Alexandra David-Néel: Spiritual Icon, Feminist, Anarchist - Couverture souple

Dapsance, Marion

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1733100733 ISBN 13 : 9781733100731

Editeur : Jorvik Press, 2021

Synopsis

Marion Dapsance’s new biography of the French exploratrice extraordinaire, Alexandra David-Néel, delves into her subject’s prolific writings to discover her real message and reinterpret the myth that has grown up around her for almost a century.
Though little known outside Western Europe, Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969) is celebrated in her native France as a major spiritual figure of the 20th century, a fearless adventurer, the bringer of Buddhism to the West, an erudite chronicler and author of over 40 books.
But far from adopting Buddhism, she is revealed in this work as a staunch materialist, hostile to all forms of religion. We follow her journey from Catholic convert to Protestantism, to her obsession with late 19th-century esotericism and finally to nihilism and anarchism, before she invented her own belief system after decades in the Far East, which she called Buddhist Modernism.
This book shows how her free-thinking independence is the true source of the myth of the intrepid journalist-orientalist, the “lamp of wisdom,” the “woman with soles of wind.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jorvik Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1733100733
• ISBN 13: 9781733100731
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
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