Coming into being
artifacts and texts in the evolution of consciousness
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1996 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
71,000 words, Guess
Page Count
284 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecomingintobeinga00thom
- ISBN-100312158343
- ISBN-139780312158347
- Goodreads1970491
- Library of Congress Control Number96000616
Classifications
- DDC155.7
- LCCBF311 .T484 1996
- LCCBF311.T484 1996
Description
In his best-selling The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, William Irwin Thompson intrigued readers with his thoughts on mythology and sexuality. In his newest book, Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, he takes the reader on a journey from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings to the writings of Marcel Proust and around the monumental wrappings of Christo to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tsu. Owing as much to the rhythmic constructions of jazz as to established methods of scholarship, Thompson riffs on biology and culture, seeing the birth of the mind in Proust's madeleine, the displacement of humanity in Christo's wrappings of the Reichstag, and the path forward into a new planetary culture in the Tao Te Ching. In Coming into Being, William Irwin Thompson presents a fascinating vision of our past, our present, and our future that no one will want to miss.
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