God Inside-Out

TRAMA

This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. The notion of the god at play, argue Handelman and Shulman, is one of the most central and expressive veins in the metaphysics elaborated through the centuries, in many idioms and modes, around the god.

NOTE EDITORE

Siva, one of the great Hindu gods, spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. This book attempts to understand the logic implicit in this theology of play, fragmentation, divine self-knowledge and love.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780195108453
• Dimensioni: 210 x 17.8 x 141 mm Ø 285 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: halftones, line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 232