Time, Consciousness and Writing : : Peter Malekin Illuminating the Divine Darkness / / Robert Eddy, Theo Malekin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Eddy, Robert; Malekin, Theo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 pages).

Time, Consciousness and Writing brings together a collection of critical reflections on Peter Malekin’s “model of the mind”, which he saw as a crucial yet often neglected aspect of critical theory in relation to theatre, literature and the arts. The volume begins with a selection of Peter Malekin’s own writings that lay out his critique of western culture, its overstated claims to universal competence and validity, and lays out an alternative view of consciousness that draws partly on Asian traditions and partly on underground traditions from the west. The essays that follow, commissioned for this volume, critically examine Malekin’s ideas, drawing out their implications in a variety of contexts including theatre, liturgical performance, poetry and literature. The book ends with an assessment of future prospects opened by this work.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Locating Time, Consciousness and Writing and the Work of Peter Malekin -- A Mini-Reader of Peter Malekin Writing -- The Dying Swan’s Last Croak: Time and the Direct Experience of Unity within Multiplicity in Literature, Theatre and Human Consciousness / Peter Malekin -- What Price Humanity? / Peter Malekin -- Language and Contemporary Critical Theory / Peter Malekin and Ralph Yarrow -- Introduction, Jacob Boehme / Peter Malekin -- Postscript: the Flight of the Butterflies / Peter Malekin -- Jacob Boehme’s Influence on William Law / Peter Malekin -- Influences of the Work of Peter Malekin -- Liturgy as Spiritual Performance in the Early Christian Church / David Jasper -- Embodying Ethics: Stoppard’s The Hard Problem, Peter Malekin on Consciousness and How to Be Where I Am Not / Ralph Yarrow -- Time and Space Do Not Exist: on Time and Consciousness in August Strindberg / Theo Malekin -- ‘Not Self-Expression but Expressiveness’: on Poetic Language / Grevel Lindop -- Time and Consciousness in Hymnody / J.R. Watson -- Timelessness in Chinese Poetry and Friendship / An Lan Zhang -- Peter Malekin’s Teaching, Ludic Awareness and Social Justice / Robert Eddy -- Implied Futures in the Work and Influences of Peter Malekin -- Theatre without Conflict: Practice as Research / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe -- Time and Consciousness in Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans / Stevie Davies -- Encountering Consciousness and Conscience: Peter Malekin on Ethical Engagement and the Fate of Humanity / Daphne Grace -- Not Same, Not Different: Counting Temporalities in Peter Malekin’s Alchemy of Time and Ruth Ozeki’s Time Being / John Streamas -- Afterword: Fixing the World.