Immortal Gestures [non-booktrade customers only]
$32.99
Unit price
/
per
Author: Damon Young
There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like afinger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, youare not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed tolook to the celestial light.I am asking you to look at the finger. The finger is also themoon.A tilted head. A finger to the lips. A wave that could meanemphasis or dismissal. A raised palm of piety and fellowship.Our gestures do not simply point to our thoughts, they areour thoughts made flesh. They can be instinctive, intuitive, orcalculated — or all three. They exist in the briefest momentand through history, in a gently turned wrist and across wholenations.Our gestures drag stories with them, whether they mean toor not. They are invitations to think about how our worlds arelarger than they seem — how we are much larger than we seem.Join award-winning philosopher Damon Young — author ofThe Art of Reading and Philosophy in the Garden — as he shedslight on thirteen curious gestures. Drawing equally from clas-sical poetry and science fiction, heavy metal and ballet, Youngilluminates our varied humanity from prehistory to today.DAMON YOUNG is a prize-winning philosopher and writer.He is the author or editor ofthirteen books, including TheArt of Reading, How to ThinkAbout Exercise, Philosophy inthe Garden, and Distraction. Hisworks have been translated intoeleven languages, and he hasalso written poetry, short fiction,and children’s fiction. Young isan Associate in Philosophy at theUniversity of Melbourne
ISBN 9781925849226. Scribe Publications. hb. 192 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm .
not yet published
There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like afinger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, youare not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed tolook to the celestial light.I am asking you to look at the finger. The finger is also themoon.A tilted head. A finger to the lips. A wave that could meanemphasis or dismissal. A raised palm of piety and fellowship.Our gestures do not simply point to our thoughts, they areour thoughts made flesh. They can be instinctive, intuitive, orcalculated — or all three. They exist in the briefest momentand through history, in a gently turned wrist and across wholenations.Our gestures drag stories with them, whether they mean toor not. They are invitations to think about how our worlds arelarger than they seem — how we are much larger than we seem.Join award-winning philosopher Damon Young — author ofThe Art of Reading and Philosophy in the Garden — as he shedslight on thirteen curious gestures. Drawing equally from clas-sical poetry and science fiction, heavy metal and ballet, Youngilluminates our varied humanity from prehistory to today.DAMON YOUNG is a prize-winning philosopher and writer.He is the author or editor ofthirteen books, including TheArt of Reading, How to ThinkAbout Exercise, Philosophy inthe Garden, and Distraction. Hisworks have been translated intoeleven languages, and he hasalso written poetry, short fiction,and children’s fiction. Young isan Associate in Philosophy at theUniversity of Melbourne
ISBN 9781925849226. Scribe Publications. hb. 192 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm .
not yet published