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Aztec philosophy : understanding a world in motion
- Title
- Aztec philosophy : understanding a world in motion / James Maffie.
- Author
- Maffie, James
- Publication
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 592 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Teotl. Teotl ; Supporting scholarship ; The cosmos as Teotl's artistic-shamanic self-transformation ; Some implications of and objections against several aspects of this interpretation of Aztec metaphysics -- Pantheism. Pantheism ; The sacred ; Neltiliztli, self-presentation, and nonhierarchical well-ordering ; Ixiptla and Teixiptla ; Animism ; Objections and replies -- Agonistic inamic unity. Agonistic inamic unity ; Agonistic inamic unity as a pattern in the weaving of the cosmos ; Examining agonistic inamic unity ; Artistic presentations of agonistic inamic unity ; Abstract inamic pairs ; Balance and imbalance, and center and perphery are not inamic pairs ; Ometeotl -- Teotl as Olin. Olin ; Linguistic evidence ; Literary evidence ; Graphic evidence -- Teotl as Malinalli. Linguistic evidence ; Literary evidence ; Graphic evidence -- Teotl as Nepantla. Linguistic evidence ; Literary evidence ; Graphic evidence -- Teotl as time-place. Introductory remarks on time and place ; The Tonalpohualli ; The Xihuitl or Xiuhpohualli ; Aztec cosmogony ; Aztec time-place : a monistic and processive interpretation -- Weaving the cosmos : reality and cosmos as Nepantla process. The dynamics of the Aztec cosmos ; Backstrap weaving ; Weaving the fifth sun-Earth age ; The first four sun-Earth ages as Nepantla process ; The fifth age as Nepantla-gerenated woven house ; The vertical folding of the cosmos and of the fifth age ; Cosmos and reality as Nepantla process -- Conclusion: Nepantla and Aztec philosophy.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-3641
- ISBN
- 9781607322221 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1607322226 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781607322238 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013018407
- OCLC
- 821025042
- Author
- Maffie, James, author.
- Title
- Aztec philosophy : understanding a world in motion / James Maffie.
- Publisher
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-3641