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- » Adrián Navigante,
Director of Research and Intellectual Dialogue at FAD
THE FREEDOM OF BEING IN-RELATION: ALAIN DANIÉLOU THROUGH THE VEIL OF TIME
This essay is a modified version of the introduction to the new Italian edition of Alain Daniélou’s Le Chemin du Labyrinthe. Ever since the publication of the first edition in 1981, these « memoirs » of Alain Daniélou have been taken mainly as a personal account of his life or as a testimony on a « bygone India » – outstripped by modernization and scholarship. Adrián Navigante shows that the scope of Le chemin du labyrinthe is much broader than its reception so far. If the reader takes the figure of the labyrinth seriously and follows the traces left by Daniélou, this seeming autobiography becomes a courageous intellectual adventure going far beyond India, in which thought is not detached from life, spirituality is not devoid of eroticism, and creativity is not opposed to knowledge but complementary to it.
Lire la suite » - » Amanda Viana de Sousa,
Philosopher and Assistant of Research and Intellectual Dialogue at FAD
THE QUESTION OF ‘ANIMISM’ IN ALAIN DANIÉLOU
In this essay, Amanda Viana de Sousa approaches a central question in Daniélou’s work: animism. Through a historical reconstruction and a systematic analysis of this concept, she shows, in the first part of the essay, the radical change of connotation in the use of this term. The emergence of the new connotation is due both to the influence of the new anthropology (with its progressive critique of ethnocentric models) and to the increasing awareness of other modes of being (mainly in indigenous cultures) across the globe. The second part of the essay is a detailed analysis of a new understanding of animism in Daniélou’s thought, which in some ways is related to the radical transformation of that term between the end of the XX century and today.
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Indologist, Yoga Teacher and ex FAD Grantee
WHERE BEAUTY BLOSSOMS
In this essay, Gioia Lussana approaches the relationship between aesthetic experience [rasāsvāda] and religious experience [brahmāsvāda] in the context of the medieval non-dual Śaivism of Kaśmīr. Focusing on the Abhinavabhāratī, Abhinavagupta’s commentary to the Naṭyaśāstra, as well as on Raffaele Torella’s recent studies on that text, Gioia Lussana explores the modalities and intricacies of the perception of beauty – even as part of everyday life experience which, in the inclusive view of non-dual Tantrism, also hosts the potential to generate beauty.
Lire la suite » - » Tova Olsson,
Doctoral researcher at the Umeå University, Sweden
LUCE IRIGARAY AND THE SOMATIC TURN, A FEMININE FORM OF LIBERATION: THE INFLUENCE OF TANTRA ON WESTERN FEMINIST THEORY
Belgian philosopher, psychoanalyst and linguist Luce Irigaray has received both praise and critique over the years: she has been called one of the most important voices in the quest for female subjectivity, as well as a gender essentialist. In this article, Tova Olsson explores the profound influence of Yoga and Tantra on her writing, particularly in her interpretation of masculinity, femininity, and polarity, showcasing how these embodied practices have distinctly shaped her work.
Lire la suite » - » Adrián Navigante,
Director of Research and Intellectual Dialogue at FAD
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP ANIMISM AND PAGANISM: A TRANSVERSAL APPROACH
From September 29 to October 1 2023, an important workshop took place at the Labyrinth: Animism and Paganism: A Transversal Approach. This interaction consolidated the transcultural and ecosophical line inaugurated in 2018 in the context of the Alain Daniélou Foundation, not only owing to the intellectual quality of its participants (among others Graham Harvey, Barbara Glowczewski and Luis Eduardo Luna) but also to the broad spectrum of the discussions – a way of doing justice to the wide-ranging heritage of Alain Daniélou. Adrián Navigante’s introduction to the workshop provides a general picture of his embodied and pluri-dimensional art of thinking which was both the aim of the workshop and the main motivation in the Research and Intellectual Dialogue domain.
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