Download PDF Alone with the Alone Henry Corbin Ralph Manheim 9780691058344 Books

Product details Series Bollingen Series (General) (Book 149) Paperback 440 pages Publisher Princeton University Press (March 2, 1998) Language English ISBN-10 0691058342

Alone with the Alone Henry Corbin Ralph Manheim 9780691058344 Books Reviews

• This is a challenging book to read which happens to be my favorite kind. Why buy a book to read only once? Alone with the Alone is one of those rare books that opens its treasures to the reader more and more each time it's read. Highly recommend.
• One of the best books on esoteric Persian thought I've ever read; immensely scholarly and yet largely readable, though very rich and thick with insight in places you'll want to slow down and really absorb. (A newcomer to Ibn 'Arabi's writings, I'm reviewing this book from a depth-psychological point of view.)
  If you've read my other reviews you know I'm a relentless critic of unreadable writing, much of which is symptomatic of a narcissistic unavailability better dealt with in therapy than through a publisher or fan club. Corbin is not easy to follow in places, but it's the concentration of the material that makes for more careful study--and makes more careful study worthwhile.
  I was particularly moved by the image of the saddened God breathing out a sigh at being unknown, a sigh that made space for humans to reflect God back to God and thereby become the "secret treasure." Corbin's criticism of "becoming one with God" mirrors Buber's of "doctrines of absorption" both praise a dialog between person and the Divine rather than a reduction of one to the other.
  Note to students of James Hillman while many of Hillman's ideas can be found here (the heart as an organ of soulful perception, for instance), Ibn 'Arabi makes a clear, non-Hillmanic distinction between Forms (Images) of God and the ineffable true God that shines through the Forms like light through stained glass. This distinction does not exist for archetypal psychology, which collapses the archetypal image into the archetype itself and regards extra-psychic activities as outside its purview.
• This is the best translation of Ibn' Arabi I have read. It is worth frequently re-reading and I do, give it a try is you seek wisdom
• Wow-you can wrap your head around this,but only if you go slow!...profound insights, very intellectual,but still accessible and elucidating
• A magnificently authoritative study of the thought of the Sufi master Ibn Arabi, such as well should change the life of any serious reader..
• I was so taken with the "Creative Imagination in The Sufism of Ibn Arabi" that I was ready to buy a copy of "Alone with the Alone". Thank goodness let's you "look inside", turn's out it's a re-titling of the same book.
  Fantastic by any name.
  I am someone immersed in non-dual Eastern traditions, yet I am also guided in my life by a sense of devotion and the experience of grace felt as presence mysteriously "other" yet non-separate.
  I deeply appreciated the vision in this book which unifies all the opposites. Profound in it's honoring of Love as what we are and clearly describing how this so, it also maintains a clear recognition of the un-manifest source which that love reveals and in which that love arises it's a breathtaking picture. It melts divisions while honoring them.
  
  The language may be dense at times, but it's worth the effort.
• I wonder how many folks can appreciate what Corbin offers.
• classic. Corbin is the scholar in the west of Ibn Arabi. Fascinating. In depth. Not light reading and glad that is so.