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Mindfulness and Letting Be Fred Dallmayr

Mindfulness and Letting Be By Fred Dallmayr

Mindfulness and Letting Be by Fred Dallmayr

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Fred Dallmayr explores the benefits of mindfulness in respect to philosophy and theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism. Students of continental, social, and political philosophy will benefit from Dallmayr's engagement with, among others, Heidegger, Panikkar, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida.

Mindfulness and Letting Be Summary

Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting by Fred Dallmayr

Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting is a protest against the extreme mindlessness or thoughtlessness of our age, a malaise covered by manipulative cleverness and by minds filled to the brim with opinions, doctrines, marching orders, and ideologies. Rather than concentrating on a self-contained mind, Fred Dallmayr pleads for an act of minding about oneself, one's fellow beings, society, and the world. What is required for such mindfulness is not a predatory reason, but a kind of reticence or mind-fasting as preparation for a genuine attentiveness able to let be without aloofness or indifference. Dallmayr explores the benefits of such mindfulness in the fields of philosophy or theory, practical conduct, language use, art works, historical understanding, and cosmopolitanism, and the insights that arise will be of benefit to students and scholars of continental, social, and political philosophy.

Mindfulness and Letting Be Reviews

Fred Dallmayr has written another a remarkable book. Learned and scholarly, it is also clear and unpretentious in its language. Sweeping in its cultural concerns and references, it is also focused upon the most basic and simple enigmas of life. Throughout, Dallmayr reminds us of the real challenges of a life that is engaged and full of thought. -- Dennis J. Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University
Mindfulness and Letting Be contains fresh and inspiring words of wisdom from a well-known, distinguished master of Heidegger's thought. Fred Dallmayr's outlook is at the same time genuinely global, in the best sense of that word, and suffused with concern about humanity's future. -- William L. McBride, Purdue University
Mindfulness and Letting Be: on Engaged Thinking and Acting brings us further along the arc of Dallmayr's post-individualist political theory. Critical of contemporary pop culture understandings of mindfulness, Dallmayr instead rethinks the concept as an active letting be. He provides a provocative and thoughtful cross-cultural argument for the resources, both theoretically and practically, mindfulness provides for a response to global dehumanization. -- Peg Birmingham, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University
Dallmayr's prose is readable and clear. Though Heidegger's influence is felt throughout the text, Dallmayr's explanations make it deeply relevant and compelling. Through the author's inspiring description of an active letting be, readers will gain insight into a way out of the mindlessness of contemporary society. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. * CHOICE *

About Fred Dallmayr

Fred Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Future of Theory: Mindful Thinking Chapter 2. Beyond Action Theory: Mindful Praxis Chapter 3. Nothingness, Non-Being, Emptiness: Thinking at the Edge of Thought Chapter 4. But Only Speak the Word: Mindfulness and Language Chapter 5. Naturing Nature: Mindfulness and Art Chapter 6. The Future of the Past: Mindfulness and History Chapter 7. Why Cross-cultural Studies Now?: Mindfulness and Cosmopolis Appendix A. Are Humans Becoming Superfluous?: Robots and Gestell Appendix B. For an Apophatic Humanism: Orthopraxis Appendix C. Empire and Mindfulness: Theocracy as Temptation

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NLS9780739199886
9780739199886
0739199889
Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting by Fred Dallmayr
Fred Dallmayr
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Paperback
Lexington Books
2016-04-29
154
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