| Description |
xvii, 139 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Psychology as "the queen of the sciences" -- What is a gay science? -- Modernity as a psychological problem -- "The deed is everything [das Tun ist alles]" -- The psychological problem of self-deception -- How to overcome oneself: on the Nietzschean ideal. |
| Summary |
"Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion." "Kripal grounds his study in the work of four major figures in the history of paranormal research: psychical researcher Frederic Myers; writer and humorist Charles Fort; astronomer, computer scientist, and ufologist Jacques Vallee; and philosopher and sociologist Bertrand Meheust. Through incisive analyses of these thinkers. Kripal ushers the reader into a beguiling world somewhere between fact, fiction, and fraud. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; cold war psychic espionage; galactic colonialism; and the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture all come together in Authors of the Impossible, a dazzling and profound look at how the paranormal bridges the sacred and the scientific.". |
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"Through sympathetic and creative readings of Nietzsche's imagery, and with an unusually strong emphasis on his project of a gay science,' this book presents Nietzsche's commitment to the priority of psychology in a new light. Arguing against the tendency to give naturalist readings of Nietzsche's psychology, Pippin's refreshing proposal is to place Nietzsche's project in the light of the earlier French moralistes and of Montaigne in particular. From this perspective he is able to cast light on Nietzsche's treatments of agency, erotic longing, and self-deceit in ways which challenge much recent thinking about Nietzsche. This book should provoke lively debate and anyone interested in Nietzsche will gain much from Pippin's subtle reflections." Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| ISBN |
9780226669755 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226669750 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40017920746 |
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