Book Description
Professor de Nicolas presents the reader with actualized posibilities of knowing other cultures as they knew themselves. In his work, philosophy becomes an ongoing synthesis of knowledge and sensation. This new translation of The Bhagavad Gita, with its easy and beautiful reading, is a major philosophical attempt to read a most important text of a culture in it's own context.
About the Author
Dr. Antonio T. de Nicolas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York, at Stony Brook. He has written, translated or edited some twenty seven books. And is as well known for his prose as his poetry.
Avatara: The Humanization of Philosophy Through the Bhagavad Gita FROM THE PUBLISHER
Professor de Nicolas presents the reader with actualized posibilities of knowing other cultures as they knew themselves. In his work, philosophy becomes an ongoing synthesis of knowledge and sensation. This new translation of The Bhagavad Gita, with its easy and beautiful reading, is a major philosophical attempt to read a most important text of a culture in it's own context.
SYNOPSIS
A philosophical journey through Greek philosophy, comtemporary philosophy and the Bhagavad Gita, on Ortegy y Gasset's Intercultural theme: Man and Circumstance
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