Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780230391369 |
| Open Library | OL16558429W |
| Total publications | 7 |
| Coverage period | 2012 - 2012 |
| Language | EN |
While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disinte
Human Ecology · Human Geography · Philosophy · Psychology · Social psychology · Social Science · Sociology
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One might reasonably assume that our physical embodiment in a physically real world would be the foundation from which our understanding would grow; and it is bizarre and tragic that much philosophy and social science, as well as some of the major religious traditions, begins from precisely the opposite assumption — namely, that our embodiment leads us away from truth and understanding. It is an indicator of the estrangement of academia from real…
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Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion
While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disinte
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How the Mind Took Over the World
Reality can be inconvenient. It is hardly surprising, then, that we try to replace it with something more to our liking. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The Industrialised Individual
Our great symbolic power does not make our colonisation by industrialism inevitable; but it is nevertheless an Achilles Heel which loosens the constraining power of the real world and thereby makes us vulnerable to a range of ecologically malignant ideological systems. The capacity to focus on alternative realities is perilously close to the capacity to ignore current ones; and the size of the association areas in the human brain could be seen ei…
Symbolism Breaks Free
How is it that a tall, large-brained type of early human, living on the African plains many millennia ago, began to make tools and to use symbols in ways that would eventually revolutionise life on the planet? And how did these early developments set in motion trains of events that today seem to be hurtling towards an endgame over which we seem to have little control? In order to understand the initial stages of this process, we need to glance ba…
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Each of us comes into the world as a result of the natural processes of conception, gestation, and birth, the products of an evolutionary process spanning hundreds of millions of years — enormously exceeding the time language has existed. Our embodiment, including our neurological capacities, reflects this evolutionary heritage, imposing constraints on the sort of world we can adapt to flourish in. We are both natural and symbolically capable bei…
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One might reasonably assume that our physical embodiment in a physically real world would be the foundation from which our understanding would grow; and it is bizarre and tragic that much philosophy and social science, as well as some of the major religious traditions, begins from precisely the opposite assumption — namely, that our embodiment leads us away from truth and understanding. It is an indicator of the estrangement of academia from real…
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