Richard White, PhD, professor in the Department of Philosophy, has just published a new book with Bloomsbury Press. The book is called Spiritual Philosophers: From Schopenhauer to Irigaray, and it is a philosophical investigation of spiritual themes in the work of nine important modern thinkers: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kandinsky, Benjamin, Jung, Hillman, Foucault, Derrida and Irigaray. This is the third book of a trilogy that White has written on the philosophy of spirituality, an emerging field in philosophy. The other books are The Heart of Wisdom: A Philosophy of Spiritual Life(2012) and The Spiritual Guide: Four Steps on the Path of Enlightenment (2016).
Below is a blurb from the new book:
Spiritual Philosophers: From Schopenhauer to Irigaray (NY, London: Bloomsbury, 2020):
How does a close examination of key spiritual philosophers help us to live in the modern world? And in what way does philosophy illuminate spiritual themes? This book answers these questions by discussing a range of important philosophers, and other significant thinkers, from Arthur Schopenhauer to Luce Irigaray. Each chapter examines the work of a single author and a theme closely associated with them, such as Nietzsche on generosity, Kandinsky on art, Jung on religion, and Derrida on mourning. The book argues that despite the rise of reductive scientific materialism, we can recover a spiritual tradition that is philosophical in nature, and which embraces this world here and now.
