Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought

Auteur

Benedikt Paul Göcke, Dr. phil., Dr. theol., is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He is also a Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Göcke is the author of A Theory of the Absolute (2014), Alles in Gott? (2012), and The Panentheism of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (2018) and the editor of After Physicalism (2012) and The Infinity of God (2018), among other volumes. He has published articles in such journals as The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, Zygon, Sophia, Faith and Philosophy, TheoLogica, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Theologie und Philosophie.

Swami Medhananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He also serves as Hindu Chaplain at both UCLA and the University of Southern California. His current research focuses on Ved ntic philosophical traditions, global philosophy of religion, cosmopolitan approaches to consciousness, Indian scriptural hermeneutics, and the philosophies of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and Sri Aurobindo. He is the author of three books: Swami Vivekananda's Ved ntic Cosmopolitanism (2022), Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion (2018), and The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno (2013). He is also the editor of The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Ved nta (2020) and two special issues of the International Journal of Hindu Studies, one on "Ved ntic Theodicies" and one on "Swami Vivekananda as a Cosmopolitan Thinker." He has published over 30 articles in academic journals. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he specialized in German aesthetics, and was also a Fulbright Scholar at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Visiting Student at Oxford University.

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For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-depth study of a wide range of Indian paradigms of panentheism, both ancient and modern, and brings these paradigms into creative and constructive dialogue with Western traditions.

Contenu

1. Introduction Benedikt Paul Göcke and Swami Medhananda
   2. Abhinavagupta's Panentheism in Dialogue with Contemporary Neuroscience: Vimar a and Integrated Information Theory (IIT) Loriliai Biernacki 3 Embodying the Boundless: The Logic of the Infinite in the Cosmologies of Ibn 'Arab and R m nuja Ankur Barua and Hina Khalid
      4. Vi i dvaitic Panentheism and the Liberating Function of Love in Weil, Murdoch, and R m nuja Raja Rosenhagen
         5. Roots of Reality: The Philosophy of Foundation in Spinoza's and r niv sa's Monisms Jessica Frazier
            6. Divine Minds: Idealism as Panentheism in Berkeley and Vasubandhu Sebastian Gäb
               7. Replacing Pantheism: The Principles behind the Principium Individuationis, the pañcaup d nakkhandha and the päicca samupp da, with Reference to Arthur Schopenhauer and K.E. Neumann Stephan Atzert
                  8. Indian in Spirit? Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's Panentheism and the Vedic Traditions Benedikt Paul Göcke
                     9. How to Do Things with Ved nta: Josiah Royce's Absolute Idealism and His Misinterpretation of Upani adic Panentheism Swami Medhananda 10 Process and Ved ntic Panentheism: The Panentheistic Models of Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin, Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda Jeffery D. Long
                        11. Panentheism, the Necessity of the Cosmos, and Divine Time Ryan T. Mullins
                            12. Beyond Panentheism: An Advaita Conversation with Christian Panentheism Anantanand Rambachan