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Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays by Charles William Johns
ISBN: 978-1-78279-875-0 (Paperback) £14.99 $25.95
EISBN: 978-1-78279-876-7 (eBook) £8.99 $12.99
‘Philosophy’ (one form of neurosis) is the proper place for thinking neurosis. It is there where one form of thinking conflicts with another. It is there where the determination of thought, its process, judgement and project, collide with another – the hysterical rebellious ‘subject’ who attempts to out-think this very medium of thought itself (fighting fire with fire, or, neurosis with neurosis). The construction of this division, between subject and environment, activity and passivity, response and stimulus is yet another form of neurosis (one that we blindly obey and one which produces prolific results).
This is a book that certainly breaks new ground for all of literature, psychology and psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Its thesis about neuroses is both novel and interesting. Leon Niemoczynski, Author of the renowned blog After Nature and Author/Professor
This is a compelling entry into the field of philosophical literature that marks out Charles Johns as an exciting, innovative and perspicacious thinker. Nik Farrell Fox, Author of 'The New Sartre'
Charles William Johns is interested in liberating the psychotic, neurotic and 'in-human' tendencies secretly driving philosophical writing and reflection. Against the elevation of 'rationalism' found within traditional philosophy, Johns alternatively mobilizes insights from figures such as Gilles Deleuze (his notion of 'Repetition') and Friedrich Nietzsche (his notion of Perspectivism). Johns is a founding member of the Lincoln Philosophy Forum UK.
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The Logic of Enlightenment by Dave S Henley
ISBN: 978-1-78535-038-2 (Paperback) £12.99 $21.95
EISBN: 978-1-78535-039-9 (eBook) £7.99 $12.99
Enlightenment is a special kind of knowledge or insight that lifts the malaise of everyday life. But what exactly is it? This ground-breaking book offers a definitive logical account for the modern mind of the kind of knowledge that spiritual enlightenment provides, doing justice both to logic and to spirituality.
Zen and the Tao have expressed the mystical nature of enlightenment by contradictions and riddles; it is shown here that the reason enlightenment must be mystical in this way is that it is complementary to logic, expressing changes in the very nature of our understanding. It is this that makes our life magically switch from the existentially meaningless to one of profound meaning. For this switch to not be mystical, our desolation would have to already be solvable in terms of our current conceptions – which is precisely what often seems impossible for us.
This work should appeal both to the believer and the sceptic, by revealing the special relationship between spiritual enlightenment and Logic. Not only does it use logic to clarify what is meant by enlightenment, but it simultaneously shows how the mystical nature of enlightenment clarifies when and when not to use logical reasoning.
Dave S. Henley published on the nature of mathematics and information during his early career in the UK. Latterly he has devoted himself to spirituality. He is married and now resides in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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