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The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita

The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita

Engels, Jeremy David

Hardcover

PhilosophyReligion General Hinduism

ISBN10: 022674597X
ISBN13: 9780226745978
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Apr 19 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better time than now to reconsider ideas of unity.

In The Ethics of Oneness, Jeremy David Engels reads the Bhagavad Gita alongside the works of American thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. Drawing on this rich combination of traditions, Engels presents the notion that individuals are fundamentally interconnected in their shared divinity. In other words, everything is one. If the lessons of oneness are taken to heart, particularly as they were expressed and celebrated by Whitman, and the ethical challenges of oneness considered seriously, Engels thinks it is possible to counter the pervasive and problematic American ideals of hierarchy, exclusion, violence, and domination.

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