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Homo Mysticus presents three renowned lectures delivered by
Wolfgang Struve from 1974 to 1984, translated into English in this
volume. The first two were published in German in 1983 and serve to
develop the fundamental difference between world and reality,
philosophy and mysticism, and relative and absolute transcendence.
The third lecture was given in 1984 and seeks to present the
non-conformity of reality with all natural and reflective
experience of the I and what imaginings and volition proceed from
it. It shows how the terror and the horror at this non-conformity
pervades the thinking and feeling of mankind and, properly endured,
translates man into the real. In the confusion and quagmire of
contemporary "mysticism," "religious thought," "alternative
thought," "esotericism," and so on, it is refreshing to find a
truly philosophical discussion of mysticism that is rigorous and
analytical. Philosophical and mystical experiences are finally
given expression in this remarkable collection.
This recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by
Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the
first time ever. Where did we come from, who are we, and what is to
become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then,
as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval,
from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation
and the uses and abuses of technology. Using scientific fact as
metaphor, Nobel Prize–winning scientist George Wald meditates on
our place, and role, on Earth and in the universe. He urges us to
therefore choose life — to invest in our capabilities as human
beings, to heed the warnings of our own self-destruction, and above
all to honour our humanity.
Czechoslovakia's leading twentieth-century painter, Frantisek Kupka
(1871-1957) is a pioneer of modernist abstraction. As early as
1911, he was one of the most visible and widely exhibited abstract
artists in the world; later, in the early 1930s, he was a founding
member of the Abstraction-Creation group. This hefty volume--the
only monograph on Kupka currently available--offers a massive
survey of his paintings, drawings, prints, posters, sculptures,
correspondence and other ephemera from the collection of Jindrich
Waldes, Kupka's close friend and gallerist. Waldes' collection was
confiscated first by the Nazis, who deemed abstraction decadent,
and later by the Communists, who declared his work "an example of
imperialist ideology and cosmopolitan nihilism that is harmful to
the people." Also included is a foreword by Jiri Waldes, the
collector's son, and Ludmila Vachtova, one of the most
knowledgeable experts on the artist.
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