Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis. David L. Goicoechea
Project of Self-Realization Ethics
IV.4.3 And does not Appreciate Jesus’ Agapeic Ethics
IV.4.4 But sees Bataille Only as a Big-Time Sinner
IV.4.5 Marcel Misinterprets Bataille’s Refusal of Salvation
IV.4.6 And sees Him as Miserable without God.
IV.4.7 And as a Mad, Egomaniacal Nihilist
IV.4.8 Breton Sees Bataille as Preoccupied with the Obscene
IV.4.9 And Yet This is the Secret of Bataille’s Surrealism
IV.5 Unconditional Love and Bataillean Sovereignty
(From Bataille to Kristeva)
The Stabat Mater and Difference Feminism
Mark’s Persons in Process on Trial
The Gita’s move from Liberation Salvation
IV.5.1 Bataille and Kristeva’s Psychoanalytic Revolution
IV.5.2 Bataille and Kristeva’s Poetic Revolution
IV.5.3 Bataille and Kristeva’s Semiotic Revolution
IV.5.4 Bataille and Kristeva’s Sexual Revolution
IV.5.5 Bataille and Kristeva’s Women’s Revolution
IV.5.6 Bataille and Kristeva’s Philosophic Revolution
IV.5.7 Bataille and Kristeva’s Scientific Revolution
IV.5.8 Bataille and Kristeva’s Christian Revolution
IV.5.9 Bataille and Kristeva’s Political Revolution
IV.6 Celibate Love and Bataillean Transgression
(From Bataille to Foucault)
From Animal to Human Sexuality and its History
Mark’s Women and Herstory of Sublimation
The Gita’s Freedom from the Gunas of Prakriti
IV.6.1 Bataille, Foucault and the Heart of Divine Love
IV.6.2 Their Notion of Animal and Human Sexuality
IV.6.3 And of Transgression and the Sacred
IV.6.4 In the Play of Limits and Transgression
IV.6.5 Transgression Can Even be Glorious
IV.6.6 And Help Free Us from the Gunnas of Prakrity
IV.6.7 And Can be an Affirmative Postmodern Leap
IV.6.8 So that Bataille and Foucault are Men of Prayer
IV.6.9 As Transgression Takes Them Beyond Hegel
Part Three: To The Things Themselves
I. In Phenomenology
I.7 From St. Francis to the Phenomenology Workshop
I.7.1 Spiegelberg’s Workshop in St. Louis
I.7.2 Doing Phenomenology Together
I.7.3 Even as Sartre Did in The Devil and the Good Lord
I.7.4 And as Kierkegaard Did with His Four Stages
I.7.5 And We Did Discuss Heidegger the Nazi
I.7.6 But I Became Most Intrigued with Scheler
I.7.7 Because He was the Philosopher of Love
I.7.8 And I Taught Kierkegaard, Scheler and Marcel
I.7.9 And Barbara Henning and I Worked on Being and Time
I.8 From Loyola to the Phenomenology Workshop
I.8.1 John Wild’s View of the Community and the Individual
I.8.2 Got me Thinking about Love and Personhood
I.8.3 My Professors at Loyola Discussed All This with Me
I.8.4 And 1966 was a Big Year
I.8.5 I Presented Being and Time and Got a New Job
I.8.6 The Autobiographical Consciousness
I.8.7 The Story of Sex, Religion and Art
I.8.8 The Three Great Secret Things
I.8.9 The Autobiographical Unconsciousness
I.9 Getting back to the European Roots
I.9.1 With Wilhelmina’s Family in Simpelveld
I.9.2 In Her Country of Holland
I.9.3 At the Goethe Institute in Brilon
I.9.4 At the Goethe Institute in Berlin
I.9.5 On our European Trip
I.9.6 Studying in Bonn
I.9.7 Flying back to Chicago
I.9.8 More Reflection on the Three Great Secret Things
I.9.9 Settling in at Brock University
II And Mark’s Reconciliation
II.7 The Altruism, Eternalism and Universalism of Mark’s Jesus
II.7.1 True Altruism Loves the Neighbor as Oneself
II.7.2 The Poor Widow Loved Altruistically
II.7.3 The Universal Agape of the Apocalyptic Discourse
II.7.4 Will be Proclaimed by the Holy Spirit through the Disciples
II.7.5 And Jesus’ Eternal Agape Will Not Pass Away
II.7.6 And We Must Not be Deceived about It
II.7.7 For Jesus Did Teach us to Love like Children
II.7.8 And He Does Reveal our Sweet Abba Father
II.7.9 And the Women Who Loved their Sweet Jesus
II.8 The Unconditional, Childlike, Celibate Love of Mark’s Jesus
II.8.1 The Agape of Mark’s Jesus is Unconditional
II.8.2 And is So Loving it Leaves with Us the Eucharist
II.8.3 The Agape of Mark’s Jesus is Childlike
II.8.4 The Agape of Mark’s Jesus is Celibate
II.8.5 Jesus’ Unconditional Agape Lets Him be Scourged
II.8.6 And it Lets Him Accept the Crown of Thorns
II.8.7 And it Brings Him to Carry the Cross of Love
II.8.8 And to Die on the Cross out of Love for Us
II.8.9 Even His Loving Death could Convert Others
II.9 The Resurrection Most of All Gives us Faith in Agape
II.9.1 And Jesus Foretold it All Along
II.9.2 The Women were Struck with Amazement
II.9.3 But the Young Man Told Them Not to be Amazed
II.9.4 And He Tells Them to tell Peter and the Disciples
II.9.5 And the Women are Frightened Out of Their Wits
II.9.6 How are We to Understand the Agape of Mark’s Gospel?
II.9.7 The Added Part on the Appearances of Christ
II.9.8 Proclaim the Gospel to All Creation
II.9.9 Does Mark have Many Messianic Secrets about Agape?
And Beyond The Caste System
III.7 Dr. Singh’s Treatment of the Narada Bhakti Sutra
III.7.1 Can Lead Us to Refine our Understanding of Bhakti
III.7.2 As Bhakti becomes the Standard for All Loves
III.7.3 It Lets the Lover be Overjoyed, Quiet, Self-Satisfied
III.7.4