Philosophy

Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton

Author: 

Cunningham, Eric

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Professor of History, Gonzaga University, WA

This monograph explores and describes the historical continuities and relationships between 20th c Zen Buddhism, the postwar psychedelic movement and postmodern eschatology. In general terms (and this is a rich, complex study) the work is a critique of modernization theory as a way of viewing history and suggests the modern epoch (like the Greco-Roman world before it) will only end when the modern world ends.

Market: 
Intellectual History, History of Ideas, Japanese 20th c history, Zen Buddhism, Nishida
Release Date: 
05/15/2007:in stock
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-28-1
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
420
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Oral Traditions in ILE –IFE: The Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D.

Credentials: 

Ph.D. African Literatures, Debrecen University, Ph.D Political Science, Clayton University, author of LITERATURES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (2004)

This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, religion and literature.

Market: 
Yoruba/Nigerian Studies, West African Studies, Religion in West Africa, African Literatures, African Diasporic Literature, African Autochthonic Theologies, Afro-American traditional religion
Release Date: 
09/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-65-2 / 1933146-65-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
184
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Origin of Culture

Author: 

Marsland, Amy and Marsland, William B.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Cultural Anthropology

Drawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide.

Market: 
Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Art History, History of Philosophy
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-47-8 / 193314647-8
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
186
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Depression and Philosophy

Author: 

Redeker, Robert, Translated from French by Professor Philip Beitchman, NYU

Credentials: 

Ph.D; National Centre for Research (Paris);noted French philosopher and controversialist

This work is, in the words of Dr Norman Freed, a “rich picture of an empty landscape, the depression that is to be engaged to maximally avoid it and its ramifications.” This work explores the philosophical aspects of the plague of depression found throughout the modern world.

Market: 
Philosophy, Psychiatry, Medical Sociology, Cultural Studies, French Intellectual History, French Philosophy,20thC.,French Studies
Release Date: 
10/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-52-4
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Art Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art

Author: 

Koenig, Bernard

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Fanshawe College,Canada

ART MATTERS is a clear and comprehensive overview of art criticism as it relates to both the value of art and the aesthetics of art. The author offers a new perspective on how science, philosophy and art overlap each other, the author argues that art can give us knowledge of our world and our place in it the same way that science or philosophy do (per se Deleuze or Kristeva).

Market: 
Aesthetics, Art Sociology of Art,, Philosophy, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Media
Release Date: 
12/2008
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-933146-58-4 / 193314658-3
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
292
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
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