Powers of Imagining

Antonio T. de Nicolas is the author of Avatara: The Humanization of Philosophy Through the Bhagavad Gita; Meditations through the Ṛg Veda: The Four Dimensional Man; and Platero and I, Juan Ramon Jimenez (translation). Dr. de Nicolas is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: The Neural Connection Biographical Data Abbreviations Part I The Text of Imagining 1. The Native, General Background of Ignatius de Loyola 2. Imagining: Primary Text, Primary Technology 3. A Text for Reading, A Text for Deciding 4. Imagining and the Public Domain 5. Consequences of Hermeneutics Part II A Plurality of Texts in Translation Spiritual Exercises ContentsTranslator's NoteExercises Spiritual Diary ContentsTranslator's Note to the Spiritual DiaryTranslator's Note for Elections on Income or PovertyElection on Income or PovertyDiary Autobiography ContentsTranslator's NotePreface of Father NadalPreface of Father Luis G. da CamaraText Letters IntroductionTranslator's Note to Letter on ObedienceLetter on ObedienceLetters Notes Bibliography on Hermeneutics Bibliography on Ignatius Index

"What is recovered by Professor de Nicolas in his work is the radical flavor of the original sense of the Spiritual Exercises … There is a lifetime of experience with the Spiritual Exercises behind this witty, poetic, and brilliant work." — from the Foreword by Patrick A. Heelan, S.J.