عنوان

Assessing Borrowing

شماره

LA108392

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Assessing Borrowing

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Joseph Azize

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The history of esoteric currents cannot be intrinsically closed to scholarly research and query. Here, we shall examine just one question: that of methodology in examining the sources of esoteric systems. We shall take but one case study: that of Tobias Churton's recent book-length efforts to "deconstruct" George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and his teaching. Like others before him, he traces diverse aspects of Gurdjieff's teaching to different sources, viewing Gurdjieff as a synthesiser, who disguised his debt to Western Esotericism and presented it as his "Fourth Way". How can such a theory be evaluated? Is it possible to draw up a canon of principles for assessing borrowing? In evaluating borrowing, does the whole of a teaching possess a significance over and above the parts? What is the significance of the phenomenon of borrowing? After noting some results of research on inter-cultural borrowings in ancient mythology, I make suggestions for sound methodology. The history of esoteric currents cannot be intrinsically closed to scholarly research and query. Here, we shall examine just one question: that of methodology in examining the sources of esoteric systems. We shall take but one case study: that of Tobias Churton's recent book-length efforts to "deconstruct" George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and his teaching. Like others before him, he traces diverse aspects of Gurdjieff's teaching to different sources, viewing Gurdjieff as a synthesiser, who disguised his debt to Western Esotericism and presented it as his "Fourth Way". How can such a theory be evaluated? Is it possible to draw up a canon of principles for assessing borrowing? In evaluating borrowing, does the whole of a teaching possess a significance over and above the parts? What is the significance of the phenomenon of borrowing? After noting some results of research on inter-cultural borrowings in ancient mythology, I make suggestions for sound methodology.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

1-30

عنوان

Aries

شماره جلد

20/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0593

اصطلاح موضوعی

cultural borrowing

اصطلاح موضوعی

esoteric tradition

اصطلاح موضوعی

Fourth Way

اصطلاح موضوعی

gnosticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Gurdjieff

اصطلاح موضوعی

P.D. Ouspensky

اصطلاح موضوعی

Tobias Churton

اصطلاح موضوعی

Yezidis

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Joseph Azize

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700593-02001001

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y