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Romantic Dharma

Lussier, Mark S.:
Romantic Dharma : the emergence of Buddhism into nineteenth-century Europe / Mark S. Lussier. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xx, 231 S. - (Nineteenth-century major lives and letters)
ISBN 978-0-230-10545-4
£ 52,00 / US$ 85,00
DDC: 294.309409034; 809.93382943
-- Angekündigt für Oktober 2011 (Palgrave), November 2011 (Macmillan) --

Beschreibung
Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the nineteenth century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into contemporary critical and pedagogical practices. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
1. "The Most Sublime Act"
2. Buddhism and Romanticism
3. The Strange Case of Alexander Csoma de Körös
4. Romanticism's Four Noble Truths
5. Inner Revolutions: Self-Annihilation in Blake and Shelley
6. The Romantic Book of the Dead

Autor
MARK LUSSIER, Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Romantic Dynamics: The Poetics of Physicality and Blake and Lacan and the co-editor of Perspective as a Problem in the Art, History and Literature of Early Modern England and Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis. He has edited or co-edited special issues of European Romantic Review, New Orleans Review, Romantic Circles Praxis, and The Wordsworth Circle. Homepage.

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