertation entitled Merleau-Ponty ou la tension entre Husserl et Heidegger. Currently Full Professor and Director of MA in Philosophy Program at the Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, he is the founding editor-in-chief since 2004 of the Journal Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (in Chinese), Director of the Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology (since 2010). He is one of the founders of the East-Asian research network P.E.A.CE. (Phenomenology in East-Asian Circle) since 2002, and has organized the Symposia Phaenomenologica Asiatica, Master Class in Phenomenology for Asian Scholars held every summer in The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2014. He has translated writings of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Ricoeur into Chinese. He has recently published Husserls Logical Investigations in the New Century Western and Chinese Perspectives (ed. with John J. Drummond, series Contributions to Phenomenology, Springer, 2007,) Identity and Alterity Phenomenology and Cultural Traditions (ed. with Chan-Fai Cheung and Tze-Wan Kwan, series Orbis Phaenomenologicus Perspektiven, Wurzburg Verlag Konigshausen & Neumann, 2010) , Phenomenology and Human Experience, eds. with Chung-chi Yu, series Libri nigri, Nordhausen Verlag Traugott Baut GmbH, 2012), and Border-Crossing Phenomenology, Interculturality and Interdisciplinarity, eds. with Chung-Chi Yu, Series Orbis Phaenomenologicus Perspektiven, Wurzburg Verlag Konigshausen & Neumann, 2014). His authored books include Traces of French Phenomenology From Sartre to Derrida (in Chinese, Taipei, forth coming), Kant Thinker of Perpetual Peace (in Chinese, Taipei, 1999). He has edited or co-edited 15 other volumes philosophical works in Chinese and is the author of about 100 papers written in Chinese, English or French on phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, postmodernism and intercultural understanding.

Author: Arthur Versluis File Type: pdf Focusing on how spiritual initiation takes place in Western esoteric religious, literary, and artistic traditions from antiquity to the present, Restoring Paradise provides an introduction to Western esotericism, including early modern esoteric movements like alchemy, Christian theosophy, and Rosicrucianism. The author argues that European and American literature and art often entail a written transmission of spiritual knowledge in which writing itself works to transmute consciousness, to generate, provoke, or convey spiritual awakening. He focuses on several important figures whose work has not received the attention it deserves, including American writer and Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and British painter Cecil Collins, among others. While Arthur Versluis presents a new way of understanding Western esotericism in a contemporary light, above all he has crafted a book about knowing, and about how we come to know, and what knowing by way of literature and language actually means.**

Author: Michael Winkelman File Type: pdf What does the brain do during soul journeys? How do shamans alter consciousness and why is this important for healing? Are shamans different from other kinds of healers? Is there a connection between the rituals performed by chimpanzees and traditional shamanistic practices?All of these questionsand many moreare answered in Shamanism, Second Edition A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing. This text contains crosscultural examinations of the nature of shamanism, biological perspectives on alterations of consciousness, mechanisms of shamanistic healing, as well as the evolutionary origins of shamanism. It presents the shamanic paradigm within a biopsychosocial framework for explaining successful human evolution through group rituals. In the final chapter,the author compares shamanistic rituals with chimpanzee displays to identify homologies that point to the ritual dynamics of our ancient hominid ancestors.ReviewHighly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.ullulChoiceReviewMichael Winkelmans revised Shamanism breaks new ground in our understanding of the origins of religion, and the qualities that uniquely make us human. Drawing from evolutionary psychology, he shows how religious ceremonies evolved out of earlier, pre-human systems of ritual communication how these costly displays are adaptively beneficial and how healing responses can be induced from shamanistic states of consciousness. The result is essential reading for anyone interested in shamanism, human evolution, the origin of religion, and traditional healing practices.(David S. Whitley, author of Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit The Origin of Creativity and Belief)