Rough metaphysics: the speculative thought and mediumship of Jane Roberts
Examining the writings of the medium and "rough metaphysician" Jane Roberts (1929-1984), Skafish questions what outsider thinkers teach us about the limitations of even our most critical intellectual habits. Through a close interpretation of her own published texts as well as those she und...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Minneapolis London
University of Minnesota Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roberts, Jane 1929-1984
/ Channeling (Parapsychology)
/ Imagination
/ Metaphysics
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Psychics (United States)
Psychology
B PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics B Roberts, Jane (1929-1984) Philosophy B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social B Imagination (Philosophy) B Metaphysics B Channeling (Spiritualism) Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Examining the writings of the medium and "rough metaphysician" Jane Roberts (1929-1984), Skafish questions what outsider thinkers teach us about the limitations of even our most critical intellectual habits. Through a close interpretation of her own published texts as well as those she understood herself to have dictated for her cohort of channeled personalities - including one, named "Seth," who would inspire the New Age movement -, Skafish shows her intuitive and dreamlike work to be a source of rigorously inventive ideas about science, ontology, translation, and pluralism. Arguing that Roberts's writings contain philosophies ahead of their time, he also asks: How might our understanding of speculative thinking change if we consider the way untrained writers, occult visionaries, and their counterparts in other cultural traditions undertake it? What can outsider thinkers teach us about the limitations of even our most critical intellectual habits? "Rough Metaphysics" is at once an ethnography of the books of a strange and yet remarkable writer, a commentary on the unlikely philosophy contained in them, and a call for a new way of doing (and undoing) philosophy through anthropology, and vice versa. In guiding the reader through Roberts's often hallucinatory "world of concepts," Skafish also develops a series of original interpretations of thinkers - from William James to Claude Lévi-Strauss to Paul Feyerabend - who have been vital to anthropologists and their fellow travelers |
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| Physical Description: | 384 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5179-1515-5 978-1-5179-1516-2 |
