Presence

Presence

Beyond Orientation • Without Justification

ParWilfred-Leonard Bastiani

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Presence — Beyond Orientation · Without Justification is the final movement in a philosophical triptych that began with Availability and continued through Hope. Where openness was first unveiled and later stabilized, this book inhabits what remains when nothing needs to be held, defended, or promised. It does not seek resolution or synthesis, but attends to the condition that appears once orientation itself has fallen silent. Presence is not presented as a practice, belief, or achievement. It is approached phenomenologically as coincidence with situation: body, time, and context aligned without projection, urgency, or demand. Presence is neither cultivated nor maintained; it is recognized when effort withdraws and the future no longer functions as justification for the present. Drawing on philosophy, depth psychology, and process thought, the book dismantles modern assumptions of instrumentality, productivity, and availability-as-use. It questions the compulsion to optimize experience, to extract meaning, or to validate life by outcome. What remains is not withdrawal, but embeddedness—life encountered without leverage or claim. What emerges is not consolation, but clarity: a form of fidelity to what is, lived without leaning toward what should be. Not beyond the world, but fully within it.

Détails

Date de publication
Jan 5, 2026
Langue
English
ISBN
9781291874518
Catégorie
Éducation & langues
Copyright
Tous droits réservés - Licence de copyright standard
Contributeurs
Par (auteur): Wilfred-Leonard Bastiani

Caractéristiques

Pages
61
Type de reliure
Livre à couverture souple Livre à couverture souple
Couleur de l’intérieur
Couleur
Dimensions
Livre de poche (4,25 x 6,875 po / 108 x 175 mm)

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