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Philosophy of Dreams
Christoph; Translated By Susan H. Gillespie Turke
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hardcover. A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Translator(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; JMTC; JMTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 240 x 25. Weight in Grams: 586.
A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology
Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, ... Read more
A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology
Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300188400
SKU
9780300188400
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About Christoph; Translated By Susan H. Gillespie Turke
Christoph Türcke is professor of philosophy and religion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany, and the author of What Price Religion? Susan H. Gillespie has translated works by Theodor W. Adorno, Paul Celan, Helga Koenigsdorf, and Hanns Zischler, among others.
Reviews for Philosophy of Dreams
“In this discussable, provocative, and exhilarating essay on the origins of culture, Christoph Türcke brilliantly combines a general theory of culture with a sharp critique of present society.”—Detlev Claussen, Leibniz University of Hannover
Detlev Claussen “One of Germany’s leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of ... Read more
Detlev Claussen “One of Germany’s leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of ... Read more