{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-wisdom-ecumenical-ecological-and-ethical-horizons-9781399516563","title":"Shakespeare and Wisdom: Ecumenical, Ecological and Ethical Horizons","description":"This volume interweaves Shakespeare's wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age in order to explore a transhistorical space of sapient knowing and living. Pursuing the delight of heart, soul and understanding in the synaesthetic experience of theatre and the meditative space of poetry, sapiential Shakespeare explores knowledge, love, beauty, nature, will and power in conversation with multiple wisdom traditions, tapping into a global \u003ci\u003esensus communis\u003c\/i\u003e rooted in energetic knowing-with. This collection of essays begins in the Mediterranean with classical, biblical and Egyptian wisdom, moves to the East to consider Sufi and Buddhist wisdom and then turns to the West to reflect on Indigenous science and ways of knowing. Sharing a common root in \u003ci\u003eoikos\u003c\/i\u003e, meaning home, the ecumenical and the ecological converge in an embodied ethics and politics of care premised in an ecological rather than ego-logical way of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnhae Park Langis is a scholar-seeker, Love activist, Earth travailer and stitcher of text and textile. A former teacher of twenty years, she is the author of \u003ci\u003ePassion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and numerous essays in ethical criticism in collections and journals including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEMLS\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUpstart Crow\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiterature Compass\u003c\/i\u003e. As a research fellow at the New Swan Shakespeare Center, University of California, Irvine, Langis has evolved from a virtue to a multi-perspectival wisdom hermeneutic through Stoic, Buddhist and Sufi readings of Shakespeare in several collections including this present volume. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author or co-author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eThinking with Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and \u003ci\u003eCitizen-Saints\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). She has edited or co-edited many volumes and special issues, including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e (with Donovan Sherman), and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good\u003c\/i\u003e (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale), \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Hospitality\u003c\/i\u003e (with David Goldstein), and \u003ci\u003eFace to Face with Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (with Matthew Smith). She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and a former Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869558739218,"sku":"9781399516563","price":146.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1083774-950b-4d65-bb45-70c63927061a.jpg?v=1737761575","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-wisdom-ecumenical-ecological-and-ethical-horizons-9781399516563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}