The Ethics of Oneness
Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita
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Table of Contents
Contents
An Invitation to All
Introduction
Chapter 1 Over-Soul
Chapter 2 Cosmos
Chapter 3 Bodies
Chapter 4 Two Visions
Chapter 5 Genius
Chapter 6 Democracy
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1 Over-Soul
Chapter 2 Cosmos
Chapter 3 Bodies
Chapter 4 Two Visions
Chapter 5 Genius
Chapter 6 Democracy
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Review Quotes
Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda and Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times
“I learned something new and exciting on virtually every page of The Ethics of Oneness. Engels doesn’t just reveal and analyze the India-Emerson-Whitman connections, he situates them where they matter the most: in everyday life at a time when the revelation of Oneness is desperately needed. At a time when diversity is celebrated by some and weaponized by others, apprehending the Unity within and beyond that diversity is an essential task for humanity. By demonstrating that Oneness is as American as it is Eastern—and profoundly democratic at that—this book makes a contribution more valuable than the currency on which E pluribus unum is engraved.”
John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche and Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
"The appeal to ‘oneness’ is regularly and dangerously mistaken for an appeal to absolute order, to strict unity, to lockstep cohesion. The Ethics of Oneness disabuses us of this confusion. Engels shows his readers how nineteenth-century-American thinkers responded to the fracturing of their political world and the tearing of the country’s social fabric by developing a philosophy of oneness—fluid, transcendent, and spiritual—that stood against the forces of exclusion and domination which jeopardized modern life. This is a philosophy that is all but forgotten today, which is to say that Engels has written an essential book for our time. We stand in need of his reminder."
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