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9780761848042

Spheres of Awareness A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art

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    9780761848042

  • ISBN10:

    0761848045

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-09-29
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

This book moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber, unites the best of both western and eastern thought and affirms that the stages of consciousness, more refined than that of the reasoning mind, do exist.

Author Biography

James Lough directs the writing department at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). His book, Sites of Insight, published by the University Press of Colorado, won the Publications Prize from the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. He also won the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction, and he has published more than sixty articles, short stories, and book reviews. Patricia Herron is a philosophy and religious studies professor, a writer, poet, artist, seminar lecturer, and lifelong seeker of Truth that can only be heard within the silence of the soul. This quest is apparent in her works of art and her teaching: "life at all costs is her scream. She is currently teaching at Chemeketa Community College and writes for the journal, Vision in Action.

Table of Contents

Note on Abbreviationsp. v
Prefacep. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introduction: "An Integral Via Negativa: What Ken Wilber and his Theories are Not"p. xi
"Integral Literary Theory vs. Adversary Culture"p. 1
"Ken Wilber, Sharon Olds and 9/11: An Integrative Process of Interpretation"p. 37
"The Imagination as a Spiritual Path: Wordsworth's Integral Way of Knowing"p. 51
"Ken Wilber, Hegel and The Red Badge of Courage"p. 71
"A Larger Truth: The Paradox of Literary Journalism"p. 95
"Alexander Pope's 'To a Lady' and Ken Wilber's Stance on Gender"p. 105
"When a Hedgehog Sights a Kestrel"p. 123
"What Wilber Gets Wrong about Plotinus"p. 141
"Wilber and Jung: One Map, Two Tastes?"p. 155
"An Eye on Integral Art"p. 173
Notesp. 183
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