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Chapter 10: Social-Spiritual Activism: Activism that Thaws the False Self and Fosters Mutuality of Presence

Drawing on the concluding passages from Chapter 9, this final chapter begins by emphasizing that the aim of a new social-spiritual activism must be to link social change with a deepening ...

Chapter 9: The Movement’s Lack of Confidence in Itself: On the Necessity of Spiritualizing Social Activism

Chapter 8: Knowledge, Truth, and Understanding

This book has relied implicitly the compelling nature of phenomenological descriptions in illuminating human and inter-human reality--both the experience of ...

Chapter 7: Politics as the Struggle Over Who ‘We’ Are: On the Necessity of Building a Parallel Universe

Chapter 6: The Economic System as a Network of Alienated Reciprocities

This chapter shows how the characterization of the so-called "economic system" is actually an over-objectification ...

Chapter 5: Language, Thought, Ideology

This chapter describes the way that the the false self's representation of itself "as if it were real" is carried ...

Chapter 1: The Desire for Mutual Recognition

This chapter introduces the idea of the desire for mutual recognition as a manifestation of our ...

Introduction

The introduction first seeks to capture briefly the core idea of the book: the conflict between the ...