Recollections of My Life

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding "the life of the infinitely small." Widely thought of as the founder of neuroscience, Cajal made remarkable explorations into the organization and function of the nervous system. His work is still referred to more than that of any other scientist in the field.

W. Maxwell Cowan's foreword to this edition conveys the excitement and energy of Cajal's life and endeavors, the liveliness and flamboyance of his engagements with the microscope. Cowan surveys Cajal's salient discoveries, noting that almost every important conceptual issue in neurobiology was foreshadowed in Cajal's work: the initial description of the climbing fibers of the cerebellum, the discovery of the growth cone, the concept of the "dynamic polarity" of the neurom an anticipation of the later discovery of axonal transport, and the prediction that new synapses may be formed throughout life to serve as a physical basis for learning and memory.

W. Maxwell Cowen is Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Interesting view on science in another age.......2002-02-20

This is an interesting but somewhat strange book. It provides a really amazing view of what it was like to do science in those days, in particular about the various political maneuvering that was required to navigate the old spanish academic system. It also provides interesting insight into the personality of one of the greatest pioneers of cell biology. Unfortunately, part of his personality involves telling us all how great he was, so sometimes I found the book a little tiresome to read. I was also kind of disappointed in that it took a long time before he got around to covering the time when he actually made his important contributions to science. Still, for anyone interested in cell or neurobiology, or in the history of science, I would recommend this book fairly strongly as something they will enjoy.

Excellent.......2000-06-18

This book contained many valuable insights into the life of one of the most influential neuroscientists ever. This book was an excellent read.

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Artists & Anatomists
A. Hyatt Mayor
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Anatomist At Large. An Autobiography and Selected Letters

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Anatomist At Large. An Autobiography and Selected Letters
George W. Corner
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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ASIN: B000NUIHJS

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Muller's Lab
Laura Otis
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 019530697X

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Many structures in the human body are named after Johannes Muller, one of the most respected anatomists and physiologists of the 19th century. Muller taught many of the leading scientists of his age, many of whom would go on to make trail-blazing discoveries of their own. Among them were Theodor Schwann, who demonstrated that all animals are made of cells; Hermann Helmholtz, who measured the velocity of nerve impulses; and Rudolf Virchow, who convinced doctors to think of disease at the cellular level. This book tells Muller's story by interweaving it with those of seven of his most famous students. Muller suffered from depression and insomnia at the same time as he was doing his most important scientific work, and may have committed suicide at age 56. Like Muller, his most prominent students faced personal and social challenges as they practiced cutting-edge science. Virchow was fired for his political activism, Jakob Henle was jailed for membership in a dueling society, and Robert Remak was barred from Prussian universities for refusing to renounce his Orthodox Judaism. By recounting these stories, Muller's Lab explores the ways in which personal life can affect scientists' professional choices, and consequently affect the great discoveries they make.

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Knox: The anatomist
Isobel Rae
Manufacturer: Thomas
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Notes Of An Anatomist
F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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ASIN: 0156674300

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In the solitude of his study, Gonzalez-Crussi, a practicing pathologist, ponders the meaning of the lives laid bare in his laboratory. Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award, this wonderfully crafted collection on medical subjects is witty, urbane, and rich in history and philosophy. "Marvelously original and provocative" (Los Angeles Times).

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The book is missing at least 200 pages
Beautifully written novel

The Anatomist
Federico Andahazi
Manufacturer: Anchor
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"O my America, my new-found-land!" Mateo Renaldo Colombo (or Columbus, to give him his English name) might have written in his De re anatomica."

It is no accident that Federico Andahazi draws a parallel between his Renaissance hero, the anatomist Mateo Colombo, and the explorer Christopher Columbus. It is the conceit of his first novel, The Anatomist (beautifully translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel), that both Colombos made "equally momentous and disturbing" discoveries. Every schoolchild can tell you what Columbus's was; less well known, perhaps, is that of his countryman and fellow "explorer." "Mateo's America is less distant and infinitely smaller than Christopher's; in fact, it's not much larger than the head of a nail." In short, Mateo Renaldo Colombo discovered the Amor Veneris, the clitoris.

Andahazi makes much of this discovery, not to mention its discoverer: "The discovery of Mateo Colombo's America was, all things considered, an epic counterpointed by an elegy. Mateo Colombo was as fierce and heartless as Christopher. Like Christopher (to use an appropriate metaphor) he was a brutal colonizer who claimed for himself all rights to the discovered land, the female body." Certainly women readers will view this description with at least as much irony as Native Americans regard that other Columbus's "discovery" of a land they had known about all along.

The Anatomist is based on a historical figure and historical fact; what Andahazi provides is his title character's heart and soul. The fictional Colombo is driven by desire for the high-priced courtesan Mona Sofia. Though Mateo adores her, the heartless Sofia regards him as nothing more than a paying customer. After breaking both his heart and his bank account over her, Colombo returns to his native Padua whence he is eventually called to Florence to treat a saintly young widow, Inés de Torremolinos. Inés is "infinitely beautiful," and her illness is "far from common." While examining her, he discovers "between his patient's legs a perfectly formed, erect and diminutive penis." Land ho.

Though Colombo's "discovery," first in Inés and then in other women, offers plenty of opportunity for eroticism, the most compelling aspect of The Anatomist lies in the Church's reaction to De re anatomica, the book Colombo writes detailing his find. The Renaissance may well have signaled the birth of new art, science, and philosophy, but it was also the age of Inquisition--and Colombo's unfolding of "the key to the heart of all women ... the anatomical cause of love" soon lands him in prison on charges of heresy and Satanism. The trial, Mateo's defense, and the surprising aftermath make for provocative reading and raise The Anatomist above the level of the merely erotic to a more intriguing philosophical plane, one that is sure to prompt a lively discussion or two. --Alix Wilber

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A lyrically written, sensual, and extraordinarily enjoyable novel in which a Renaissance anatomist's astonishing discovery forever changes the female erotic universe.

In sixteenth-centruy Venice, celebrated physician Mateo Colombo finds himself behind bars at the behest of the Church authorities. His is a crime of disclosure, heinous and heretical in the Church's eyes, in that his research threatens to subvert the whole secular order of Renaissance society. Like his namesake Christopher Colombus, he has made a discovery of enormous significance for humankind. Whereas Colombus voyaged outward to explore the world and found the Americas, Mateo Colombo looked inward, across the mons veneris, and uncovered the clitoris. Based on historical fact, The Anatomist is an utterly fascinating excursion into Renaissance Italy, as evocative of time and place as the work of Umberto Eco, and reminiscent of the earthy sensuality of Gabriel García Márquez. Perceptive and stirring, it ironically exposes not only the social hypocracies of the day, but also the prejudices and sexual taboos that may still be with us four hundred years later.

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got sucked in by the cover.......2003-10-15

the articles of this man's defense, what should have been the most important part of the book, were NUMEROUS, DRAWN-OUT, and EXTREMELY DRY.

i liked the cover. liked the VERY ending too. its the in-between bits that i wasn't crazy about.

Wonderful translation of a fascinating book.......2003-09-25

The Anatomist was a beautiful and fascinating story. The writing style flows wonderfully, unlike many other translated books I have read. The characters were so deep and so personal. I was especially intrigued by the chapters about Mona Sofia's birth and upbringing. Many of the tragedies and experiences that are described in the book form her adult character--a woman who has been taught not to love anyone, and not to show any emotion.

The author's style was well-crafted, and extremely readable. As noted by some of the other readers above, such overtly erotic and sexual themes are discussed, but reading the text is akin to a historical account or philosophical discussion.

The Inside Scoop.......2002-04-01

This book may suffer a little in translation but I enjoyed it! It is interesting to read about the growing knowledge of human sexuality during the Renaissance especially about the brave and curious who dared probe what the Church forbade. The book has given me a new appreciation for female genitalia and the ultimate power of women's sexuality over men.

The book is missing at least 200 pages.......2002-03-04

When book ends, some how if feels that the author missed a great opportunity to write a fantastic novel and settled for an amenable one. The narrative structure is captivating but it needs more sidelines, so many of the characters are fascinating but they are never fully developed and their backgrounds remain hidden. On the other hand the material was perfect to build great suspense and tension with many twists and turns, but Mr. Andahazi preferred to roll out a conclusion. Its like having the opportunity of taking a stroll trough be beautiful country road, and then see the driver heading for the usual highway. What a pity.

Beautifully written novel.......2001-10-15

It is hard to believe this wonderful book about a heart broken man is a translation. What Renaldo does for love and his discovery are equally fascinating.

Paul Broca: Founder of French Anthropology, Explorer of the Brain

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Paul Broca: Founder of French Anthropology, Explorer of the Brain
Francis Schiller
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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This elegant and comprehensive scientific biography recounts the life of Paul Broca, one of the world's most inventive and prolific scientists, whose work touched not only the fields of surgery, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the neuropathology of speech, but statistics, hypnosis, blood transfusion, and the grounding of the French school of anthropology, as well. Although Broca is known primarily for providing the working basis for all future cerebral localization (he was the first to identify "Broca's area" --a small patch on the convoluted surface of the brain--as the central organ for speech), this portrait of Broca also describes his fundamental role in the establishment of modern scientific "laboratory" medicine, and his broad capacity and appetite for science as a whole. His enduring curiosity and insistent pursuit of truth led him through an exciting course of study, which often placed him philosophically in the position of utilizing doubt as his strongest investigative impetus. The author, Francis Schiller, --himself a neurologist-- underscores Broca's vast contributions to both practical and moral science with keen insights and scholarly acumen. Historians of science, neuroscientists, and general readers alike will enjoy this enlightening and important biography.

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The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci
Dmitri Merejkowski
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008B2WX4

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1928. This book is incomparable in the magic power of evoking startlingly vivid pictures of the Middle Ages. It is a gorgeous pageant, full of pomp and magnificence. Here and there the reader is given a glimpse into the mortal and humble frailties and exigencies behind the grandeur. This work is a fabulous historical novel that is full of a sly, crisp humor and contains some portions which are veritable poems in prose.

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Thoughts of a Catholic anatomist
Thomas Dwight
Manufacturer: Longmans
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Romance and suspense share the spotlight as award-winning author Linda Windsor continues her satisfying saga of the Christian Celts in Riona. Riona plans to make a life for herself in the church, but finds her dream shattered when she saves three orphans from slavery. To adopt the children and offer them a legitimate family, Riona must marry the handsome warrior Kieran, who is unjustly accused of murder. Although Riona is the sequel to Maire, it can be easily read as a standalone title. The glossary of Celtic terminology provides a helpful reference, as Windsor peppers her writing with unusual terms such as brat (outer cloak or wrap), porringer (a low bowl), and slige (a main road). Historical aficionados who like a spiritual bent to their stories and readers with a penchant for a good romantic yarn will enjoy this tale of primitive Ireland. --Cindy Crosby

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Riona, a gentlewoman of faith, discovers that her plan to help the disadvantaged includes not only the plague orphans in her charge, but the arrogant, handsome adventurer who feels honor-bound to save her and her lands by marrying her -- with or without her consent. Lord Kieran of Gleannmara depends on nothing and no one save his wit and skill with steel, but soon a deadly twist of fate forces him to acknowledge his need not only for the lady Riona and her worrisome entourage, but for her Lord as well.

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Various Biblical Errors.......2007-05-21

The overall book was good, but there were a couple Biblical errors. Especially in talking about the washing of feet, names were given to people that did not have names in the Bible. Also, there was a section where they discovered a part that is important to the overall plot and it appears that part of the conversation is skipped and hard to follow.

Excellent historical fiction!!!.......2004-07-29

Riona is the next book in the Fires of Gleannmara with Maire being the first in the series.

Oh to have a faith so pure and tireless as Riona's.

Kierran is the Gleannmara heir. He has abandoned his faith in the one true God because he feels that God has abandoned him. He has loved Riona since childhood and has promised to her dying brother to care for her forever. Although he loves Riona he is uncertain about accepting the God she loves.
Riona thinks only on Kierran as a brother and has no romantic feelings toward him.

Events force Riona and Kierran and their entourage on a dangerous journey that will change each others lives and those that they love for ever.

Once again I find myself longing for the spirituality and discipline of religion in the early Christian church in Ireland.
Truly they saw God in everything.

I am not one to reread books that I have already read, but I feel that I may make an exception with this series. I want these books on my book shelf all the time.

Reading Maire first is not necessary. If you have not read Maire I am certain that you will after you read Riona.

Looking forward to the next book in the series.

Irish Descendants Transcend Sequel.......2003-09-02

The great-grandson of "Riona" wants the woman, but not the God and the kids. Through nail-biting trials, Kieran learns to give his heart to the woman, the children and the God. Riona in turn, learns to forgive and trust. Love grows as faith grows. This Christian romance novel has warfare, treachery, intrigue, and its fair share of passion, all set within the beautiful Emerald Isle. Pull up a thick wool sweater, a hot cider and relish this novel.

A Wonderful Ride!.......2003-04-01

When I received this book recently as a door prize for the Shades of Romance Online Writer's Conference, I was elated. A new book! A new author. And a historical at that. (I have a soft spot for a good historical.)

Well, I wasn't disappointed. Linda Windsor transported me to medieval Ireland with ease, burrowing her way into my favorite author's closet as well. Fiery Riona, the main character has the heart of a nun and temper of warrior. When Kieran, her handsome, but unbelieving foster brother arrives home with news of their brother's death and his deathbed wish for them to marry, well, Riona has all the men running for cover.

Before she can fully vent her anger though, there's a murder in the abbey and Kieran is the main suspect. With the three orphans she plans to adopt and a mouthful of prayers, Riona sets out to rescue Kieran and herself.

It's a bouncy ride through the Irish hillside full of the wonder of Christ's love. Don't miss it!

Excellent!.......2001-10-28

Action, adventure, history, and lots of romance! What more could a reader want? Riona delivers on all counts. Linda Windsor's second book in her Fires of Gleannmara series will win her new fans, and delight her loyal ones. Do not miss this one.

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The Crystal Tower of Light
Riona Mcgonagle
Manufacturer: Arlen House
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ASIN: 1903631343

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Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future -- a power that makes his life a torment -- his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming has been made illegal, even when the dream is indistinguishable from a nightmare.

In Philip K. Dick's unsettling chronicle of the rise and fall of a postnuclear messiah, readers will find a novel that is as minutely realistic as it is prophetic. For along with its engineered mutants, hermaphroditic sex performers, and protoplasmic drifters from the stars, The World Jones Made gives us nothing less than a deadly accurate reading of our own hunger for belief.

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Compelling in spite of a mushy middle.......2005-04-23

The World Jones Made has a wonderful Twilight Zone vibe to it--Jones can see the future, but for him it's like living in the past. He also suffers from the Cassandra Complex; Nobody will believe his predictions until the future comes to pass. An array of interesting characters struggle in a world that swings from extreme to another. Philip K. Dick does a wonderful job (philosophically at least) demonstrating how ideologies come full circle. The plot is compelling until the middle, where it sidetracks into the mushy terrain of romantic drama with the leading guy & lady. This is not to say sci-fi couldn't better represent human relationships--it certainly could, a point Philip K. Dick made himself in an interview featured in The Shifted Realities of Philip K. Dick. The problem in The World Jones Made is that much of the dramatic tension between the protagonist and his wife is saved until the dead middle of the story, at which point Philip unfortunately slows down the pacing by making the foray into romantic drama. However, the story picks up the pace again towards the end, hammering a tense climax with an ironic twist. Pacing issues aside, an excellent story filled with interesting ideas.

In The End It All Stays The Same........2004-10-02

Writing reviews on Philip Dick's works is unsettling and leaves one open for all sorts of criticism - it is hard to encapsulate all the ideas he floated in each novel. He was a master of conceptual thinking and a great writer of science fiction and futuristic thought. He considered notions and concepts that most authors would kill to be able to have as original thought let alone be able to put them into the public thought pool as worthwhile and interesting fiction.

'The World Jones Made' is a story based around a simple and fascinating premise. A human is born who can live a year ahead of the rest of us mere mortals. In other words, what we experience today he already knows. There is a catch, of course. A year is not necessarily all that predictive of outcomes that take many years to develop. So you can get it wrong though with interesting consequences, as our character discovers.

The central character is Floyd Jones. We are taken along his life's journey and the impact his future sense has on society and the future. Dick weaves this journey into a future society with notions of an Orwellian 'big brother' gone politically correct or as Dick calls it 'Relativism'.

This is not a book for space opera fans but one for the long suffering traditionalist who wants to ponder some concepts that will leave him wondering 'why didn't I think of that?'

Somehow Dick gets to include in the story - themes of space travel, alien cultures, genetic modification and a raft of other traditional sci-fi concepts. There is no doubt that Dick is a true speculative genius and many a reader will sit quietly contemplating his words and ideas long after the book is finished. Dick just does that to people!

Precognitive vision.......2004-06-03

One of Dick's early novels, The World Jones Made (1956) has well-realized characters and psychological complexity, but lacks a coherent plot focus. Without the reality breakdowns, multi-focal viewpoints, robots, and time paradoxes of Dick's later pyrotechnic creations, it ranks as a minor work in the PKD canon but is interesting for what it tries to do, showing a blackly ironic rise and fall of a man called Jones. Jones, whose character is based on Hitler, is a "precog" who can see the future, and builds up a mass movement to oppose the prevailing state ideology of Relativism. The Jews' role here is played by the Drifters, a harmless race of amoeba-like aliens, who represent the universe Jones wants to conquer. Jones is opposed by Cussick, the policeman, who is the voice of conventional, commonsense reality. But Jones is like Cussick's alter ego, and the two men's lives are entwined in complex and surprising ways. The psychology of the policeman and the unhappy marriage of the protagonist are elements to be found in a number of Dick's later books. Here there is a somewhat contrived positive ending, but what impresses is Dick's precognitive vision, which has been shown time and again in the years since the 50s to be right on the mark politically, sociologically, and philosophically.

Science-fiction, Existentialism and Beat Generation........2004-04-21

The World that Jones Made is an early book in PKD huge production. In its frame there are resonances from Sartre and Kerouac. From the first, the deep and frightful knowledge of human acts futility: everything is written and immutable. From the second the angst that pursue many intellectuals in the late Fifties.
PKD constructs a disheveled post catastrophe world that imposes its fearful traits upon the reader. On this background the story of Jones, a foreseer that evolves from a fortuneteller to a religious messianic leader, is seen from the eyes of Cussick, a security agent that tries to stop him. Cussick represents the new establishment: the Relativists. They are trying to create a new utopia, but as many other utopist of the real world they are molding an universe without freedom and creativity. The answer that PKD gives to this is nihilism.
A dark yet captivating novel from a great writer that is trying his own mettle.
Reviewed by Max Yofre

The rise and rise of Phillip K Dick.......2004-01-13

The other reviews of the book cover the plot and microcosms of The world Jones made, so I have little to add there.

I am surprised that many of Dick's "Fans" view this as a "lesser work" I guess Mozart had a few "lesser works" as well eh?
This was actually my first Phillip K Dick novel, I had heard a lot about him, particularly in relation to his connection with Gnosticism and was surprised to find "the world Jones made" in my local book store.

Not yet having had the opportunity to delve into the world of Dick as I would like to, I can only judge this book stand-alone without the rest of Dick's catalogue.
I started the book on Sunday morning and didn't put it down until I was finished, a hurried lunch in between. I would describe it as a real page-turner.

If some of my the world's leading sc-fi authors had Dick's idea it would have been made into a 3000page trilogy, instead Dick fleshes away the pap of his contemporaries and gives us an emminently readble and thought provoking novel. Highly recommended.

4 Book Set By Philip K. Dick; the World Jones Made; Vulcan's Hammer; Deus Irae; Confessions of a Crap Artist.
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4 Book Set By Philip K. Dick; the World Jones Made; Vulcan's Hammer; Deus Irae; Confessions of a Crap Artist.
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4 Book Set By Philip K. Dick; the World Jones Made; Vulcan's Hammer; Deus Irae; Confessions of a Crap Artist.

God Made the World: A Hear Me Read Gift Collection (Hear Me Read (Inspirational Press))

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God Made the World: A Hear Me Read Gift Collection (Hear Me Read (Inspirational Press))
Mary Manz Simon
Manufacturer: Inspirational Press (NY)
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The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick
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The World Jones Made

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Ace 90951, reprint edition.

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The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick
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The World Jones Made

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The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick
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The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dick
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The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
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Iranian Gnosis

A great scholarly work

The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
Henry Corbin
Manufacturer: Omega Publications (NY)
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Iranian Gnosis.......2002-05-30

This brilliant book is only for esoterica aficionados. Corbin, the foremost French (and, in all probability, world) authority on Sufism and Shiite esotericism, discusses in his familiar baroque and stream-of-consciousness erudite style three Iranian sages-mystics: Suhrawardi (the martyred founder of Ishraqi/Illuminative school of Islamic esotericism ), Kubra (the founder of an influential Sufi order) and Simnani (an orthodox Sufi master who left behind a voluminous corpus of esoteric writings). What do these men have in common ?

Well- at least, two things:

1. they all developed variants of highly imaginative multilayered metaphysics (especially Suhrawardi) and set up "theoretical" framework which was later used to interpret spectacular (one might blasphemically say "Cecildemillean" or LSD-like) visionary experiences.

2.another common "trademark" is the Man of Light (hence the title of the book), equated with Arch)Angel Gabriel, or Supreme Spirit (Ar-Ruh al-Qudsi), or perfect nature: in short, everyone's "True" or Higher Self.

One might add that the three mystics have been dualists (therefore, alien to Ibn Arabi's monist Wahdat-al-Wujud doctrine), and that the latter duo ( in sharp contrast to extravagant and highly original visionary genius of mutilated Suhrawardi ) remained impeccably orthodox. Their originality lies in development of Islamic version of esoteric physiology: latifa, the supposed organs/subtle centers of suprasensory perception, are essentially Kubra's and Simnani's spiritual legacy.
On balance, Corbin's "The Man of Light" is an intellectual and spiritual joyride and I highly recommend it.

A great scholarly work.......1999-06-17

A great book for anyone who wants to gain an in depth understanding of Islamic mysticism. There are many books out there on Sufism, but Corbin's books are most" scholarly". It is obvious that the author spent a life time researching this topic and learning it from those who know sufism well. Same can not be said about many other so called scholars who seem to write books on a daily basis and their research scope is no more than a few trips to the local library. No wonder there are so many books being published and yet so few of them are really worth reading. Many of them leave their reader feeling cheated. I am afraid that Scholars like Corbin should be classified under endangered species.

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THE MAN OF LIGHT IN IRANIAN SUFISM

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The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
Henry Corbin
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