The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

by Rama Coomaraswamy (Editor)

Overview

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was engaged in the world not only as a scholarly expositor of traditional culture and philosophy, but also as a radical critic of contemporary life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780941532464
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	03/22/2004
Series:	Perennial Philosophy Series
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.92(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Color and Black-and-White Illustrations	vi
	List of Abbreviations	vii
	Foreword	xi
	Introduction	1
	Prologue: A Fateful Meeting of Minds: A. K. Coomaraswamy and R. Guenon	7
1.	A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?	21
2.	The Bugbear of Literacy	53
3.	On the Pertinence of Philosophy	67
4.	Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge	87
5.	Beauty and Truth	97
6.	The Interpretation of Symbols	103
7.	Why Exhibit Works of Art?	111
8.	The Christian and Oriental, or True, Philosophy of Art	123
9.	Is Art a Superstition, or a Way of Life?	153
10.	The Nature of Medieval Art	173
11.	Ars sine scientia nihil	177
12.	Imitation, Expression, and Participation	181
13.	Samvega: "Aesthetic Shock"	193
14.	What is Civilization?	201
15.	The Nature of "Folklore" and "Popular Art"	213
16.	Primitive Mentality	225
17.	The Coming to Birth of the Spirit	247
18.	Quod factum est in ipso vita erat	261
19.	The Hindu Tradition: The Myth	267
20.	The Hindu Tradition: Theology and Autology	275
	Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases	291
	Bibliographical References	295
	Biographical Notes	299
	Index	301