Patrick Curry
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1688780 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Curry |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Curry |
| FIRMA | CURRY P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-6751-4375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Experience of Enchantment and the Sense of Wonder
This paper begins by drawing on accounts of enchantment as wonder by three authors (Alain-Fournier, Aldous Huxley and J.R.R. Tolkien) to explore its basic characteristics and dynamics. It then draws a contrast with the disenchantment attending will and the will-to-power, noting the internal affinity of the latter with the project of modernity and its contrast with enchantment as a non-modern experience. It then proceeds to a critique of three inf…
Special Issue Introduction
The Relational Dynamics of Enchantment and Sacralization
Grizzly Man and the Spiritual Life
The story of Timothy Treadwell, as portrayed in Werner Herzog’s film (2005), provides a basis for a critique of two opposing attitudes and programmes which can be identified, in broad metaphysical terms, as spiritual idealism and scientific materialism. I criticize the former, inferring from Treadwell’s fate the danger – for spiritual seekers, directly, and for scholars, indirectly – of trying to be at-one or achieve absolute unity with the belov…
A Response to Frank W. Derringh’s Review of Ecological Ethics
Grounding the Stars
In this paper I seek to outline a conception of astrology in which nature—not a modernist Cartesian nature but the living and sensuous natural world—is central. This involves contextualizing astrology as, in effect, a divinatory practice in which the Earth and its animist apprehension is indispensable. Such a move runs counter to much discourse, both by hostile critics (religious and scientific) and astrologers themselves, which is viewed in Webe…
Post-Secular Nature
Monist essentialism posits a worldview that has pervaded monotheistic religions and the imperatives of global capitalism. Relational pluralism acknowledges multiple perspectives and lends itself to a more ecocentric form of discourse. Monist essentialism has been associated with both religious and secular hegemony. Relational pluralism, while not advocating rootless relativism, allows for the importance of spirituality and the sacrality of nature…
Research Note
The purpose of this research note is to enter a gentle point of criticism regarding an aspect of how neo-shamanism is currently studied academically and to suggest a correction. To this end I will
Rethinking Green Politics
Magic vs. enchantment
This paper draws on a distinction by J. R. R. Tolkien between Magic (an exercise of the will to change something in the world) and Enchantment (the creation of and entering into a secondary world). After elaborating this contrast and some of its consequences—one of which is to illuminate the common ground between science and what is usually thought of as magic, as distinct (in both cases) from art—I suggest some complications and refinements, inc…
Astrology
Journal Article ASTROLOGY Get access PATRICK CURRY PATRICK CURRY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.232 Published: 01 March 1991
Essay Review
Post-Secular Nature
Monist essentialism posits a worldview that has pervaded monotheistic religions and the imperatives of global capitalism. Relational pluralism acknowledges multiple perspectives and lends itself to a more ecocentric form of discourse. Monist essentialism has been associated with both religious and secular hegemony. Relational pluralism, while not advocating rootless relativism, allows for the importance of spirituality and the sacrality of nature…
Essay Review
Grounding the Stars
In this paper I seek to outline a conception of astrology in which nature—not a modernist Cartesian nature but the living and sensuous natural world—is central. This involves contextualizing astrology as, in effect, a divinatory practice in which the Earth and its animist apprehension is indispensable. Such a move runs counter to much discourse, both by hostile critics (religious and scientific) and astrologers themselves, which is viewed in Webe…
Magic vs. enchantment
This paper draws on a distinction by J. R. R. Tolkien between Magic (an exercise of the will to change something in the world) and Enchantment (the creation of and entering into a secondary world). After elaborating this contrast and some of its consequences—one of which is to illuminate the common ground between science and what is usually thought of as magic, as distinct (in both cases) from art—I suggest some complications and refinements, inc…
Essay Review
Astrology
Journal Article ASTROLOGY Get access PATRICK CURRY PATRICK CURRY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.232 Published: 01 March 1991
Magic vs. enchantment
This paper draws on a distinction by J. R. R. Tolkien between Magic (an exercise of the will to change something in the world) and Enchantment (the creation of and entering into a secondary world). After elaborating this contrast and some of its consequences—one of which is to illuminate the common ground between science and what is usually thought of as magic, as distinct (in both cases) from art—I suggest some complications and refinements, inc…
Rethinking Green Politics
Research Note
The purpose of this research note is to enter a gentle point of criticism regarding an aspect of how neo-shamanism is currently studied academically and to suggest a correction. To this end I will
Grounding the Stars
In this paper I seek to outline a conception of astrology in which nature—not a modernist Cartesian nature but the living and sensuous natural world—is central. This involves contextualizing astrology as, in effect, a divinatory practice in which the Earth and its animist apprehension is indispensable. Such a move runs counter to much discourse, both by hostile critics (religious and scientific) and astrologers themselves, which is viewed in Webe…
Post-Secular Nature
Monist essentialism posits a worldview that has pervaded monotheistic religions and the imperatives of global capitalism. Relational pluralism acknowledges multiple perspectives and lends itself to a more ecocentric form of discourse. Monist essentialism has been associated with both religious and secular hegemony. Relational pluralism, while not advocating rootless relativism, allows for the importance of spirituality and the sacrality of nature…
A Response to Frank W. Derringh’s Review of Ecological Ethics
Grizzly Man and the Spiritual Life
The story of Timothy Treadwell, as portrayed in Werner Herzog’s film (2005), provides a basis for a critique of two opposing attitudes and programmes which can be identified, in broad metaphysical terms, as spiritual idealism and scientific materialism. I criticize the former, inferring from Treadwell’s fate the danger – for spiritual seekers, directly, and for scholars, indirectly – of trying to be at-one or achieve absolute unity with the belov…
Special Issue Introduction
The Relational Dynamics of Enchantment and Sacralization
The Experience of Enchantment and the Sense of Wonder
This paper begins by drawing on accounts of enchantment as wonder by three authors (Alain-Fournier, Aldous Huxley and J.R.R. Tolkien) to explore its basic characteristics and dynamics. It then draws a contrast with the disenchantment attending will and the will-to-power, noting the internal affinity of the latter with the project of modernity and its contrast with enchantment as a non-modern experience. It then proceeds to a critique of three inf…
Philosophy (10 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (7 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Theology (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Art history (3 obras)