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The Uncertain Phoenix : Adventures Toward a Post-Cultural Sensibility / David Hall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1986Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823210541
  • 9780823296149
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue: Thinking from the Desert -- PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Speculation and Foresight -- GENESIS -- 2. Disciplining Chaos -- 3. What ''God'' Hath Wrought -- CHAOS REVISITED -- 4. The Meeting of the Twain -- 5. The Way Beyond ''Ways'' -- 6. The Meaning of Making -- 7. A Eutopic Vision -- Epilogue: The Uncertain Phoenix -- Index
Summary: The Uncertain Phoenix is primarily an attempt at cultural self-understanding, based upon our Western experiences, and projected beyond them to the East. For, one of the way in which Western society might develop is toward a style of creative experience reminiscent of Taoism in China, especially now that the strengths of Western philosophy have been fully extended, if not indeed exhausted. Certainly we are rapidly approaching the limits to our growth and our dominance over nature, society, and human life. In Dr. Hall’s view, such control or dominance has been the governing factor in the development of the West; this may now develop into the style of experience and thinking indigenous to classical Oriental-especially Chinese-culture. In this philosophy of culture, Dr. Hall sets forth what he believes the flight of the phoenix into the future may bring. Many of his projections of this future philosophy will prove certainly uncomfortable if not downright bizarre to many. He grants there are other likely futures besides the one he posits, but these include the dead future of war or political decay, and he feels that there is also a place for a less frightening vision of the future. We might as well be at least prepared for the better as for the worse of our possible futures.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue: Thinking from the Desert -- PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Speculation and Foresight -- GENESIS -- 2. Disciplining Chaos -- 3. What ''God'' Hath Wrought -- CHAOS REVISITED -- 4. The Meeting of the Twain -- 5. The Way Beyond ''Ways'' -- 6. The Meaning of Making -- 7. A Eutopic Vision -- Epilogue: The Uncertain Phoenix -- Index

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The Uncertain Phoenix is primarily an attempt at cultural self-understanding, based upon our Western experiences, and projected beyond them to the East. For, one of the way in which Western society might develop is toward a style of creative experience reminiscent of Taoism in China, especially now that the strengths of Western philosophy have been fully extended, if not indeed exhausted. Certainly we are rapidly approaching the limits to our growth and our dominance over nature, society, and human life. In Dr. Hall’s view, such control or dominance has been the governing factor in the development of the West; this may now develop into the style of experience and thinking indigenous to classical Oriental-especially Chinese-culture. In this philosophy of culture, Dr. Hall sets forth what he believes the flight of the phoenix into the future may bring. Many of his projections of this future philosophy will prove certainly uncomfortable if not downright bizarre to many. He grants there are other likely futures besides the one he posits, but these include the dead future of war or political decay, and he feels that there is also a place for a less frightening vision of the future. We might as well be at least prepared for the better as for the worse of our possible futures.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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