The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities Kripal Jeffrey J.
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…
Specifikacia The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities Kripal Jeffrey J.
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 superhumanist thought, possession states, and out-of-body experiences. The basic idea of the superhuman, for Kripal, is at the core of who and what the human species has tried to