Transformative Philosophical Dialogue

Shai Tubali is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. He has a doctorate in philosophy of religion from the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds. He is the author of the monograph Cosmos and Camus: Science Fiction Film and the Absurd (Peter Lang) and a contributor to the upcoming Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature and a prolific published author since 1996, who has written more than twenty books, including award-winning and bestselling titles, which have appeared in 12 languages. Among his diverse publications, one can find prose, poetry, practical books on meditation and self-development, as well as philosophical treatises on South-Asian philosophy and classical Greek philosophy.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I: The classical philosophical dialogue.- Chapter 2 ‘Know thyself’: Hadot and the conception of transformative philosophy.- Chapter 3 ‘You have dispelled my doubts and delusions’: Dialogue in classical India and classical Greece.- Chapter 4 ‘When people are questioned, and the questions are well put’: Transformative dialogue in the Upaniṣads and in Plato.- Chapter 5 Dialogues of life and death: Transformative dialogue in Plato’s Phaedo and in the Kaṭhopaniṣad.- Part II: The Krishnamurti dialogue.- Chapter 6 ‘We are inquiring together’: The dialogical nature of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s work.- Chapter 7 ‘Questions to which there are no answers’: The method behind the Krishnamurti dialogue.- Chapter 8 ‘The thunder of insight’: The final destination of Krishnamurti’s dialogue.- Chapter 9 ‘Come and join me’: Krishnamurti in dialogue with scholars.- Part III: Krishnamurti and the classical philosophical dialogue.- Chapter 10 Socrates, kōan, Krishnamurti: Questions as a spiritual exercise.- Chapter 11 Nāgārjuna, Śaṅkara, Krishnamurti: Negation as a spiritual exercise.- Chapter 12 Conclusions and Implications.