Self and Society

Studies in the Evolution of Culture

William Irwin Thompson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2004
Imprint Academic (Verlag)
978-0-907845-82-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Contains a series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq.

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This title comprises of a series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq.

Autor

William Irwin Thompson is a poet and cultural historian and has written nearly twenty books. He took his doctorate at Cornell University (1966) and has taught at Cornell, MIT, and York University in toronto. In 1972 he founded the Lindisfarne Association and served as its Director until 1997.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Afterlife Chapter 2: Speculations on the City and the Evolution of Consciousness Chapter 3: Literary and Archetypal Mathematical Mentalities in the Evolution of Culture Chapter 4: The Borg Or Borges? Reflections on 'machine consciousness' Chapter 5: We Become What We Hate. Reflections on 9/11 for planetary culture and the global war against terrorism Afterword: Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2004
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Exeter
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 135 x 210 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-907845-82-7 / 0907845827
• ISBN-13: 978-0-907845-82-9 / 9780907845829
• Zustand: Neuware