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David Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the author of several books, including A Propos, Levinas; Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration; and The Delay of the Heart, all published by SUNY Press.

Œuvres de David Appelbaum

Parabola: Myth, Tradition, and the Search for Meaning, Vol. 24, No. 1: Nature (1999) — Directeur de publication — 13 exemplaires
Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, Vol. 20, No. 4: Eros (1995) — Directeur de publication — 11 exemplaires
Gathering Sparks: Interviews from Parabola Magazine (2004) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Everyday Spirits (1993) 9 exemplaires
Ethics and the professions (1989) 9 exemplaires
Parabola: Myth, Tradition, and the Search for Meaning, Vol. 27, No. 3: Grace (2002) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
Parabola: Myth, Tradition, and the Search for Meaning, Vol. 24, No. 4: Evil (1999) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
The Stop (1995) 4 exemplaires
Probability on compact lie groups (2012) 4 exemplaires
Disruption (1996) 2 exemplaires
The Earthworm Jar: Poems, 1993-96 (2010) 2 exemplaires
The Delay of the Heart (2000) 2 exemplaires
The Shock of Love (2011) 2 exemplaires
Jiggerweed (2012) 2 exemplaires
La Brea (Season 1) 1 exemplaire
La Brea (Season 2) 1 exemplaire
A hellsmouth for Orpheus (2010) 1 exemplaire
A Propos, Levinas (2012) 1 exemplaire
Vespers (2013) 1 exemplaire
The Spindle Tree Euonymous (2019) 1 exemplaire
The Hairpin Tax (2010) 1 exemplaire
Voice (1990) 1 exemplaire
Le Brea [2021 TV series] — Creator — 1 exemplaire

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The Theosophical Enlightenment (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions120 exemplaires
Maître Eckhart ou la joie errante (1972) — Introduction — 60 exemplaires
Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions (1993) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions42 exemplaires
The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions40 exemplaires
Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition (1999) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions34 exemplaires
German Mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History (1993) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions32 exemplaires
Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe (1998) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions27 exemplaires
René Daumal : The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide (1999) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions18 exemplaires
Yeats and Alchemy (1996) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions17 exemplaires
Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation (1996) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions17 exemplaires
The Only Tradition (1997) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions17 exemplaires
What Number Is God?: Metaphors, Metaphysics, Metamathematics, and the Nature of Things (1995) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions16 exemplaires
Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece: Her Diary and "Visions" (1996) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions15 exemplaires
The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent Through the Writings of Jean Borella (2001) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions14 exemplaires
Edgar Cayce in Context: The Readings: Truth and Fiction (1998) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions14 exemplaires
The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence (1995) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions13 exemplaires
The Spiritual Writings of Amir Abd Al-Kader (1995) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions11 exemplaires
Blake's Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in the Four Zoas (1997) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions9 exemplaires
Mysticism, Death, and Dying (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions9 exemplaires
Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls (2001) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions8 exemplaires
Rediscovering the West: An Inquiry into Nothingness and Relatedness (Suny Series in Western Traditions) (1994) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions7 exemplaires
Visionary Worlds: The Making and Unmaking of Reality (1996) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions5 exemplaires
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie De L'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717) (1998) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions4 exemplaires

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The title of this book set me to expect something rather fluffy - maybe Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul - valuable enough, but not very challenging. But I found the present book to require much more determined chewing. I haven't read much of Gaston Bachelard, but I think that is a lot closer to the approach Appelbaum presents here. Everyday objects are explored here, but interpreted in a vast context in which surprising links emerge. These links are explored but not in the more playfully superficial way that James Burke uses in his Connections. Here the links are followed into the depths. I confess, much of the time I found myself in water over my head. But this is not a work of mathematics where the whole structure is so tightly intermeshed that to miss one piece is to miss the whole. This book is a collection of short poetic meditations on a collection of theme, each treating phenomena as gateways to the profound. A lot of poetry goes right over my head, too! But I just keep reading, and in a sentence or two I can find my way back on track. Appelbaum is persistent in his exploration. He holds a topic long enough... maybe it's a bit like chromotography, where the different facets of a mixture are given the space to emerge and reveal themselves.

I can imagine reading this book every five years or so. I expect that wholly different aspects of the work will resonate for me, as my own path of exploration evolves.

This is a philosophical work but not a collection of points debated with the current crop of champions. There are quotes, but of Rumi, Upanishads, Shakespeare. Lao-tsu. I think Rilke appeared, so the occasional modern author. This is a timeless book. I cannot judge its merits sufficiently to guess whether it could sustain a readership over centuries. It is timeless in that its topics and approach are not tied to any short period, but will likely provide food for thought as nutritious in two hundred years as today.
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