Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy
Interchange in the Wake of God
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8069453 |
|---|---|
| Editors | David Lewin (0000-0001-6420-3841, corresponding author), Simon D Podmore (0000-0003-0828-0441), Duane Williams (0000-0003-4269-121X) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315597133 |
| OpenAlex | W2612799493 |
| Open Library | OL53991872M |
| ISBN | 9781315597133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Attention is a mysterious faculty.It seems to knit together experiences, attitudes, histories, skills, dispositions, intuitions and manifold other aspects of lived experience such that discussions of it cut across a range of domains, from, for example, cognitive neuroscience and educational theory to ancient philosophies of Vedanta and Buddhism.Taking its cue from the title of the volume, this chapter examines attention by drawing together strands from mystical theology, particularly Meister Eckhart, and continental philosophy, that of Martin Heidegger.The argument will explore some difficulties of conceiving attention as a faculty of human agency.While these considerations will be, I hope, of general philosophical interest, I will apply them to concrete contexts of educational theory and practice.Educational contexts illustrate well the ways in which attention is both conceived and misconceived, as well as providing a strong practical motivation for needing to consider the extent to which attention can be managed and controlled, and the anthropological suppositions present in such considerations.The argument relies upon mystical theology insofar as it draws on negative strategies for undoing some of the conventional ways of framing attention.This is the kind of theological framing that the post-metaphysical Heidegger might wish to develop.I begin with 1 This chapter is based on my article 'Behold: Silence and Attention in Education' Journal of Philosophy of Education, 48:3, 2014, and I am grateful to John Wiley and Sons for permission to reproduce parts of that article.The argument is similar in places, though in this chapter the emphasis on Heidegger and Eckhart is drawn out and developed in greater detail, and the context in educational philosophy is less developed
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |