Gli otto capitoli in cui è suddivisa l'opera affrontano diversi aspetti della storia delle idee, delle pratiche sociali, della simbologia politica, della letteratura e delle arti visive in relazione alla falconeria. Tale scelta metodologica ha come scopo non di suggerire una (improbabile) dipendenza dell'una cultura dall'altra, quanto piuttosto di mostrare l'individualità di ciascuna all'interno di una prospettiva unitaria. more «Il volo della mente» indaga le implicazioni filosofiche, letterarie e artistiche della falconeria nel Medioevo in prospettiva mediterranea: accanto e insieme alle testimonianze del mondo mediterraneo, sono prese in considerazione anche alcune tra le più significative espressioni culturali della civiltà islamica. «Il volo della mente» indaga le implicazioni filosofiche, letterarie e artistiche della falconeri. ![]() Today more than ever we and that world depend, for our survival, on the choices we are about to make. In the words of David Abram, one of the most distinguished contributors to the present volume: «We are fully human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human», that is to say with the more-than-human living world. Today, indigenous traditions weave this same ancestral message into the ecological discourse, with the same goal of endowing environmentalism with its necessary wisdom-based foundations hence, their voice too has been included in these pages. They therefore promoted the need for an epistemological shift in our perception of reality. Corbin clearly saw, and proclaimed, that without a reclaiming of the Intelligence of the Heart there is no future for humanity, nor for our communal home. From ancient Egypt to the Hermetic, Pythagorean, Presocratic, mysteric, Neoplatonic wisdom traditions, the vestiges of this knowing are traceable all along the history of the Indo-mediterranean world.ĭuring the first half of the twentieth century people such as G.R.S. The wisdom necessary to achieve such a sense of interbeing -our only true being, in fact - is now urgently calling upon us, yet it comes from afar. This collection of essays argues that, in order to regain a meaningful connection to our “communal home”, just “caring for the environment” is simply not enough: rather, we need to recover the vision and inner presence that allows us to feel, and to inwardly know, how radically we belong to this home of ours. ![]() ![]() Oikos in Greek is the communal home, and this word has generated the prefix of both «eco-logy» and «eco-nomy». Why «Oikosophia», and what does this new and yet archaic word mean? Sophia in Greek means Wisdom, a knowing, or intelligence, which once used to be called “of the heart”: that is to say, an inherently relational, inborn way of being in unison with the totality of the living world, rather than the analytical approach of a discriminating intelligence that reifies. more File contains table of contents and my introduction (original in Italian and self-translation in English) For further info: File contains table of contents and my introduction (original in Italian and self-translation in.
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