Cover Reveal: Reviving Intellectual Intuition in Metaphysics
Contemplative Philosophies and Being
Hi Substack community,
My new book, Reviving Intellectual Intuition in Metaphysics: Contemplative Philosophies and Being, will be published by Bloomsbury in December 2024, but it’s already appearing on Amazon and elsewhere for preorder! (By the way, the price is typical for academic monographs, and I have no control over the pricing.)
Reviving Intellectual Intuition in Metaphysics represents a natural development of my thinking, teaching, and writing about religious pluralism and comparative mysticism over the decades. The description below (which I originally wrote) captures my call for a revival in philosophy of intellectual intuition.
Description
Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose proposes to overcome the forgetfulness of being through contemplative ontology. (Updated one-line description)
Rose argues for the reinstatement of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant. His claim is not merely the conclusion of a thought-experiment or of an exercise in conceptual analysis. It is the result of the contemplative recognition of being with a meditatively concentrated intellect: nous in Greek and buddhi in Sanskrit. Recognizing intellectual intuition as a long-neglected faculty of philosophical insight, Rose shows how it can result in an immediate, intuitive discerning of being. He discusses how being parcels itself out into the intellectual forms providing the underlying nonphysical arrangement of the physical and mental worlds.
By reviving the use of intellectual intuition in metaphysics, Rose draws upon historical sources across multiple Asian and Anglo-European philosophical schools. This is a work of contemplative constructive philosophy that breaks down divisions between science, philosophy, and religion and between diverse cultures and divergent worldviews.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Forgetfulness of Being and Its Recovery
2. The Scope and History of Intellectual Intuition
3. Reviving Intellectual Intuition
4. Contemplative Metaphysical Practice
5. The Metaphysics of Intellectual Intuition
Conclusion: The Outcomes of Contemplative Metaphysics
Bibliography
Index
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Intellectual intuition has a long history in European philosophy (intellektuelle Anschauung). Kant limited it, but Fichte and Schelling tried to renovate it. The phrase "forgetfulness of being" is from Heidegger, and he is one of the philosophers who appears in the book, but my view of being is a result of the meditative use of intellectual intuition.
Why use the word «intellectual»; sounds curious to me. Do you formulate Being like Heidegger ?