Robert M Ellis

Broschiertes Buch

Embodied Meaning and Integration

Overcoming the Abstracted Grip on Meaning in Theory and Practice (Volume IV)

Beschreibung

Embodied meaning is a new approach to understanding the significance of all symbols, including those of language, as association in human experience. It has been developed since the 1980's, but its full practical significance has rarely been applied, nor have the full challenges that it presents to entrenched assumptions been followed through. Robert M. Ellis here develops a detailed multi-disciplinary account of the role of embodied meaning in the Middle Way as a practical path. This includes criticisms of some ways that embodied meaning has been confused with belief. At the heart of his practical case for the applying embodied meaning in our lives are the concepts of fragmentation and integration of meaning. A variety of practices, including the arts, enable us to develop our meaning resources, both 'cognitively' and 'emotionally', and thus create the imaginative conditions for provisionality of belief.

Autor

Robert M. Ellis is author of a range of interdisciplinary books on Middle Way Philosophy, both within and beyond Buddhism. These have included The Buddha's Middle Way: Experiential Judgement in His Life and Teaching (Equinox Publishing, 2019) and Archetypes in Religion and Beyond: A Practical Theory of Human Integration and Inspiration (Equinox Publishing, 2022). He is also founder of the Middle Way Society and of Tirylan House Retreat Centre in Wales.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 2295g
• ISBN-13: 9781800505575
• ISBN-10: 1800505574
• Artikelnr.: 72216521