Overcoming Modernity: Synchronicity and Image-Thinking »

Yuasa Yasuo (1925-2005) was Professor Emeritus at Obirin University in Japan and the author of several books, including The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy and The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, both also published by SUNY Press. At Temple University, Shigenori Nagatomo is Associate Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism and John W. M. Krummel teaches religion.

These last writings by Japanese philosopher Yasuo Yuasa engage both Western and Eastern thought to reconsider modernity and offer an alternative, more holistic paradigm.

Ch. 1 The Image-Thinking of Ancient People, East and West 39

Ch. 2 Image-Thinking and the Understanding of "Being": The Psychological Basis of Linguistic Expression 67

Ch. 3 What Is Synchronicity? 97

Ch. 4 Life and Space-Time: Synchronicity and the Psychology of the Yijing 135

Ch. 5 Synchronicity and Spiritualism 157

Ch. 6 Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration: The Resurrection of Teleology 179

Notes 209

Bibliography 231

Index 239