表中的内容
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
1. “God”
2.Historical Retrospect
The Unique Individual Creates Scripture
Complex Origins
History of the Gita Connection
3. The Case for Shared Absolutes
4. Life Symbols That Essentialize
Ax/Axis/Axes
The Upside-Down Tree
The Field (kshetra)/“The Bean-Field”
Eye and Light
5. Social and Ethical Absolutes
Courage/Cowardice
Sincerity/Hypocrisy
Egalitarianism/Elitism
6. Purity
7. Reality and Being
Body (Self/Spirit)
Matter and the Levels of Spirit
Essence and Tropology: Synecdoche and the Punch of Cumulative, Climactic, Terminal Metaphor
Denial of Opposites (dvandva-moha-nir-mukta)
Liberation from Delusion
The Infinitudes, Especially of Time
8. Three Ways to God
Preamble: Yoga
Work (karma)
Knowledge
Faith (s´raddaha)/Loving Devotion (bhakti)
9. The Gita within Walden Expanded: A Poetics for Activism
Gita, Gandhi, Walden, King: The Making of a Political Classic
Conclusions
References
Index
关于作者
Paul Friedrich is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, includingFrom Root to Flower and Music in Russian Poetry.