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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
wiley   +1 more source

Esotericism Disputed:Major Debates in the Field [PDF]

, 2016
When graduate students enroll in classes that are devoted to “esotericism” or “Western esotericism,” they usually are fascinated by the class topics, even though they have only a vague idea of what esotericism means.
von Stuckrad, Kocku; id_orcid, von Stuckrad, Kocku   +1 more
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“Medical Men in the New Age”: Alice Bailey’s Impact on Contemporary Energy Healing

Religions
Energy healing refers to a globalising market of healing rituals that aim to stimulate the clients’ self-healing process. In the context of healing, the term ‘energy’ has multi-layered meanings and may denote physical, psychological, social, as well as ...
Dominic S. Zoehrer
doaj   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Knorr's "Messias puer": between Western Esotericism and the Study of Religion

, 2018
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-1689) was a major Christian Kabbalist of the Seventeenth Century and the author of the Kabbala denudata, an extensive anthology of kabbalistic texts from the Lurianic tradition.
Vileno, Anna Maria
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Attunement and Reason

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I present a theory of attunement, the agent's readiness to attend to a target. I focus on attunement to reasons for action, and in particular, on sensitivity to moral reasons. After noting that many claims regarding moral perception are better construed as claims regarding moral attention, I separate perceptual from attentional ...
Wayne Wu
wiley   +1 more source

MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AND MYSTICAL PRACTICES IN THE TESTIMONIES OF RUSSIAN ROSICRUCIANS OF THE XVIII–XIX CENTURIES [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013
In the article diff erent forms of mystical experience in the XVIIIth–XIXth centuries Russia are reconstructed on the basis of the sources from Rosicrucian funds of DMS RSL.
Yury Khalturin
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When brokers fail, brokers proliferate! Generational change and the failure of development in remote Papua New Guinea

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent efforts to secure development by Febi and Kubo people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province reveal a patterned history of failing brokers, incomplete projects and wasted money. Within this longer trajectory, three overlapping waves of brokerage can be discerned, each emerging in response to the limitations of its predecessors.
Monica Minnegal, John Cox
wiley   +1 more source

Cinema oculto sem filmar [PDF]

Pessoa Plural
Review of Aleister Crowley en la Boca del Infierno: El guión nunca filmado (2013)
Giménez, Diego
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Brokerage in Oceania reconsidered: Positionality, agency, morality in a (dis)ordered world

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper introduces a special issue examining brokerage in Oceania amid intensifying geopolitical competition, resource extraction, labour mobility and shifting development regimes. Building on renewed global interest in brokerage as a set of practices, we argue that brokers in Oceania operate within—and actively reshape—conditions of ...
Monica Minnegal
wiley   +1 more source