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Gurdjieff Reconsidered
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Gurdjieff Reconsidered

From a master biographer and longtime Gurdjieff practitioner, a brilliant new exploration of the quintessential Western esoteric teacher of the twentieth-century. The Greek-Armenian teacher G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most original and provocative spiritual teachers in the twentieth-century West. Whereas much work on Gurdjieff has been either fawning or blindly critical, acclaimed scholar and writer Roger Lipsey balances sympathic interest in Gurdjieff and his "Fourth Way" teachings with a historian's sense of context and a biographer's feel for personality and relationships. Using a wide-range of published and unpublished sources, Lipsey explores Gurdjieff's formative travels in Central A...

Angelic Mistakes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Angelic Mistakes

  • Categories: Art

Striking new insights into the life and thoughts of the beloved spiritual writer are presented through his rarely seen visual art produced in the last decade of his life.This collection presents 40 of the most telling examples of Merton's art, each accompanied by an excerpt from Merton's own writing on art.

Hammarskjöld
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 759

Hammarskjöld

Drawing from little explored archives and personal correspondence, chronicles the life of the second secretary general of the United Nations who was killed in 1961 while en route to ceasefire negotiations in the Congo.

The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art

  • Categories: Art

Compelling, well-illustrated study focuses on the works of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Klee, Picasso, Duchamp, Matisse, and others. Citations from letters, diaries, and interviews provide insights into the artists' views. 121 black-and-white illustrations.

Politics and Conscience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Politics and Conscience

An accessible guide to the principles and vision of Dag Hammarskjöld, a man John F. Kennedy called "the greatest statesman of our century." Dag Hammarskjöld served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his tragic Dag Hammarskjöld served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 1953 until his tragic death in a suspicious plane crash in 1961. During those years he saw the fledgling international organization through numerous crises with skill that made him a star on the international stage. As readers of his now-classic diary, Markings, are aware, Hammarskjöld understood political leadership as an honor calling for resourcefulness, humility, moral clarity, and s...

The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 545

The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art

  • Categories: Art

Compelling, well-illustrated study focuses on the works of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Klee, Picasso, Duchamp, Matisse, and others. Citations from letters, diaries, and interviews provide insights into the artists' views. 121 black-and-white illustrations.

Have You Been to Delphi?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Have You Been to Delphi?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-01-11
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

A fascinating collection of tales and lore from the ancient Oracle at Delphi, this book provides both a collection of good stories and finds spiritual enlightenment weaved throughout these diverse offerings.

Life Behind the Mask
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Life Behind the Mask

  • Categories: Art

'You had to decide to let yourself be turned upside down, you had to accept to see the idea you had forged about yourself progressively shatter.' In the summer of 1969, at 19 years old, Didier Mouturat gave up on college, shattering his parents' hopes that he follow a safe and conventional course. Fresh from the wild Parisian student revolt of 1968, with its street battles and slogans, he set out to find a life that would be truly alive, deciding to be a classical actor. When he met Cyrille Dives, however, the universe of masks quietly turned his world upside down. This book describes Mouturat's apprenticeship to a unique theater artist. In the 1970s and early 80s, Dives created a theater of...

A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation

Drawing upon and extending his inaugural Lipsey Lectures, Debraj Ray looks at coalition formation from the perspective of game theory. Ray brings together developments in both cooperative and noncooperative game theory to study the analytics of coalition formation and binding agreements.

Make Peace before the Sun Goes Down
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Make Peace before the Sun Goes Down

A fascinating account of Thomas Merton's conflicted relationship with his abbot, Dom James Fox—by an esteemed modern Merton scholar. In the 1950s and '60s, Thomas Merton, a monk of the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky, published a string of books that are among the most influential spiritual books of the twentieth century--including the mega-best seller The Seven-Storey Mountain. He was something of a rock star for a cloistered monk, and from his monastic cell he enjoyed a wide and lively correspondence with people from the worlds of religion, literature, and politics. During that period he also explored and wrote extensively on Buddhism, Sufism, art, and social action. The man...