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OverviewHave we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a cost? The sequel to the Enlightenment, known as modern life, has expanded our horizons enormously but it has also reduced and restricted us. We have lost identity and relationship and our minds have become fragmented and are often little short of foolish. In particular we haven't found a way of prioritising, as we must, the only things we surely have: consciousness and (hence) experience. These things are what the word 'life' means. We need some form of detachment from the empty counting and measuring that are at the heart of the Enlightenment project. We need to focus less on having, and less even on doing, when our task is being. A more Buddhist detachment may restore our own experience to us and get us beyond the impasses of politics and mechanical science. We need less focus on the outside and more on the inside, for that is where our lives are actually lived. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lance St John ButlerPublisher: Maclean Dubois Imprint: Maclean Dubois Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.50cm Weight: 0.314kg ISBN: 9780956527899ISBN 10: 0956527892 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 02 September 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLance St John Butler is a literary academic who has worked at the University of Stirling in Scotland and at the University of Pau in France. He is the author of books on Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, Literary Stylistics and Victorian Doubt. Since retirement he has lived in Edinburgh where he is Chairman of Trustees of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |