The Innate Capacity

by Robert K.C. Forman

This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's well-received collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system--a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to deconstruction in general and to the "constructivist" school of mysticism in particular, which holds that all mysticism is the product of a cultural and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195116976
• ISBN13: 9780195116977
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"