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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: ‘Seeing as’: Metaphorical Perspectivism in Aśv
 aghoṣa’s Works
DTSTART:20221010T141500Z
DTEND:20221010T154500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture by Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University)\n\nThe talk 
 focuses on the poetical works of Buddhist poet and thinker Aśvaghoṣa (c
 irc. 2nd century CE.)\, and examines the theoretical\, doctrinal\, and poe
 tical assumptions that underlie his use of figurative language. The lectur
 ers interest in this body of work lies primarily in exploring the ways in 
 which it blends and conflates different and often thematically remote sema
 ntic and conceptual fields. As a case study\, Roy Tzohar will survey Aśva
 ghoṣa’s treatment of what he conceived to be central ascetic experienc
 es\, such as solitude (viveka) and separation (viprayoga). These Aśvagho
 ṣa understood as dynamic and transformative experiential processes\, one
 s that involve a radical shift in how one “sees” the world\, and accor
 dingly he described them – poetically and figuratively – primarily in 
 perceptual terms. This understanding went hand in glove with an attendant 
 Buddhist account of experience that is empiricist and impersonal in emphas
 is\, and that stresses the constructed and therefore perspectival nature o
 f ordinary experience.\n\nAśvaghoṣa’s exposure of the perspectival na
 ture of experience\, Roy Tzohar demonstrates\, is achieved not by direct a
 rgument\, but through his virtuoso use of the poetical –  primarily thr
 ough the metaphorical signification of something in terms of something els
 e –  to give life to different experiential points of view and to the v
 ariegated and discrepant ways in which experiences of the same object may 
 appear to different people. For him\, poetry and its figurative language s
 erve not merely as a medium for conveying ideas but also as a way of unfol
 ding a certain picture of the world\, providing an aesthetic experiential 
 way of accessing reality.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://sfb1475.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de/veranstaltung/guest-lecture-seei
 ng-as-metaphorical-perspectivism/
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