David B. Zilberman: Selected Essays

Springer Verlag (2023)
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Abstract

This book is a selection of articles by David Zilberman, a prolific author, whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish many of his undertakings. Zilberman’s work represents a fresh word in the way of philosophizing or philosophy-building and the technique of modal methodology. This book comprises of thirteen independent articles that are not related by content. The point of thematic convergence of these articles is the way they reflect the new way of methodological thinking through the application and benefits of modalization or modal methodology that unfolds unbound possibilities of philosophic elaborations. By shifting constantly from one position to another, Zilberman disclosed the antinomicity of all types of thought. Such an approach led him to outline for the first time his major attempt to start creating not "systems" but "sums" of philosophies so that the philosophical activity would be able to re-emerge on the slopes of such "sums." The book can be used as a starting point of a discussion, especially in study of philosophy. We imagine it can be used in undergraduate classes on World Philosophies or Intercultural Philosophy courses. With that, it can serve as a useful resource for adding intercultural elements into Western-centered courses.

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The Emergence of Semiotics in India: Some Approaches to Understanding Lakṣaṇā in Hindu and Buddhist Philosophical Usages

The picture on the canvas is more real to the artist than his idea. The material gave him stability or steadiness while he worked on the parts which in their harmony, at which he also works, reveal the whole, that no part can. But the artist approaches in the course of time such a capacity for inner... see more

Approaching Discourses Between Three Persons About Modal Methodology and Summa Metaphysicorum

Around ten days ago, I intended having a talk with you protractedly and substantively, but gradually the enthusiasm melted down, that moment with its images and feelings, passed and now I am turning to you hastily and in some disorder, merely avoiding dragging any further.

On the Philosophical Work of Zilberman (First Brief Introduction)

The major problem of modern philosophizing, both in Russia and in general, is very similar to what happened in philosophizing about a hundred years ago. If we admit, of course, that we understand philosophizing as actual occupation of people pertaining to quite real type of philosophers and not crea... see more

Semiotic Function of Kabbalah Mystical Experience in the Interpretation of Historical Situations

These notes are the attempt to provide a semiotic interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah in the whole course of Jewish history that is understood here as a special kind of sign process. Symbolic systems of religious-mystical thought, such as the Kabbalah, are so universal that t... see more

Semantic Shifts in Epic Composition (On the ‘Modal’ Poetics of the Mahābhārata)

The subject of this paper is poetical inversion, and it will be studied in the first ten chapters of Book Ten of The Mahābhārata.I The kind of inversion to be looked for is neither rhythmical nor syntactical. In a very peculiar sense, it does not dwell in the epical text at all, for, as the reader s... see more

On Cultural Relativism and “Radical Doubt”

Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, in their study of culture,I mention in passing that Descartes, the man who commenced the new Western philosophy by introducing his method of “radical doubt,” was also the first one who detected the problem of cultural relativism. And indeed, as we read in Chapter ... see more

Culture-Historical Reconstruction and Mythology in the Anthropology of Paul Radin

Paul Radin occupies a rather special place in the history of anthropology. Until the end of the first decade of the twentieth century he identified himself with the Boas circle of cultural anthropology, but then he moved away from that school of thought and elaborated an independent program for the ... see more

Orthodox Ethics and the Matter of Communism

There seems to be no end to the polemics started by Max Weber’s famous essay on the role of Protestant ethics in the formation of modem capitalist society.I Weber suggested that in the original features of a certain kind of religiosity, as in the bud, one can recognize a specific social action which... see more

Hegel and Mīmāṃsā: Thinking as Ritual (Outlines of the Imperative Grammar)

What is pursued here represents a different approach not in philosophy but towards philosophy. For thinking to the approach is a process, therefore the procedure of correlating Hegel and Mīmāṃsā provides our purpose with the matter. At first sight, the possibility of such correlation does not look p... see more

The Anticipation of Awakening

The dull and featureless field of life is marked here and there with pegs of assertion, imparting stability of trance to this wearisome and meaningless roaming the desert of experience. “This happened once already...” Psychologically, these reminiscences of the past immemorial are associated with th... see more

Reflections on Ontology in Six Darśaṇas

Do six “reflections” of Hindu philosophical thought comprise anything that could be definitely identified as “Ontology?” The question is not as simple as it seems. Every philosopheme contains some existential statements prima facie or something identifiable as “doctrine of being.” Perhaps the direct... see more

A Symphony of Looking-Glasses: Hindu Systems of Thought as Cultural “Existents”

The title of this lecture must sound unfamiliar and exotic at the Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science. So it will be the first of my tasks to show how the subject of the lecture belongs or, rather, should belong here. To start with, the material presented really covers, in some part... see more

Dialectical Psychology (Some Notes on Aristotle’s De Anima)

De Anima. This small treatise of Aristotle still counts high for its great methodological merits. One can learn from this material not only how the science of psychology has to be organized but also what pitfalls it should avoid and why its development is determined by the science of nature on the o... see more

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