Imperfection / / Patrick Grant.
"".aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection."" It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for ju...
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| Superior document: | Cultural Dialectics, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, [Alberta] : : AU Press,, 2012. ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural dialectics.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: Imperfection. 1 Plato and the Limits of Idealism; 2 The Van Gogh Letters: The Art of the Unfinished; 3 The Trouble with Visions; 4 Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Regressive Inversion; 5 Osama, Theo, and the Burnt Fool's Bandaged Finger; 6 What the Buddha Didn't Say; 7 Not So Good News: The Gospel According to Mark
- PART II: Self. 8 Immortal Souls and State Executions; 9 The Eyes Have It: Seeing One's Self and Others; 10 The God of Battles and the Irish Dimension of Shakespeare's Henry V.