Research Catalog

Title

Choros : the orchestrating self : lamentation and celebration / Leonard Charles Feldstein.

Author

Feldstein, Leonard Charles, 1922-

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 1984.

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Details

Description

xvii, 502 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Self (Philosophy)
• Philosophical anthropology
• philosophical anthropology
• Philosophical anthropology
• Philosophische Anthropologie
• Körper
• Philosophie
• Freiheit
• Ontologie
• Mensch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Psyche and person: the wholeness of man -- Self divided -- Bifurcated psyche and social self: the solitary unconscious -- The psychic flow -- Endopsyhic structures -- The thwarted self -- Rhythm and symbol: a hermeneutic of the human body -- Physique as rhythm -- Physiognomy as symbol -- Hermeneutics of the body -- Luminosity: the unconscious in the integrated person -- The unconscious as mediator -- The unconscious in health and in pathology -- The unconscious in comportment -- Being effulgent: the rhythms of man -- Searching: the ground of human being -- Personal freedom: the dialectics of self-possession -- Correlating the scriptural triad with the classical triad: truth, goodness, and beauty -- The emergence of veridical freedom -- Toward integrity and wisdom: justice as grounding personal harmony -- Justice as preparing the way to wisdom -- Integrity as justice consummated -- Justice as human ecology, human symbol, and human rhythm -- The double journey: a vision of the consummate self -- The person as symbol: origins of symbolic activity -- The self's inner journey -- The ground of inwardness -- Re-thinking the unconscious: its dissolution and its supersession -- The unconscious as ground for human ontology -- The unconscious as unbody and unmind -- Symbolic presentation and representation -- The veridical ground of the self: human comportment as personing-forth -- The locus of human being: substance and symbol -- A unified self: the integral I as rooted within the person and without the person -- Growing the path to integrity -- Metamorphosis: the commedia, paradigm for stages along life's way -- Inferno -- Purgatorio -- Paradiso -- Crisis and complementarity: from tragedy to ecstasy -- The self-engendering self -- The self-affirming self -- The self-consummating self -- Human dialogue: the interweavings of doubt and certitude -- The problematic self -- The self-resolving self -- The authentic self -- Schemes of presenc and compresence: oscillations of detachment and empathy -- Primordial experience -- From primordial to consummatory experience -- The fruition of experience -- Symbols of human encounter: the rhthms of self and cosmos -- Self-articulation -- Self-discovery -- Self-creativity -- Speaking: the path to wisdom -- The context of utterance: textures of words and things -- Word-thing correlations -- Meanings disclosed through human encounter -- The word-thing complex: distortions and consummations -- Rhythms of Utterance: speech as the apotheosis of dance; dance as the matrix of speech -- Language as music -- The autonomy of words -- Speech as apotheosis; dance as matrix -- Fabric of utterance: orchestrated patterns of symbol transformation -- Words as revealing the truth of things; things as revealing the truth of words -- Mutual adequation of words and things revealing the truth of being -- The truth of being as emerging in the context of symbol formation -- Matrices of utterance: the primordia of speech as inner imagery -- Interior images exteriorized -- The labyrinth of the image -- The dance of imagery transmuted into a dance of gesture -- Caverns of silence and vibrancy: the shaping of the I-its roots in the cosmos -- Person as labyrinth; world as labyrinth -- The intrinsic identity between immanence and transcendence -- The still within; the still beyound -- Being transfigured: the oneness of man -- A self united -- The intregral agent: mind and body as one -- Reflection and replication -- Coherence and reflection -- Rhythm and coherence -- Powers potentiated: the activity of individuation -- Personing-forth as consummate personhood -- Symbolic presence: the ramifying of unactualized power -- Uniqueness, individuality, and personal identity -- Authenticity: rhythms of quest and encounter-wisdom's unfolding phases -- Presence and compresence -- Transfiguration: the interweaveings of lamentation and celebration -- Transcendence and the transcendental.

ISBN

• 0823210758
• 9780823210756

LCCN

83081852

OCLC

• ocm11736996
• 11736996
• SCSB-1168083

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library