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100 1  Kripal, Jeffrey J.|q(Jeffrey John),|d1962-|4aut 
245 14 The superhumanities :|bhistorical precedents, moral 
       objections, new realities /|cJeffrey J. Kripal 
264  1 Chicago :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c2022 
300    277 sidor|billustrationer|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    "What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the 
       superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the 
       undercurrent of the fantastic within our humanistic 
       disciplines, entirely new cultural worlds and meanings 
       would become possible. That is Jeffrey J. Kripal's vision 
       for the future-to revive the suppressed dimension of the 
       superhumanities, which consists of rare but real altered 
       states of knowledge that have driven the creative 
       processes of many of our most revered authors, artists, 
       and activists. In Kripal's telling, the history of the 
       humanities is filled with superhumanist thought, 
       possession states, and out-of-body experiences. The basic 
       idea of the superhuman, for Kripal, is at the core of who 
       and what the human species has tried to become over 
       millennia and around the planet. After diagnosing the 
       basic malaise of the humanities-that the truth must be 
       depressing-Kripal shows how it can all be done 
       differently. He argues that we have to decolonize reality 
       itself if we are going to take human diversity seriously. 
       Toward this pluralist end, he engages psychoanalytic, 
       Black critical, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and 
       ecocritical theory. He works through objections to the 
       superhumanities while also recognizing the new realities 
       represented by the contemporary sciences. In doing so, he 
       tries to move beyond naysaying practices of critique 
       toward a future that can embrace those critiques within a 
       more holistic view-a view that recognizes the human being 
       as both a social-political animal as well as an evolved 
       cosmic species that understands and experiences itself as 
       something super"--|cProvided by publisher 
650  7 Medvetandet|2sao 
650  7 Altered states of consciousness|2fast 
650  7 Humanities|2fast 
650  7 Superman (Philosophical concept)|2fast