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Thompson, William Irwin was born on July 16, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Chester Andrew and Lillian Margaret (Fahey) Thompson.
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Education is now the major concern of many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children how to function in life. It is a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. In this dynamic and far-reaching work, William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. In the process of discussing this issue with the purpose of providing a home-schooling curriculum in the culture and history of humanity and the West, Thompson gives us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings. He describes four "cultural ecologies" using a broad-based intellectual vista that takes in an expanse ranging from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C. to Disney, U2, and Ronald Reagan. The author's visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula forced upon so many students today. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge, but suggests how we may stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in children and teenagers.
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(Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americ...)
Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. William Irwin Thompson, one of today's most innovative interdisciplinary thinkers, talks about how to transform a cultural legacy in the course of transmitting it. His visionary approach takes education far beyond the bland, watered-down curricula so many students face today in public and private schools. Thompson offers us a mind-rattling tour of our potential as human beings, from the Gilgamesh epic of 2000 B.C.E. to Disney, popular music, current politics and social crises, and beyond. He not only presents a far-reaching system of knowledge and teaching, but also suggests how we can stimulate the best and healthiest patterns of development in our children and teenagers. TRANSFORMING HISTORY will enlighten today's educators and anyone concerned with improving our legacy and our children's place in it.
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This beautiful little book, like Carlos Castaneda's works, shines new light into the mythical and poetic content of the collective unconscious.
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The author of The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light provides an incisive analysis on the evolution of human consciousness, from early stone carvings to the writings of Proust and the art of Christo, to renewed interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu.
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(In this epic journey of imagination, internationally accl...)
In this epic journey of imagination, internationally acclaimed cultural historian William Irwin Thompson weaves a fascinating tapestry out of fantasy, intellect, and spiritual exploration. Drawing on mythologies ranging from Mexico and Central America to Ireland and the Middle East, "Islands Out of Time" portrays in drama and romance the last days of Atlantis, whose attempt to overreach nature leads to its final demise. This study of the nature of evil and arrogance in science and religion offers a deeper understanding of the precarious choices our own society must make in the imminent future. Thompson's vision describes a new kind of planetary consciousness.
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(It is the thesis of World Perspectives that man is in the...)
It is the thesis of World Perspectives that man is in the process of developing a new consciousness which, in spite of his apparent spiritual and moral captivity, can eventually lift the human race above and beyond the fear, ignorance, and isolation which beset it today.
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(Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Ga...)
Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Gaia hypothesis by such authors as atmospheric scientist James Lovelock, biologist Lynn Margulis, cybernetic biologist Henry Atlan, and others. The suggestion is that for the first time since Newton, we have the chance to create a new ecology of consciousness, the basis for a new political and economic order.
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(Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Ga...)
Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Gaia hypothesis by such authors as atmospheric scientist James Lovelock, biologist Lynn Margulis, cybernetic biologist Henry Atlan, and others. The suggestion is that for the first time since Newton, we have the chance to create a new ecology of consciousness, the basis for a new political and economic order.
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( In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that ...)
In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a science encompassing Chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis, and finds in it the threads out of which a future conceptual landscape might be woven.
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( In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the natur...)
In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female forms of power.
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(The engine that drives the transformation of nature is th...)
The engine that drives the transformation of nature is the city, with its multiple definitions in universities, libraries and economies. It is the city that articulates how we see the wilderness at the edge or the farm in the middle. These are all city poems; thoughts struck on cobbled stones or at concrete intersections in Zürich, London, Toronto, Manhattan, or Cambridge, Mass. They are marks and remarkings of an aging life in which going to work, making a living, or striving for political power and social influence is no longer what life is about. What remains after busyness has been taken away is for poetry to explore. - from Author's Notes.
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(In this volume of poems written over thirty-five years, W...)
In this volume of poems written over thirty-five years, William Irwin Thompson presents a remarkable range of work―from the personal and lyrical, through the narrative and mythological, to the scientific and cosmological―that traces many of the major themes that have affected contemporary culture for the past half century. His book opens with a mythological sequence on Quetzalcoatl, "Blue Jade from the Morning Star," which john Bierhorst has called "a fresh reading." In the words of Kathleen Raine: "There is a great difference between merely academic translation and the imaginative participation which Dr. Thompson has brought to these 'versions' and verse commentaries on the great vision of Quetzalcoatl." Books Two and Three contain mostly lyrical work, while Book Four concludes with a vision of the evolution of life that extends the lyrical into the cosmological in a sequence built on and addressed to the work of his four scientific friends: Ralph Abraham, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, and Francisco Varela.
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We know from our literary histories that there was a movement called the Irish Literary Renaissance, and that Yeats was at its head. We know from our political histories that there is now a Republic of Ireland because of a nationalistic movement that, militarily, began with the insurrection of Easter Week, 1916. But what do these two movements have to do with one another?… Because I came to history with literary eyes, I could not help seeing history in terms and shapes of imaginative experience. Thus Movement, Myth, and Image came to be the way in which the nature of the insurrection appeared to me. This method of analyzing historical event as if it were a work of art is not altogether as inappropriate as it might seem when the historical event happens to be a revolution. The Irish revolutionaries lived as if they were in a work of art, and this inability to tell the difference between sober reality and the realm of imagination is perhaps one very important characteristic of a revolutionary. The tragedy of actuality comes from the fact that when, in a revolution, history is made momentarily into a work of art, human beings become the material that must be ordered, molded, or twisted into shape.
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(Two seminal works of cultural history that changed the wa...)
Two seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves. "A thrilling, mind-expanding speculation that one follows like a metaphysical whodunit.... Let me confess at once, for the last few days, I have continued to be haunted by William Irwin Thompson's At the Edge of History, an extraordinary speculation on contemporary American culture. Read Thompson, a silver thrush among pterodactyls." -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times. "What is particularly compelling about Thompson's vision in Passages About Earth is that it describes-more than it commands-a new kind of planetary consciousness"-Theodore Sturgeon, Human Behavior. William Irwin Thompson was nominated for the National Book Award in 1972 for his essays on contemporary culture in At the Edge of History. For his novels, Islands Out of Time and Blue Jade from the Morning Star, he received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He lives in Switzerland and enjoys a seasonal round of lectures and readings in the United States.
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Thompson, William Irwin was born on July 16, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Chester Andrew and Lillian Margaret (Fahey) Thompson.
Bachelor of Arts with honors in Philosophy, Pomona College, 1962; Master of Arts (Woodrow Wilson fellow), Cornell Univercity, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy (Woodrow Wilson dissertation fellow), Cornell Univercity, 1966.
From instructor to assistant professor humanities Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1965—1967, associate professor, 1968, Old Dominion fellow, 1967. Associate professor York University, Toronto, Canada, 1968-1972, professor Canada, 1973. Founding director Lindisfarne Associates, 1972—1997.
Curriculum designer, faculty consultant Ross School, East Hampton, New York, 1995—2005. Visiting professor religion Syracuse (New York ) University, 1973. Visiting scholar in political science University Hawaii, 1981, visiting professor, 85.
Visiting professor Celtic studies University Toronto, 1984. Mentor, consultant Ross School, East Hampton, New York, since 1995. Lindisfarne scholar-in-residence Crestone Mount Zen Center.
(In this volume of poems written over thirty-five years, W...)
(It is the thesis of World Perspectives that man is in the...)
(The author of The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light provi...)
(Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Ga...)
(Thompson brings together a collection of essays on the Ga...)
(In this epic journey of imagination, internationally accl...)
(This beautiful little book, like Carlos Castaneda's works...)
(Beautiful like new illustrated paperback , near perfect, ...)
(The engine that drives the transformation of nature is th...)
( In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that ...)
(We know from our literary histories that there was a move...)
(Two seminal works of cultural history that changed the wa...)
(sciene, study of the earth and all the culture that follo...)
(Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we...)
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Honorary colleague and Lindis Farne Scholar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.
Married Gail Joan Gordon, February 3, 1960 (divorced January 1979). Children: Evan Timothy, Hilary Joan, Andrew Rhys. Married Beatrice Madeleine Rudin, March 1, 1979.