Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising
transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of
movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of
thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of
justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain,
seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age
persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly
revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in
postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the
seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he
calls "neo-idealism" as a weapon in the struggle against
discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews. In a heterodox
intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes
ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy,
deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical
economics, and the sociology of religion. Trask also delves into
the decade's more esoteric branches of learning, including
Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic
channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. Through this investigation,
Trask argues that a dramatic inflation in the value of
consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a
growing argument about the state's inability to safeguard such
values. Ultimately, the thinkers Trask analyzes—John Rawls, Arne
Naess, L. Ron Hubbard, Hal Lindsey, Philip Dick, Ursula Le Guin,
Edward Abbey, William Burroughs, John Irving, and James
Merrill—found alternatives to statism in conditions that would
lend intellectual support to the consolidation of these concepts in
the radical free market ideologies of the 1980s.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2020 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Michael Trask
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
258 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-5243-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-5017-5243-X |
| Barcode: |
9781501752438 |
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