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- English
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About this book
Tolle's project is one of empowering humans to detach from the many externalities that people typically identify themselves by--histories, bodies, desires, beliefs, work, emotions, roles--which are thought to be the sources of personal affliction. To detach from them allows one to enjoy a more truthful and untroubled life. The "true self" that Tolle promotes is a self that is stripped of the externalities people identify with so that they might enter a spiritual realm that is transcendent and anxiety-free.
One of the criticisms of Tolle in this book is that the spiritual wisdom he promotes makes people less human and more spiritual, angelic, and godly. But that world--the world of spirits, angels, and gods--is not where people belong, says classics scholar Martha Nussbaum. Humans are mortals, and their mortality brings with it limitations and constraints within which they must operate. But operating within such limitations--which include time (temporality) and death--does not mean people are without resources in the human project to live and flourish.
Humanness has allowed people to develop an array of skills that have become their birthright--rationality, resourcefulness, emotional intelligence, cooperation, and storytelling, among others. This book argues that Tolle's project of transcending leads to an impoverishment of humanity; in contrast it calls for an understanding and embrace of humanness that allows people to flourish within the limits imposed upon them within their material and bodily conditions.
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ReligionTable of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Oneself as Another
- Chapter 2: A Critique of Tolle’s Notion of the Body
- Chapter 3: Tolle’s Disregard for the Particular
- Chapter 4: That’s Just a Story
- Chapter 5: Angelic Life, Foundations, and Transcendence
- Bibliography
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