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The Road Of Excess
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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Roads Of Excess Palaces Of Wisdom
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Author : Jeffrey J. Kripal
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-12
Roads Of Excess Palaces Of Wisdom written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
William Blake once wrote that "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Inspired by these poetic terms, Jeffrey J. Kripal reveals how the works of scholars of mysticism are often rooted in their own mystical experiences, "roads of excess," which can both lead to important insights into these scholars' works and point us to our own "palaces of wisdom." In his new book, Kripal addresses the twentieth-century study of mysticism as a kind of mystical tradition in its own right, with its own unique histories, discourses, sociological dynamics, and rhetorics of secrecy. Fluidly combining autobiography and biography with scholarly exploration, Kripal takes us on a tour of comparative mystical thought by examining the lives and works of five major historians of mysticism—Evelyn Underhill, Louis Massignon, R. C. Zaehner, Agehananda Bharati, and Elliot Wolfson—as well as relating his own mystical experiences. The result, Kripal finds, is seven "palaces of wisdom": the religious power of excess, the necessity of distance in the study of mysticism, the relationship between the mystical and art, the dilemmas of male subjectivity and modern heterosexuality, a call for ethical criticism, the paradox of the insider-outsider problem in the study of religion, and the magical power of texts and their interpretation. An original and penetrating analysis of modern scholarship and scholars of mysticism, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom is also a persuasive demonstration of the way this scholarly activity is itself a mystical phenomenon.
The Road Of Excess
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Author : Ingrid Winterbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Road Of Excess written by Ingrid Winterbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Afrikaans fiction categories.
This is the story of two brothers Aaron and Stefaans Adendorff the one an artist, the other an ex-addict. Die benederyk, the Afrikaans edition of this novel, was awarded the M-Net Prize in 2011, and it has been translated into English by award-winning author and translator, Leon de Kock."
The Road Of Excess
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Author : Ingrid Winterbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
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The Road Of Excess
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Author : Marcus Boon
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-15
The Road Of Excess written by Marcus Boon and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. In chapters on opiates, anesthetics, cannabis, stimulants, and psychedelics, Boon traces the history of the relationship between writers and specific drugs, and between these drugs and literary and philosophical traditions. With reference to the usual suspects from De Quincey to Freud to Irvine Welsh and with revelations about others such as Milton, Voltaire, Thoreau, and Sartre, The Road of Excess provides a novel and persuasive characterization of the "effects" of each class of drug--linking narcotic addiction to Gnostic spirituality, stimulant use to writing machines, anesthesia to transcendental philosophy, and psychedelics to the problem of the imaginary itself. Creating a vast network of texts, personalities, and chemicals, the book reveals the ways in which minute shifts among these elements have resulted in "drugs" and "literature" as we conceive of them today.
The Road Of Excess
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Author : Brian Barritt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
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The Road Of Excess
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Author : Aidan A. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-25
The Road Of Excess written by Aidan A. Kelly and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-25 with categories.
I was raised Catholic. The toxic pathology about sex taught by the church in the 1950s drove me to the brink of suicide, but at age 14 I was given the type of experience that the Gnostics called an Awakening. I hope to explain its importance to those who can hear. It saved my life and set me on a path of pursuing truth wherever it might lead. I am still on that path, because it never ends. At age 23 I was given another such experience, which showed that my mind is not what I thought. I have been exploring its implications ever since as well. At age 27 I helped found the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn as one Tradition of the Craft, which is a new religion now meeting the needs of at least a million people. I am glad I was able to do that. My MA in Poetry got me hired as an editor for Scientific American Books; then I earned a Ph.D. in Berkeley in order to become a better writer. And just before I turned 36, I got myself to Alcoholics Anonymous and began working toward another sort of spiritual awakening. That path also never ends, because it is the same path. Of the autobiographies I've read, I liked Bertrand Russell's the most-until I realized his story was fundamentally dishonest. Given his outspoken beliefs, one would expect him to have had an exuberant sex life-and so he did, but not a hint of that appears in his life story. I cannot leave my sexuality out of my own story, because, given my childhood, developing an adequate theory of sexuality has been one of my goals for sixty years. At one time, before I was thinking clearly about how to write this story, I thought perhaps I should gloss over the events of September 11, 1976, but it dawned on me, no, that was where the story has to begin; so I wrote "Turning Point." Here it is Chapter 1.
Proverbs Of Hell
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Author : William Blake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Present Imperfect
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Author : Andrew van der Vlies
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Present Imperfect written by Andrew van der Vlies and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Literary Collections categories.
Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers' treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture-including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers - some known to international Anglophone readers including J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoë Wicomb, some slightly less well-known including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach, and others from a new generation including Songeziwe Mahlangu and Masande Ntshanga. It addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as 'South African' in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present.
The Culture Of Excess
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Author : J.R. Slosar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-10-22
The Culture Of Excess written by J.R. Slosar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with Self-Help categories.
In the wake of the 2008-2009 economic recession, this revealing work offers a psychological explanation of how we as a nation grapple with self-control and how we can develop a new and healthier generation. As J.R. Slosar shows in this urgent, sometimes startling volume, the nation's fast-and-loose approach to money was in fact a symptom of a more widespread pattern of excessive behavior. In The Culture of Excess: How America Lost Self-Control and Why We Need to Redefine Success, Slosar portrays an America where the drive to succeed and the fear of missing out manifested itself not only in self-entitled corporate fraud, but in everything from sharp rises in obesity and cosmetic medical procedures to equally troubling increases in eating disorders, panic attacks, and outbreaks of uncontrollable rage. The Culture of Excess is the first book to assess the impact of economic and social factors on the nation's psychological well-being. Narcissism, productive narcissism, psychopathy, rigidity and self destruction, perfectionism, the illusion of success, and identity achievement all come into play as Slosar diagnoses the psychological drivers behind this indulgent age, offering his prescription for helping "Generation Me" become "Generation We."