Abstract
Critical theorists and social commentators agree that modernity and postmodernity suffer from historical pathologies of world disenchantment. What might be done? Drawing on John Sallis’ phenomenology of the elemental and Tibetan Buddhist teachings on elemental practices, this paper investigates the imagination in its doubling as imaginal in generating a symbolics of the self, world, and other that is always already enchanted; an aesthetics of existence where the world itself shows forth like a work of art replete with exorbitant logics.
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Schwartz, Michael
(2018)
"Sourcing Enchantment: From Elemental Appropriation to Imaginal Symbolics,"
CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century: Vol. 6:
Iss.
6, Article 2.
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https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/conscjournal/vol6/iss6/2
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