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The Superhumanities - Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities (Hardcover)
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The Superhumanities - Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities (Hardcover)
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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 precognitive dreams,
evolving superhumans, and doubled selves. The basic idea of the
superhuman, for Kripal, is at the core of who and what the human
species has tried to become over millennia and around the planet.
After diagnosing the basic malaise of the humanities-that the truth
must be depressing-Kripal shows how it can all be done differently.
He argues that we have to decolonize reality itself if we are going
to take human diversity seriously. Toward this pluralist end, he
engages psychoanalytic, Black critical, feminist, postcolonial,
queer, and ecocritical theory. He works through objections to the
superhumanities while also recognizing the new realities
represented by the contemporary sciences. In doing so, he tries to
move beyond naysaying practices of critique toward a future that
can embrace those critiques within a more holistic view-a view that
recognizes the human being as both a social-political animal as
well as an evolved cosmic species that understands and experiences
itself as something super.
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