Reading the Dream: A Post-Secular History of Enmindment

Peter Dale Scott

doi:10.5771/9781538181539

Summary

This book is at once a sweeping work of intellectual history and an intimate exploration of the human spiritual psyche. It covers the enduring development of social, cultural, and spiritual values that underlies the superficial rise and fall of political structures — and provides an inspiring basis of hope for the future of humanity. Appropriate for courses in Philosophy or Religion courses.

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8151-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8153-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 360
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Note about the Cover Image No access
3. Acknowledgments, Leading to a Very Brief Note on Method No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
1. The Sh’ma, the Three Refuges, and the Axial Moment No access
2. The Lord’s Prayer: A Second Pivotal Shift No access
3. Yang and Yin: Torah, Psalter, and Disruption No access
4. Yang and Yin in the Polis: The Pre-Socratics and Plato No access
5. Yang and Yin in Hellas: The Post-Socratic Philosophers No access
6. Yin and Yang in Alexandria: The Song of Songs No access
7. Virgil as Prophet of the Second Pivotal Shift No access
1. Disruptive Shifts in the Evolution of Culture No access
2. Earlier Dark (Yin) Ages, Disruptions, and Mnemohistory No access
3. Benign Cultural Progress in the Third Pivotal Shift: The Dark Age No access
4. Secular and Spiritual Power No access
5. St. Martin and the Diminution of Social Violence No access
6. Augustine as Prophet of the Third Pivotal Shift No access
7. Bede, Alcuin, and the Waning of the Dark Age No access
8. End of the Poem in Prose No access
9. A Personal Note after Finishing This Book No access
Four Poems No access Pages 269 - 276
Notes No access Pages 277 - 340
Index No access Pages 341 - 358
About the Author No access Pages 359 - 360