Author: R. A. DurrPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Tries to show similarity of expanded consciousness under drugs to the feelings expressed in mystic, romantic, and visionary literature.
Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience
Author: R. A. DurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Tries to show similarity of expanded consciousness under drugs to the feelings expressed in mystic, romantic, and visionary literature.
Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience
Author: R. A. DurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Language of the Senses
Author: Kerry McSweeneyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773517400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In this stimulating and original analysis of some of the most important nineteenth-century poems in English, Kerry McSweeney offers an alternative to non-referential and New Historicist critical methods.
The Psychedelic Experience
Author: Timothy LearyPublisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 0806544597
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Years after the Summer of Love, the promise of the psychoactive 1960s—that deeper self-awareness and greater harmony can be achieved through reality-bending substances and practices—is close to becoming a mainstream phenomenon. The signs are everywhere, from a renewed interest in the therapeutic effects of LSD to the popularity of ayahuasca trips and the annual spectacle of Burning Man. The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. Based on a unique interpretation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Psychedelic Experience remains a vital testament to broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan meditation techniques and psychotropic substances. For a new generation seeking the trip of a lifetime, The Psychedelic Experience is the essential guidebook to getting there.
Philosophy and Psychedelics
Author: Christine HauskellerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350231622
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental philosophical questions relating to human experience, ethics, and the metaphysics of mind. Mapping a range of philosophical responses to the surge in studies into psychedelic drugs in the cognitive sciences, this go-to volume examines topics including psychedelics and the role of governance; psychedelics and mysticism; what psychedelics can tell us about dyadic thankfulness; and psychedelics as ways to gain new knowledge. Written by leading international scholars, the essays cover Western and non-Western traditions, from analytic philosophy to Zen Buddhism, and discuss a variety of hallucinogens, such as LSD, MDMA, and Ayahuasca, in order to build a much-needed bridge between the rapidly growing scientific research and the philosophy behind psychedelic experience.
A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics
Author: Roger K. GreenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030153185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy, this book emphasizes the intersection of European thought and the psychedelic. The first half of the book focuses on philosophical influences of Herbert Marcuse and Antonin Artaud, while the second half shifts toward literary and theoretical influences of Aldous Huxley on psychedelic aesthetics. Framed within an emergent discourse of political theology, it suggests that taking a postsecular approach to psychedelic aesthetics helps us understand deeper connections between aesthetics and politics.
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: Journeys in Complexity
Author: Alfonso MontuoriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131765725X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In this book, fascinating autobiographical accounts by leading scholars in a variety of fields and disciplines provide a rich introduction to the art and science of complexity and systems thinking. We learn how the authors’ interest in complexity thinking developed, the key figures and texts they encountered along the way, the experiences that shaped their path, their major works, and their personal journeys. This volume serves as an introduction to complexity as well as a vivid account of the personal and intellectual development of important scholars. This book was originally published as a special issue of World Futures.
High Art
Author: David CarrierPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821&–1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. High Art relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting. Baudelaire wrote in an age of transition, David Carrier argues, an era divided by the Revolution of 1848, the historical break that played for him a role now taken within modernism by the political revolts of 1968. Moving from the grand tradition of Delacroix to the images of modern life made by Constantin Guys, this movement from &"high&" to &"low,&" from the unified world of correspondences to the fragmented images of contemporary city life, motivates Baudelaire's equivalent to the post-1968 turn away from formalist art criticism. Viewed from the perspective of the 1990s, Carrier argues, the issues raised by Baudelaire's criticism and creative writing provide a way of understanding the situation of art writing in our own time.
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