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The Superhumanities

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820254
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Superhumanities written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to “decolonize reality itself.” What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the undercurrent of the fantastic within our humanistic disciplines, entirely new cultural worlds and meanings would become possible. That is Jeffrey J. Kripal’s vision for the future—to revive the suppressed dimension of the superhumanities, which consists of rare but real altered states of knowledge that have driven the creative processes of many of our most revered authors, artists, and activists. In Kripal’s telling, the history of the humanities is filled with precognitive dreams, evolving superhumans, and doubled selves. The basic idea of the superhuman, for Kripal, is at the core of who and what the human species has tried to become over millennia and around the planet. After diagnosing the basic malaise of the humanities—that the truth must be depressing—Kripal shows how it can all be done differently. He argues that we have to decolonize reality itself if we are going to take human diversity seriously. Toward this pluralist end, he engages psychoanalytic, Black critical, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and ecocritical theory. He works through objections to the superhumanities while also recognizing the new realities represented by the contemporary sciences. In doing so, he tries to move beyond naysaying practices of critique toward a future that can embrace those critiques within a more holistic view—a view that recognizes the human being as both a social-political animal as well as an evolved cosmic species that understands and experiences itself as something super.

The Superhumanities

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820246
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Mutants and Mystics

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226453839
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Mutants and Mystics written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1834-1872

Author : Thomas Carlyle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book 1834-1872 written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872 written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

xii, 368 p., [1] leaf of plates ; v.2: xiii, [1], 354p., [1] leaf of plates

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis xii, 368 p., [1] leaf of plates ; v.2: xiii, [1], 354p., [1] leaf of plates by : Thomas Carlyle

Download or read book xii, 368 p., [1] leaf of plates ; v.2: xiii, [1], 354p., [1] leaf of plates written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German American Annals

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book German American Annals written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Carlyle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emerson and Goethe

Author : Frederick Burkhart Wahr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Emerson and Goethe written by Frederick Burkhart Wahr and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Esalen

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226453715
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Esalen written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human potential movement. Forged in the literary and mythical leanings of the Beat Generation, inspired in the lecture halls of Stanford by radical scholars of comparative religion, the institute was the remarkable brainchild of Michael Murphy and Richard Price. Set against the heady backdrop of California during the revolutionary 1960s, Esalen recounts in fascinating detail how these two maverick thinkers sought to fuse the spiritual revelations of the East with the scientific revolutions of the West, or to combine the very best elements of Zen Buddhism, Western psychology, and Indian yoga into a decidedly utopian vision that rejected the dogmas of conventional religion. In their religion of no religion, the natural world was just as crucial as the spiritual one, science and faith not only commingled but became staunch allies, and the enlightenment of the body could lead to the full realization of our development as human beings. “An impressive new book. . . . [Kripal] has written the definitive intellectual history of the ideas behind the institute.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Kripal examines Esalen’s extraordinary history and evocatively describes the breech birth of Murphy and Price’s brainchild. His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (Cold War espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative.”—Atlantic Monthly “Kripal has produced the first all-encompassing history of Esalen: its intellectual, social, personal, literary and spiritual passages. Kripal brings us up-to-date and takes us deep beneath historical surfaces in this definitive, elegantly written book.”—Playboy

The White Darkness

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385544588
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The White Darkness written by David Grann and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone. David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Gods and Robots

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202265
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Robots written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.

The Super Natural

Author : Whitley Strieber
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109502
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Super Natural written by Whitley Strieber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally understood. Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor professor of religion at Rice University) team up on this unprecedented and intellectually vibrant new framing of inexplicable events and experiences. Rather than merely document the anomalous, these authors--one the man who popularized alien abduction and the other a renowned scholar and "renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies" (The New York Times)--deliver a fast-paced and exhilarating study of why the supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction but a vital and authentic aspect of life. Their suggestion? That all kinds of "impossible" things, from extra-dimensional beings to bilocation to bumps in the night, are not impossible at all: rather, they are a part of our natural world. But this natural world is immeasurably more weird, more wonderful, and probably more populated than we have so far imagined with our current categories and cultures, which are what really make these things seem "impossible." The Super Natural considers that the natural world is actually a "super natural world"--and all we have to do to see this is to change the lenses through which we are looking at it and the languages through which we are presently limiting it. In short: The extraordinary exists if we know how to look at and think about it.

Atlantic Monthly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Atlantic Monthly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kali's Child

Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226453774
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Kali's Child written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholar Jeffrey J. Kripal explores the life and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a 19th-century Bengali saint who played a major role in the creation of modern Hinduism. The work is now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy. In a substantial new Preface to this second edition, Kripal answers his critics and addresses the controversy.