Author: Thompson, William Irwin
Title: At The Edge Of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture
Description: Harper & Row, New York, 1971. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Grey Boards, Red Cloth Soine). Good Condition/Good. 9780060143169 Titles, contents list & preface to front. "At the edge of history, history itself can no longer help us, and only myth remains equal to reality. What we know is less than what we are, and the politics of miracle must be unacceptable to our knowledge to be worthy of our being". William Irwin Thompson was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He was the founder of the Lindisfarne Association, which proposed the study and realization of a new planetary culture. At the Edge of History is a book that begins as a quest for the historical roots of personal identity and ends up demolishing the identity of history itself. What starts out as a search for history finishes as a discovery of myth. William Thompson bases his examinations on those places where the edges of America are most raggedly visible: Los Angeles (where history is a movie set); Big Sur's Esalen Institute (where the twenty-first century is touching the cliffs of America); M.I.T. (where the culture of technocracy is replacing man with management). Anthropology, history, psychology, literary criticism, mysticism, philosophy, science fact and sci-ence fiction: all the ideas fall neatly into place in a calm, fair-minded and rational synthesis that is, how¬ever, maddening in its implications. One discovers only at the end just how far Thompson has taken the reader in his intellectual tour. This is an important and original book, and if it will antagonize the many who have arrived, it will excite those who are still moving. This is the first USA edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi + 180. D/J. in library protective cover, taped to book covers. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Deckled outer edge (rough cut). White titles spine. brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers & book covers. Library labels to fep. & spine. Includes notes & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Anthropology; Cultural History; Sociology & Culture; Social Philosophy; Philosophy. ISBN: 0060143169. ISBN/EAN: 9780060143169. Inventory No: 5139.

Keywords: BZDB227 History/Cultural History/Sociology & Culture/Social Philosophy/Philosophy/Anthropology/William Irwin Thompson/Lindisfarne Association Anthropology; Cultural History; Sociology & Culture; Social Philosophy; Philosophy. Unbranded ISBN: 0060143169


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