The digital version of the Self, Text & World lecture booklet is available in the Store section of the website now for only $24! The booklet of contains the essential points from the third lecture in the 10-part NMS lecture series. It is 40 pages in length and also has a handy (and extensive) glossary of terms for ease of reference. The booklet is available in the Store section of the website ($24: www.cmc3industries.com/store) and in hard copy form at the public lectures. It continues many of the themes and issues contained in the foregoing lectures/lecture booklets and specifically explores:
- hermeneutics: history, relationship to the text, interpretation, fusion of horizons, reflexivity, listening, etc.
- the relationship between self and world, self and text, text and world, self and other, etc.
- the personal/subjective side: Jungian individuation/integration, differentiation, adaptive thinking, emotional intelligence, how to assess others and oneself, etc.
- epistemology: what is knowledge? What do I know? What is the value/status of different types of knowledge? How may I assess what kind and whether I have ‘knowledge’? What does it entitle me to say or claim? What does it entitle/suggest/obligate me to do (action) in the world? Detachment/disinterestedness, objectivity, etc.
- alignment: alignment with the text in order to know and internalise it; alignment between text and world and self and world; alignment with your own thoughts/judgements/criticism/decisions
- discourse ethics, communicative rationality, dialogical learning, deliberative democracy, democratological neomandarinisation, etc.
Head on over to the Store now to purchase Self, Text & World!