The Ever-Present Origin

Gebser's central thesis was that a potent "leap" in thinking was happening in the 20th century. This new mode of thought would be a holistic-centered, or integral one; an answer to the type of thinking responsible for economic and industrial crisis, two World Wars, and what many today...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gebser, Jean
Otros Autores: Barstad, Noel, Mickunas, Algis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Civilization > History.
Civilization > Philosophy.
Intellectual life > History.
Civilization, Western.
Civilisation > Histoire.
Civilisation > Philosophie.
Civilisation occidentale.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Translator's Preface
  • In memoriam Jean Gebser by Jean Keckels
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • From the Preface to the Second Edition
  • From the Preface to the Paperbound Edition
  • Part One: Foundations of the Aperspectival World a Contribution to the History of the Awakening of Consciousness
  • Editorial Note regarding the Annotations
  • Chapter One: Fundamental Considerations
  • Chapter Two: The Three European Worlds
  • 1. The Unperspectival World
  • 2. The Perspectival World
  • 3. The Aperspectival World
  • Chapter Three: The Four Mutations of Consciousness
  • 1. On Evolution, Development, and Mutation
  • 2. Origin or the Archaic Structure
  • 3. The Magic Structure
  • 4. The Mythical Structure
  • 5. The Mental Structure
  • 6. The Integral Structure
  • Chapter Four: Mutations as an Integral Phenomenon: an Intermediate Summary
  • 1. Cross-Sections through the Structures
  • 2. A Digression on the Unity of Primal Words
  • 3. A Provisional Statement of Account: Measure and Mass
  • 4. The Unique Character of the Structures (Additional Cross Sections)
  • 5. Concluding Summary: Man as the Integrality of His Mutations
  • Chapter Five: The Space-Time Constitution of the Structures
  • 1. The Space-Timelessness of the Magic Structure
  • 2. The Temporicity of the Mythical Structure
  • 3. The Spatial Emphasis of the Mental Structure
  • Chapter Six: On the History of the Phenomena of Soul and Spirit
  • 1. Methodological Considerations
  • 2. The Numinosum, Mana, and the Plurality of Souls
  • 3. The Soul's Death-Pole
  • 4. The Soul's Life-Pole
  • 5. The Symbol of Soul
  • 6. On the Symbolism of the Spirit
  • Chapter Seven: The Previous Forms of Realization and Thought
  • 1. Dimensioning and Realization
  • 2. Vital Experiencing and Undergone or Psychic Experience
  • 3. Oceanic Thinking
  • 4. Perspectival Thinking
  • 5. Paradoxical Thinking
  • Chapter Eight: The Foundations of the Aperspectival World
  • 1. The Ever-Present Origin (Complementing Cross Sections)
  • 2. Summation and Prospect
  • Part Two: Manifestations of the Aperspectival World an Attempt at the Concretion of the Spiritual
  • Author's Comment
  • Interim Word
  • Chapter One: The Irruption of Time
  • 1. The Awakening Consciousness of Freedom from Time
  • 2. The Awakening Consciousness of Integrity or the Whole
  • Chapter Two: The New Mutation
  • 1. The Climate of the New Mutation
  • 2. The Theme of the New Mutation
  • 3. The New Form of Statement
  • Chapter Three: The Nature of Creativity
  • 1. Creativity as an Originary Phenomenon
  • 2. The Nature and Transformation of Poetry
  • Chapter Four: The New Concepts
  • 1. Inceptions of the New Consciousness
  • 2. The Fourth Dimension
  • 3. Temporics
  • Chapter Five: Manifestations of the Aperspectival World (I): The Natural Sciences

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